Your style seith that ye ben foos to shame; Now kythe of your feith the perséveraunce, In which an heep of us arn halte and lame. Our Cristen king of England and of Fraunce, And ye, my lordes, with your alliaunce, 45 And other feithful people that ther be (Truste I to god) shul quenche al this nuisaunce And this land sette in hy prosperitee. Conquest of hy prowesse is for to tame The wilde woodnesse of this mescreaunce; 50 Right to the rote repe ye that same! Slepe nat this, but, for goddes plesaunce And his modres, and in signifiaunce That ye ben of seint Georges liveree, Doth him servyce and knightly obeisaunce; 55 For Cristes cause is his, wel knowen ye! Stif stande in that, and ye shul greve and grame The fo to pees, the norice of distaunce; That now is ernest, torne it into game; Dampnáble fro feith werë variaunce! 60 Lord lige, and lordes, have in rémembraunce, Lord of al is the blessed Trinitee, Of whos vertu the mighty habundaunce You herte and strengthe in feithful unitee! Amen. _Cest tout._ _From_ P. (Phillipps 8151); _also in_ Ed. (ed. 1542). 1. Ed. honour; P. honur. 2. P. Our right cristen; Ed. _om._ right. Ed. the heire; P. _om._ the. 6. P. ch_iua_lrie; Ed. cheualry. 8. P. nat; Ed. neuer. 10. Ed. _om._ the. 11. P. loue and; Ed. humble. 14. P. bittir; Ed. bytter. 15. P. foorth; Ed. forthe (_twice_). 16. P. Ed. Holde. 19. P. fikilnesse; Ed. crabbydnesse. 20. P. Weeneth; Ed. Weneth. 22. P. seruiture; Ed. seruytude. 25. P. Commandith; Ed. Co_m_maundeth. 26. Ed. O; P. Our. Ed. our; P. and. 27. Ed. dispute. 28. P. where; Ed. Her. 29. P. Spryngith; engendrith. 30. P. Makith. P. aght; Ed. ought. 31. P. been; Ed. be. 32. P. Dooth. 33. P. Yee. 34. P. approped (!). 38. Ed. duite. 39. P. keepith; Ed. kepeth. 40. P. nakid; Ed. naked. 41. Ed. _om._ that. P. yee been. 43. P. arn; Ed. be. 44. P. Engeland and; Ed. England and of. 45. P. yee. 46. P. othir. 47. P. qwenche. P. nusance; Ed. noysaunce (_read_ nuisance). 49. P. Conqueste; Ed. Conquest. 50. Ed. myscreaunce. 51. P. roote rype; Ed. rote repe. P. yee. 52. P. Sleepe; Ed. Slepe. 54. P. yee been. 55. P. Dooth. 56, 57. P. yee. 57. P. shuln; Ed. shal. P. greeue. 58. Ed. the; P. and. 59. Ed. tourne. 60. Ed. Nowe kythe of your beleue the constaunce. 62. P. blissid; Ed. blysfull. * * * * * VII. A MORAL BALADE. BY HENRY SCOGAN, SQUYER. HERE FOLOWETH NEXT A MORAL BALADE, TO MY LORD THE PRINCE, TO MY LORD OF CLARENCE, TO MY LORD OF BEDFORD, AND TO MY LORD OF GLOUCESTRE, BY HENRY SCOGAN; AT A SOUPER OF FEORTHE MERCHANDE IN THE VYNTRE IN LONDON, AT THE HOUS OF LOWYS JOHAN.