  Source.—An English Chronicle, edited by Davies, p. 93. (Camden Society, 1846.) Ballad set upon the Gates of Canterbury. Send home most gracious Lord Jesu most benign, Send home thy true blood unto his proper vein, Richard duke of York, Job thy servant insign, Whom Satan not ceaseth to set at care and disdain, Set him ut sedeat in principibus, as he did before, And so to our new song, Lord, thine ears incline, Gloria, laus et honor Tibi sit Rex Christe Redemptor! Edward Earl of March, whose fame the earth shall spread, Richard Earl of Salisbury named prudence, With that noble knight and flower of manhood, Richard Earl of Warwick, shield of our defence, Also little Falconberg, a knight of great reverence; Jesu them restore to their honour as they had before, And ever shall we sing to thine High Excellence, Gloria, laus et honor Tibi sit Rex Christe Redemptor! The dead man greeteth you well, That is just true as steel, With very good intent. Also the Realm of England, Soon to loose from Sorrow's bond By right indifferent judgement. |
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