LE 24 NOVEMBRE

Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria!

Ovwre kynge went forth to Normandy, With grace and migbt of chivalry ; The God for hym wrought marvelaisly, Wherefore Englonde may calle, andcry Deo gratias :

Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria !

He sette a sege, the sothe for to say, To Harflue toune with ryal aray ; That toune he wan, and made a fray, That Fraunceshall rywetyldomes day.

Deo gratias, etc.

Then went owre kynge, with alle his [hoste, ]

Thorowe Fraunce for alle French boste;

He spared for drede of lest, ne moste,

Tyl he come to Agincourt coste.

Deo gratias, etc.

Than for sothe that knyht comely,

In Agincourt feld he faught manly,

Thorow grace of God most myghty,

He had bothe the felde, and the victory:

Deo gratias, etc.

Ther dukys, and erlys, lorde, and [barone,] Were take, and slayne, and that wel [sone,] And some were ledde in to Lundone With joye, and merthe and grete [renone.] Deo gratias, etc.

Now gracious God, he save ourekynge, That we with merth mowe savely

His peple, and all his well wyllynge, [synge,]

Gef him gode lyfe, and gode endynge, Deo gratias : Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria.

(Mss. of Pepy’s collection. — Percy’s ancient reliques. — Nicholas Harris-Nicholas, the battle of Agincourt, p. 382-888).

GOMPLAINTE FRANGAISE

( Cette petite pièce, composée « par aucuns clercs du royaume de France, moult émerveillés, » se trouve reproduite toute entière dans la chronique de Monstrelet, n° 3684, fonds français, Bibl. imp., ch. 450. — M. Douët-d’Arcq, qui a publié ce manuscrit, a trouvé une autre et « meilleure leçon » , dit-il, de la complainte dans un registre du Parlement, Archiv. de l'Empire, reg. du Cons. xt, f 33. — Nous la publions également sous le titre de : SECONDE VERSION.