ÉPIGRAMME

Mortua cara cruce caro Christi victor [ut unus]

Crispini luce fecit Francis fore funus.

Henricus Quintus rus agens curtum [fuit intus,]

Jure juvante Jesu rex est victor sine [lœsu,]

Dant sua firma fides, bona vita, preces [et amores,]

Per silvas virides, quod perdit Francia [flores.]

Ante lepusfugit, quæ nunc est Anglica [villa,]

Quum leo rugit per Francos redditm [illa ‘.]

(Mss. Harl. n° 869, f°-282. — Political poems and songs relating to English History, composed during tbe period from the accession of Edw.

Ill, to that of Ric. ll, edited by Thomss Wright. — Vol. 4, page 127.)

1 11 faut remarquer que cette pièce a de nombreuses allitérations, dans le genre

des poésies du x° et du xr° siècles.