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Þat he were his wardein & al is ordeinour
To is wille to wissi him & to þe kinges honour
Þe king wende to normandie to soiorni þere
& mid sein tomas dude is sone þat he is wardein were
Þo tebaud þe erchebissop suþþe ded was
Þe king & monekes ek chose seint tomas
Þo he was erchebissop he huld ȝut in is hond
Þat child uort þat þe king come in to engelond
Þe child louede him inou more nas neuere iseye
Ne he nadde of no man more loue ne eye
Þo þe king to londe com sein tomas nom is sone
& vel vawe aȝen him wende to souþhamtone
Þer was ioye & blisse inou þo hii to gadere come
Hii custe hom & bi clupte & herede god ilome
It was enleue hundred ȝer & sixti & tuo
Of grace þat sein tomas was erchebissop þo
Þe nexte ȝer þer after as it wolde be
Endleue hundred ȝer of grace & sixti & þre
He halwede as þe king him bed þe churche of redinge
Þat verst ifounded was þoru henri þe oþer kinge
He ssrinede þulke sulue ȝer seint edward iwis
Þat was king of engelond at westmunstre þat is
Þe king ȝef þulke sulue ȝer henri is sone aungeo
Tours & al normandie & richard is sone al so
He ȝef gascoine & aquitaine so þat hii dude homage
King lowis of france þeruore wiþoute outrage
Geffray is sone he made erl of brutaine al so
Þe wule is children ȝonge were al þis was ido
Noman ne miȝte þenche þe loue þat þer was
Bituene þe king henri & þe gode man sein tomas
Þe deuel adde enuie þer to & sed bituene hom seu
Alas alas þulke stounde vor al to wel it greu
Vor þer adde er ibe kinges of luþer dede
As willam bastard & is sone willam þe rede
Þat luþer lawes made ynou & helde in to al þe lond
Þe king nolde nouȝt bileue þe lawes þat he fond