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The Minor Poems of John Lydgate

edited from all available mss. with an attempt to establish The Lydgate Canon: By Henry Noble MacCracken
Lydgate, John (1370?-1451?)

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Part I. RELIGIOUS POEMS.
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Part II. SECULAR POEMS.

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29. ROUNDEL FOR THE CORONATION OF HENRY VI.

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[From the same MS. and leaf.]

Here endith þe genologie of Kyng Henry þe Sext, and folowith a roundell of him ayens his coronacioun, made by Lydegate daun Iohn.

(1)

Reioice, ye reames of Englond & of Fraunce,
A braunche þat sprang oute of the floure-de-lys,
Blode of Seint Edward and Seint Lowys,
God hath this day sent in gouernaunce.

(2)

God of nature hath yoven him suffisaunce,
Likly to atteyne to grete honure and pris.

(3)

O hevenly blossome, o budde of all plesaunce,
God graunt the grace for to ben als wise
As was thi fader by circumspect advise,
Stable in vertue, withoute variaunce.
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