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Ballads from Manuscripts

... Ballads on the condition of England in Henry VIII's and Edward VI's reigns, (including the state of the clergy, monks and friars,) on Wolsey, Anne Boleyn, Somerset, and Lady Jane Grey; With Wynkyn de Worde's Treatise of a Galaunt (AB.1520 A.D.): Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall

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Then out of the same cloud descended an Aungell, and crouned the same ffalcon with a croun Imperiall, at whiche dooing was pronounced, by an other child, as foloweth:—

Vdallus.
Honour and grace bee to our queene Anne,
ffor whose cause an Aungell Celestiall
Descendeth, the ffalcon as white as swanne
to croun with a Diademe Imperiall!
In hir honour reioyce wee all,
ffor it cummeth from God, and not of man.
Honour and grace bee to our Queene Anne!