Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

164. King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France

P. 323. There is a copy ('The Battle of Agincourt') in C.K. Sharpe's "first collection," p. 29, from which some variations may be given.

n.  24. And bring home the tribute that's due to me.
41-3.   My master the king salutes thee well,
Salutes thee well, most graciously;
You must go send, etc.
52-4.   And darna come to my degree;
Go bid him play with his tenish balls,
For in French lands he dare no me see.
73,4.   Such tidings from the king of France
As I 'm sure with him you can ner agree.
83. He bids you play with these tenish balls.
104. They were a jovial good company.
After 10:
  He counted oer his merry men,
Told them by thirty and by three,
And when the were all numberd oer
He had thirty thousand brave and three.
12   The first that fird, it was the French,
Upon our English men so free,
But we made ten thousand of them fall,
And the rest were forc'd for there lives to flee.
131. Soon we entered Paris gates.
132. trumpets sounding high.
134. Have mercy on [my] men and me.
141,2.   Take home your tribute, the king he says,
And three tons of gold I will give to thee.

There is also a copy in "The Old Lady's Collection," No 7, but it is not worth collating.

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