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right sone shall / with goddes holy grace •
as he is borne / by successyon •
be well resceyued / in the same place •
and by vertu / of that vnceyony •
atteyne in knighthod / vnto full hye renoun •
reseyve his coroune / he and his successoure •
by tytle of righte / lyche hees progenytoure1 •
now royall braunche / o blood of saint lowys •
so lyke it nowe / to thy magnyficence •
that the story of the flour delys •
maye here be shewed / in thyne hegħe presence •
and that thy noble royall excellence •
lyst to support / here syttinge in thy see •
right as it fell this myracle to see •
explycet •
Notes
  1. Trinity R.3.20 puts both this as "successoure," above, in plural. ↩

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