Apud Deum, qui defensor
In terris exstiteras.”—(Political Songs, 124.)
The French poem which follows directly in the collection is too long to copy in full. This is perhaps the most remarkable stanza, in which we again find the comparison with Thomas of Canterbury:—
“Mès par sa mort, le cuens Mountfort conquist la victorie,
Come ly martyr de Caunterbyr, finist sa vie;
Ne voleit pas li bon Thomas qe perist seinte Eglise,
Le cuens auxi se combati, e morust sauntz feyntise.
Ore est ocys la flur de pris, qe taunt savoit de guerre,
Ly quens Montfort, sa dure mort molt emplorra la terre.”
In this poem there is not, as in the Latin one, any direct prayer to the martyred Earl, but in the last stanza we read:—