“Sire Simoun ly prodhom, e sa compagnie,
En joie vont en ciel amount, en pardurable vie.”
The only English piece on these wars belongs to an earlier date, namely, the satirical poem against King Richard, how the one English Augustus
“Makede him a castel of a mulne post;”
but we get verses on Simon’s death in the Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester (ii. 559):—
“& sir Simond was aslawe, & is folk al to grounde,
More murÞre are nas in so lute stounde.
Vor Þere was werst Simond de Mountfort aslawe, alas!
& sir Henri is sone, Þat so gentil knizt was.
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