Est qui seruicii nil nisi velle mihi:[740]

Ergo tue laudi que tuo genuflexus honori

Verba loco doni pauper habenda tuli.

Est tamen ista mei, pie rex, sentencia verbi,

Fine tui regni sint tibi regna poli!

FOOTNOTES:

[736] Rex celi, &c. The MSS. referred to for this and the two succeeding pieces are SCHGH₃ and (for this piece and the next) the Trentham MS. (T).

[737] 12 Quo T

[738] 15 milicia S (corr.) milicies CHH₃T

[739] 51 tibi] boni T