D'Aumale hath cried for quarter, the Flemish count is slain.

Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale;

The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven

mail;

And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van

'Remember St. Bartholomew' was passed from man to man.

But out spake gentle Henry then: 'No Frenchman is my foe;

Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go!'

Oh, was there ever such a knight, in friendship or in war,

As our sovereign lord, King Henry, the soldier of Navarre?"