France from that instant could subsist no more,
The Marshall, and the Constable, there slaine
Vnder the Standard, in that Battaile ta’ne.
Examples of such as haue aduanced thẽselues to the Crowne of France against the strict letter of the lawe Salique, in the two following Stanzas.
Nor is this clayme for women to succeede,
(Gainst which they would your right to France debarre)
A thing so new, that it so much should neede
Such opposition, as though fetcht from farre,
By Pepin this is prou’d, as by a deede,
Deposing Cheldrick, by a fatall warre,