The famous king so dead, his son, but nyne months olde,

Henry the sixt of England was proclaymed king:

And then the Frenchmen wexte more stoute and bolde,

His youth occasion gaue them to conspire the thing,

Which might them all from due subjection bring?

On which the councell calde a parliament,

Of French that might the treasons high preuent.

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Wherein the duke of Bedford, my good lorde and frend,

Was regent made, the prince his deputy in Fraunce: