The copy in Percy’s Reliques is translated by Von Marées, p. 88.

A

Percy MS., p. 490; Hales and Furnivall, III, 399.

1

As itt beffell in mdsumer-time,

When burds singe sweetlye on euery tree,

Our noble king, King Henery the Eighth,

Ouer the riuer of Thames past hee.

2

Hee was no sooner ouer the riuer,