“Which ye may see now riding all before,
That in hir time did many a noble dede,
And for their worthines full oft have bore
The crown of laurer leaves on their hede,
As ye may in your old bookes rede;
And how that he that was a conquerour,
Had by laurer alway his most honour.
“And tho that beare boughes in their hond
Of the precious laurer so notable,
Be such as were, I woll ye understond,