Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

i68 ANCIENT SONGS
The right fide cloth of gold,
The left fide to behold,
Of woollen cloth ftill framed hee*.
Menthereatt did wonder ; 175
Golden fame did thunder
This ftrange deede in every place :
The king of France came thither,
It being pleafant weather,
In thefe woods the hart to chafe. 1 3»
The children then they bring,
So their mother will'd it,
Where the royall king
Mull of force come bye :
Their mothers riche array, 185
Was of crimfon velvet :
Their fathers all of gray,
Seemelye to the eye.
Then this famous king,
Noting every thing, 190
* This will remind the reader of the livery and device
of Charles Brandon, a private gentleman, who married the
Shieen Dowager of France, Jijter of Henry VJIL At a tournament
which he held at his wedding, the trappings of his
horfe were half Cloth ofgold, and half Frieze, with tht
following Motto,
** Cloth of Gold, do not difpife,
** Thd >
thou art matcht with Cloth of Prize ;
* c
Cloth of Frize, be not too bold,
" Tho' thou art matcht with Cloth of Gold."
See Sir W. Temple's Mifc. vol 3. p. 336.
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