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And yet Gisors, in six years thence,
Was Marguerite's. And Harry _joven_

In pledge for all his life and life of all his heirs
Shall have Gisors and Vexis and Neauphal, Neufchastel;
But if no issue, Gisors shall revert

And Vexis and Neufchastel and Neauphal to the French crown.

A song : Si tuit li dol el nior el marrimen

_Del mon_ were set together they would seem but light

Against the death of the young English King,

Harry the Young is dead and all men mourn,

Mourn all good courtiers, fighters, cantadors.

And still Old Harry keeps grip on Gisors

And Neufchastel and Neauphal and Vexis;

And two years war, and never two years go by

but come new forays, and " The wheel
" Turns, Conrad, turns, and in the end toward ill."

And Richard and Alix span the gap, Gisors,

And Eleanor and Richard face the King,

For the fourth family time Plantagenet

Faces his dam and whelps, ... and holds Gisors,

Now Alix' dowry, against Philip-Auguste
(Louis' by Adelaide, wood-lost, then crowned at Etampe)

And never two years sans war.

And Zion still

Bleating away to Eastward, the lost lamb,

Damned city ( was only Frederic knew

The true worth, and patched with Malek Kamel

The sane and sensible peace to bait the world

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And set all camps disgruntled with all leaders.
" Damn'd atheists ! " alike Mahomet growls ,
And Christ grutches more sullen for Sicilian sense
Than does Mahound on Malek . )

The bright coat
in
Messina's beach-way
Is more to the era , and
Des Barres and Richard split the reed-lances
And the coat is torn .

( Moving in heavy air : Henry and Saladin .
( The seppent coils in the crowd . )

The letters run : Tancred to Richard :

That the French King is
More against thee, than is his will to me
Good and in faith; and moves against your safety.

Richard to Tancred :

That our pact stands firm ,
And , for these slanders , that I think you lie .

Proofs, and in writing :

And if Bourgogne say they were not
Deliver'd by hand and his,
Let him move sword against me and my word.

Richard to Philip : silence, with a tone.

Richard to Flanders : the subjoined and precedent.

Philip a silence; and then," Lies and turned lies
"For that he will fail Alix

" Affianced, and Sister to Ourself . "

" My Father's bed-piece ! A Plantagenet
" Mewls on the covers, with a nose like his ."

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Then :

In the Name
Of Father and of Son Triune and Indivisible
Philip of France by Goddes Grace
To all men presents that our noble brother
Richard of England engaged by our mutual oath

( a sacred covenant applicable to both )

Need not wed Alix but whomso he choose
We cede him Gisors Meauphal and Vexis
And to the heirs male of his house

Cahors and Querci Richard's The abbey's ours
Of Figeac and Souillac And St Gilles left still in
Alix returns to France.
peace

Made in Messina in
The year 1190 of the Incarnation of the Word.

Reed lances broken, a cloak torn by Des Barres
Do turn King Richard from the holy wars.

And " God aid Conrad
" For man's aid comes slow ", Aye tarries upon the road ,
En Bertrans cantat .

And before all this
By Correze, Malemort
A young man walks, at church with galleried porch
By river-marsh, a sad man, pacing,
Come from Ventadorn; and Eleanor turning on thirty years,
Domna jauzionda, and then Bernard, saying:

" My Lady of Ventadorn " en Bernard speaking
" Is shut by Eblis in, and will not hawk nor hunt
" Nor get her free in the air,

nor watch fish rise to bait

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" Nor the glare-wing'd flies alight in the creek's edge

" Save in my absence, Madame.

' Que la lauzeta mover ' ,
" Send word, I ask you, to Eblis,

you have seen that maker
" And finder of songs, so far afield as this

" That he may free her, *AUGUSTE* , who sheds such light in the air. "