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The King’s answer to the Cock’s complaint, and how

they sung the Dirge.

Tuen spake the King: ‘Sir Gremdard, hear you
this of your uncle the recluse? he hath fasted
and prayed well; and well, believe me, if I live
a year, he shall dearly abide it. As for you,
Chanticleer, your complaint is heard and shall
be cured; to your daughter that is dead, we
will give her the right of burial, and with
solemn dirges bring her to the earth, with
worship; which finished, we will consult with
our lords how to do you right and justice
against the murderer. Then began the
Placebo Domine, with all the verses belonging
to it, which are too many to recite ; and as soon
as the dirge was done, the body was interred,
and upon it a fair marble stone laid, being
polished as bright as glass, in which was
engraven in great letters this inscription
following :