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184 Then glory to His holy name, from whom all glories are;

And glory to our Sovereign Lord, King Henry of Navarre.

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The Glove and the Lions.

was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport,

And one day as his lions fought, sat looking on the court;

The nobles filled the benches, with the ladies in their pride,

And 'mong them sat the Count de Lorge with one for whom he sighed:

And truly 'twas a gallant thing to see that crowning show,

Valour, and love, and a king above, and the royal beasts below.

Ramp'd and roar'd the lions, with horrid laughing jaws;

They bit, they glared, gave blows like beams, a wind went with their paws;

With wallowing might and stifled roar they rolled on one another,

Till all the pit with sand and mane was in a thunderous smother;