Agincourt Carol

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  • Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria
    (Give thanks England
    To God for victory)

    Our king went forth to Normandy
    With grace and might of chivalry
    There God for him wrought marvellously
    Wherefore England may call and cry

    Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria

    He set a siege for sooth to say
    To Harfleur town with royal array
    That town he won and made a fray
    That France shall rue till doomesday

    Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria

    Then went him forth our king comely
    In Agincourt field he fought manly
    Through grace of God most marvelously
    He had the field and victory

    Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria

    There many a Lord Earl and Baron
    Were slain and taken and that full soon
    And some were brought into London
    With joy and bliss and great renown

    Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria

    Almighty God O keep our king
    His people and all those well willing
    And give them grace without ending;
    Then may we call and safely sing

    Deo gratias Anglia
    Redde pro victoria Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

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  • Dee from Sw MissouriLovely song, nice history - but it would have been written in Middle English, roughly similar to that of Chaucer, rather than Old English, which was spoken from roughly AD 400 to AD 900, give or take a century. Early Modern English is that of the 16th century, i.e. the King James Bible and Shakespeare. Old English sounds more like German to our modern ears than this carol, which is partly intelligible.
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