Silly Sisters | Agincourt Carol

Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria!

Angleterre, rends grâce à Dieu pour la victoire !

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Tel est le refrain de la Chanson d’Azincourt (Agincourt Carol), anonyme anglais du XVe siècle célébrant la victoire d’Albion la perfide – Perfidious Albion – sur le roy de Fraunce à la Bataille d’Azincourt (1415).

Peut-être Mrs. May puise-t-elle dans ce « carol » quelques forces sur le chemin de Bruxelles, ou du réconfort sur celui du retour.

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Silly Sisters | Agincourt Carol + La Route Au Beziers. Anonyme (Angleterre, XVe siècle). Arrangements : June Tabor, Maddy Prior.
Silly Sisters (June Tabor, Maddy Prior), duo vocal ; Dan Ar Braz, guitare ; Nigel Eaton, vielle à roue ; Huw Warren, claviers ; Paul James, saxophone soprano. Extrait de l’album No more to the dance / Silly Sisters. Royaume-Uni, 1988.

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Owre Kynge went forth to Normandy
With grace and myght of chyvalry
Ther God for hym wrought mervelusly
Wherefore Englonde may call and cry

Refrain :
Deo gratias!
Deo gratias Anglia redde pro victoria!

He sette sege, forsothe to say
To Harflu towne with ryal aray
That toune he wan and made afray
That Fraunce shal rewe tyl domesday.

Then went hym forth, owre king comely
In Agincourt feld he faught manly
Throw grace of God most marvelsuly
He had both feld and victory.

Ther lordys, erles and barone
Were slayne and taken and that full soon
Ans summe were broght into Lundone
With joye and blisse and gret renone.

Almighty God he keep owre kynge
His peple, and alle his well-wyllynge
And give them grace wythoute endyng
Then may we call and savely syng