There is another song, much to the same purport, beginning--

"When as the Duke of Normandy,

With glistening spear and shield,"

in Evans's _Songs_, vol. ii. p. 33, printed by him from _The Garland

of Delight_, by Delone, in the Pepys collection at Cambridge--a

black-letter volume; and probably the song was by himself.

Your correspondent "F.B." asks for the remainder of the song. In pity

to yourself and your readers, I forbear sending you the countless

stanzas--numerous enough in the _original_ song, but now, by the

additions of successive generations, swelled to a volume. He will find

in Chappell's collection all that is worth having, with the assurance,

repeated oft enough for the most enthusiastic of our _modest_

countrymen, that

"In Britain's race if one surpass,

A man of Kent is he."

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