Ballad of "The Wars in France"

Your correspondent "NEMO" will find two versions of the ballad commencing, "As our king lay musing on his bed," in appendices 20 and 21 to Sir Harris Nicolas's *History of the Battle of Agincourt*, 2nd edit. They are not, I believe, in the first edition. I have a copy of the ballad myself, which I took down a few years ago, together with the quaint air to which it is sung, from the lips of an old miner in Derbyshire. My copy does not differ very much from the first of those given by Sir H. Nicolas. ["J.W." (Norwich), and "A.R." (Kenilworth), have each kindly sent us a copy of the ballad. "F.M.…