L’épée dans le rocher de Jeanne d’Arc (Bonnie Wheeler)

XIJoan of Arc’s Sword in the Stone Bonnie Wheeler

Soo in the grettest chirch of London—whether it were Powlis or not the Frensshe booke maketh no mencyon—alle the estates were longe or day in the chirche for to praye. And whan matyns and the first masse was done there was sene in the chircheyard ayenst the hyhe aulter a grete stone four square, lyke unto a marbel stone, and in myddes therof was lyke an anyylde of stele a foot on hyghe, and theryn stack a fayre swerd naked by the poynt, and letters there were wryten in gold about the swerd that saiden thus: Whoso pulleth oute this swerd of this stone and anyvld is rightwys kynge borne of all En[g]lond.1