HENRI QUATRE (VIVE). This historical song consists of three couplets, which we append in the order in which they should be sung.
The authorship of the words and the date of their composition are disputed points, although the first two couplets have been very generally attributed to Collé (1709–83). We are disposed from internal evidence to assign all three verses to the second period of the reign of Henri IV (1589–1610), i. e. the early part of the 17th...