‘Ye speake proudly,’ sayd the kynge;
‘Ye shall be hanged all thre.’
‘That were great pitye,’ sayd the quene,
‘If any grace myght be.
125.
125.4 ‘belyfe,’ immediately. The word is spelled in many ways.
‘My lorde, whan I came fyrst into this lande
To be your wedded wyfe,
The fyrst boone that I would aske,
Ye would graunt me belyfe: