‘But I am waking, sweete,’ he said,
‘Lady, what is your will?’
‘I haue vnbethought me of a wile,
How my wed lord we shall spill.
6.
6.1,3 ‘Four and twenty’: the Folio gives ‘24’ in each case.
‘Four and twenty knights,’ she sayes,
‘That dwells about this towne,
Eene four and twenty of my next cozens,
Will helpe to dinge him downe.’