It may be regestrede of shamefull recorde.

So noble a man, so valiaunt lord and knyght,

Fulfilled with honor, as all the world[186] doth ken; 30

At his commaundement which had both day and nyght

Knyghtes and squyers, at euery season when

He calde vpon them, as meniall houshold men:

Were not[187] these commons vncurteis karlis of kind

To slo their owne lord? God was not in their mynd.

And were not they to blame, I say, also,

That were aboute him, his o[w]ne[188] seruants of trust,