Before his noble grace,

That caused you to deuise

This lytel enterprise;

And hym moost lowly pray,

In his mynde to comprise

Those wordes his grace dyd saye

Of an ammas gray.

Ie foy enterment en sa bone grace.

[257] Howe the douty Duke of Albany, &c.] From Marshe’s ed. of Skelton’s Workes, 1568.

[258] so] Qy. “sore?”