To babble of our plot, and ’fore the folk

Will, with his pretty face and cunning tears

And speeches of his mother, stir them up

To rise against us. Look, sirs, while he lives

We can do nothing, but if we should kill him,

His lands and goods are ours: we may divide

The wealth and let who will possess the widow.

That is my counsel, lords: but if ye suffer

This baby to return, then this I say—

Make we at once our gifts,—myself I count it