I mused why and wherfore it should be,

But I welcomed them in every degre.

They leaped oft and were of me ryght fayne;

I suffred them, and cheryshed them agayne.

Their collers were of golde and of tyssue fine,

Wherin their names appeared by scripture

Of dyamondes that clerely do shyne:

The letters were graven fayre and pure.

To reade their names I did my busy cure;

The one was Governaunce, the other named Grace;