The boy answered that "He would go by-and-by thither."
Further they demanded of him, "When he was with the Lady Elizabeth?"
He answered, "Every day!"
Furthermore they examined him, "What the Lord Devonshire sent by him to Her Grace?"
The child said, "I will go [and] know what he will give to carry to her." Such was the discretion of the child, being yet but three years of age.
"This same is a crafty boy!" quoth the Lord Chamberlain; "what say you, my Lord Chandos?"
"I pray you, my Lord! give me the figs ye promised me!"
"No, marry," quoth he, "thou shalt be whipped if thou come any more to the Lady Elizabeth, or the Lord Courtney!"
The boy answered, "I will bring the Lady, my Mistress, more flowers!"
Whereupon the child's father was commanded to permit the boy no more to come into their chambers.