"That's a vile sin," then said the King,
"God may forgive it thee!"50
"Amen, amen!" quoth Earl Marshal;
"And I wish it so may be."
"The next vile thing that e're I did,
To you I will discover;
I poysoned fair Rosamond,55
All in fair Woodstock bow'r."
"That's a vile sin," then said the King;
"God may forgive it thee!"
"Amen, amen!" quoth Earl Marshal;
"And I wish it so may be."60
"Do you see yonder's [a] little boy,
A tossing of the ball?
That is Earl Marshal's eldest son,
I love him the best of all.
"Do you see yonder's [a] little boy,65
A catching of the ball?
That is King Henry's son," she said;
"I love him the worst of all.
"His head is like unto a bull,
His nose is like a boar,"—70
"No matter for that," King Henry cry'd,
"I love him the better therefore."
The king pull'd off his fryar's coat,
And appeared all in red;
She shriek'd, she cry'd, and wrung her hands,75
And said she was betray'd.
The King look'd over his left shoulder,
And a grim look looked he;
And said, "Earl Marshal, but for my oath,
Or hanged shouldst thou be."80