Manfully to maintain it while I may.
Tho’ he bring with him to-day
The devil and all his host.
Then, concealing his anger, he turns to the Kings and suavely says:—
But go ye forth ye kings three
And enquire if it so be
But always come again to me,
For you I think to feed.
And if he be of such degree
Him will I honour as do ye,