“My mother may to Germany returne,
Where shee was borne, and if it please thy grace:
And I may well lie in my father’s tombe,
If thou wilt graunt his childe so good a place.
But if thou thinke my bloud is farre to bace,
(Although I came, by both, of princely lyne)
Then let me haue what shroud thou wilt assigne.”
42.
With that the Queene replide with milder cheere,
And sayd the childe was wonderous feate,[296] and wittie: