So to depart from her; but could not chuse.

40.

Leauing the queene, I absent, to deplore me,

For that I was an infant then in yeares,

To the Star-chamber in their armes they bore me,

Where our false vncle to delude the peeres,

My pensiuenesse with words of comfort cheeres:

“Now welcome from my heart, my lord,” quoth he,

Then tooke me in his armes and kissed me.

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