"But it is not your head cook's-man,

Nor none of his degree:

But, for to-morrow ere it be noon

You are deemed to die:

"And of that thank your head steward,

And after, your gay lady."

"If it be true, my little foot-page,

I'll make thee heir of all my land."

deemed, doomed.

"If it be not true, my dear master,