And for thy mistresse favour, prize[1527] thy bloud.

Thou knowst what words did passe at Fresingfield,

Such shamelesse braves as manhood cannot brooke:

I,[1528] for I skorne to beare such piercing taunts,—

Prepare thee, Serlsbie; one of us will die. 45

Serlsbie. Thou seest I single [meet] thee [in] the field,[1529]

And what I spake, Ile maintaine with my sword:

Stand on thy guard, I cannot scold it out.

And if thou kill me, thinke I have a sonne,

That lives in Oxford in the Brodgateshall,[1530] 50