‘But, good lorde, we beseche you nowe,

That ye wyll graunte vs grace,

In so moche as we be to you commen;

Or elles that we may fro you passe,

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‘With suche weapons as we haue here,

Tyll we be out of your place;

And yf we lyue this hondred yere,

We wyll aske you no grace.’

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