‘Ye myght haue asked towres and towne,

Parkes and forestes plentie:’

c.

‘None so pleasaunt to mi pay,’ she said,

‘Nor none so lefe to me.’

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‘Madame, sith it is your desyre,

Your askyng graunted shalbe;

But I had leuer haue geuen you

Good market-townës thre.’