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‘How fare[th] my justice,’ sayd the kyng,

‘And my sherife also?’

‘Syr, they be slayne, without leasynge,

And many an officer mo.’

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‘Who hath them slayne?’ sayd the kyng,

‘Anone thou tell me:’

‘Adam Bel, and Clime of the Clough,

And Wyllyam of Cloudesle.’