I make the chefe rydere.’

164

‘And I gyue the .xii. pens a day,’ sayd the que[ne],

‘By God and by my faye;

Come fetche thy payment whan thou wylt,

No man shall say the naye.

165

‘Wyllyam, I make the gentylman

Of clothynge and of fee,

And thy two brethren yemen of my chambr[e],