‘Thy liffe lyes in my hand.’

53

‘How shold I yeeld me,’ sayes the King,

‘And thou art noe gentleman?’

‘Noe, by my troth,’ sayes Copland there,

‘I am but a poore yeaman.

54

‘What art thou better then I, Sir King?

Tell me if that thou can!

What art thou better then I, Sir King,