‘Come hither, Simon!’ sayes my lord Haward,

‘Looke that thy words be true thou sayd;

I’le hang thee att my maine-mast tree

If thou misse thy marke past twelue pence bread.’

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Simon was old, but his hart itt was bold;

Hee tooke downe a peece, and layd itt ffull lowe;

He put in chaine yeards nine,

Besids other great shott lesse and more.

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