‘Horslay, right thoust be a knight,

Lands and liuings thou shalt haue store;

Howard shalbe erle of Nottingham,

And soe was neuer Haward before.

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‘Now, Peeter Simon, thou art old;

I will maintaine thee and thy sonne;

Thou shalt haue fiue hundred pound all in gold

Ffor the good service that thou hast done.’

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