How likest thou Cheshire and Lancashire both,
Which were counted cheefe of chiualree?
Falslye are they fled and gone,
And neuer a one is trew to mee.
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‘If that be soe,’ said the erle free,
‘My leege, therof I am not faine;
My comlye prince, rebuke not mee,
I was not there to be there captaine.
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