‘If I had beene their captaine,’ the erle said then,

‘I durst haue layd both liffe and land

He neuer came out of Lancashire nor Cheshire

That wold haue fledd beside the ground.

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‘But if it like your noble Grace

A litle boone to grant itt mee,

Lett me haue Lancashire and Cheshire both,

I desire noe more helpe trulye;

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