‘I haue nothing, Egerton, in all Cheshire

That wilbe any pleasure for thee

But fiue mills stands att Chester townes end;

The gone all ouer the water of Dee.’

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Still kneeled Rowland Egerton,

And did not rise beside his knee;

Sayes, If it like your Highnesse, my gracious king,

A milner called I wold neuer bee.

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