‘But I will goe with you, father,’ quoth hee;

‘Like a naked man will I bee;

He that strikes the first stroake against the crowne,

An ill death may hee dye!’

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But then rose vpp Master Nortton, that esquier,

With him a ffull great companye;

And then the erles they comen downe

To ryde in his companye.

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