‘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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