‘And thou’le remaine a traitor still?

For euer since that I was borne,’

Quoth he, ‘thou hast sought my blood to spill.’

15

‘For if you will grant me my pardon,’ he said,

‘Out of this place soe free,

I wilbe sworne before your Grace

A trew subiect to bee.’

16

‘God for-gaue his death,’ said the king,