‘And if your king will let me come till I my tale have told,
I will bestow for my ransome full thirty tun of gold.’
3
‘O nay! O nay!’ then said our king, ‘O nay! this may not be,
To yield to such a rover my self will not agree;
He hath deceivd the French-man, likewise the King of Spain,
And how can he be true to me that hath been false to twain?’
4
With that our king provided a ship of worthy fame,
Rainbow she is called, if you would know her name;