As bokes of rome tell,
He was goten with the deuyll of hell,
As his moder slepynge lay.’ 926
The kynge sayde, ‘by Saynt Adryan,
I rede, a nother gentylman
Be there and haue the degre. 929
I haue a doughter, that me is dere,
Thou shalte wedde her to thy fere,
And yf it thy wyll be, 932
Two duchyes in honde