[To Henry.
I would despatch my duty as high Pope
O’er my poor people, in this woeful world.
Know you, Henry of Germany, once a King,
But now a suppliant outcast at my feet,
Abandoned, abhorred of all true christian men,
The scorn alike of lowly and of high.
Know you I would be merciful a little.
For this cause I will now come down, come down,
As you through yours once blasphemously demanded,