[♦] His answer was, the people were not wont
[30] To be spoke to but by the recorder.
Then he was urged to tell my tale again:
‘Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr’d;’
[♦] But nothing spake in warrant from himself.
When he had done, some followers of mine own
[35] At the lower end of the hall hurl’d up their caps,
And some ten voices cried ‘God save King Richard!’
[♦] And thus I took the vantage of those few,
[♦] ‘Thanks, gentle citizens and friends!’ quoth I,