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 With such weapons as we have here,

Till we get from your place;

And if we live this hundredth yere,

We will ask you no graeegrace [sic].

Ye speak too proudly, said the King,

Ye shall be hanged all three;

That were great pity, said the Queen,

If any grace might be.

When I eamecame [sic] first into this land,

To be your wedded wife,

The first boon that I wolde you ask,

Ye would it grant belyfe.

And I asked you never one till now,

Therefore, lord, grant it me;

Now ask it, Madam, said the King,

And granted it shall be.

Then, good my lord, I you beseeehbeseech [sic]

These yeomen grant ye me;

Madam, ye might have asked a boon

That was worth all the three.

Ye might have asked towns and towers,

Parkes and forests plente;

None so pleasant, by my fay, she said,

Nor none so lefe to me.

Madam, sith it is your desire,

Your asking granted shall be,

But I had lever given you

Good market towns three.

The Queen was then a glad woman.

And said, lord, gramercy;

I dare undertake for them all

That true men they shall be.