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 22      The Life and glorious Actions hazards he had undertaken, to grant him one requeſt, without naming it. The King hereupon raiſing him up, ſaid Son, I know your virtue is honourable. Then ſaid the Prince, I take your Majeſty at your word ; my ambition is far from a crown, all I re- queſt is, That I may have the earl of Kent's   fair daughter to be my wife: The King was amazed at this requeſt; yet ſeeing him ear- neſtly bent upon it, and hearing what had paſſed between them, he conſented. So the Earl, his Counteſs, and Daughter, were ſent for to court, and their conſent being eaſily had, the marriage was celebrated with all imaginable pomp, ſo that night the love- ly pair enjoyed their hearts content; from the fruits of this love, ſprung a ſon named Richard, who ſucceeded his Grandfather in   the kingdom; and after a long reign, was depoſed by Henry Duke of Lancaſter, who took upon him the crown, under the title of Henry the fourth, and being depoſed, was murdered in the caſtle of Pomfret, by   Sir Piercy of Exton ; but not degenerating from his heroic father in valour, ſeizing an   halbert by main ſtrength out of their hands. he killed four of them, ere they diſpatched him. But to return. The French King and his Son, having been four years priſoners in England, made ſeveral overtures to King Edward for their releaſe: But Charles the French King's eldeſt Son, having gotten the