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 ( 20 ) Saying, your officers greet you well,. Out of the North country How fares my Juftices faid the King, And my Sneriff alfo? Sir, they be flaih without leafing; With many officers more. Who then hath flain them, faid the King? I want that you tell me : Adam Hell and Glim of the Clough, With William of Cloudeflie, Alas! for truth then faid the King, My heart is wond’rous fore! I had rather a thoufand pounds, I had known this before : For I have granted them great grace. So that forethanketh me ;' But had I known ^11 this before They had been hang’d all three. The King open’d the letter anon, Himfelf to read it thro’; He found how thefe outlaws had fain Three hundred men and more. Firft the Juftice and the Sheriff, The Mavor of Carlifle town; Of all the conftables, catch-poles, I fhort they left not one. The bailifts and the beadles both. With ferjeants of the law; Yea forty for’fers of the fee, Thefe' have kill",d