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 ( 24 ) Yea over all the North country I make the- chief keeper I’ll give the thirteen-pence a day, Said the Queen, by me fay, Come fetch my payment when thou wilt, No man fhall fay the nay, William I make thee gentleman, Of clothing and of fee. Thy brethren of my bed-chamber, They are lovely to fee Your fon, for he’s of tender age. Of my cellarifts fhall be ; And when he comes to man’s eftate, Better preferr’d fhall be. And William bring your wife, faid fhe, I long full fore to fee; She fhall be chief gentlewoman. To govern my nurfery. The yeomen thank’d them courteoufly, To fome bifhop we’ll wand; Of all the fins that we have done, Be abfolv’d off at his hand. So forth begone thefe good yeomen, As faft as they could hie, After came and liv’d with the king. And dy’d good yeomen three. Thus ends the lives of thefe good men. Send them eternal blifs; And all that with hand-bow fhooteth. Of heaven may never mifs. FINIS