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( 5 ) It was not long e'er the king reſolved to invite, himſelf to her father's houſe, and to that end took a progreſs into Oxfordſhire, attended only with ſome truſty courtiers, and was highly welcomed by the Lord Clifford and his lady, who feared what his deſign was, ordered their daughter not to appear in his preſence; But the King ordering one of his attendants to enquire of the ſervants to know if he was at home, and finding the was, demanded to ſee her vowing he would not dine till he had. So that all their excuſes of illneſs, and the like, availed nothing; then ſhe was ordred to put on her beſt apparel and come down, that ſhe right pay her duty to the king, which he did in the moſt courtly manner, her bluſhes, if poſſible, adding to her beauty: So that at the firſt light the appeared in his eyes like an angel, whereupon be eagerly ſaluted her and dinner being placed on the table, he commanded ſhe ſhould ſit down, enuſing her to be placed directly over again him, on, whoſe pretty eyes he had ſo long gazed, that he forgot often times to eat, taking in a long draught of love, which in the end proved the rein of fair Roſamond by the jealouſy of his furious Queen, as the ſequel of this Hiſtory will ſhew.

CHAP. II.

How King Henry won the love of fair Roſamond by rich preſents, and bribed her Governeſs to favour his deſign, &c.

THE king having been highly entertained by the Lord Clifford, father to fair Roſamond,