Albion Knight C1r transcription
| Now lyk a Lorde this fellow stere can | ||||||
| The lawe to defend without a fall | ||||||
| For all theyr pledgyng in Westminster hall, | ||||||
| Or lay what they wyll and bable there | ||||||
| yet mayntenaunce and I wyll kepe the chere | ||||||
| If it come once to the countree | ||||||
| Then as I wyll so shall it bee | ||||||
| A very cause syrs why I hyde my name | ||||||
| Was, they shuld not suspect my fame | ||||||
| Because I wolde spy all theyr intent | ||||||
| To chaunge theyr purpose after my iudgement | ||||||
| And so wyll I do, for thys is theyr pretence | ||||||
| By meane of Justice to brynge in experyence | ||||||
| That peace shuld continew the people amonge | ||||||
| And so by that meane to banysh mee wronge | ||||||
| But trust me syrs I wyll none of that | ||||||
| But rather by theyr faces I wyll them scrat | ||||||
| And mee to mayntain in this opynion | ||||||
| I haue an olde mate called Dyuycion | ||||||
| That shalbe of my counsayle in thys case | ||||||
| Whych I trust wyll not turne hys face | ||||||
| Tyll Peace be dryuen clene from Albyon | ||||||
| And then let Justyce and mee alone | ||||||
| For I trust or he and I haue done | ||||||
| He shall go whystle in a mary bone | ||||||
| As for any ryghtfull iudgement | ||||||
| That after this shall folow hys intent | ||||||
| And now syrs will I goo my waye | ||||||
| My felow to seke, fynde him if I may | ||||||
| Here iniury goeth out, & then Diuilion cometh, | ||||||
| in with a byll, a sword, a buckler, & a dagger. | ||||||
| ¶Haue in the ruske | ||||||
| Out of the buske | ||||||
| A lustye Captayne, | ||||||