The captain-general gave a surrejoinder of still greater length and legal acumen.

Ah dearest Lord! what evil starre On you hath frownd, and pourd his influence bad, That of your selfe ye thus berobbed arre

Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of

A ſcarecrow, ſet to frighten fools away; / Marriage has joys; and you ſhall have aſſay.