“O noble Marquis! your humanity Assureth us and gives us hardiness, As oft as time is of necessity, That we to you may tell our heaviness: Acceptë, Lord, now of your gentleness, What we with piteous heart unto you plain, 2445 And let your ears my voicë not disdain.

“All 2446 have I nought to do in this mattére More than another man hath in this place, Yet forasmuch as ye, my Lord so dear, Have always shewed me favour and grace, I dare the better ask of you a space Of audience, to shewen our request, And ye, my Lord, to do right as you lest. 2447