“This is thy daughter, which thou hast suppos’d To be my wife; that other faithfully Shall be mine heir, as I have aye dispos’d; Thou bare them of thy body truëly: At Bologna kept I them privily: Take them again, for now may’st thou not say That thou hast lorn 2699 none of thy children tway.

“And folk, that otherwise have said of me, I warn them well, that I have done this deed For no malíce, nor for no cruelty, But to assay in thee thy womanhead: And not to slay my children (God forbid), But for to keep them privily and still, Till I thy purpose knew, and all thy will.”