The first part of the contention of the two famous
344.1236What
sir
Iohn Hum, what newes with you?
345237Sir Iohn. Ie
sus pre
serue your Maie
stie.
346238Elnor. My Maie
stie. Why man I am but grace.
347239Ser Iohn. I, but by the grace of God &
Hums adui
se,
348240Your graces
state
shall be aduan
st ere long.
349241Elnor. What ha
st thou conferd with
Margery Iordaine, the
350242 cunning Witch of
Ely, with
Roger Bullingbrooke and the
352243 re
st, and will they vndertake to do me good?
353244Sir Iohn. I haue Madame, and they haue promi
sed me to rai
se
354245 a Spirite from depth of vnder grounde, that
shall tell your
355246 grace all que
stions you demaund.
357247Elnor. Thanks good
sir
Iohn. Some two daies hence I ge
sse
357.1248Will
fit our time, then
see that they be here:
358249For now the King is ryding to Saint
Albones,
358.1250And all the Dukes and Earles along with him,
358.2251When they be gone, then
safely they may come,
358.3252And on the back
side of my Orchard heere,
358.4253There ca
st their Spelles in
silence of the night,
358.5254And
so re
solue vs of the thing we wi
sh,
360255Till when, drinke that for my
sake, And
so farwell.
363257Sir Iohn. Now
sir
Iohn Hum, No words but mum.
365258Seale vp your lips, for you mu
st silent be,
366259The
se gifts ere long will make me mightie rich,
367260The Duches
she thinks now that all is well,
369261But I haue gold comes from another place,
374262From one that hyred me to
set her on,
375263To plot the
se Trea
sons gain
st the King and Peeres,
377264And that is the mightie Duke of
Suffolke.
378265For he it is, but I mu
st not
say
so,
381266That by my meanes mu
st worke the Duches fall,
381.1267Who now by Cuniurations thinkes to ri
se.
383268But whi
st sir
Iohn, no more of that I trow,
For