2565Tell me what ransome thou requirest to haue?

2566Kin: Thy ransome Iohn, hereafter shall be known

2567But first to England thou must crosse the seas,

2568To see what intertainment it affords,

2569How ere it fals, it cannot be so bad,

2570as ours hath bin since we ariude in France.

2571Ioh: Accursed man, of this I was fortolde,

2572But did misconster what the prophet told.

2573Pri: Now father this petition Edward makes,

2574To thee whose grace hath bin his strongest shield

2575That as thy pleasure chose me for the man,

2576To be the instrument to shew thy power,

2577So thou wilt grant that many princes more,

2578Bred and brought vp within that little Isle,

2579May still be famous for lyke victories:

2580and for my part, the bloudie scars I beare,

2581The wearie nights that I haue watcht in field,

2582The dangerous conflicts I haue often had,

2583The fearefull menaces were proffered me,

2584The heate and cold, and what else might displease

2585I wish were now redoubled twentie fold,

2586So that hereafter ages when they reade

2587The painfull traffike of my tender youth

2588Might thereby be inflamd with such resolue,

2589as not the territories of France alone,

2590But likewise Spain, Turkie, and what countries els

2591That iustly would prouoke faire Englands ire,

2592Might at their presence tremble and retire.

2593Kin: Here English Lordes we do proclaime a rest

2594an intercession of our painfull armes,

2595Sheath vp your swords, refresh your weary lims,

2596Peruse your spoiles, and after we haue breathd

2597a daie or two within this hauen towne,

2598God willing then for England wele be shipt,

2599Where in a happie houre I trust we shall

2600Ariue three kings, two princes, and a queene.