"That is well," saith he. "Laugh, I pray you; then shall man think we
do but discourse of light matter. But what say you to my question?"
"Why, I will help you with a very good will," said I, "if you go about a
good matter, and if I am able, and if mine husband forbid me not."
"Any more ifs?" quoth he--that I reckon wished to make me to laugh, the
which I did.
"Not at this present," made I answer.
"Then hearken me," saith he. "Can you do a deed in the dark, unwitting
of the cause--knowing only that it is for the King's honour and true
good, and that they which ask it be true men?"