Hyt schal newyr cum howt for me.
[Footnote 311.2: [From Fenn, iv. 100.] The writer of this brief
and enigmatical letter was the second husband of Elizabeth Paston,
as mentioned in the preliminary note to No. 692 preceding. If the
John Paston, Esquire, to whom it is addressed be the first of that
name, that is to say, Elizabeth Paston’s brother, the date is not
later than 1466; but as it was certainly some years later before
the writer became connected with the Pastons by marriage, the
person addressed is more probably John Paston the youngest,
brother of Sir John. The date of this communication, however, is
unimportant. Its purport, of which Fenn has suggested rather a
complicated explanation, appears to me simply a promise of secrecy
on some subject: ‘_Loyauté, aimé_ (_i.e._ Honour bright, my dear
friend). It shall never come out for me.’]