FROM THE KYNGES GRACE, TO HIS WEL BELOVED
DOUGHTER LADY MARY.
Mary.
From wens come you, my frende.
Dou uenes uous, mon amy.
The messanger.
I come from the court.
Certes, madame, je uiens de la court.
Mary.
How doth fare the Kyng my father and the good lady my mother.
Coment se porte le Roy mon pere et la bonne dame ma mere.
The messanger.
In truthe, madame, they dyd right well at my partyng, or
En uerite, madame, ilz se portoient tresbien a mon departement, ou
whan I came thens.
quant je men partis.
Ma.
I am right glad of their good prosperite, and pray Our
Lorde always so
Je suis tresjoieuse de leur bonne prosperite, et prie Nostre
Seigneur tousjours
to maintene them: do nat you bryng me some remembraunce or token
ainsy les maintenir: ne maportes uous quelque souuenance ou enseigne
from them.
de par eulz.
Le mes.
I do presente unto you, in the name of the good grace of the Kyng your
father, this
Je uous presente, ou nom de la bonne grace du roy uostre
pere, ce
herte of golde, amelde of trewe hope, whiche is russet
couller, and from
ceur dor, esmaille de uray esperance, qui est coulleur
grise, et de par