815Valingford, so hardly I digest

9.2An injury 816thou hast profferèd me,

9.3As were it not that I detest to do

9.4What stands 817not with the honour of my name,

9.5818Thy death should pay thy ransom of thy fault.

And Mountney, had not my revenging wrath,

9.7820Incensed with more than ordinary love,

9.8821Been such for to deprive thee of thy life,

9.9822Thou hadst not lived to brave me as thou dost.

9.10Wretch as thou art,

9.11823Wherein hath Valingford offended thee?

9.12824That honourable bond which late we did

9.13Confirm 825in presence of the gods,

9.14826When with the Conqueror we arrivèd here,

9.15827For my part hath been kept inviolably,

9.16828Till now, too much abused by thy villainy,

9.17829I am enforced to cancel all those bands

9.18830By hating him which I so well did love.

Subtle thou art, and cunning in thy fraud,

9.20832That giving me occasion of offence,

9.21833Thou pickʼst a quarrel to excuse thy shame.

9.22834Why, Valingford, was it not enough for thee

9.23835To be a rival ʼtwixt me and my love,

9.24836But counsel her, to my no small disgrace,

9.25837That when I came to talk with her of love

9.26838She should seem deaf, as feigning not to hear?

But hath she, Mountney, used thee as thou sayʼst?

840Thou knowʼst too well she hath, 841wherein

9.29Thou couldst not do me greater injury.

Then I perceive we are deluded both.

9.31843For when I offered many gifts

9.32Of gold and jewels 844to entreat for love,

9.33She hath refused them with a coy disdain,

9.34845Alleging that she could not see the sun.

9.35846The same conjectured I to be thy drift,

9.36847That feigning so she might be rid of me.

The like did I by thee. But are not these

9.38Natural impediments?

In my conjecture merely counterfeit.

9.40850Therefore letʼs join hands in friendship once again,

9.41851Since that the jar grew only by conjecture.

With all my heart. Yet letʼs try the truth hereof.

With right good will. We will straight unto her father,

9.44854And there to learn whether it be so or no.