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...And Accordinge As I Desired Ther Cam a Letter... by Sting Lyrics

Genre: pop | Year: 2006

[Extract from a letter to Sir Robert Cecil]

"...and accordinge as I desired ther cam a letter to me out of Germany from the Duke of Brunswicke, wherupon I spake to your honor and to my Lord of Essex, who willingly gav me both your hands (for which I wold be glad if ther wear any service in me that yor honors coulde comande). When I cam to the Duke he used me kindly, and gave me a ritch chaine of golde...with velvet and
Saten and gold lace to make me aparell, with promyse that if I wolde serv him he wolde gev me as mutch as any prince in the worlde..."