Also I will ask your Majesty to marry me to some gentlewoman of noble blood meet for my vocation.

I will make Ireland all that your Majesty wishes for you.

I am very sorry your Majesty is put to such expense.

If you will trust it to me, I will undertake that in three years you will have a revenue, where now you have continual loss.' Shane suspected evil designs on the part of the English, and not without reason.

The object of the summons to England was to detain him there with 'gentle talk' till Sussex could return to his command with an English army powerful enough to subjugate Ulster.