[1] [2] His words to his father.The prince knéeling downe before his father said:

Most redoubted and souereigne lord and father, I am at this time come to your presence as your liege man, and as your naturall sonne, in all things to be at your commandement. And where I vnderstand you haue in suspicion my demeanour against your grace, you know verie well, that if I knew any man within this realme, of whome you should stand in feare, my duetie were to punish that person, thereby to remooue that greefe from your heart. Then how much more ought I to suffer death, to ease your grace of that gréefe which you haue of me, being your natu|rall sonne and liege man: and to that end I haue this daie made my selfe readie by confession and re|ceiuing of the sacrament. And therefore I beseech you most redoubted lord and deare father, for the ho|nour of God, to ease your heart of all such suspicion as you haue of me, and to dispatch me héere before your knees, with this same dagger [and withall he deliuered vnto the king his dagger, in all humble re|uerence; adding further, that his life was not so deare to him, that he wished to liue one daie with his displeasure] and therefore in thus ridding me out of life, and your selfe from all suspicion, here in presence of these lords, and before God at the daie of the gene|rall iudgement, I faithfullie protest clearlie to for|giue you.