[1] [2] The quéenes answer.My lord (quoth the quéene) I saie not naie, but that it were verie conuenient, that this gentleman, whome yée require, were in companie of the king his brother: and in good faith, me thinketh it were as great commoditie to them both, as for yet awhile, to béene in the custodie of their mother, the tender age considered of the elder of them both, but speciallie the yoonger, which (besides his infancie, that also needeth good looking to) hath awhile béene so sore diseased, vex|ed with sicknesse, and is so newlie rather a little a|mended, than well recouered, that I dare put no per|son earthlie in trust with his kéeping, but my selfe onelie,The quéene is loth to part with hir son. considering that there is (as physicians saie) and as we also find, double the perill in the recidiua|tion, than was in the first sicknesse, with which disease nature being sore laboured, fore wearied and weake|ned, waxeth the lesse able to beare out and susteine a new surfet. And albeit there might be founden other that would happilie doo their best vnto him, yet is there none that either knoweth better how to order him, than I that so long haue kept him: or is more tenderlie like to cherish him, than his owne mother that bare him.