All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
and alle prouyncis þat ben vndur his lordschip, knowen, þat wheþer a man eþer a womman not clepid entrith in to þe ynnere halle of þe kyng, he schal be slayn anoon with outen ony tariyng, no but in hap þe kyng holdith forth þe goldun yerde to hym for þe signe of merci, and he mai lyue so; þerfor hou mai Y entre to þe kyng, which am not clepid to hym now bi thritti daies?