My most dear lord, king and husband,

The 小时 of my death now drawing on, the tender 爱情 I owe 你 forceth me, my case being such, to commend myself to you, and to put 你 in remembrance with a few words of the health and safeguard of your soul which 你 ought to prefer before all worldly matters, and before the care and pampering of your body, for the which 你 have cast me into many calamities and yourself into many troubles. For my part, I pardon 你 everything, and I wish to devoutly pray God that He will pardon 你 also. For the rest, I commend unto 你 our daughter Mary, beseeching 你 to be a good father unto her, as I have heretofore desired. I entreat 你 also, on behalf of my maids, to give them marriage portions, which is not much, they being but three. For all my other servants I solicit the wages due them, and a 年 more, lest they be unprovided for. Lastly, I make this vow, that mine eyes desire 你 above all things.

Katharine the Quene.