My most dear lord, king and husband,

The घंटा of my death now drawing on, the tender प्यार I owe आप forceth me, my case being such, to commend myself to you, and to put आप in remembrance with a few words of the health and safeguard of your soul which आप ought to prefer before all worldly matters, and before the care and pampering of your body, for the which आप have cast me into many calamities and yourself into many troubles. For my part, I pardon आप everything, and I wish to devoutly pray God that He will pardon आप also. For the rest, I commend unto आप our daughter Mary, beseeching आप to be a good father unto her, as I have heretofore desired. I entreat आप 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 साल more, lest they be unprovided for. Lastly, I make this vow, that mine eyes desire आप above all things.

Katharine the Quene.