He commits his secret to the earth.

So when I seed what I had done,
In hopes of justice retarding,
I took and buried poor Sarey Leigh
Out in the kitching garding.

XV.

But the earth refuses to keep it.

But it did haunt me, so I felt
As of a load deliver’d,
When three weeks after the fatal deed,
The body was diskiver’d.

XVI.

Remorse and self examination.