I'll prove had hands impure with all abuses.

Poor wretches on the tree themselves did strangle:

There sat the hangman for men's necks to angle.

To hoarse scrich-owls foul shadows it allows;

Vultures and Furies[202] nestled in the boughs.20

To these my love I foolishly committed,

And then with sweet words to my mistress fitted.

More fitly had they[203] wrangling bonds contained

From barbarous lips of some attorney strained.

Among day-books and bills they had lain better,