And bad him choose, what death he would desire:

For death was due to him, that had provokt Gods ire.

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But when as none of them he saw him take,

He to him raught a dagger sharpe and keene,

And gave it him in hand: his hand did quake,

And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene,

And troubled bloud through his pale face was seene

To come, and goe with tidings from the heart,