2 The greater sin, the greater punishment: 3 All those great battles (which you boast to win 4 Through strife, and bloodshed, and avengement),
avengement > vengeance
5 Now praised, hereafter dear you shall repent:
dear > dearly
6 For life must life, and blood must blood, repay. 7 Is not enough your evil life forespent?
Is not enough your evil life forespent? > [Is it not enough that your evil life has been utterly wasted? Or, more probably: Has not enough of your evil life already been utterly wasted?]
8 For he that once has missed the right way, 9 The further he does go, the further he does stray.
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Then do no further goe, no further stray,
2 But here lie downe, and to thy rest betake,
Th'ill to preuent, that life ensewen may.
4 For what hath life, that may it loued make,
And giues not rather cause it to forsake?
6 Feare, sicknesse, age, losse, labour, sorrow, strife,
Paine, hunger, cold, that makes the hart to quake;
8 And euer fickle fortune rageth rife,
All which, and thousands mo do make a loathsome life.
1 "Then do no further go, no further stray, 2 But here lie down, and to your rest betake,