5 Witness the dungeon deep, wherein of late 6 Your life, shut up, for death so oft did call; 7 And though good luck prolonged has your date,
date > span of life
8 Yet death then would the like mishaps forestall,
then > [when in the dungeon] the like > similar
9 Into which hereafter you may happen fall.
happen > [chance to]
109.46
Why then doest thou, {o^} man of sin, desire
2 To draw thy dayes forth to their last degree?
Is not the measure of thy sinfull hire
4 High heaped vp with huge iniquitie,
Against the day of wrath, to burden thee?
6 Is not enough, that to this Ladie milde
Thou falsed hast thy faith with periurie,
8 And sold thy selfe to serue Duessa vilde,
With whom in all abuse thou hast thy selfe defilde?
1 "Why then do you, O man of sin, desire 2 To draw your days forth to their last degree? 3 Is not the measure of your sinful hire
hire > wages