This is a grace that (on my knees redoubled)190

I crave, to double this my short lifes gift,

And shall your royal bountie centuple,

That I may so make good what Law and Nature

Have given me for my good: since I am free,

(Offending no just law) let no law make,195

By any wrong it does, my life her slave:

When I am wrong'd, and that Law failes to right me,

Let me be King my selfe (as man was made)

And doe a justice that exceeds the Law: