I’ve been of thousand devils caught,

And thrust into that horrid place

Where reign dismay, despair, disgrace;

Furies with iron fangs were there,

To torture that accursed race

Doom’d to dismay, disgrace, despair.

Harmless I was; yet hunted down

For treasons, to my soul unfit;

I’ve been pursued through many a town,

For crimes that petty knaves commit;