30So, in the forme thereof his bodie's there.

And if, faire soule, not with first Innocents

Thy station be, but with the Pænitents,

(And, who shall dare to aske then when I am

Dy'd scarlet in the blood of that pure Lambe,

35Whether that colour, which is scarlet then,

Were black or white before in eyes of men?)

When thou rememb'rest what sins thou didst finde

Amongst those many friends now left behinde,