Of hir favors.
148. My suit did crave but liberty to liue
Exiled from those at home which sought my bloud;
Hir bounty did extend further to giue,
With lyfe, eache needefull thing with calling stood,
And such repayre of frends as me seemed good;
Which had I used as did a guest beseeme
I had not bin a prisoner, as I deeme.
149. But winged with an over high desyre.
150. fo. 94.Small provocations serue a willing mynd,
Soe prone wee are to clyme against the hill,
If honour or reuenge our sayles [soules?] doe fill,
But woe is me I ever tooke in hand
That to decide I did not understande!
The cause that moued hir to stir sedition.
151. It was the thirst I had both crownes to weare,
And from a captiues state my selfe to reare.
159. Guyse whoe did lay the egges that I should hatch
Sawe subjects hearts in England would not bend
To treason, nor his force noe hold could catch
To bring to passe the thing wee did entend,
He therefore caused the Pope a pardon send
To such as should by violent stroke procure
Hir death whose fall my rising might procure.
Tyborne tippets, i. e. halters.[151]
163. At length, by full consent of Commonweale,
In Englishe Parliament it was decreed,
By cutting of a withered branche to heale
Theyre body burdened with a fruitles weede,
Which was by hir it touched most indeede
Withstoode by pitty, which could not take place
Because it did concerne a common case.
165. In body yet wee Adams badge doe weare,
And to appeare before Gods throne doe feare.