Catharine had wept much as she penned these “Lamentations”; for in many places the manuscript was illegible, and her tears had obliterated the characters.
John Heywood kissed the spots where the traces of her tears remained, and whispered: “The sinner has by her suffering been glorified into a saint; and these poems are the cross and the monument which she has prepared for her own grave. I will set up this cross, that the good may take comfort, and the wicked flee from it.” And he did so. He had the “Lamentations of a Sinner” printed; and this book was the fairest monument of Catharine.