From whom no penance warns, nor portion spent;

To these I dedicate as much of me,

As I can spare from my own husbandry:

And till ghosts walk as they were wont to do,

I trade for some, and do these errands too.

But first I do enquire, and am assur’d,

What tryals in their journeys they endur’d;

What certainties of honour and of worth

Their most uncertain life-times have brought forth;

And who so did least hurt of this small store,