And what my birth did claim, my death hath paid.

UPON
MISTRIS MALLET[56],
AN
UNHANDSOME GENTLEWOMAN,
WHO MADE LOVE UNTO HIM.

Have I renounc’t my faith, or basely sold

Salvation, and my loyalty, for gold?

Have I some forreigne practice undertooke

By poyson, shott, sharp-knife, or sharper booke

To kill my king? have I betrayd the state

To fire and fury, or some newer fate,

Which learned murderers, those grand destinies,