Consience he pricketh me contempnèd,
And Justice saith, Judgement wold haue me condemned:
Consience saith, crueltye sure will detest me;[9]
And Justice saith, death in thend will molest me:
And both in one sodden, me thinkes they do crie
That fier eternall my soule shall destroy.
But he always comes back to the supreme fact of his longing for Virginia:
By hir I liue, by hir I die, for hir I joy or woe,
For hir my soule doth sinke or swimme, for her, I swere, I goe.
And there are the potentialities of a really powerful effect in the transition from his jubilant outburst when he thinks his waiting is at an end: