Despise despair, and somewhat hopeless hope,

The more I doubt the more I dare: by fear

I find the fact is fittest for my frame.

What though I be a ruin to the realm,

And fall myself therewith? no better end:

His last mishaps do make a man secure.

Such was King Priam’s end who, when he died,

Clos’d and wrapp’d up his kingdom in his death.

A solemn pomp, and fit for Mordred’s mind,

To be a grave and tomb to all his realm.