I pray the Lord my soul to take.

His wife, with nine small children and one at the breast, following him to the stake.

Martyrdom of John Rogers. Burned at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 1554.[687:2]

And shall Trelawny die?

Here 's twenty thousand Cornish men

Will know the reason why.[687:3]

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Mater ait natæ, dic natæ, natam

Ut moneat natæ, plangere filiolam.