To miserie: therefore a litle while
Attende, and knowe the tenoure of my stile.
2.
A subiect I of base and lowe degree,
This headlesse corps of lyfe I did depriue,
(King Sigebert it was) with crueltie:
Whose lust was lawe, whilst he was here aliue,
To feele my force it was his destinie:
Then crueltie I wrackt with crueltie,
And to reuenge the wrong that earst he wrought,