“O Queene (quoth I) if pittie none remayne,
But I be slayne or drown’d as Humber was:
Then take thy pleasure by my pinching payne,
And let me hence as thou appoyntest passe.
But take some pittie on my childe, alas,
Thou know’st the infant made no fault, but hee[294]
That’s dead, and I, therefore reuenge on mee.”
37.
“No bastards here shall liue to dispossesse
My sonne, (shee sayd) but sith thou soughtest fame,