My father slayne, that cause thereof had beene.
“O Queene (quoth I) God knowes my whole intent
Of slaughter giltlesse: I am innocent.”[324]
15.
With that I sawe the people looke aside,
To vewe a mourning voice: I heard thereby
It was my woefull mother by, that cry’d
“Lo Sabrine, bound at brinke of death I lie.”
What pen, or tongue, or teares with weeping eye
Could tell my woes, that sawe my mother bound