Thus gate I queanes and concubines at fill,

And for their sakes I put away my wife:

Such was my lewdnes, lust, and lawlesse life.

9.

But shame forbids mee for to tell the rest,

It mee abhorres to shew what did insue:

And yet because it moueth in my breast

Compunction still, and was God wot to true,

Ile farder tell whence[399] my destruction grue.

To Sodome sinne I fowly fell,[400] and than