Some smothred, drown’d, some stricken through the hart
With fatall steele, all drown’d in deadly smart:
Of hastned death, with shrikes, sobs, sighs and teares,
Did tell the woes of their forepassed yeares.
[1565] Pewed. 1571, 75, 78.
[1566] O. Capell.
[1567] Warton has given this stanza, in a note, as from the edition of 1559, but the Induction was first printed 1563.
[1568] Omitted by Warton.
[1569] The last four lines not in Warton.
[1570] Forlorne. Warton.