What hart is then so hard but will for pity blede,

To heare so cruell lucke so cleare a life succede?

To see a seely soule with wo and sorrow sounst,[1150]

A king depriude, in prison pent, to death with daggers dounst.[1151]

5.

Would God the day of birth had brought me to my bere,

Then had I neuer felt the chaunge of fortune’s chere:

Would God the graue had gript me in her greedy woumbe,

Whan crown in cradle made me king with oyle of holy thoumbe.

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