And I but late in honoures did excell,

Et ecce nunc in puluere dormio.

7.

I haue played my pageant, now am I past,

Yee wot well all I was of no great elde:

Thus all thing concluded shalbe at the last,

When death approcheth then lost is the fielde:

Then seing this world me no longer vpheld,

(For nought would conserue mee here in this place)

In manus tuas Domine my spirit vp I yeelde,