His bloudy handes himselfe could not abyde,

But fully[1593] bent with famine to haue dyed,

The worthy prince deemed in his regarde,

That death for death could bee but iust rewarde.

25.

Yet wee, that were so drowned in the depth

Of deepe desire, to drinke the guiltlesse bloud,

Like to the wolfe, with greedy lookes that lepth

Into the snare, to feede on deadly foode,

So wee delighted in the state wee stoode,