52.

Alas, it could not moue him any iote,

Ne[1615] make him once to rue, or wet his eye,

Stird him no more then that that stirreth not:

But as the rocke, or stone, that will not plye,

So was his heart made hard with[1616] cruelty,

To murder them: alas, I weepe in thought,

To thinke on that which this fell wretch hath wrought.

53.

That now, when hee had done the thing hee sought,