That then my gasping ghost would haue expir’d

The breath of life, which I so oft desir’d.

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But after grieuous groane, when as my sprite

With feeling sense reuiued was againe,

My sterne tormentors, seeming to delite

In this their bloodie game, while I in vaine

Did beg dispatch of my tormenting paine,

With vnremorsefull hands againe began

T’inflict more woes on me most woefull man.