If I your brother Alfred did betray,
Or gaue consent to take his life away.”
48.
No sooner had I spoke, and taken bread,
But of the heauens, my wish I did obtaine,
Vnto the ground I instantlie fell dead,
While yet the bread did in my throate remaine,
Through which to passe, the breath did striue in vaine:
In death did heau’n detect my villanie,
In death did vengeance iustlie seise on mee.