Enacting by my hand such deeds vnblest,
From the first motion of my mind’s vnrest?
From hope of rule, and empire’s blind desire,
Thou hadst that power to make me first aspire.
29.
Reason strooke blind euen from my youth’s first spring
With fond-bewitching hope in state to clime,
That hope made frustrate by the powerfull king,
Did but prefigure out for future time,
Th’vnfortunate effects of my foule crime,