And turn’d my back to fore-past shame: heau’n shin’d

Vpon my head, thoughts only now enclin’d

To actions of true praise did heau’n aspire,

Forren affaires gaue wings to my desire.

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For absolution for my trespasse done

Against my sire, when I did vnderstand

How Saladine, the Pagan prince, had wonne

The sacred Salem and the holy land,

Which christian princes did of late command: