From those that seem’d to threaten his offence.

91.

Thus with my chiefest foe my peace I made,

And when I sensiblie felt nature’s waste,

To friends about me such like words I said:

Quoth I: “Come neere, and since all hope is past

Of longer life, whose line long cannot last,

Attend my words, and witnesse after death,

What in my will I to the world bequeath.

92.