Some signal of reprieve.
Jane. O, seek it not!
It cannot be. My life may not consist
With the realm’s safety. Innocent am I
In purpose; but the object of great crimes.
Good blood must still flow on till Jane’s be shed.”
So again, in her final address to the spectators:
“My sentence hath been just: not for aspiring
Unto the crown, but that, with guilty weakness,
When proffered I refused it not. From me