[80] I hold my life as dear as you do yours;

[♦] And never in my life, I do protest,

[♦] Was it more precious to me than ’tis now:

[♦] Think you, but that I know our state secure,

I would be so triumphant as I am?

[85] Stan. The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,

[♦] Were jocund and supposed their state was sure,

[♦] And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;

[♦] But yet, you see, how soon the day o’ercast.

[♦] This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt: