[5] Eleven hours I spent to write it over,
[♦] For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;
[♦] The precedent was full as long a-doing:
[♦] And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,
Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.
[10] Here’s a good world the while! Why who’s so gross,
[♦] That seeth not this palpable device?
[♦] Yet who’s so blind, but says he sees it not?
[♦] Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,
[♦] When such bad dealing must be seen in thought. [Exit.