[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.