[♦] These both put by, a poor petitioner,

[♦] A care-crazed mother of a many children,

185 A beauty-waning and distressed widow,

Even in the afternoon of her best days,

[♦] Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,

[♦] Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts

[♦] To base declension and loathed bigamy:

[♦] By her, in his unlawful bed, he got

[♦] This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.

[♦] More bitterly could I expostulate,