[♦] To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.

The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,

35 And when I start, the envious people laugh

And bid me be advised how I tread.

Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?

Trow’st thou that e’er I’ll look upon the world,

[♦] Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?

40 No; dark shall be my light and night my day;

To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.

Sometime I’ll say, I am Duke Humphrey’s wife,