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 glory of Edward's court? No, I am happier now on the dung hill than ever I was in his arms: For, oh! it was an adulterous bed indeed. Oh! wretch, that I knew King Edward, that ever I was betrayed by him? What floods of sorrow have my sins occasioned? Oh! learn from me, good people, to beware of vain delights; they promise fair, but they leave bitter stings behind them. Alas! you know my punishment is grievous in this world, and so it is, for I have endured a thousand deaths in one; but now my dying moments are come, I rejoice since repentance has secured my happiuesshappiness [sic] above. But, O, where repentance is not given, what seas of torment rack the soul O happy dung-hill, how do I embrace thee! From thee my pardoned solushallsoul shall [sic] soar to heaven, though here I leave this filthy carcase.

O that the name of Shore my be an antidote to stop the poisonous and soul contagion of raging lust for ever.