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 called Shore's Ditch, adjoining Bishopsgate street.

Thus you may see the rise and fall of this once stately, and then unhappy woman, with whose dying lamentation shall conclude.

Good People,

by the rigour of the law you are forbidden to give me any relief, yet you may pity my unhappy state, for the Scripture saith, That to the miserable pity should be shewn. I am now putting a period to a miserable life; a life that I have been long weary of. Nor would I desire to live in the splendour, pomp, and glory of Edward's court. No, I am happier now on the dung-hill than ever I was in his arms.