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and willing you will me find, bound in chains, still free in mind; r with these things I’ll ne’er be griev’d, tho’ of freedom I’m bereav’d.

this vain world there is no rest, life is but a span at best; rich, the poor, the old, the young, all lie low before it's long.

a rogue, I don’t deny, t never liv’d by treachery; d to rob a poor man I disown, t them that are of high renown.

, for the crime I am condemned, same I never did intend, my liberty to take, I thought my life did lie at stake.

life, by perjury, was sworn away, say that to my dying day. ,treacherous S—, you did me betray, all I wanted was liberty.

malice in my heart is found, any man above the ground; , all good people that speak of me, may say I died tor my liberty.