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 23 Ble and willing you will me find, ho' bound in' chains, still free in mind : r with these things I'll ne'er be griev'd, sho' of freedom I'm bereav'd. this vain world there is no rest, hd life is but a span at best'; ne rich, the poor, the old, the young, all all lie low before it's long. am a rogue, I don't deny, it never liv'd by treachery; pd to rob a poor man I disown, it them that are of high renown. sw for the crime I am condemned, le same I never did intend, ily my liberty to take, I thought my life did lie at stake. y life, by perjury, was sworn away, say that to my dying day. h, treacherous S - you did me betray, r all I wanted was liberty. El malice in my heart is found, bany man above the ground; abw, all my people that speak of me, pu, may say I died for my liberty.