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 And dye I will: therewith she drew a knife To kill herselfe, but Kyron sau'd her life. See heere proud puppets hie aspiring euils, Scarce any good, most of you worse then diuels; Excellent in ill, ill in aduising well, Wel in thats worst, worse then the worst in hell. Hell is starke blind, so blind most women bee: Blinde & not blind when they should not see. Fine Madam Tiptoes in her veluet gowne, That quotes her paces in Characters downe: Valuing each step that she hath made that day, Worth twenty shillings in her best aray, And why forsooth some little durty spot Hath fell vpon her gowne or petticote, Perhaps that nothing much, or something little, Nothing in maines view, in hers a mickle, Doth thereon surfet, and some day or two Shees passing sick, and knowes not what to do. The poore handmaid seeing her mistris wed To frantick sicknes, wishes she were dead: