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 So we did bind ourselves with a curse,

To fall upon any of us that did break;

And now she has broken, therefore I hope

She will get the burden upon her own neck,

He that doth her enjoy, good breeding did destroy

Or else he would never endeavoured,

No nor caused her to break the promise she did make,

Nor her conscience with sin to have burdened,

For a heavy burden she doth bear

of griveous guilt and black perjury,

For she tramples upon light, and says that she’s right

When, positively, the truth she denies.

But I fear I’ll have to stand when both sea and land

Shall all be alter’d into another frame;

To witness against her then, in the sight of all men,

For denying of the truth and abusing the same,

But we will leave her to meditate

Upon her former life and conversation;

And I heartily wish she may get forgiveness,

For every sin and transgression,

O my heart is like to sink, and to break when I think

Upon the flattering words that she spoke;

How she said her heart was glad when I came into her bed,

Or inclosed into her arms in the dark,

When thus inclos’d into her arms

What our behaviour was I will congeal;