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 By law all the reſt of his train.
 * full quickly ſhould be quell'd.

Of more than full an hundred men,
 * but forty tarry'd ſtill

Who were reſolved to ſtand by him,
 * let fortune work her will.

If none had ſhed, all for his ſake,
 * had got their pardons free;

The to pardon mean to take
 * his merry men and he,

But ere the pardon to him came,
 * this famous arche dy'd;

The death and manner of the ſame,
 * I'll preſently deſcribe.

For being vext to think upon
 * his followers revolt,

In melancholy paſſion then
 * he did recount the fault;

Perſidious traitors ſaid he then,
 * in all your manners paſt

I have guarded you as my men,
 * now ſerve me thus at laſt!

This fast perplexity did cauſe,
 * a fever as ſome ſay;

Which him in confuſion draws,
 * tho' by a ſtranger way

This deadly danger to prevent
 * he hey'd him with all ſpeed,

Unto a nunnery with intent
 * for health's ſake there to bleed.