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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
