VI.

This is my play's last scene; here Heavens appoint

My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race,

Idly yet quickly run, hath this last pace,

My span's last inch, my minute's latest point,

And gluttonous Death will instantly unjoint

My body and soul, and I shall sleep a space:

But my ever-waking part shall see that face

Whose fear already shakes my every joint.

Then as my soul to heaven, her first seat, takes flight,

And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell,

So fall my sins, that all may have their right,

To where they're bred, and would press me to hell.

Impute me righteous; thus purged of evil,

For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.

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