XXXVIII.

This soul, now free from prison and passion,

Hath yet a little indignation

That so small hammers should so soon down beat

So great a castle; and having for her house

Got the strait cloister of a wretched mouse,

(As basest men, that have not what to eat,

Nor enjoy ought, do far more hate the great

Than they who good reposed estates possess,)

This Soul, late taught that great things might by less

Be slain, to gallant mischief doth herself address.

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