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Confesse, and be hang'd.

Tom stretcht his necke for stealing of a Mare,
And yet Ile proue he was not hang'd for stealing:
For had he not beene taken vnaware,
And so conuicted by his owne reuealing,
He might haue scapt the Gallowes, gone his way,
And still remain'd a Thiefe vntill this day.