The Life and Death of William Long beard the most famous and witty English Traitor, borne in the Citty of London. Accompanied with manye other most pleasant and prettie histories, By T. L. [i.e. Thomas Lodge] of Lincolns Inne, Gent |
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[That pitty Lord that earst thy hart inflamed]
That pitty Lord that earst thy hart inflamed
To enterteine a voluntarie death,
To ransome man by lothed sinnes defamed,
From hel, and those infernal paines beneath:
To enterteine a voluntarie death,
To ransome man by lothed sinnes defamed,
From hel, and those infernal paines beneath:
Vouchsafe, my God, those snares it may vnlose
Wherein this blinded world hath me intrapped:
That whilst I traffique in this world of woes,
My soule no more in lusts may be intrapped.
Wherein this blinded world hath me intrapped:
That whilst I traffique in this world of woes,
My soule no more in lusts may be intrapped.
Great are my faults, O me most wilfull witted:
But if each one were iust, there were no place
To shew thy power that sinnes might be remitted.
Let then O Lord thy mercy quite displace,
The lewd and endlesse sinnes I haue committed,
Trough thine vnspeakeable and endlesse grace.
But if each one were iust, there were no place
To shew thy power that sinnes might be remitted.
Let then O Lord thy mercy quite displace,
The lewd and endlesse sinnes I haue committed,
Trough thine vnspeakeable and endlesse grace.
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