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But if with error and vniust suspect
Thou shalt the burden of my grieuance aggrauate,
Laying vnto my charge thy loues neglect,
A lode which patience cannot tolerate:
First to be Atlas to mine owne desire,
Then to depresse me with vnkind construction,
While to mine owne grieues may I scarce respire:
This is to heape Ossa on Pelion.
Oh would the reach yet of vnequall censure
Might here but date his partialitie:
Mistrust, who neare is ripe till worst be thought on,
Hath my crime rackt, yet to more hye extensure,
And now tis drawne to flat Apostacie:
So straight beset, best I lay hold on pardon.
Why then sith better i'st a penitentiarie
To saue then to expose to shames confusion:
Thy face being vayld, this pennance I award,
Clad in white sheet thou stand in Paules Churchyard.