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2951.

[I for no favour sue]

For if I be an offender, or have committed, &c. —xxv. 11.

I for no favour sue,
The vilest and the worst
(If such I am) may claim his due;
Condemn; but hear me first:
Me, as the public foe
Whom guilty they presume,
An heretic, or rebel show,
And without mercy doom.