1556La Alas! and would you take the letter of her:

1557Might you not know she would do, as she has done,

1558By sending me a Letter. Reade it agen.

1574Ah what sharpe stings are in her mildest words?

1575Rynaldo you did neuer lacke aduice so much,

1576As letting her passe so: had I spoke with her,

1577I could haue well diuerted her intents,

1578Which thus she hath preuented.

1579Ste Pardon me Madam,

1580If I had giuen you this at ouer-night,

1581She might haue beene ore-tane: and yet she writes

1582Pursuite would be but vaine.

1583La What Angell shall

1584Blesse this vnworthy husband, he cannot thriue,

1585Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare

1586And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath

1587Of greatest Iustice. Write, write Rynaldo

1588To this vnworthy husband of his wife,

1589Let euerie word waigh heauie of her worrh,

1590That he does waigh too light: my greatest greefe,

1591Though little he do feele it, set downe sharpely.

1592Dispatch the most conuenient messenger,

1593When haply he shall heare that she is gone,

1594He will returne, and hope I may that shee

1595Hearing so much, will speede her foote againe,

1596Led hither by pure loue: which of them both

1597Is deerest to me, I haue no skill in sence

1598To make distinction: prouide this Messenger:

1599My heart is heauie, and mine age is weake,

1600Greefe would haue teares, and sorrow bids me speake.