Oh, that this wet that falls upon my face

10.223221458Would wash the crime clear from my conscience!

10.323261459When I look up to heaven, I see my trespass;

10.42326.11460The earth doth still cry out upon my fact.

10.523141461Pay me the murder of a brother and a king,

10.62314.11462And the adulterous fault I have committed:

10.723291463Oh, these are sins that are unpardonable!

10.82329.11464Why, say thy sins were blacker than is jet,

10.91465Yet may contrition make them as white as snow.

10.101466Ay, but still to persever in a sin,

10.111467It is an act 'gainst the universal power.

10.1223461468Most wretched man, stoop, bend thee to thy prayer,

10.1323451469Ask grace of heaven to keep thee from despair.

[Drawing his sword.] Ay so. Come forth and work thy last.

10.1523521472And thus he dies; and so am I revenged.

10.1623561473No, not so. He took my father sleeping, his sins brim full.

10.1723581474And how his soul stood to the state of heaven,

10.181475Who knows, save the immortal powers?

10.1923601476And shall I kill him now,

10.2023611477When he is purging of his soul,

10.2123551478Making his way for heaven? This is a benefit,

10.221479And not revenge. No, get thee up again.

10.2323641480When he's at game, swearing, taking his carouse, drinking drunk,

10.2423651481Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed,

10.2523661482Or at some act that hath no relish

10.2623671483Of salvation in't, then trip him,

10.2723681484That his heels may kick at heaven

10.2823691485And fall as low as hell. My mother stays.

10.2923711486This physic but prolongs thy weary days.

My words fly up, my sins remain below.

10.312372.11488No King on earth is safe, if God's his foe.