Kath. Pr'ythee, good Griffith, tell me how he

died:

If well, he stepp'd before me, happily,1

For my example.

Grif.

Well, the voice goes, madam:

For after the stout earl Northumberland

Arrested him at York, and brought him forward (As a man sorely tainted) to his answer,

He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill,

He could not sit his mule.

Kath.

Alas, poor man!

Grif. At last, with easy roads, he came to Lei

cester;

Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend abbot,
With all his convent, honorably received him;

To whom he gave these words;—' O father abbot,

An old man, broken with the storms of state,

Is come to lay his weary bones among ye:

Give him a little earth for charity!
So went to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Pursued him still; and, three nights after this,
About the hour of eight, (which he himself
Foretold should be his last) full of repentance,
Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,

He gave his honors to the world again,

His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. Kath. So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!

1 i. e. haply, perchance.

Kath. Pr'ythee, good Griffith, tell me how he

Kath. Pr'ythee, good Griffith, tell me how he

Well, the voice goes, m
For after the stout earl Northumberland
Arrested him at York, and brought him f
As a man sorely tainted) to his answer,
He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill,
He could not sit his mule.

Alas, poor man!

Grif. At last, with easy roads, he can

Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend
With all his convent, honorably received 1.
To whom he gave these words- O father,
An old man, broken with the storms of st
Is come to lay bis weary bones among ye:
Give him a little earth for charity!

So wear to bed, where eagerly his sickness
Purwoed him still; and, three nights after