| BUT be contented: when that fell arrest | |
| Without all bail shall carry me away, | |
| My life hath in this line some interest, | |
| Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. | |
| When thou reviewest this, thou dost review | 5 |
| The very part was consecrate to thee: | |
| The earth can have but earth, which is his due; | |
| My spirit is thine, the better part of me: | |
| So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life, | |
| The prey of worms, my body being dead; | 10 |
| The coward conquest of a wretch’s knife, | |
| Too base of thee to be remembered. | |
| The worth of that is that which it contains, | |
| And that is this, and this with thee remains. |