- 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
- 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;
- 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.