And with great awe and reverence beseeching Indifferent hearing and an equall doome.

It is enough; we do accept your doome To passe vnblam'd what ere of you become.

What lives the sword spar'd serve to grace your Triumph, Till from your lips they have the doome of death.

I am a slave to any misery My Iudges doome me too.

And see, thy Husband, now a slave whose life Hangs at a needles poynt, shall live, so thou Breath but the doome.

Unbinde him till a new King fill the throne; And he shall doome him.

Your language, breath'd from him, Is deaths sad doome upon a wretch condemn'd.

And then his doome of banishment stands good.

So, so, we come, To turne this Brides day to a day of doome.

Another layeth a well-marked lamb, Or spotted kid, or some more forward steere, And from the paile doth praise their fertile dam; So do they strive in doubt, in hope, in feare, Awaiting for their trusty empire's doome, Faulted as false by him that's overcome.

[* Forlorne, abandoned] Ne onely they that dwell in lowly dust, The sonnes of darknes and of ignoraunce; But they whom thou, great love, by doome uniust Didst to the type of honour earst advaunce; 70 They now, puft up with sdeignfull insolence, Despise the brood of blessed Sapience.

"Me therefore thus the cruell fiends of hell, 625 Girt with long snakes and thousand yron chaynes, Through doome of that their cruell iudge compell, With bitter torture and impatient paines, Cause of my death and iust complaint to tell.

Then all the beasts he causd' assembled bee, To heare their doome, and sad ensample see: The Foxe, first author of that treacherie He did uncase, and then away let flie.

And whatso heavens in their secret doome 225 Ordained have, how can fraile fleshly wight Forecast, but it must needs to issue come?

With tristfull visage as against the doome, [Sidenote: with heated visage,] Is thought-sicke at the act.[10]

Merry, by lawe convict as principall, Receives his doome, to hang till he be dead, And afterwards for to be hangd in chaines.

But wretched Rachels sexe denies that grace, And therefore dooth receive a doome of death To dye with him whose sinnes she did conceale.

This is the curse Belonges to all us bawdes: gentle and noble, Even th'ouldest fornicator, will in private Make happy use of us with hugges and brybes; But let them take us at the publick bench, Gainst consciens they will spitt at us and doome us Unto the post and cart.

I goe contented with this heavy doome; 'Twas mine owne seeking.

Peace, untaught Groome, My heart's so great that Ide forerun my doome.

Short and sweet: Euphrata, the doome is faire, We shall be soone in heaven, there ends my care.

And now, to give a period to my speeche I doe intreate your grace, if that your love Be not growne colde, but that your heart desires The true societie of a chaste wife, Be pleas'd to undergoe a further doome.

Then for this offence, be this your doome: Tulley must die, but not till fates decree To cut your vital threed, or Terentia Finde in her heart to be your Deathes-man.

Prynne, Canterburies' Doome, etc. (1646), 151.

See the precedents given for the Western Circuit in Prynne, Canterburies' Doome, 152.