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Unlesse this Wormall* did exceede
Even him in wickednesse,

Who died in the extreemest neede
And terror's bitternesse.

Yet Wormall ever kept his course,
Since nought could him dismay;
He knew not what thing was remorse
Unto his dying day.

Then had he no time to repent

The crimes he did commit,

And no man ever did lament
For him, to dye unfitt.

Ah, how is knowledge wasted quite
On such want wisedome true,
And that which should be guiding light
But leades to errors newe!

Well might learnd Cambridge oft regret
He ever there was bred:

The tree she in his minde had set
Brought poison forth instead.

His lust was lawlesse as his life,
And brought about his death;
For, in a deadlie mortall strife,
Striving to stop the breath

Of one who was his rivall foe,
With his owne dagger slaine,
* Wormall] The anagram of Murlow.

He groand, and word spoke never moe,
Pierc'd through the eye and braine.

Thus did he come to suddaine ende

That was a foe to all,

And least unto himselfe a friend,
And raging passion's thrall.

Had he been brought up to the trade
His father follow'd still,
This exit he had never made,
Nor playde a part soe ill.

Take warning ye that playes doe make,
And ye that doe them act;
Desist in time for Wormall's sake,

And thinke upon his fact.

Blaspheming Tambolin* must die
And Faustus meete his ende;
Repent, repent, or presentlie
To hell ye must discend.

What is there, in this world, of worth,
That we should prize it soe?
Life is but trouble from our birth,

The wise do say and know.

Our lives, then, let us mend with speed,

Or we shall suerly rue

The end of everie hainous deede,

In life that shall insue.

Finis. Ign.

* Tambolin] So perhaps the ballad-monger chose to write the name.

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