Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

Shall they hoyſt me vp, And ſhew me to the ſhowting Varlotarie Of cenſuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt, Be gentle graue vnto me, rather on Nylus mudde Lay me ſtarke-nak'd, and let the water-Flies Blow me into abhorring;

Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.

They stand at a stay; Like a Stale at Chesse, where it is no Mate, but yet the Game cannot stirre.