The dying speech of Tom Ashe
224 but he was several hours delivering it, and with several intervals. His friends were about the bed, and he spoke to them thus:
MY FRIENDS,
IT is time for a man to look grave, when he has one foot there. I once had only a punnick fear of death, but of late, I have pundred it more seriously. Every fit of coffing hath put me in mind of my coffin; though dissolute