selfsame day, the grisly cruel hangman Death, who from his first
coming in hath ever hoved aloof and looked toward him, and ever
lain in wait for him, shall amid all his royalty and all his main
strength neither kneel before him nor make him any reverence, nor
with any good manner desire him to come forth. But he shall
rigorously and fiercely grip him by the very breast, and make all
his bones rattle, and so by long and divers sore torments strike
him stark dead in his prison. And then shall he cause his body to
be cast into the ground in a foul pit in some corner of the same,
there to rot and be eaten by the wretched worms of the earth,
sending yet his soul out further into a more fearful judgment. Of
that judgment at his temporal death his success is uncertain and
therefore, though by God's grace not out of good hope, for all that
in the meanwhile in very sore dread and fear and peradventure in
peril inevitable of eternal fire, too.

Methinketh therefore, cousin, that, as I told you, this keeping of
every man in this wretched world for execution of death is a very
plain imprisonment indeed. And it is, as I say, such that the
greatest king is in this prison in much worse case, for all his
wealth, than is many a man who, in the other imprisonment, is sore
and hardly handled. For while some of those lie not there attainted
nor condemned to death, the greatest man of this world and the most
wealthy in this universal prison is laid in to be kept undoubtedly
for death.

VINCENT: But yet, uncle, in that case is the other prisoner too,
for he is as sure that he shall die, perdy.

ANTHONY: This is very true, cousin, indeed, and well objected too.
But then you must consider that he is not in danger of death by
reason of the prison into which he is put peradventure but for a
little brawl, but his danger of death is by the other imprisonment,
by which he is prisoner in the great prison of this whole earth, in
which prison all the princes of the world be prisoners as well as
he.

If a man condemned to death were put up in a large prison, and
while his execution were respited he were, for fighting with his
fellows, put up in a strait place, part of that prison, then would
he be in danger of death in that strait prison, but not by the
being in that, for there is he but for the brawl. But his deadly
imprisonment was the other--the larger, I say, into which he was
put for death. So the prisoner that you speak of is, beside th