Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint

1This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint

2My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race

3Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,

4My span's last inch, my minute's latest point,

5And gluttonous death, will instantly unjoint

6My body and soul, and I shall sleep a space;

7But my ever-waking part shall see that face,

8Whose fear already shakes my every joint:

9Then, as my soul, t' heaven her first seat, takes flight,

10And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell,

11So fall my sins that all may have their right

12(To where they're bred, and would press me) to hell.

13Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil,

14For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.