[1] [2] Now here by the waie is to be noted, that he being on the scaffold readie to suffer, declared that the la|die Elizabeth and sir Edward Courtneie earle of Deuonshire, whome he had accused before (as it sée|med) were neuer priuie to his dooings, as farre as he knew, or was able to charge them. And when doctor Weston, being then his confessor told him that he had confessed the contrarie vnto the councell, he an|swered thus; That I said then, I said, but that which I saie now is true. This was the end of Wiat and his conspiracie; as also the like hath béene of others attempting anie rebellion. For as their enterprise being, according to the proper qualitie thereof, con|sidered, is flat against Gods ordinance, who hath or|deined magistracie to be reuerenced of inferiors: so it is vnlikelie to bring other than infortunatnesse, and shamefull ouerthrowes vnto the attempters; in whome although will want not to compasse anie worke; yet force failing, they misse the marke, & all bicause rashnesse giueth them a false aime. Where|fore to conclude this tragicall discourse of Wiat, it were to be wished that the sage and safe counsell of Cato were put in common practise of all men, which is, to vndertake & doo nothing aboue their strength:

Quod potes, id tentes, operis ne pondere pressus,

Succumbat labor, & frustra tentata relinquas.