Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.
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I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,I seem stark mute but inwardly to prate.I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned.Since from myself another self I turned.My care is like my shadow in the sun,Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.His…
Oh, Fortune! how thy restlesse wavering state
Witnes this present prisonn, whither fateCould beare me, and the joys I quitt.Thou causedest the guiltie to be losedFrom bandes, wherein are innocents inclosed:Causing the guiltles to be straite reserved,And freeing those that death had well deserved.But by her envie can be nothing wroughte,So God send to my foes all they have thoughte.signed – A….
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy,
For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects’ faith doth ebb,Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web.But clouds of joys untried do cloak aspiring minds,Which turn to rain of late repent by changed course of winds.The top of hope supposed the root upreared shall be,And fruitless all their grafted guile, as…
Oh Fortune, thy wresting wavering state
Whose witness this present prison lateCould bear, where once was joy’s loan quit.Thou causedst the guilty to be loosedFrom bands where innocents were inclosed,And caused the guiltless to be reserved,And freed those that death had well deserved.But all herein can be nothing wrought,So God send to my foes all they have thought.
No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
Nor yet so ugly half can beAs is the inward suspicious mind.