Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.
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Ah, Silly Pug, Wert Thou So Sore Afraid
Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?Mourn not, my Wat, nor be thou so dismayed.It passeth fickle Fortune’s power and skillTo force my heart to think thee any ill.No Fortune base, thou sayest, shall alter thee?And may so blind a witch so conquer me?No, no, my Pug, though Fortune were not blind,Assure thyself she…
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.
When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.
But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore:Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more.How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe,How many sighing hearts I have not skill to show,But I the prouder grew and still this spake therefore:Go, go, go, seek some other where, importune me…
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….
No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
Nor yet so ugly half can beAs is the inward suspicious mind.