Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Woodstock | | Queen Elizabeth’s Verses While Prisoner at Woodstock | | Percy’s Reliques |
| | Writ with Charcoal on a Shutter
OH, Fortune! how thy restlesse wavering state | |
| Hath fraught with cares my troubled witt! | |
| Witness this present prisonn, whither fate | |
| Could beare me, and the joys I quit. | |
| Thou causedest the guiltie to be losed | 5 |
| From bandes, wherein are innocents inclosed: | |
| Causing the guiltles to be straite reserved, | |
| And freeing those that death hath well deserved. | |
| But by her envie can be nothing wroughte, | |
So God send to my foes all they have thoughte.
A. D. MDLV. ELIZABETHE, PRISONNER. | 10 | | | |
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