| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Stanzas | | LII. Anonymous |
| | From “The Love of God.”
ENGLAND 1 is blest and loued of God: | |
| Who can the same deny? | |
| For she hath felt his louinge rod, | |
| Because she went awrye. | |
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| Deserve she dyd more to be whypt; | 5 |
| Her faultes they were so great: | |
| Who dyd not see how far she slypt | |
| From law and iustice seat? | |
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| The word so frely taught and preacht, | |
| As no land had it more; | 10 |
| When teachers truelye truth them teacht, | |
| They set by it no store. | |
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| They kept it not in hart and minde | |
| To lead thereby theyr life: | |
| If they had ben to God so kynde, | 15 |
| Then had not come the stryfe. | |
| | | Note 1. LII. Anonymous.—This author wrote a small poem, which consists only of a few leaves, entitled “The Loue of God.” There is no date to it, but it bears internal evidence of having been written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. [back] | | |
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