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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