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Слушать(AI)In Defiance of Fortune
Never think you fortune can bear the
Where virtue's force can cause her to obey.
Queen Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603)[ was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometim
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Written in her French Psalter
No crooked leg, no bleared eye, No part deformed out of kind, Nor yet so ugly half can As is the inward suspicious mind
On Monsieurs Departure
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly to prate
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 skill To force my heart to think thee any ill No Fortune base, thou sayest, shall alter thee
The Doubt of Future Foes
The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy; For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects' faith doth ebb, Which should not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web