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Слушать(AI)Written on a Wall at Woodstock
Oh Fortune, thy wresting wavering
Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit,
Whose witness this present prison
Could bear, where once was joy's loan quit.
Thou causedst the guilty to be
From 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.
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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