Thursday, May 17, 2001

Written On A Wall At Woodstock Comments

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Oh Fortune, thy wresting wavering state
Hath fraught with cares my troubled wit,
Whose witness this present prison late
Could bear, where once was joy's loan quit
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Susan Williams 25 January 2018

Posted on the wrong poem because of bouncing computer- -but I roped it and dragged it over here to the correct poem.This was said to be written on a wall or shutter while she was at house arrest during the reign of her half-sister, Mary I, at Woodstock in Oxfordshire. Apparently 16th century prisoners often wrote messages and poems on walls and shutters. She is piquing my interest.

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James Mclain 15 April 2009

Normal reality detattachment truth knowing innocent death cause of action tripped her own wit ness ole is that comes...iip

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