Notes
8] Therewith: with it, Faith.
10] Christes: pronounced as two syllables.
14] rightwisness: righteousness.
25] enmyes: enemies.
27] deprave: pervert, turn to sin.
33] list: will.
39] shew: show.
41] rial: royal.
44] moody: proud and angry.
45] Absorpt: swallowed up.
48] guiltless blood: an allusion to transubstantiation.
51] record: bring to mind.
55] hire: wages.
56] Having shown Faith and Hope (18), Anne here expresses Charity. Paul writes: "Now there remain faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity" (1 Corinthians 13.13).
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Original text: The lattre examinacyon of Anne Askewe, latelye martyred in Smythfelde, by the
wycked Synagoge of Antichrist, with the Elucydacyon of Johan Bale
([Wesel: D. van der Straten,] 1546): 63-65. STC 850. In The Early Modern
Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1: Printed Writings,
1500-1604, Vol. I: Anne Askew, ed. John N. King, general ed. Betty S. Travitsky
and Patrick Cullen (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996). BR 350 .A75A3 Robarts Library
First publication date:
1546
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2002
Recent editing: 1:2002/12/25
Rhyme: abab