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Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock


              1Much suspected by me,
              2Nothing proved can be,
              3Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (London, 1563): 1714. Cf. Poems, ed. Leicester Bradner (Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1964): 3, 71.
First publication date: 1563
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1996-2000.
Recent editing: 1:2002/4/18

Composition date: 1554 - 1555
Rhyme: aab


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