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Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

In Defiance of Fortune


              1Never think you fortune can bear the sway
              2Where virtue's force can cause her to obey.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie. (1589); facs. edn. (Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971) . PN 1031 P88 1589AB Robarts Library. Poems, ed. Leicester Bradner (Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1964): 5, 73.
First publication date: 1589
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1996-2000.
Recent editing: 1:2002/4/18

Composition date: 1568 - 1570
Form: couplet


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