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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum Poetry

Lady Jane Grey

Author: Mary Anne Everett Wood Green
Source: "Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain"
Year: 1846
Found here.

Then saw I a lady that tender was of age,
Suddenly appear with an headless body;
The sight was strange, it abated my courage,
To see so young a thing to chance on such folly,
Her head to lose, that might have lived full jolly:
By signs without words she made me to understand,
To write her dole, that I should take in hand.

LADY JANE GREY.

By signs she taught me thus to write:
As though (quoth she) why did ye me deceive,
With feigning fantasy against all equity and right,
The regal powers unjustly to receive,
To serve your turns, I do right well perceive;
For I was your instrument to work your purpose by,
All was but falsehood to blear withal mine eye.

Your creeping and kneeling to me, poor innocent,
Brought me to weaning, with your persuasions,
That all was truth, which you untruly meant;
Such were your arguments, such were your reasons,
Made to me at sundry times and seasons.
Your subtle dealing deceived hath both you and me,
Dissimulation will not serve, now may you see.

My sorrows are treble and full of double woe,
To remember the tragedy, and woeful case,
That to my father, my husband, and me also
Is happened, through folly and lack of grace;
It causeth the tears to run down my face,
And to lament your misfortune and mine,
By such blind folly to fall into ruin.

Farewell, madam! farewell, lady mother!
Farewell, my sisters! farewell, my friends all!
Help us with your prayers, our prayers to further
Unto God Almighty, the Lord supernal,
That he of his grace will unto him call
The souls of his creatures that now lieth dead;
Which by the laws hath received our mead."
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