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The Lady Jane Grey Internet Museum Poetry

Lady Jane's Lament

Source: "Extracts From The Registers of the Stationers' Company. From 1557 to 1586." Ed. J. Payne Collier
Year: 1853
Found here.

"Now must I lose my head:
a guiltles death I dye.
Ah, why sholde my deare bloud be shed,
nowe tell me, England, why?

What have I donne amis?
full suerly nothing I:
My lyfe by malice wronged is;
and I therefore shall dye.

I never sought a crowne,
with onely bookes content;
I askt noe glorie nor renowne
but such as they had lent.

I strove to put awaye
suche troubles from my brest:
My husbandes father did gainsay
what I still held for best.

I kept my constant fayth,
and vainely Fecknam strove;
For popery I hate as death,
and Christ my savior love.

Then pittie me all you
that see my haples fate:
Remember that I dye as true
as I have livde in state.

I sawe my Dudley fall
beneath the headsmans blow,
And now am brought before you all
to suffre, as you know.

I never did man wrong,
and least of all the queene;
But you will finde, ere it be longe,
what ever she doth meane.

Lewd popery will againe
be stablisht in the land;
And martyrs bloud the scaffold staine,
or brent with fiery brand.

Take warning then by mee
of what will soone insue:
I dye for fayth and puritie,
and bid you all adue."
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