What magicke spell
Confines mee to this Circle wide?
What characters devis’d by arts of Hell,
Have my affections to this prison ty’d?
This place of exile, where my life,
No better is then lingring death;
This stage of strife,
Where with such paine I draw my vitall breath.
A Holy knot,
And league, that’s solemnly combin’d,
T’wixt two unequall partyes makes mee dote
Upon this place, where I small comfort find;
But t’is decreed, I must abide,
‘Till Death shall with impartiall blade,
This knot divide,
And all my sorowes in the grave unlade.
But thou (Oh Lord)
Which in the Lions denne dids’t save
Thy servant Daniel, and didst him afford,
What his necessityes did duely crave,
From roareing Lions mee defend,
And let mee necessaryes find,
Which may incende,
(Unto thy praise, and glory) my weake mind./
(Ralph Knevet)
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