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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The Pen&s;ive Pri&s;oners Apology.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Directed to his fellow-Pri&s;oners where&s;oever, wherein he advi&s;eth them to be &s;tedfa&s;t in faith and hope, and patiently to indure their careful Impri&s;on|ment, and to keep their Vows, &s;hewing the way to true Liberty.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>Love with unconfined Wings.</HI></OPENER>
<L>LOve with unconfined wings</L>
<L>hovers about my gates,</L>
<L>And my divine Althema begins</L>
<L>to whi&s;per at my grates,</L>
<L>When I lie tangled in her hair</L>
<L>being &s;ettered in her etc,</L>
<L>The birds that wanton in the Air</L>
<L>knows no &s;uch liberty.</L>
<L>When like contented Limits I</L>
<L>with &s;ilver notes will &s;ing:</L>
<L>The very meekne&s;s of the heart,</L>
<L>and glory of the thiug,</L>
<L>When I &s;hall noi&s;e abroad and &s;pread</L>
<L>how good their virtues be,</L>
<L>Fi&s;hes that ripple in the deep.</L>
<L>knows no &s;uch liberty.</L>
<L>My lodging is on the cold boards,</L>
<L>my cloaths are thin and bare:</L>
<L>Fal&s;e hearted friends with flattering words</L>
<L>doth &s;eek me to in&s;nare,</L>
<L>They coun&s;el me to change my mind,</L>
<L>and &s;o my words deny:</L>
<L>And I thereby &s;hall &s;urely find,</L>
<L>a perfect liberty.</L>
<L>Faith, hope and patience is my guide,</L>
<L>my con&s;cience pure and clear:</L>
<L>So that the Lord be on my &s;ide,</L>
<L>what for need I to fear.</L>
<L>I neither fear the &s;troak of death,</L>
<L>nor tyrants villany,</L>
<L>So &s;oon as Chri&s;t receives my breath</L>
<L>I gain true liberty.</L>
<L>A faithful now I once did make,</L>
<L>which now I will maintain:</L>
<L>Whil&s;t I have tongue and breath to &s;peak</L>
<L>and life in me remain.</L>
<L>Rather than from Religion turn</L>
<L>in flery flames to try;</L>
<L>And if my corps to a&s;hes burn,</L>
<L>my &s;oul gains liberty,</L>
<L>Patience makes plai&s;ters for my &s;ores</L>
<L>love lives without controle</L>
<L>They lock my body within the doors</L>
<L>but cannot lock my &s;oul.</L>
<L>My mu&s;es to and fro doth run.</L>
<L>above and beneath the Sky:</L>
<L>The greate&s;t Potentates under the Sun</L>
<L>oft wants &s;uch liberty.</L>
<L>Our keepers cruelty is great,</L>
<L>to one and to us all,</L>
<L>He bids us eat our fle&s;h for meat,</L>
<L>or &s;tones thats in the wall.</L>
<L>Yet though I am in pri&s;on ca&s;t,</L>
<L>my &s;en&s;es mount on high,</L>
<L>The wind that bloweth where it lift</L>
<L>knows no &s;uch liberty.</L>
<L>'Tis neither pardon from the Pope</L>
<L>nor prayers made to Saints,</L>
<L>That can inlarge my further &s;cope,</L>
<L>nor &s;horten my complaints,</L>
<L>'Tis Chri&s;t above, the Lord of love</L>
<L>which for mankind did die:</L>
<L>None but he can pardon me,</L>
<L>nor work my liberty.</L>
<L>Ther's many men hath trea&s;ure &s;tore</L>
<L>yet are &s;o worldly vent,</L>
<L>Having too much they &s;crape for more</L>
<L>yet never are content</L>
<L>Whil'&s;t I that am the poor'&s;t of all</L>
<L>from worldly care am free;</L>
<L>Which makes me think they live in thral</L>
<L>and I have liberty.</L>
<L>The man that bears a wavering mind</L>
<L>is &s;ubject to much we,</L>
<L>He that to anger is &s;uclin'd,</L>
<L>mu&s;t &s;orrow undergo,</L>
<L>But he that hath a patient heart,</L>
<L>though he a pri&s;oner be,</L>
<L>Exceeds both nature, skill, and art,</L>
<L>In point of liberty.</L>
<L>You pen&s;ive pri&s;oners every one,</L>
<L>with hearts loyal and true,</L>
<L>The&s;e lines of mine to work upon,</L>
<L>I dedicate to you.</L>
<L>Let faith and patience be your guids</L>
<L>and you in time &s;hall &s;ee,</L>
<L>The powers of heaven will &s;o provide</L>
<L>you &s;hall have liberty.</L>
<L>Stone walls cannot a pri&s;on make,</L>
<L>nor from bars a cage.</L>
<L>A &s;potle&s;s &s;oul being innocent,</L>
<L>calls that its hermitage.</L>
<L>So I am blamele&s;s in my choice,</L>
<L>and from the&s;e troubles free,</L>
<L>Angels alone that are above,</L>
<L>Injoys &s;uch liberty.</L>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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