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Lady Anne Southwell

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Born Anne Harris 1574 Cornworthy, Devon, married Thomas Southwell 1594, Henry Sibthorpe 1626, lived in Ireland 1594(?)-1631, England 1631-36 (d.) Serious and ambitious religious poet and theorist. Manuscript works held by Folger and British libraries.

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And now he ravens like a frantic brute / And makes his will the servant to his sense, / Whose soul doth never with his God dispute, / But blindly seats her in concupiscence. (Me on worldly, corrupt rulers I have known).

01.03.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Raise up thy faculties my soul, ‘tis time / To wake from idleness the child of death! / Mount to the heavens, and there thy wings sublime, / Where bodies live, not bound to hazard breath.” And thus begin my verses on the first commandment. A.S.

23.02.2025 13:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

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