LXXVI. R. D. Stanzas from "An Exhortation to England to ioine for defense of true religion and their native countrie." Edward Farr, ed. 1845. Select Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Stanzas from “An Exhortation to England to ioine for defense of true religion and their native countrie”

LXXVI. R. D.


AWAKE, 1 each English wight,
Both high and low, awake;
Feare not the froward boasting bragges
That forraine foes do make;

Conspiring your distresse	5
For sticking to the troth,
And for refourming the abuse
Of such as liued in sloth.

But way the rightfull grounde
And state wherein you stand,	10
And mark the accursed cruell cause
That they doe take in hand.

You doe your sacred faith
And countrie’s soyle defend:
T’ abolish faith and conquer you	15
They surely doe intend.

Each cause of yours may cause
Your hart great comfort take;
Each cause of theirs may iustly cause
Their coward heart to quake.	20

Note 1. LXXVI. R. D.—He wrote “An Exhortation to England to ioine for defense of true religion and their natiue countrie.” There is no date affixed to this work, but it bears internal evidence of having been written in the age of Elizabeth. [back]

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