Anne Askew

The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate

Not oft use I to wright

In prose nor yet in rime,

Yet will I shew one sight

That I saw in my time.

 

I saw a rial throne

Where Justice should have sit

But in her stead was one

Of moody cruel wit.

 

Absorpt was rightwisness

As of the raging flood

Sathan in his excess

Suct up the guiltless blood.