Byrd why do i use my paper

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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Today is the feast of St. Edmund Campion, martyred at Tyburn on this day in This was a rather bold move on his part; the only previous attempt to publish the poem had resulted in the torture and death of the publisher.

But Byrd, because his talent had made him a favourite with the Queen, had more latitude, and made use of it. Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?

And call my wits to counsel what to say? Such memories were made for mortal men; I speak of Saints whose names cannot decay. Whose patience rare and most courageous mind, With fame renowned perpetual shall endure, By whose examples we may rightly find, Of holy life and death a pattern pure. That we therefore their virtues may embrase Pray we to Christ to guide us with his grace. My soveraigne Liege behold your subiects end, your secret foes do misinforme your grace: who in your cause their holy lives would spend as traytors dye, a rare and monstrous case, the bloudy wolfe, condemnes the harmles shepe before the dog, y whiles the shepherds slepe.

England looke up, thy soyle is stained with blood, thou hast made martirs many of thine owne, if thou hast grace their deaths will do thee good, the seede wil take which in such blood is sowne, and Campions lerning fertile so before, thus watered too, must nedes of force be more. You thought perhaps when lerned Campion dyes, his pen must cease, his sugred tong be still, but you forgot how lowde his death it cryes, how farre beyounde the sound of tongue and quil, you did not know how rare and great a good it was to write his precious giftes in blood.

But these stanzas could have been, and, with the right audience, perhaps were sung in performance. Why do I use my paper, ink and pen, And call my wits to counsel what to say? Such memories were made for mortal men; I speak of Saints whose names cannot decay. An Angel's trump were fitter for to sound Their glorious death if such on earth were found 2. That store of such were once on earth pursued, The histories of ancient times record, Whose constancy great tyrants' rage subdued Through patient death, professing Christ the Lord: As his Apostles perfect witness bare, With many more that blessed Martyrs were.

Whose patience rare and most courageous mind, With fame renowned perpetual shall endure, By whose examples we may rightly find, Of holy life and death a pattern pure.