Like as the armed knight
Appointed to the field,
With this world will I fight,
And faith shall be my shield…
I am not she that list
My anchor to let fall,
For every drizzling mist
My ship substantial.


'The Ballad which Anne Askew made and sang when she was in Newgate' (1546)


Like as the armed knight Appointed to the field, With this world will I fight, And faith shall be my shield… I am not she that list My anchor to...

Like as the armed knight Appointed to the field, With this world will I fight, And faith shall be my shield… I am not she that list My anchor to...

Like as the armed knight Appointed to the field, With this world will I fight, And faith shall be my shield… I am not she that list My anchor to...

Like as the armed knight Appointed to the field, With this world will I fight, And faith shall be my shield… I am not she that list My anchor to...