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Women Poets of the Renaissance choose

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[UK] A. Dowriche French Hist. in Wynne-Davies Women Poets of the Renaissance (1998) 24: In prison where they were, / The thieves and bloody murderers did find more favour there, / For they that death deserved were taken from their clink, / And in the cold and ugly pits which breathed a deadly stink / These men were thrust and bound.
at pit, n.
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