No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
No part deformed out of kind,
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind.
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She knew something when she wrote that.She was surrounded by suspicion when she got to the throne and it was hard for her to demonstrate to the others she was really someone. And she did this so well that she became the greatest English monarch ever.
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very good
No crooked leg, no bleared eye,
No part deformed out of kind,
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind.
The part of this poem that gets me is:
inward suspicious mind (opposite of outward suspicious mind)
Is she being critical of self-doubt?
Interesting.
John -
Very much the proverb style.
I wonder which friend/foe Her Majesty had in mind at the time of writting this little piece.
Andrew
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