“Thus I alone, where all my freedom grew,
In prison pine, with bondage and restraint:
And with remembrance of the greater grief,
To banish the less, I find my chief relief.”

—  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Source: Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth his Pleasure there Passed, Line 51.

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