[While Anne Askew was in Newgate, she made what she called a ballad, which began thus:—
"Like as the armed knight
Appointed to the field,
With this world will I fight.
And Faith shall be my shield."
And having recounted her bitter conflicts, and firm trust in God, the only comfort she had in her affliction, she concludes with these charitable and truly Christian lines—
"Yet, Lord, I Thee desire,
For that they do to me;
Let them not taste the hire
Of their iniquity."