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“…not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well, And loathed to see them overtax'd; but she Did more, and underwent, and overcame, The woman of a thousand summers back, Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled In Coventry…”
“… She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "If they pay this tax, they starve."”
“Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.”
“…whence reissuing, robed and crown'd, To meet her lord, she took the tax away And built herself an everlasting name.”