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Richard Lovelace1617–1658

When love with unconfined wings
Hovers within my gates;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the grates;
When I lye tangled in her haire,
And fetterd to her eye,
The birds, that wanton in the aire,
Know no such liberty.

Richard Lovelace on freedom

To Althea, from Prison (1649)

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