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Often appears with: crime and punishment · villa looting · unlawful assemblies · ugolino of pisa · trial by magistrates · state punishment of the body · starvation in prison · sessions and justices · religious persecution and toleration · poverty and wealth · poll tax refusal · plague, famine, and mass death
Usually: narrative (4) · confronting death (4) · censure (2) · lament (2) · reflection (1) · betrayal (1) · grief and loss (1) · injustice endured (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
“Thus the state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses.” Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · observation
“When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money or your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money?” Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · insight
“They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men.” Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · insight
The poem tells the tragedy of Ugolino of Pisa, imprisoned with children, starving until the children die in his lap, ending with a brief lesson on Fortune taking high-rank people away.
thought, That they for hunger woulde *do him dien;* *cause him to die* “Alas!” quoth he, “alas that I was wrought!”* *made, born Therewith the teares fell from his eyen. His youngest son, that three years was of age, Unto him said, “Father, why do ye weep? When will the jailor bringen our pottage? Is there no morsel bread that ye do keep? I am so hungry, that I may not sleep. Now woulde God that I might sleepen ever…
Bunyan explains that Satan’s slanders were followed by imprisonment, describing his arrests for preaching and for refusing conformity to the Church of England worship.
the jailer’s hands, I was had home to prison, and there have lain now complete twelve years, waiting to see what God would suffer these men to do with me. 320. In which condition I have continued with much content, through grace, but have met with many turnings and goings upon my heart, both from the Lord, Satan, and my own corruptions; by all which (glory be to Jesus Christ) I have also received among many things,…
He reports paying no poll tax for six years, being jailed briefly for it, and describing how the State tries to punish his body rather than his conscience, urging appeal to a higher law over mere physical force.
I should then have signed off in detail from all the societies which I never signed on to; but I did not know where to find such a complete list. I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could …
Waking in guilt the next morning, the narrator imagines being sentenced, is bound by magistrates for murdering three men, and is led through streets to the judges in a crowded theatre.
And then full weary with the slaughter of those Theeves, like Hercules when he fought against the king Gerion, I went to my chamber and layd me down to sleep. THE THIRD BOOKE THE TWELFTH CHAPTER How Apuleius was taken and put in prison for murther. When morning was come, and that I was awaked from sleep, my heart burned sore with remembrance of the murther I had committed the night before: and I rose and sate dow…
Lycurgus betrays the fugitives by imprisoning them; Ascyltos frees them at dawn by breaking the guard’s door, and they loot Lycurgus’ villa while the avaricious Lycurgus receives a Tantalus-like scorn.
Lycurgus, cruel by nature and incapable of keeping his word, was by this time striving to hit upon the best method of betraying us, and to that end, he persuaded Lycas to go for help, while he himself returned to the villa and had us put under guard. To the villa he came, and greeted us with a scowl as black as any Lycas himself had ever achieved, clenching his fists again and again, he charged us with having lied ab…