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Divine Fancies

Digested into Epigrammes, Meditations, and Observations. By Fra: Quarles
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)
  
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54. On Queene Ester .

Illustrious Princesse, had thy chance not beene,
To be a Captive, thou hadst bin no Queene:
Such is the Fortune, our Misfortune brings;
Had we not first bin Slaves, w'ad nere beene Kings.
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