"A Fig for Fortune" is a 1596 long allegorical poem by the English Catholic writer Anthony Copley written as a parodying response to Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queene". It intended to reject both Protestant portrayals of English Catholics as inherently disloyal to Queen Elizabeth, as well as hard-line Jesuit calls for Catholics to become martyrs by resisting the Protestant Queen.
Text.
Unlike "The Faerie Queene", which is written in Spenserian stanzas, "A Fig for Fortune" is written in the "Venus and Adonis" stanza: iambic pentameter rhyming ABABCC.
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Vested in sable vale, exild from Joy,
I rang'd to seeke out a propitious place
Where I might sit and descant of annoy
And of faire fortune, altered to disgrace,
 At last, even in the confines of the night
 I did discerne aloofe a sparkling light. ;/poem ;
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