George Wither was first imprisoned in 1614 for his Abuses Stript and Whipt. But he had barely escaped a similar fate a few years before as a result of an earlier edition of the same work. While in prison in 1614, he expressed his gratitude to the Princess Elizabeth for her intervention in his behalf on that earlier occasion:For once I stood accus'd for this before,As I remember I so long agon,Snng [sic] Thame, and Rhynes Epithalamion.When SHE that from thy Royal selfe deriues,Those gracious vertues that best Title giues.........................................Daign'd in her great-good nature to enclineHer gentle eare to such a cause as mine;And which is more, vouchsaf't her word to cleareMe from all dangers (if there any were).

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