The Dowbt Of Future Foes Exile My Present Joye Analysis

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It is clear that there is a prominent struggle in the balance of power between the monarch and the subject that is represented in the two early modern texts Edward II by the playwright Christopher Marlowe and the poem The dowbt of future foes exiles my present joye by Queen Elizabeth. Each monarch of each text is losing support from their once loyal followers and subjects by intertwining public responsibility and personal desire. In this essay I will use these texts to demonstrate each monarch’s power struggles as a result of their subjects. I will also use secondary sources of criticism to confirm the points that are made in this essay. Firstly, I will analyse the poem The dowbt of future foes exile my present joye by Queen Elizabeth in relation to the balance of power between the monarch and the subjects. This poem was written the time of the English rebellion of 1570 and it charts the Queen’s thought process. As we see in the first line of the poem, Queen Elizabeth is receiving ‘dowbt’ (1) or lack of support from her subjects or her ‘future foes’ (1) who is taking away her ‘joye’ (1) or happiness that she had. It is said that her ‘future foes’ is referring to her cousin Mary who was the Queen of Scots and the anti-Tudors who were ‘aspiring minds’ and questioning the Queen’s authority. Ilona Bell confirms this as the writer states in the text Elizabeth I: The Voice of a Monarch that ‘‘The Doubt of Future Foes,’ which was written to warn traitors suspected of plotting to