'To Althea from Prison' - poem by Richard Lovelace, tune added by Dave Swarbrick.

Lovelace was a supporter of Charles I and wrote the poem in 1642 whilst imprisoned for seven weeks in Gate House prison, Westminster, London for his support of the king...

Swarb wrote the tune, recorded on Fairport's 'Liege and Lief' album, though he missed out the verse about King Charles!

The classic lines 'Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage' begin the last verse.