Stone walls do not a prison make

Rev. Randall Nathan was quite pleased to come across the lines "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage," in a poem by Richard Lovelace [1618-1658], "To Althea from Prison." He has always heard those lines quoted, usually by folks who have never been in "stony lonesome," or even in the Periwinkle County jail, but he did not know from whence they came. [He likes to think in terms such as "from whence.] For him, it was a "macaroon unaware."