King Arthur An Heroick Poem. In Twelve Books. By Richard Blackmore. To which is Annexed, An Index, Explaining the Names of Countrys, Citys, and Rivers, &c |
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He ceas'd. The Captains by their Aspect show'd
The Joy was sunk which from their Conquest flow'd.
They griev'd to hear the pious King relate
What Strife embroil'd Britannia's troubled State;
Which forc'd him to forsake the Gallic Soil,
To re-establish Peace in Albion's Isle.
Then from his Princely Seat King Arthur rose
Intending Albion's Tumults to compose.
The Joy was sunk which from their Conquest flow'd.
They griev'd to hear the pious King relate
What Strife embroil'd Britannia's troubled State;
Which forc'd him to forsake the Gallic Soil,
To re-establish Peace in Albion's Isle.
Then from his Princely Seat King Arthur rose
Intending Albion's Tumults to compose.
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