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Bold Arthur, whose fancy this king had not won,
Look'd with hope and delight on young Edward his son;
But had scarcely commended his learning and grace,
Ere he found his attention called off to the place

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Where the infamous Mary polluted the feast,
Who sat drinking blood from the skull of a priest.
 

Edward VI., a very promising young prince.

Died in his sixteenth year.

Mary. Cruel Queen Mary. Daughter of Henry the Eighth.

Burned three hundred persons for not being of her opinion in religion.