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The Argument.
King John enamor'd; by all meanes assay'dTo winne Matilda, a chaste Noble Mayd,
The Lord Fitz-Waters Daughter: and to gayne her,
When by his Courtship he could not obtayne her,
Nor by his Gifts; strives (so farre being in)
To get by force, what faire meanes could not winne,
And banisheth the neerest of her Blood,
Which he could thinke had his Desires withstood:
When she to Dunmow to a Nun'rie flyes;
Whither he writeth, and whence she replyes.
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