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A Metrical History of England

Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)

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VOL. I.
  
[dedication]
  
INTRODUCTION.
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PART THE FIRST.
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THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
  
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CŒDWALLA to EDDA.
  
EDDA to CŒDWALLA.
  
COURTSHIP of the CANAILLE.
  
The MAIDEN's REPLY.
  
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THE ROMANS.
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THE BRITONS.
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THE SAXONS.
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THE HEPTARCHY.
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THE KINGDOM OF KENT.
  
THE KINGDOM OF KENT.
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KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
  
KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
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THE KINGDOM OF EAST-ANGLIA.
  
THE KINGDOM OF EAST-ANGLIA.
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THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA.
  
THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA.
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THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX,
  
THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX,
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THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX,
  
THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX,
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THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX,
  
THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX,
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PART THE SECOND.
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PART THE THIRD.
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EDWARD THE MARTYR.
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ETHELRED THE UNREADY.
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EDMUND IRONSIDE.
  
DANISH SOVEREIGNS.
  
THE SAXON LINE RESTORED.
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PART THE FOURTH.
  
THE NORMANS.
  
LINE OF PLANTAGENET;
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PART THE FIFTH.
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PART THE SIXTH.
  
HOUSE of LANCASTER.
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VOL. II.
  
[dedication]
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PART THE SEVENTH.
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HOUSE of YORK.
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EDWARD THE FOURTH.
  
EDWARD THE FOURTH.
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EDWARD THE FIFTH.
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RICHARD III. surnamed CROOKBACK.
  
THE VICTIMS,
  
HOUSE of TUDOR,
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PART THE EIGHTH.
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HENRY THE EIGHTH.
  
A newe Balade made of Thomas Crumwel, called, Trolle on Away.
  
[“Blow, blow thou winter's wind]
  
[Old probity, I mean Sir Thomas More]
  
Chansonette de la Cour de Henri VIIIme.
  
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[“From Tuscane came my ladie's worthy race]
  
[“The soote]
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EDWARD THE SIXTH.
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MARY THE FIRST.
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SAMPLES OF CLERICAL POETRY IN QUEEN MARY's REIGN.
  
Verses on the Marriage of Philip and Mary . BY WHITE, BISHOP OF LINCOLN.
  
PARODY ON THE ABOVE, BY WAY OF ANSWER.
  
[Altho' I am not tired of my task]
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ELIZABETH.
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SPECIMENS of POETRY, WRITTEN BY QUEEN ELIZABETH.
  
[“Fain would I climb, yet fear to fall.”]
  
[Oh Fortune! how thy restless wavering state]
  
[I grieve, yet dare not shew my discontent]
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PART THE NINTH.
  
HOUSE OF STUART.
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PART THE TENTH.
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PART THE ELEVENTH.
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WILLIAM and MARY.
  
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AIR.
  
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HOUSE of STUART.
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PART THE TWELFTH.
  
HOUSE of BRUNSWICK.

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[“From Tuscane came my ladie's worthy race]

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The following Sonnet and Ode are by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey an “Almost Classic Author,” celebrated by Drayton, Dryden, Fenton, and Pope, illustrated by his own muse, and lamented for his unhappy and unmerited death. Catalogue of Noble Authors

“From Tuscane came my ladie's worthy race,
“Fair Florence was sometyme her auncient state;
“The western yle, whose pleasant shore doth face
“Wild Camber's cliffs, did geve her lively heate;
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“Foster'd she was with milke of Irishe brest,
“Her sire an Earl; the dame of Prince's blood.
“From tender yeres in Britaine she doth rest,
“With Kinges childe, where she tasteth costly foode,
“Honsdon did first present her to mine yien,
“Bright is her hewe, and Geraldine she hight;
“Hampton me taught to wishe her first for mine,
“And Windsor, alas! doth chase me from her sight;
“Her beauty of kinde, her virtue from above,
“Happy is he that can obtain her love.
 

He was brought to the block in 1547, on pretence of using the Royal Arms, and proposing to marry the Lady Mary, Daughter of the King.

I would read thei—Horace Walpole.

She was Daughter of Lord Kildare.

He never gained her, she married the Earl of Lincoln.

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