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The Argument.
Count Salsbury, a grave and prudent Lord,Dispatch'd for France, was scarsely gone aboord,
But the Scots hearing that he was away,
Besieg'd the Castle where his Ladie lay.
Edward the Blacke Prince, with an Armie sent
T'remove the Foe, beholding from his Tent
Her walking on the Battlement above,
With the faire Countesse strangely falls in love.
Her Noble Husband not long after dy'd;
When he, who thought he should not be deny'd,
Courts her by Letters, and thus writeth to her;
She in her Answer, checks him so to woo her.
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