The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia Whereunto are adioyned sundrie pleasant deuises, Epigrams, Songes and Sonnettes. Written by Mathewe Groue |
The pretie birth of a childe.
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The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia | ||
The pretie birth of a childe.
It fortund late a Frenchman for to dwellIn England, where himselfe he quited well.
Hauing by her a childe of perfect life:
Now if this child beginning shall retaine
Of fathers side, a Frenchman he is plaine,
But contrary, if of the mother he
Shall take the spring, he Irish is to see,
But some say, that he shalbe of the land
Where he was borne, thē english shal he stand.
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