Florus Britannicus Or, an Exact Epitome of the History of England, From William the Conquerour to the Twelfth Year of the Reign of his Sacred Majesty Charls the Second, now flourishing. Illustrated with their perfect Portraictures ... By Mathew Stevenson |
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William the Conquerour.
William the Conquerour resigns his breathVnto a greater Conquerour, grim Death:
I doe not say when he for England fought,
That any other then his right he sought:
But to the English he no Bowells had,
Whence his own Bowells served him as bad.
With what contempt these troublers of the World,
When breath forsakes into the earth are hurl'd,
A man may see in him; who scarce could have
'Midst all his Realms & friends, a sorry grave;
As if the very Earth scorn'd to entombe
The Son of so much slaughter in her Wombe.
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