All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet Being Sixty and three in Number. Collected into one Volume by the Author [i.e. John Taylor]: With sundry new Additions, corrected, reuised, and newly Imprinted |
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Richard the second. An. Dom. 1377.
Yong King, rash coūsell, lawes & right neglected,The good put downe, the bad in State erected:
The Court with knaues & flat'rers here did swarm,
The Kingdome, (like a Farme) was let to Farme.
The Commons rose in Armies, Routes, and throngs,
And by foule treason, would redresse foule wrongs.
In this Kings raigne, began the Ciuill warre,
(Vnnaturally) 'twixt Yorke and Lancaster.
Oppression on oppression, breedes Confusion,
Bad Prologue, bad Proceeding, bad Conclusion:
King Richard, twenty two yeeres raign'd, misse-led,
Deposed and at Pomfret knock'd ith'head.
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