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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 third. An. Dom. 1483.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Richard the third. An. Dom. 1483.

By Treason, mischiefe, murder and debate.
Vsurping Richard wonne the royall state:
Vnnaturally the children of his brother
The King, and Duke of Yorke he caus'd to smother.
For Sir Iames Tirrell, Dichton and Blacke Will,
Did in the Tower these harmlesse Princes kill,
Buckinghams Duke did raise King Richard high,
And for reward he lost his head thereby.
A fellow to this King I scarce can finde,
His shape deform'd, and crooked like his minde.
Most cruell, tyrannous, inconstant, stout,
Couragious, hardy, t'abide all dangers out,
Yet when his sinnes were mellow, ripe and full,
Th'Almighties Iustice then his plumes did pull:

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By bloudy meanes he did the kingdome gaine,
And lost it so, at Bosworth being slaine.