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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 | All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet |  |
Henry the seuenth. An. Dom. 1485.
VVhen Ciuill wars, full fourescore yeers & more,Had made this kingdome welter in her Gore:
When eightie of the royall blood were kild,
That Yorke and Lancasters crosse faction held,
Then God in mercy, looking on this Land,
Brought in this Prince, with a triumphant band,
The onely Heire of the Lancastrian line,
Who graciously consented to combine,
To ease poore England of a world of mone,
And make the red Rose and the white but one,
By Marriage with Elizabeth the faire,
Fourth Edwards daughter, and Yorks onely heire.
But Margret Burgunds dutches storm'd & frown'd,
That th'heire of Lancaster in state was crown'd.
A counterfeit, one Lambert she suborn'd,
(Being with Princely ornaments adorn'd)
To claime the State in name of Clarence sonne,
Who in the Tower before to death was done.
Wars 'gainst the French King Henry did maintaine,
And Edward braue Lord Wooduile there was slaine.
Northumberlands great Earle (for the Kings right)
Was slaine by Northerne rebels in sharpe fight.
The King besiedged Boloigne, but a Peace
The French King sought, and so the siedge did cease.
Still Burgunds Dutchesse, (with inueterate hate)
Did seeke to ruine Henries Royall state:
She caus'd one Perkin Warbecke, to put on
The name of Richard, Edwards murdred sonne,
Which Richard, was the youngest of the twaine
Of Edwards sonnes that in the Tower was slaine.
The King at last these traitors did confound,
And Perkin for a counterfeit was found.
Sir William Stanley, (once the Kings best friend)
At Tower hill, on a Scaffold had his end.
On Blacke Heath Coruish rebels were o'rthrowne,
A Shoomaker did claime King Henries Crowne.
The Earle of Warwicke lost his haplesse head,
And Lady Katherine did Prince Arthur wed.
But ere sixe moneths were fully gone and past,
In Ludlow Castle, Arthur breath'd his last.
King Henry built his Chappell from the ground,
At Westminster, whose like can scarce be found.
Faire Margret eldest daughter to our King,
King Iames the fourth of Scotland home did bring,
Where those two Princes, with great pompe and cheare,
In State at Edenborough married were.
But as all Mortall things are transitory,
So to an end came Henries earthly glory.
Twenty three yeeres, and 8. months here he swaid,
And then at Westminster, in's Tombe was laid.
He all his Life had variable share,
Of Peace, Warre, Ioy, Griefe, Royaltie and Care.
| All the workes of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet | |