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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STEPHEN, KING OF England, And DVKE OF NORMANDY
By wrested Titles and vsurping claime,Thrugh storms & tempests of tumultuous wars,
The Crowne (my fairest marke and foulest ayme)
I wonne and wore, beleaguerd round with iars.
The English, Scots and Normæns all prepares
Their powers, exposing to oppose my powers,
Whilst this Land laden and o'rwhelm'd with cares,
Endures, whilst war, wo, want and death deuoures.
But as yeers, months, weeks, days decline by houres,
Houres into minutes, minutes into nought:
My painfull pompe decai'd like fading flowres,
And vnto nought was my Ambition brought.
Thus is the state of transitory things:
Ther's nothing can be permanent with Kings.
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