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A Metrical History of England

Or, Recollections, in Rhyme, Of some of the most prominent Features in our National Chronology, from the Landing of Julius Caesar to the Commencement of the Regency, in 1812. In Two Volumes ... By Thomas Dibdin
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)

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VOL. I.
  
[dedication]
  
INTRODUCTION.
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PART THE FIRST.
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THE ANCIENT BRITONS.
  
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CŒDWALLA to EDDA.
  
EDDA to CŒDWALLA.
  
COURTSHIP of the CANAILLE.
  
The MAIDEN's REPLY.
  
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THE ROMANS.
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THE BRITONS.
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THE SAXONS.
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THE HEPTARCHY.
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THE KINGDOM OF KENT.
  
THE KINGDOM OF KENT.
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KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
  
KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND.
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THE KINGDOM OF EAST-ANGLIA.
  
THE KINGDOM OF EAST-ANGLIA.
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THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA.
  
THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA.
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THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX,
  
THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX,
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THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX,
  
THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX,
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THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX,
  
THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX,
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PART THE SECOND.
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PART THE THIRD.
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EDWARD THE MARTYR.
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ETHELRED THE UNREADY.
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EDMUND IRONSIDE.
  
DANISH SOVEREIGNS.
  
THE SAXON LINE RESTORED.
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PART THE FOURTH.
  
THE NORMANS.
  
LINE OF PLANTAGENET;
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PART THE FIFTH.
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PART THE SIXTH.
  
HOUSE of LANCASTER.
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VOL. II.
  
[dedication]
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PART THE SEVENTH.
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HOUSE of YORK.
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EDWARD THE FOURTH.
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EDWARD THE FIFTH.
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RICHARD III. surnamed CROOKBACK.
  
THE VICTIMS,
  
HOUSE of TUDOR,
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PART THE EIGHTH.
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PART THE NINTH.
  
HOUSE OF STUART.
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PART THE TENTH.
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PART THE ELEVENTH.
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WILLIAM and MARY.
  
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AIR.
  
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HOUSE of STUART.
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PART THE TWELFTH.
  
HOUSE of BRUNSWICK.

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“Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.”
Shakespeare.

EDMUND.

Edmund his eighteenth year had not yet known,
When he succeeded to Athelstan's throne,
And, ecce iterum! the Monarch found
The Danes encroaching still on English ground;
Malcolm of Scotland having lent him aid,
With Westmoreland and Cumberland he paid;
And when kind peace was dawning o'er the land,
Or e'er six summers smiled upon his reign,
By Leolf, leader of a lawless band,
The youthful Sov'reign was untimely slain.
 

The King espied this outlaw presumptuously seated at a royal banquet and, being inflamed with wine, seized him by the hair, when the felon, instigated by despair, plunged his dagger in the body of the King: the intoxication of the nobles and attendants permitted the assassin's escape.

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