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