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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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HENRY THE SECOND, KING OF England, DVKE OF NORMANDY, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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HENRY THE SECOND, KING OF England, DVKE OF NORMANDY, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c.

To th'Empresse Maud I was vndoubted Heyre,
And in her Right, my Title being iust,
By iustice I obtain'd the Regall Chayre.
Fayre Rosamond I soyled with foule lust,
For which Heauens Iustice (hating deeds vniust)
Stir'd vp my Wife and Sonnes to be my foes:
Who sought to lay my Glory in the dust,
And hem'd me round with cruell warres and woes.
They poys'ned my sweete beautious tainted Rose,
By Isabels deuice my furious Queene:
My very bowels 'gainst me did oppose:
Such fruit hath lust, such force hath iealous spleene.
My cursed crosses made me curse my birth,
With her I liu'd, raign'd, died, and turn'd to earth.