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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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RICHARD THE FIRST, Surnamed Cver De Lyon, KING OF ENGLAND, DVKE OF NORMANDY, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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RICHARD THE FIRST, Surnamed Cver De Lyon, KING OF ENGLAND, DVKE OF NORMANDY, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c.

Through my Creators mercy and his might,
Ierusalem I conquer'd and set free,
False mis-beleeuing Iewes, and Turkish spight,
From Iury force perforce I forc'd to flee.
The Realme of Cypresse was subdude by me.
Sicilia trembled at my prowesse bold.
King Tancred bought his peace, and did agree,
And paid me threescore ounces of fine gold:
Whilst I abroad won Honour manifold,
Aspiring Iohn (my brother) vext my Realme.
In Austria I was tane, and laid in hold:
Thus floods of griefe each way me ouer-whelme.
At last I home return'd, my ransome paid,
My earthly glory in a Graue was laid.