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 THIRD, KING OF ENGLAND, Lord Of Jreland, DVKE OF NORMANDY, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c.
In toyle and trouble midst contentions broyles,I seiz'd the Scepter of this famous Land,
Then being greatly wasted with the spoyles
Which Lewis had made with his French furious band:
But I with Peeres and people brauely mand,
Repeld, repulst, expulst insulting foes.
My Barons did my Soueraignty withstand,
And wrapt themselues and me in warres and woes:
But in each Battell none but I did lose,
I lost my Subiects liues on euery side:
(From Ciuill warres no better gaining growes)
Friends, foes, my people all, that fought or died.
My gaines was losse, my pleasure was my paine,
These were the triumphs of my troublous raigne.
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