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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EDWARD THE IIJ, KING OF ENGLAND, And FRANCE, Lord Of Ireland
In Peace and War, my Stars auspicious stood,False Fortune stedfast held her wauering wheele;
I did reuenge my Fathers butcher'd blood,
I forced France my furious force to feele:
I warr'd on Scotland with triumphing Steele,
Afflicting them with slaughtering Sword and Fire:
That Kingdome then diuided needs must reele:
Betwixt the Bruces and the Balliols ire:
Thus daily still my glory mounted higher,
With black Prince Edward my victorious Sonne,
Vnto the top of honour wee aspire,
By manly Princely, worthy actions done.
But all my Triumphs, fortunes, strength and force,
Age brought to death, & death turn'd to a Coarse.
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