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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 IJ, KING OF ENGLAND, And France, LORD OF IRELAND, &c.

A Sunshine Morne, precedes a showry day,
A Calme at Sea ofttimes foreruns a storme:
All is not gold that seemes so glistring gay;
Foule Vice is fairest features Canker-worme,
So I that was of blood, descent and forme,
The perfect jmage of a Royall Stock,
Vnseason'd young aduice did me deforme,
Split all my hopes against despaires blacke rock,
My Regall name and power was made a mock,
My Subiects madly in rebellion rose,
Mischiefe on mischiefe all in troopes did flock,
Oppos'd, depos'd, expos'd, inclos'd in woes,
With wauering fortunes troublously I raign'd,
Slaine by foule murther, peace and rest I gain'd.