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

Ambition's like vnto a quenchlesse thirst:
Ambition Angels threw from Heauen to Hell,
Ambition (that infernall Hag) accurst,
Ambitiously made me aspire, rebell:
Ambition, that damned Necromanticke Spell,
Made me clime proud, with shame to tumble down.
By bloody murther I did all expell,
Whose right, or might, debard me from the Crown.
My smiles, my gifts, my fauours, or my frowne,
Were fain'd, corrupt, vile flattry, death and spite.
By cruell Tyranny I gat renowne,
Till Heau'ns iust Iudge me iustly did requite.
By blood I won, by blood I lost the throne.
Detested liu'd; dy'd; lou'd, bewail'd of none.