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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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HENRY THE VIIJ, KING OF England, And France, LORD OF IRELAND.

To both the Royall Houses I was Heyre;
I made but one, of long contending, twaine:
This Realme diuided drooping in despaire,
I did rebind in my auspicious Raigne.
I banisht Romish Vsurpation vaine.
In France I Bullen, Turwin, Turney wan:
The Stile of Faiths Defender I did gaine.
Sixe wiues I had, three An's, two Kates, one Iane.
In my expences Royall, beyond measure,
Striuing in Noble Actions to exceede;
Accounting Honour as my greatest Treasure:
Yet various fancies did my frailty feede,
I made and marr'd, I did, and I vndid,
Till all my Greatnesse in a Graue was hid.