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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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318

MARY, QUEENE OF England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.

No sooner I possest the Royall Throne,
But true Religion straight was dispossest:
Bad Councell caus'd Rome, Spaine and I, as one,
To persecute, to martyr, and molest
All that the vnstain'd truth of God profest:
All such as dar'd oppugne the pow'rfull Pope,
With grieuous tortures were opprest and prest,
With Axes, Fire, and Faggot, and the Rope.
Scarce any Land beneath the Heau'nly Cope,
Afflicted was, as I caus'd this to bee:
And when my Fortunes were in highest hope,
Death at the fiue yeeres end arrested mee.
No Bale would serue, I could command no ayd,
But I in prison in my graue was laid.