Poems on Affairs of State

[Volume I.] From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the Abdication of K. James the Second.

II.

Vol. II. From The Reign of K. James the First, To this Present Year 1703.

III.

VOL. III. From the Year 1640. to the Year 1704.

IV.

VOL. IV. From 1620. to this present Year 1707.

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Rex & Grex.

Rex and Grex are of one Sound,
But Dux does Rex and Grex confound.
If Crux of Dux could have his fill,
Then Rex of Grex might have his Will.

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Five Subsidies to ten would turn,
And Grex would laugh, that now does mourn.
Oh Rex! thy Grex does still complain,
That Dux bears Crux, and Crux not Dux again.

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Rex & Grex.