Albions England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: With most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto, and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth: Not barren in varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures: First penned and published by William Warner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author: Whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England |
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CHAP. XXI.
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King
Edgar, that subdu'd the Scots, and slaughtered the Danes,
And of the Welch had tribute Wolffs, of whom it more remaines
That, as it were in Triumph-wise, Eight Vnder-kings did roe
Him, Sterns-man, on the Riuer Dee, with diuers honors moe,
This Edgar by a former wife had Edward, by an other
This Egelred, a Sonne vnto a kinde and cruell Mother:
For as she labors to preferre her owne by well and ill,
So to destroy her Son-in-law she wanted meanes, not will.
And meanes did hit. King Edward hunts, and hunting lost his Traine,
Whom, man-les, at her Castle Corfe the Queene did entertaine.
He hauing seene to whome he came in curtesie to see,
Made haste away, in Quest of them that still a hunting be:
And when he, mounted, should depart, to him his Stepdame drinkes:
Whom, pledging, him an Hierling stab'd, and life-les downe he sinkes.
And of the Welch had tribute Wolffs, of whom it more remaines
That, as it were in Triumph-wise, Eight Vnder-kings did roe
Him, Sterns-man, on the Riuer Dee, with diuers honors moe,
This Edgar by a former wife had Edward, by an other
This Egelred, a Sonne vnto a kinde and cruell Mother:
For as she labors to preferre her owne by well and ill,
So to destroy her Son-in-law she wanted meanes, not will.
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Whom, man-les, at her Castle Corfe the Queene did entertaine.
He hauing seene to whome he came in curtesie to see,
Made haste away, in Quest of them that still a hunting be:
And when he, mounted, should depart, to him his Stepdame drinkes:
Whom, pledging, him an Hierling stab'd, and life-les downe he sinkes.
Thus Egelred obtain'd the Crowne, but for his crowning so
His Subiects grudge, and he became a Preface to their woe.
For when this proud and vitious king was neither lou'd of his,
Nor liued safely for the Danes, his secret Edict is,
That sodainely, in one selfe hower, throughout the Land should passe charge
A common Massaker of Danes, which so performed was:
Hartfordiā Welwyn (Wealth-wyn then, for promptnesse in that
Beginning, other Townes as it themselues from Danes inlarge.
His Subiects grudge, and he became a Preface to their woe.
For when this proud and vitious king was neither lou'd of his,
Nor liued safely for the Danes, his secret Edict is,
That sodainely, in one selfe hower, throughout the Land should passe charge
A common Massaker of Danes, which so performed was:
Hartfordiā Welwyn (Wealth-wyn then, for promptnesse in that
Beginning, other Townes as it themselues from Danes inlarge.
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