Poems on Several Occasions With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition |
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When upright Rokeby scorn'd the shining Pelf,Pay'd Gold, but eat in Wood or Tin himself,
When Gascoigne taught a Prince to know the Law,
And Virtue kept the Royal Rake in Awe;
When we have Precedents like these at Home,
Keep thy Fabricius and thy Cato, Rome.
In the Time òf Edward the Ild the Governors of Ireland took Meat for their Men and Horses, and extorted Money, without making any Satisfaction: But Sir Thomas Rokeby, who in the thirty-first Year of Edward the Illd was the second Time made Justiciary of Ireland said, that he would eat and drink out of wooden Vessels and pay Gold and Silver for his Meat, Cloaths, and Servants. Cambden's Annals of Ireland.
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