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II. I.

"Weave the warp, and weave the woof,

"The winding-sheet of Edward's race,

"Give ample room, and verge enough

"The characters of hell to trace.

"Mark the year, and mark the night,

"When Severn fhall re-eccho with affright

"The fhrieks of death, thro' Berkley's roofs that ring,

"Shrieks of an agonizing King!

Edward the Second, cruelly butchered in Berkley-Castle..

"She-Wolf

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She-Wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs,

"That tear'ft the bowels of thy mangled Mate,

"From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs

"The scourge of Heav'n. What Terrors round him wait!

"Amazement in his van, with Flight combined,

"And forrow's faded form, and folitude behind.

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'Ifabel of France, Edward the Second's adulterous Queen.

* Triumphs of Edward the Third in France.

'Death of that King, abandoned by his Children, and even robbed in his last moments by his Courtiers and his Mistress.

"Is the fable w Warriour filed?

"Thy fon is gone.. He refts among the Dead.

"The Swarm, that in thy noon-tide beam were born?

"Gone to falute the rifing Morn.

"Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the Zephyr blows,

"While proudly riding o'er the azure realm

"In gallant trim the gilded Veffel goes;

"Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm;

"Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway,

"That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening-prey.

w Edward, the Black Prince, dead fome time before his Father.

* Magnificence of Richard the Second's reign. See Froiffard, and other contemporary Writers.

II. 3.

"y Fill high the sparkling bowl,

"The rich repast prepare,

"Reft of a crown, he yet may share the feast:

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y Richard the Second, (as we are told by Archbishop Scroop and the confederate Lords in their manifefto, by Thomas of Walfingham, and all the older Writers) was starved to death. The ftory of his affaffination by Sir Piers of Exon, is of much later date.

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"Heard ye the din of battle bray,

"Lance to lance, and horfe to horse?

"Long Years of havock urge their destined course,

"And thro' the kindred fquadrons mow their way..

"Ye Towers of Julius, London's lafting fhame,

"With many a foul and midnight murther fed,

"Revere his Confort's faith, his Father's fame,

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"And spare the meek 4 Ufurper's holy head.

Ruinous civil wars of York and Lancaster.

Henry the Sixth, George Duke of Clarence, Edward the Fifth, Richard Duke of York, &c. believed to be murthered fecretly in the Tower of London. The oldeft part of that structure is vulgarly attributed to Julius Cæfar.

Margaret of Anjou, a woman of heroic fpirit, who struggled hard to fave her Husband and her Crown.

Henry the Fifth.

d Henry the Sixth very near being canonized. The line of Lancafter had no right of inheritance to the Crown.

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