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Old England.
I must confess some of those sores you name,
My beauteous body at this present maime;
But forreign foe, nor feigned friend I fear,
For they have work enough (thou knowst) elsewhere
Nor is it Alcies Son,[1] nor[2] Henryes daughter;[3]
Whose proud contention cause this slaughter,
Nor Nobles siding, to make John no King,
French Jews[4] unjustly to the Crown to bring;
No Edward., Richard, to lose rule and life,
Nor no Lancastrians to renew old strife:
No Duke of York, nor Earl of March to soyle
Their hands in kindreds blood whom they did soil
No crafty Tyrant now usurps the Seat,
Who Nephews slew that so he might be great;[5]
[195] No need of Tudor,[6] Rofes to unite,
None knows which is the red, or which the white;
Spains braving Fleet, a second time is funk,
France knows how oft[7] my fury she hath drunk:
My beauteous body at this present maime;
But forreign foe, nor feigned friend I fear,
For they have work enough (thou knowst) elsewhere
Nor is it Alcies Son,[1] nor[2] Henryes daughter;[3]
Whose proud contention cause this slaughter,
Nor Nobles siding, to make John no King,
French Jews[4] unjustly to the Crown to bring;
No Edward., Richard, to lose rule and life,
Nor no Lancastrians to renew old strife:
No Duke of York, nor Earl of March to soyle
Their hands in kindreds blood whom they did soil
No crafty Tyrant now usurps the Seat,
Who Nephews slew that so he might be great;[5]
[195] No need of Tudor,[6] Rofes to unite,
None knows which is the red, or which the white;
Spains braving Fleet, a second time is funk,
France knows how oft[7] my fury she hath drunk:
- ↑ Stephen, son of Stephen of Blois, Count Palatine of Champagne, and Adela, fourth daughter of William the Conqueror. Her name is sometimes given as Adelicia, Adeliza, or Alice ; and the contraction from one of these forms into Alcie would be simple.
- ↑ and.
- ↑ The Empress Matilda, or Maud, the daughter of Henry I. See page 331, last line.
- ↑ A misprint for "Lewis" in the first edition.
- ↑ No Crook-backt Tyrant, now usurps the Seat,
Whose tearing tusks did wound, and kill, and threat: - ↑ Teder.
- ↑ of.
