All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.

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Title: All the vvorkes of Iohn Taylor the water-poet Beeing sixty and three in number. Collected into one volume by the author: vvith sundry new additions corrected, reuised, and newly imprinted, 1630.
Author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
Publication: At London :: Printed by I[ohn] B[eale, Elizabeth Allde, Bernard Alsop, and Thomas Fawcet] for Iames Boler; at the signe of the Marigold in Pauls Churchyard,; 1630.
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King Stephen. An. Dom. 1135.

STephen Earle of B••loig••, (th' Earle of Bloy•• his son)
From th'Empresse M••nd this famous Kingdome won.
Domestike, forraigne, dangerous discords,
'Twixt factions factions, of the King and's Lords,
Wars 'twixt the King and th' Empresse for the crown,
Both tasted Fortunes fauours, and her frowne,
Now vp, now downe, like balles at Tennis tost,
Till Stephen gain'd the goale, and th 'Empresse lost.
And after eighteene yeeres were come and gone,
The King not hauing any lawfull Sonne,
He dyed, and chang'd his Kingdome & his strength,
For a small Sepulcher of sixe foote length.

King Stephen. He was noble, valiant, liberall, and poli∣tique, and almost in continuall trouble. In the 1. yeere of his reigne a fire burnt all the streete, from London-stone East, to Pauls, and West, to Algate, and within 2. yeeres after, the cities of York, Rochester, and Bathe, were burnt, Hee reigned 18. yeeres, 10 moneths and was buri∣ed at Feuersham.