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HENRY THE SECOND, KING OF ENGLAND, DVKE OF NORMANDY, Guyen and Aquitaine, &c.
TO th'Empresse Maud I was vndoubted Heyre,
And in her Right, my Title being iust,
By iustice I obtain'd the Regall Chayre.
Fayre Rosamond I soyled with soule lust,
For which Heauens lustice (hating deeds vniust)
Stir'd vp my Wife and Sonnes to be my foes:
Who sought to lay my Glory in the dust
And he m'd me round with cruell warres and woes.
They poys'ned my sweete beautious tainted ••••
By Isabels deuice my furious Queene;
My very bowels 'gainst me did oppose:
Such fruit hath lust, such force hath iealons spleene.
My cursed cross••s made me curse my birth,
With her I liu'd, raignd, died, and arm'd to earth.
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