The Civil Wars Between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York (Selection)

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Great seem'd the cause, and greatly to, did add

The people's love thereto, these crimes rehears'd,

That many gathered to the troops they had

And many more do flock from coasts dispers'd:

But when the king had heard these news so bad,

Th'unlooked-for dangerous toil more nearly pers'd;

For bent t[o]wards Wales t'appease those tumults there,

H[e] is forc'd divert his course, and them forbear.