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Edward III (Quarto 1, 1596)
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Edward the third.
1210As ech to other seemed deafe and dombe,
1212With streaming gore that from the maymed fell,
1216There mangled armes and legs were tost aloft,
1217As when a wherle winde takes the Summer dust,
1218And scatters it in midddle of the aire,
1221Vntill their lofty tops were seene no more.
1222All shifts were tried both for defence and hurt,
1224Of resolution and of a cowardize:
1225We liuely pictured, how the one for fame;
1226The other by compulsion laid about;
1227Much did the Nom per illa, that braue ship
1228So did the blacke snake of Bullen, then which
1230But all in vaine, both Sunne, the Wine and tyde,
1231Reuolted all vnto our foe mens side,
1232That we perforce were fayne to giue them way,
1233And they are landed, thus my tale is donne,
1234We haue vntimly lost, and they haue woone.
1236To ioyne our seueral forces al in one,
1237And bid them battaile ere they rainge to farre,
1238Come gentle Phillip, let vs hence depart,
1240Enter two French men, a woman and two little Children,
1241meet them another Citizens.
1244What is it quarter daie that you remoue,
1245And carrie bag and baggage too?
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