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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Being thus perplext with greif and care, A lady to him did repaire, And said, O king shew us thy will, The queene's sweet life to save or spill. If she cannot delivered be, Yet save the flower, if not the tree Oh mourne, mourne, mourne, faire ladies, Jane, your queen, the flower of England dies. Then down uppon his tender knee, For help from heaven prayed he: Meane while into a sleepe they cast His queene, which ever more did last; And opening then her tender woomb, Alive they tooke this budding bloome. Oh mourne, mourne, mourne, faire ladies, Jane, your queen, the flower of Englnnd dies. This babe so born, much comfort brought, And chear'd his father's drooping thought: Prince Edward he was cal'd by name, Grac'd with vertue, wit, and fame: And when his father left this earth, He rul'd this land by lawfull birth. Oh mourne, mourne, mourne, faire ladies; Jane, your queen, the flower of England dies. But marke the powerfull will of heaven We from this joy were soone bereaven. Six yeares he raigned in this land, And then obeyed God's command, And left his croune to Mary heare, Whose five years' raignc cost England dear. Oh mourne, mourne, mourne, faire ladies, Jane your queen, the flower of England, dies. Elizabeth raigned next to her, Europe's pride, and England's starre, Wonder, world for such a queen Under heaven was never scene: A mayd, a saint, an angell bryght, In whom all princes took delight. Oh mourne, mourne, mourne, faire ladies Elizabeth, the flower of England's, dead A SHORT AND SWKET SONNET MADE BY ONE OF THE MAIDES OF HONOR UPON THE DEATH OF QUEENE ELIZABETH, WHICH SHE SOWED UPPON A SAMPLER IN RED SII.KE. To a now Tune, or Phillida Houts me. Gone is Elizabeth, Whom we...
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