That rich and coftly be;

And drink thou up this deadly Draught,
Which I have brought to thee.

Then presently upon her Knees
Sweet Rofamond did fall;

And Pardon of the Queen she crav'd
For her Offences all.

Take pity on my youthful Years,
Fair Rofamond did cry;

And let me not with Poyson strong
Enforced be to dye.

I will renounce my finful Life,
And in fome Cloyster bide;
Or else be banish'd, if you please,
To range the World so wide:
And for the Fault that I have done,
Tho' I was forc'd thereto,
Preserve my Life, and punish me
As you think meet to do.

And with these Words, her Lilly Hands
She wrung full often there;

And down along her lovely Face

Did trickle many a Tear.

But nothing could this furious Queen
Therewith appeased be;

The Cup of deadly Poyfon ftrong,
As the kneel'd on her Knee,

She gave this comely Dame to drink ;
Who took it in her Hand,

And from her bended Knee arose,
And on her Feet did ftand:

And cafting up her Eyes to Heav'n,

She did for Mercy call;

And drinking up the Poyson strong,
Her Life fhe loft withal.

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And when that Death thro' every Limb
Had fhow'd its greatest Spite,
Her chiefeft Foes did then confefs
She was a glorious Wight.
Her Body then they did entomb,
When Life was fled away,

At Godfow, near to Oxford Town,
As may be seen this Day.

III. Queen

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III. Queen Eleanor's Confeffion to the Two fuppofed Fryars of France.

Eleanor, Daughter to William Duke of Guienne, was, whilft very young, marry'd to Lewis the VIth of France; but behaved her felf very indecently in the Marriage State: For following her Husband to the Holy War, he gave a Loofe to her luftful Paffions, and liv'd in a criminal manner with a Saracen, one Saladine by Name. King Lewis, for his own Sake, endeavour'd to conceal this Difgrace; and tho' she would willingly have flay'd behind with her uncircumcis'd Lover, yet did he bring her away with him to France, and there pretended a Scruple of Confcience, in that he was his Fourth Coufin: And a Council being af fembled at Bauge, they granted him Letters of Divorce; but Lewis was obliged to reftore her Dukedom to her. She was, after this, marry'd to Henry Duke of Anjou, Grandfon to King Henry the First; and who, after the Death of King Stephen, came to the English Crown. Most of our

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