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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455438" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Henry the Seventh</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Henry the Seventh of England<br>Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer,<br>The only connection of which he could boast,<br>He were King's nephew's brother-in-law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It were after the Wars of the Roses<br>That he came to the front, as it were,<br>When on strength of his having slain Richard the Third <br>He put himself up as his heir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">T'were a bit of a blow to the Barons<br>When Henry aspired to the Throne,<br>And some who'd been nursing imperial hopes <br>Started pushing out claims of their own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they didn't get far with their scheming,<br>For the moment the matter were pressed<br>A stroke of the pen took them off to the Tower,<br>Where a stroke of the axe did the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A feller they called Perkin Warbeck<br>Was the one who led Henry a dance, <br>To make sure that nowt awkward should happen to him<br>He worked from an office in France.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He claimed to be one of the Princes<br>As were smothered to death in the Tower. <br>His tale was that only his brother was killed<br>And that he had escaped the seas ower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Henry knew the appeal of the Princes<br>Was a strong one for Perkin to make, <br>And he reckoned he'd best have a chat with the lad<br>And find out the least he would take.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In reply to his kind invitation <br>Perkin said he'd he happy to call,<br>But he'd bring his own escort of ten thousand men <br>And a hundred pipers an' all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This reply put the King in a passion <br>He swore as he'd stop Perkin's fun,<br>Then he offered a fortune per annum to him<br>As could tell him how his could be done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then up spoke the bold Lambert Simne <br>The King's private scullion he were,<br>He said: &quot;Just one word in thy ear 'ole, O King,<br>I've a plan as will stop all this 'ere.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he took the King up in a corner, <br>Where no one could hear what they said,<br>He hadn't got far when King started to laff <br>And he laffed till he had to he bled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">T 'were a plan to anticipate Perkin, <br>By getting in first with these tales,<br>Start another rebellion before he arrived <br>And take the wind out of his sails.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so Lambert Simnel's rebellion <br>Made its fateful debut in the North <br>Experts disagree who he made out to be, <br>John the Second or Richard the Fourth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">T 'was surprising how many believed him<br>They flocked to his flag like one man,<br>For in them days the folk would do owt for a change,<br>And their motto was, &quot; San fairy ann.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It were quite a success this rebellion<br>Till t'were routed by Henry at Stoke,<br>And Lambert were taken and made to confess <br>That his parents was working class folk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The public forgave this deception,<br>The thing that made them proper mad<br>Was a twopenny increase on every one's rates <br>To pay for the fun they had had.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so when Peter Warbeck came over<br>Expecting his praise to be sung,<br>He was greeted, defeated, escheated, unseated, <br>Maltreated and finally hung.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Baron went back to his castle, <br>The Peasant went back to his herd,<br>Lambert Simnel went back to his scullion's job<br>Because Henry went back on his word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marriott+Edgar">Marriott Edgar</a><div class=q>
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Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer,
The only connection of which he could boast,
He were King's nephew's brother-in-law.

It were after the Wars of the Roses
That he came to the front, as it were,
When on strength of h..."></div>
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