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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455444" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Queen Matilda</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Henry the first, surnamed &quot; Beauclare,&quot; <br>Lost his only son William at sea,<br>So when Henry died it were hard to decide <br>Who his heir and successor should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were two runners-up for the title- <br>His daughter Matilda was one,<br>And the other, a boy, known as Stephen of Blois, <br>His young sister Adela's son.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Matilda by right should have had it,<br>Being daughter of him as were dead,<br>But the folks wasn't keen upon having a queen, <br>So they went and crowned Stephen instead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This 'ere were a knockout for Tilda,<br>The notion she could not absorb<br>To lose at one blow both the crown and the throne,<br>To say naught of the sceptre and orb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So she summoned her friends in t'West Country<br>From Bristol, Bath, Gloucester and Frome,<br>And also a lot of relations from Scotland, <br>Who'd come South and wouldn't go home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The East Counties rallied round Stephen, <br>Where his cause had support of the masses,<br>And his promise of loot brought a lot of recruits<br>From the more intellectual classes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Country were split in two parties<br>In a manner you'd hardly believe, <br>The West with a will shouted: &quot;Up with Matilda !&quot; <br>The East hollered: Come along, Steve!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The two armies met up in Yorkshire, <br>Both leaders the same tactics tried.<br>To each soldier they gave a big standard to wave, <br>In hopes they'd impress t 'other side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It were known as the battle o't Standard, <br>Though no battling anyone saw,<br>For with flags in their right hands, the lads couldn't fight, <br>And the referee called it a draw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The next time they met were at Lincoln, <br>Where Stephen were properly beat,<br>At the end of the scrap he were led off a captive, <br>With iron balls chained to his feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They took him in triumph to Tilda, <br>Who, assuming an arrogant mien,<br>Snatched the Crown off his head and indignantly said<br>&quot;Take your 'at off in front of your Queen!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Stephen were put in a dungeon, <br>While Tilda ascended the throne<br>And reigned undisturbed for best part of a year,<br>Till she looked on the job as her own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Stephen weren't beat by a long chalk <br>His plans for escape he soon made,<br>For he found Tilda's troops were all getting fed up,<br>Having heard that they wouldn't be paid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So when Tilda got snowed up at Oxford, <br>Where she'd taken to staying of late,<br>She woke one fine morn, to the sound of a horn,<br>And found Stephen outside her front gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her troops gone, her castle surrounded, <br>She saw she hadn't a chance,<br>So, the ground being white, she escaped in her nightie<br>And caught the next packet for France.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She didn't do badly at finish,<br>When everything's weighed up and reckoned<br>For when Stephen was gone the next heir to the throne<br>Were Matilda's son, Henry the second.</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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Lost his only son William at sea,
So when Henry died it were hard to decide 
Who his heir and successor should be.

There were two runners-up for the title- 
His daughter Matilda was one,
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