Richard the Third: A Poem (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, Sep 18, 2018 - History - 348 pages
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In my road to Weymouth, where his Majesty George III. Was residing, whom I wished to see there in his simple privacy, and more like his real self, as the individual king divested of his state, and of the needful appendages of his royal station, I reached Abbey Cerne, and finding some ruins of the ancient monastery there, I amused myself with examining them, and determined to pass the night at the little comfortable village inn at that place.

As I was taking my tea alone in its retired room, the crimes and violences of our earlier history, and the characters of our kings during the feudal period, became the subject of my solitary medita tions; and in musing over these, the popular history of our Richard III. Strongly arrested my attention.

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