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( 21 ) gin innocence to your will and pleaſure! O! is there no Engliſh General truſty and valiant enough, to ſcourge your rebels, but you muſt be ſeparated from your faithful Roſamond.

Then calling to him Sir Thomas, her uncle, he ſaid here worthy knigh, I commit this ineſtimable treaſure to your ſole care and conduct, my fair Roſamond; a treaſure for more valuable than a kingdom; take to you a ſtrong gaurd for your defence, and be careful, I charge you as you tender your life that none be permitted to ſee her, till my return. And you may expect fair Roſamond, I ſhall write to you often, and require your anſwers. Alas, ſaid ſhe, this parting is worſe than death, and I'm ſure the ſoul and body cannot part with ſo much pain, as I now part with from you. Fain would I ſpeak my last farewel, but cannot, there are ſo many deaths in that hard word. Go, royal fir, that I may know my grief for grief's but gueſs'd, while you are ſtanding by. Ah, Roſamond replied the King, methinks there are ſuch mournful founds in parting, that I could hang for ever on thine arms, and look away my life upon thine yes: But I have far to go, and muſthaſten. And o have I, ſaid Roſamond again, if death be far, or that's the ſtage to which I am now going, rom whence I never ſhall return. And in tears arted from each other.

You fair Roſamond was poiſoned by Queen Eleanor, while the King war at France.

THE King being gone bet of the land, away the poſts to Woodſtock, with ſome of her truſ-