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TO lordlings proud I tune my lay, Who feast in bow'r or hall: Though dukes they be, to dukes I say. That pride will have a fall.

Now, that this same it is right sooth, Full plainly doth appear, From what befel John duke of Guise, And Nic. of Lancastere.

When Richard Cœur de Lion reign'd, (Which means a lion's heart) Like him his barons rag'd and roar'd: Each play'd a lion's part. A word