Chronicle, The: A Ballad Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Margarita first possess'd	A
If I remember well my breast	A
Margarita first of all	B
But when a while the wanton maid	C
With my restless heart had play'd	C
Martha took the flying ball	B
	-
Martha soon did it resign	D
To the beauteous Catharine	E
Beauteous Catharine gave place	F
Though loth and angry she to part	G
With the possession of my heart	G
To Eliza's conquering face	F
	-
Eliza till this hour might reign	H
Had she not evil counsel ta'en	I
Fundamental laws she broke	J
And still new favourites she chose	K
Till up in arms my passions rose	K
And cast away her yoke	J
	-
Mary then and gentle Anne	L
Both to reign at once began	L
Alternately they swayed	C
And sometimes Mary was the fair	M
And sometimes Anne the crown did wear	M
And sometimes both I obey'd	C
	-
Another Mary then arose	K
And did rigorous laws impose	K
A mighty tyrant she	N
Long alas should I have been	E
Under that iron scepter'd queen	O
Had not Rebecca set me free	N
	-
When fair Rebecca set me free	N
'Twas then a golden time with me	N
But soon those pleasures fled	P
For the gracious princess died	Q
In her youth and beauty's pride	Q
And Judith reigned in her stead	P
	-
One month three days and half an hour	R
Judith held the sovereign power	R
Wondrous beautiful her face	F
But so weak and small her wit	S
That she to govern was unfit	S
And so Susanna took her place	F
	-
But when Isabella came	T
Arm'd with a resistless flame	T
And th' artillery of her eye	U
Whilst she proudly march'd about	V
Greater conquests to find out	V
She beat out Susan by the bye	U
	-
But in her place I then obey'd	C
Black ey'd Bess her viceroy maid	C
To whom ensued a vacancy	N
Thousand worse passions then possess'd	A
The interregnum of my breast	A
Bless me from such an anarchy	N
	-
Gentle Henrietta then	I
And a third Mary next began	L
Then Joan and Jane and Andria	W
And then a pretty Thomasine	N
And then another Catharine	E
And then a long et caetera	W
	-
But should I now to you relate	X
The strength and riches of their state	X
The powder patches and the pins	Y
The ribbons jewels and the rings	Z
The lace the paint and warlike things	Z
That make up all their magazines	A2
	-
If I should tell the politic arts	B2
To take and keep men's hearts	B2
The letters embassies and spies	C2
The frowns and smiles and flatteries	C2
The quarrels tears and perjuries	C2
Numberless nameless mysteries	C2
	-
And all the little lime twigs laid	C
By Machiavel the waiting maid	C
I more voluminous should grow	W
Chiefly if I like them should tell	D2
All change of weather that befel	D2
Than Holinshed or Stow	W
	-
But I will briefer with them be	N
Since few of them were long with me	N
An higher and a nobler strain	H
My present empress does claim	T
Eleonora first o' th' name	T
Whom God grant long to reign	H

Abraham Cowley

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