Bonduca Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Bonduca the British queen taking occasion from a defeat of the Romans to impeach their valor is rebuked by CaratacA
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Queen Bonduca I do not grieve your fortuneB
If I grieve 'tis at the bearing of your fortunesC
You put too much wind to your sail discretionB
And hardy valor are the twins of honorD
And nursed together make a conquerorD
Divided but a talker 'Tis a truthE
That Rome has fled before us twice and routedF
A truth we ought to crown the gods for ladyG
And not our tonguesH
You call the Romans fearful fleeing RomansC
And Roman girlsI
Does this become a doer are they suchJ
Where is your conquest thenK
Why are your altars crowned with wreaths of flowersL
The beast with gilt horns waiting for the fireD
The holy Druides composing songsM
Of everlasting life to VictoryG
Why are these triumphs lady for a May gameN
For hunting a poor herd of wretched RomansC
Is it no more shut up your temples BritonsC
And let the husbandman redeem his heifersL
Put out your holy fires no timbrel ringA
Let's home and sleep for such great overthrowsO
A candle burns too bright a sacrificeP
A glow worm's tail too full a flameN
You say I doat upon these RomansC
Witness these wounds I do they were fairly givenB
I love an enemy I was born a soldierD
And he that in the head of 's troop defies meG
Rending my manly body with his swordQ
I make a mistress Yellow tressed HymenB
Ne'er tied a longing virgin with more joyR
Than I am married to that man that wounds meG
And are not all these Romans Ten struck battlesS
I sucked these honored scars from and all RomanB
Ten years of bitter nights and heavy marchesT
When many a frozen storm sung through my cuirassT
And made it doubtful whether that or IU
Were the more stubborn metal have I wrought throughV
And all to try these Romans Ten times a nightW
I have swum the rivers when the stars of RomeX
Shot at me as I floated and the billowsT
Tumbled their watery ruins on my shouldersT
Charging my battered sides with troops of aguesT
And still to try these Romans whom I foundY
As ready and as full of that I broughtZ
Which was not fear nor flight as valiantA2
As vigilant as wise to do and sufferD
Ever advanced as forward as the BritonsT
Have I not seen these BritonsT
Run run Bonduca not the quick rack swifterD
The virgin from the hated ravisherD
Not half so fearful not a flight drawn homeX
A round stone from a sling a lover's wishB2
E'er made that haste they have By heavensT
I have seen these Britons that you magnifyU
Run as they would have out run time and roaringA
Basely for mercy roaring the light shadowsT
That in a thought scour o'er the fields of cornC2
Halted on crutches to them Yes BonducaA
I have seen thee run too and thee NenniusT
Yea run apace both then when PenyusT
The Roman girl cut through your armed cartsT
And drove them headlong on ye down the hillD2
Then when he hunted ye like Britain foxesT
More by the scent than sight then did I seeT
These valiant and approved men of BritainB
Like boding owls creep into tods of ivyT
And hoot their fears to one another nightlyT
I fled tooV
But not so fast your jewel had been lost thenK
Young Hengo there he trasht me NenniusT
For when your fears outrun him then slept IU
And in the head of all the Romans' furyT
Took him and with my tough belt to my backA
I buckled him behind him my sure shieldE2
And then I followed If I say I foughtZ
Five times in bringing off this bud of BritainB
I lie not Nennius Neither had ye heardF2
Me speak this or ever seen the child moreD
But that the son of Virtue PenyusT
Seeing me steer through all these storms of dangerD
My helm still on my head my sword my prowD
Turned to my foe my face he cried out noblyT
'Go Briton bear thy lion's whelp off safelyT
Thy manly sword has ransomed thee grow strongA
And let me meet here once again in armsT
Then if thou stand'st thou art mine ' I took his offerD
And here I am to honor himG2
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There's not a blow we gave since Julius landedH2
That was of strength and worth but like recordsT
They file to after ages Our RegistersT
The Romans are for noble deeds of honorD
And shall we burn their mentions with upbraidingsT
Had we a difference with some petty IsleI2
Or with our neighbors lady for our landmarksT
The taking in some rebellious LordQ
Or making a head against commotionsT
After a day of blood peace might be arguedJ2
But where we grapple for the ground we live onK2
The Liberty we hold as dear as lifeL2
The gods we worship and next those our honorsT
And with those swords that know no end of battleM2
Those men beside themselves allow no neighborD
Those minds that where the day is claim inheritanceT
And where the sun makes ripe the fruits their harvestN2
And where they march but measure out more groundY
To add toV
RomeX
and here in the bowels on usT
It must not be no as they are our foesT
And those that must be so until we tire 'emO2
Let's use the peace of Honor that's fair dealingA
But in our ends our swordsT

Beaumont And Fletcher



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