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When years had waned, loving toiling years, England's fierce-: wrongs
renewed
Drove James, by outrage cast on Iit.s crown, to the open field of feud.
Tv,-as when the King and liis ho si were met at the league of Roxbro’
hold,
The Queen o’ the sudden sought his camp with a tale of dread to be
told.

And she showed him a secret J otter writ that spoke of treasonous .strife,
And how a band of his noblest lords were sworn to take his life.
And when he summoned his Parliament, the louring brows hung round,
Like clouds that circle the mountain-head ere the first low thunr'ers
sound.

'Tv,'as then upspoke Sir Robert Gramme, the bold, o'ermastering man:
“ O King, in the name of your three estates T set yon under their ban.!
With 113m 1 he laid his hands or. his King : u Ts this not right, my lords?”
But of all who had sworn to league with him not one spake back to
his words.

Quoth the Kino; “ Thou speak’st but for one estate, nor doth it avow
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thy gage.
Lot my liege lords hale this traitor hence ! M The Gramme fired dark
with rage:
“ Who works for lesser nic:i than himself, he earns hut a witless wage! ”
But soon from the dungeon where he lay he won by privy plots,
And forth he fled with a price on his head to the country oi tile wild

And word there came from Sir Robert Graeme
To the King at Ldinbro’ :
"N o liege of mine thou art; but J see,
From this day forth, alone in thee, f
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God’s creature, my mortal foe.