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OF THE MONARCHE.
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Heir followis sum of
THE VVOUNDERFULL DEDIS OF THE LUSTIE
Semeramis.
[experience].
NYNVS luffit so Ardentlye
Semeramis, his fair Ladye,
Thare wes no thyng scho wald command
Bot al obeyit wes fra hand.
Scho, seand hym so Amorous,
Scho grew proude and presumptuous,
And at the king scho did desyre
Fyue dayis to goueme his Impyre.
[I 2a] And he, of his beneuolence.
Did grant hir that preheminence,
With Sceptour, Crown, and Robroyall,
And hole power Imperiall,
Tyll fyue dayis wer cum and gone,
That scho, as king, sulde ring allone.
C Than all the Princis of the land
Duryng that tyme maid hir ane band.
With bankat Royall myrrellie
Scho treatit thame Tryumphantlie.
So, the first day, the peple all
Came tyll hir seruyce, bound and thrall.
Bot, or the secunde day wes gone,
Scho tuke sic glore to ryng allone,
Be one decreit, maid thame amang,
The king scho patt in presone strang.
I reid weill of his presoning,
Bot nocht of his delyuering.
Quhow euir, it wes in tyll his flowris
He did of deith suffer the schowris,
Any mycht nocht lenth his lyfe one houre,
Thocht he wes the first Concreoure,
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