Joan of Arc 1430
Joan of Arc the peasant Maid
Inspired the French with Mystic aid;
Disunited, we make peace,
All France but Calais we release.
Constantinople 1453
Constantinople’s seized by Turks
Causing Greek Scholars (with their works)
To fly to Italy; and thence
Learning’s reborn—‘The Renaissance.’
Edward IV. 1461–1483
IN Edward Fourth, fourteen-six-one
The House of York obtains the Throne.
He wins at Towton’s bloody fray,
No quarter given on that day.
Guy, Earl of Warwick in these frays
Was always turning different ways;
Barnet 1471
On Barnet Field he met his doom
The Rose of York’s now well abloom.
The Barons, Church and Commons fall,
The King emerges Boss of all.
Benevolences he exacts,
An early form of Super Tax.