Earl of Warwick
‘Kingmaker’ was Earl Warwick styled
With his manner scarcely mild
He set Kings up and bowled them down
Playing at ninepins with the Crown.
Wars of Roses 1485
White and Red Rose warring madly
Bled the country very sadly,
Three-and-thirty years contending;
At Bosworth Field we see the ending.
Printing 1473
First in fourteen-seventy-three
We print from type in this Countree.
Now it is that time’s first measured
By monster watches greatly treasured.
Thomas Parr this centurie
His hundred-fifty years did see;
But Henry Jenkins, so ’tis said,
In age was seventeen years ahead.
Hoary patriarchs were these
Retaining p’raps their faculties;