Which Howard, Frobisher and Drake
And stormy weather overtake.
Shakespeare 1564–1616
AND in these epoch making days
Shakespeare wrote and staged his plays;
Weaving a thread whose magic strands
Entwine all English-speaking lands.
Fifteen-eight-seven Scots’ Queen Mary
Lost her head through fate contrary.
When Henry Eight had robbed the Church
’Twas found the poor were in the lurch;
Poor Law
A law was passed about this date
To place the poor upon the rate.
Sir Walter Raleigh 1552–1618
SIR Walter Raleigh, best of Knights,
The first to taste the keen delights
Of the enchantress so serene,
The Ryghte Goode Ladye Nicotine.