A lady’s anger for not taking
Care of Cakes which she was baking.
(Most probably she left the King
While she went out a-gossiping.)
Before he died in nine-nought-one,
Old England’s Navy had begun.
He laid a tax on every town
To aid his fleet to gain renown.
He was the best of Saxon Kings
And did a lot of useful things;
Built Oxford with its noble spires
And mapped out England into Shires.
Danes 783
IN seven-eight-three first came the Danes
Who caused the Saxons aches and pains.
They sailed right up our rivers broad,
Putting the natives to the sword.
“Danegeld” 991
For centuries our sadly fated
Towns by them were devastated.
Etheldred the ‘Unready Toff’
By ‘Danegeld’ tries to buy them off.