Even Albion, girt with less malignant skies, 530

Albion the poison of the Gods has drunk,

And felt the sting of monsters all her own.

Ere yet the fell Plantagenets had spent

Their ancient rage, at Bosworth’s purple field;

While, for which tyrant England should receive, 535

Her legions in incestuous murders mix’d,

And daily horrors; till the Fates were drunk

With kindred blood by kindred hands profus’d:

Another plague of more gygantic arm