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And fo to England came with speed

To repoffefs king Leir,

And drive his daughters from their thrones
By his Cordelia dear:

Where fhe, true hearted noble queen,

Was in the battle flain;

Yet he, good king, in his old days
Poffefs'd his crown again.

But when he heard Cordelia's death,
Who dy'd indeed for love

Of her dear father, in whose cause
She did this battle move,

He fwooning fell upon her breast,
From whence he never parted;

But on her bofom left his life,
That was fo truly hearted.

The lords and nobles when they faw
The ends of thefe events,

The other fifters unto death
They doomed by confents.

And being dead their crowns they left
Unto the next of kin.

Thus have you feen the fall of pride

And disobedient fin.

JOHNSON.

END OF VOLUME THE NINTH,

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