Versos English Michael Drayton Expostulation

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Expostulation

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Accursed French, and could it not suffize, That ye but now bath'd in your natiue gore; But yee must thus infortunately rise, To drawe more plagues vpon yee then before, And gainst your selfe more mischeife to diuise, Then th'English could haue, and set wide the dore. To vtter ruine, and to make an end Of that your selues, which others would not spend.