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Easy Reading Shakespeare
Volume Three
EDWARD THE THIRD
Edward instructs his servant
to write a love poem.
He told his servant, Lodwick,
‘I’ve really got the blues
And so I want you now to write
Inspired by your muse,
‘A poem that will stir the soul –
Her beauty fills my heart.’
‘Is it a woman?’ Lodwick asked,
As he prepared to start.
Edward cried, ‘You fool! You knave!
It’s for a lass of course.
Oh, wretched man, did you believe
I’d bid thee praise a horse?’
Lodwick tried his best to write
A poem for the lass,
But in truth his every word
Was feeble, weak and crass.
So Edward grabbed the pen and wrote
Of love and pain and how
He loved the countess best of all,
That he must have her now!
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