(Born in 1027; Died September 9th, 1087)
A clever man and brave, with resolution
Well worthy of a king: yet I can raise
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Only for him one single note of praise,—’T is that he loved his Mother. Prosecution
Of mad ambition never made him feel 5
Ashamed of her, the honest Tanner’s daughter!
He wasted England, brutally did slaughter
Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors, and steel’d
His heart to all their direful suffering.
Murderers and robbers were they at the best, 10
Those Norman nobles: most vilely they oppress’d
Those who had never wrong’d them. To become the king
Of England, will his brother-thieves he bribed,
And on the plunder long our aristocracy thrived.
George Markham Tweddell
[Rhymes in M/S, notional p. 61]
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