Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
King Ethelbert
By John Philips (1676–1708)(From Cider)
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Of Ethelbert, when to the unhallowed feast
Of Mercian Offa he invited came
To treat of spousals; long connubial joys
He promised to himself, allured by fair
Elfrida’s beauty; but deluded died
In height of hopes. O hardest fate, to fall
By show of friendship and pretended love!