The Monks and the Monarch single work   poetry   "As down the stream King Canute sped,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 The Monks and the Monarch
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  • Epigraph: Merie sungen the muneches binnen Ely/ Tha Cnut ching rew there by:/ Roweth cnichtes noer the lant,/ And here we these muneches saeng. (Lines from a song composed by King Canute. An explanation of the supposed circumstances of the song's composition appears at the foot of Barton's poem.)

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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 5158 1 June 1868 Z1827473 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 3
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