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FOUR DATES by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, TEN SIXTY-SIX"
Last Line: LONDON BURNT LIKE ROTTEN STICKS
WILLIAM the Conqueror, ten sixty-six,
Played on the Saxons oft-cruel tricks.

COLUMBUS sailed the ocean blue,
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two.

THE Spanish Armada met its fate,
In fifteen hundred and eighty-eight.

IN sixteen hundred and sixty-six,
London burnt like rotten sticks.





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