And paid us visits in their ships
Bent on their ruthless looting trips.
And Angles landing in the Humber
Gave that district little slumber.
They plundered morning, noon, and night,
Were rough, uncouth, and impolite,
No 'By your leave' or 'S'il vous plait'
They came to rob, remained to prey.
Horsa Horsa was slain in four-five-five,
455 Leaving Hengist still alive
To live out his allotted term,
Surviving partner of the Firm.
King Arthur Time has many a fable wound
About King Arthur's table round,
Where Knights quaffed cordials, wines and ales,
And told their little fairy tales.
Augustine About six hundred years A.D.
597 To teach us Christianity
Came Augustine. Wondrous Story;
Canterbury's Pile his glory.
Heptarchy Called 'Heptarchy' the seven Saxon
827 States each other made attacks on;
After four hundred years they'd striven
They coalesced in eight-two-seven.

[Illustration: IRON JELLOIDS The Great Tonic]

Alfred Of good King Alfred we've all heard
872-901 How when hiding he incurred
A lady's anger for not taking
Care of Cakes which she was baking.
(Most probably she left the King
While she went out a-gossiping.)
Before he died in nine-nought-one,
Old England's Navy had begun.
He laid a tax on every town
To aid his fleet to gain renown.
He was the best of Saxon Kings
And did a lot of useful things;
Built Oxford with its noble spires
And mapped out England into Shires.

Danes In seven-eight-three first came the Danes
783 Who caused the Saxons aches and pains.
They sailed right up our rivers broad,
Putting the natives to the sword.
"Danegeld" For centuries our sadly fated
991 Towns by them were devastated.
Etheldred the 'Unready Toff'
By 'Danegeld' tries to buy them off.

[Illustration: IRON JELLOIDS Th