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Poem By Hugh Chesterman

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deanna | 19:17 Wed 14th Jan 2015 | Arts & Literature
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Hi does anyone have the words of the poem by Hugh Chesterman about King John signing the Magna Carta? I sort of know part of it but need the whole thing for a project.
In it are the words
Your name my liege to be writ just here,
A mere formality laughed De Bere
A stroke of the pen and the thing is done
said Hugo Baron of Harpenden.

Then I know the last line goes

So many people egging him on, I can't help feeling sorry for John.

Thank you.
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Hello still no nearer finding all the words of the poem.
Thank you Scorpio for your links, they helped
but not all the words.
I have done more research and found
The poem is called King John
starts with
John as a Tyrant, John was a tartar
John put his name to the great big charter.
Every baron from Thames to Tweed
followed the road to Runnymede.

I have searched everywhere and although some of the verses are
there, not the whole thing.

Any more ideas anyone? x
the only poem I knew about King John was the one where he liked eating bits of string,

but I find that is the tale of Henry King ( er geddit ? )
and is by Hilaire Bellow

[ they shook their heads and took their fees
and said there is no cure for this disease ... ]

sorry

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