Of voyagers we've now a lot
Vasco da Gama and Cabot,
Who sailed from Bristol, whence it grew
Bristolians claim this fine cuckoo.

[Illustration: Henry VIII Pops the Question]

Henry VIII. Now Henry Eight comes on the screen,
1509-1547 A stalwart youth, aetat. eighteen;
With youthful hope the nation's buoyed;
Only, alas! to be destroyed.

[Illustration: Henry ye eighth Thynkynge offe ye Past]

Henry VIII. This King Henry number Eight
1509-1547 Six times tried the married state;
(continued) And certainly of all the Kings
Spent the most on wedding rings.
But to search through old Archives
For tales of Henry and his wives
And all their little tiffs to trace
We cannot spare the time or space.
Yet there are some who fain would sing
The praises of this rotund King;
But as a husband we're afraid
His category's lowest grade.
He wielded harsh the despot's power,
And packed his wives off to the Tower;
Consigned them to a fate most dreaded;
Two, alas! he had beheaded.

[Illustration: IRON JELLOIDS The Great Tonic

_HAIL NOW TO THEE OUR GOOD QUEEN BESS!_]

Henry VIII.
(continued)

Reformation Martin Luther, fifteen-one-seven,
1517 Sows his Reformation leaven;
It finds a culture medium here
In the 'New Learning's' atmosphere.
Of this New Learning More's the chief,
Utopia's Author, He's 'mid grief
Beheaded, saying cool and calm,
'Cut not my beard, that's done no harm.'
His friend Erasmus, Logic's Master,
Trimmed his sails and 'scaped disaster.
A third, Dean Colet who St. Paul's
School London into being calls.
Wolsey In fifteen-thirty Wolsey great,
1530 A Cardinal and Man of State,
From Butcher's son had risen high.
Reader! consult your Shakespeare nigh.
Blamed by some; by others praised;
He fell; but still the pile he raised
Most nobly gr