Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
_The tapets torne, and euery_ tree _downe blowen_.
The effect is considered in Vol. II. p. 309. At the end of the volume
is a leaf with “The ¶ contes and Table of the first parte of this
Booke. ¶ A prose to the Reader, continued betwene the tragedies from
the beginning of the booke to the ende. Tragedies beginning,” &c. as it
stands in the former edition; and on the next page “¶ The Contentes of
the second parte. ¶ A Prose to the Reader continued through the booke.
Complayntes beginning,” &c. Another leaf has “Faultes escaped in the
Printing,” which fill two pages.
_A Myrrovr for Magistrates.--Newly corrected and augmented. Anno
1571. Fœlix, &c. Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe dwellynge
in Fleetstreete, neare vnto S. Dunstanes Churche._[26] 174 leaves.
This edition only varies in the arrangement from the preceding, by _the
life of the Duke of Somerset_ being transposed to fall in chronological
order. The addition of the signatures of several of the authors, gives
a peculiar value to this impression.
_The first parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, containing the
falles of the first infortunate Princes of this lande: From the
comming of Brute to the incarnation of our sauiour and redemer
Iesu Christe. Ad Romanos. 13. 2. Quisquis se opponit potestati,
Dei ordinationi resistit. Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe.
Anno 1574. Cum Priuilegio._ Eights, Sig. K ii. Fol. 74.
Introduction 6 leaves.
This is the best legitimate attempt to enlarge the work published by
Baldwin; and the date of the first edition has escaped the research of
modern bibliographers.[27] To the Title succeeds the Table of Contents
on one leaf; the Epistle dedicatory to the nobility, and the address to
the reader. The Authour’s Induction imitates that by Sackville, and is
followed by sixteen legends, the sole production of JOHN HIGGINS.[28]
Their names follow, viz:
1. Albanact. 9. Bladud.
2. Humber. 10. Cordila.
3. Locrinus. 11. Morgan.
4. Elstride. 12. Forrex.
5. Sabrine. 13. Porrex.
6. Madan. 14. Kimarus.
7. Malin. 15. Morindus.
8. Mempricius. 16. Nennius.
At the end of Nennius the address of “the Author” concludes with the
fifth Stanza:[29]
And keepe, maintaine and celebrate his praise:
VVich graunted, all they vanisht quite their wayes.
_Viuit post funera virtus.
Finis que Iohn Higgins._
_The last parte of the Mirour for Magistrates, wherein may be
seene by examples passed in this Realme, with howe greuous
plagues, vices are punished in great Princes and Magistrates, and
howe frayle and vnstable worldly prosperitie is founde, where
Fortune seemeth moste highly to fauour. Newly corrected and
amended. Fœlix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. Imprinted at
London by Thomas Marshe. Anno. 1574. Cum Priuilegio._ 168 leaves.
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