Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
A copy having a title page with the above date is as rare as the
preceding article. The particular description, with which it is
mentioned in a note by Warton, seemed to make its existence certain,
although there was not wanting reason for disbelief on the occasion.
Even that writer considered it “improperly entitled _The Last Parte_,”
the existence of our preceding article not being then known.
The Contents are the same as edition 1571.
_The first parte of the Mirour for Magistrates.--Imprinted at
London by Thomas Marshe. Anno 1575. Cum Priuilegio._ 80 leaves.
This is an accurate reprint of the first edition, with an enlargement
of “the Author,” at the end of Nennius, by the addition of Eleven
Stanzas, and another legend concluding the volume, viz:
17 Irenglass.
_The last parte of the Mirour for Magistrates.--Imprinted at
London by Thomas Marshe. Anno 1575. Cum Priuilegio._
This is the edition of 1574, a circumstance that accounts for it being
so little known in the original state. The part by Higgins, when it
first appeared, no doubt found a rapid demand from those who possessed
a copy of that by Baldwin; and therefore in the present instance an
altered title, wherein a new date was substituted,[30] served to keep
time with the second edition of the part by Higgins.
_The first part of the Mirour for Magistrates.--Imprinted for Thomas
Marshe. 1578._
Mentioned by Ritson in the _Bibliographia Poetica_, p. 243, and also in
a manuscript list made by him of all the editions. It is stated to have
contained, as before, seventeen legends. I have never seen it.
_The Last part of the Mirour for Magistrates.--Imprinted at
London in Fleetstreete, neere vnto Sainct Dunstanes Church, by
Thomas Marsh. 1578. Cum Priuilegio._ 190 leaves.
Two additional legends were introduced, viz:
28. Dame Eleanor Cobham, Duchess of Gloucester. _Ferrers._
29. Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester. _Ferrers._
In the table of Contents to the edition of 1559, there is entered:
“Good Duke Humfry murdered, and Eleanor Cobham his wife banished,”
though no articles appear of that nature in the order of reference.
What occasioned them to be deferred, it would be in vain now to
inquire, or conjecture.
_The Seconde part of the Mirrour for Magistrates, conteining
the falles of the infortunate Princes of this Lande. From
the Conquest of Cæsar, vnto the comyng of Duke William the
Conquerour. Imprinted by Richard Webster, Anno Domini. 1578._ 72
leaves.
This title is in an elegant architectural compartment, supported by
crouching satyrs, and having upon the sill “Goe straight and feare not.”
It contains 12 legends, viz:
1. Guidericus. 7. Sigebert.
2. Carassus. 8. Lady Ebbe.
3. Hellina. 9. Alurede.
4. Vortiger. 10. Egelrede.
5. Pengragon. 11. Edricus.
6. Cadwallader. 12. Harold.
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