Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
86 How the Lord _Cromwell_ exalted from meane estate, was
after by the enuie of the Bishop of Winchester and other his
complices brought to vntimely end. A. D. 1540. _Drayton_ 502
PART IV.
(_The remainder of the volume by Richard Niccols_)
_Dedicatory Sonnet to the Earl of Nottingham_ 543
_To the reader_ 544
_The Induction_ 546
87 The famovs life and death of King _Arthur_ 553
88 The life and death of King _Edmvnd_ svrnamed _Ironside_ 583
89 The lamentable life and death of Prince _Alfred_ brother to
King _Edmund Ironside_ 605
90 The treacherous life and infamovs death of _Godwin_ Earle
of Kent 622
91 The life and death of _Robert_ svrnamed _Curthose_ Duke of
Normandie 639
92 The memorable life and death of King _Richard_ the first,
surnamed _Cœur de Lion_ 673
93 The vnfortvnate life and death of King _Iohn_ 699
94 The wofvll life and death of King _Edward_ the second 726
95 The lamentable lives and deaths of the two yong Princes,
_Edward_ the fifth and his brother _Richard_ Duke of York 766
96 The tragicall life and death of King _Richard_ the third 785
97 The Poem annexed called England’s _Eliza_ 813
PART V.
_Dedicatory sonnet to Lady Elizabeth Clere_ 817
_Advertisement to the Reader_ 818
_The Induction_ 819
98 Englands _Eliza_, or the victoriovs and trivmphant reigne of
that virgin Empresse of sacred memorie, _Elizabeth_ Queene of
England France and Ireland &c. 828
[Illustration:
THE
Mirour for Magistrates,
_wherein may bee scene_,
by
examples passed in this
_Realme with_
how greeuous plagues vices are punished
in great Princes and Magistrates:
and how fraile and vnstable worldly
_prosperity is found, where Fortune
seemeth most highly_
to fauour.
PART I.
By JOHN HIGGINS.
[Reprinted from the edition of 1587, collated
with those of 1575 and 1610.]
]
_Loue and liue._
To the nobility and all other in office, God
graunt the increase of wisedome, with all
thinges necessary for preseruation
of theyr estates.
_Amen._
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