The yeare a thousand fyue hundreth fyftythre was Mary cround in England queen to raigne who then allowed the Popes authoritie Erectinge eke all Papistry agayne And after maried with Phyllip king of Spaine who raignde with hir as king, and yet was he Not crounde, wherby no claime he could attain She being dead of England kyng to be. Hir raigne, hir port and eke hir gouernment So rife in memory still with vs remaines That it to shewe the tyme in vayne is spent And eke to me it seemes but needlesse paynes: Hir soule is fled, hir body still remaines At Westminster the same eke buryed ys fiue years she raygnd: Lo thus is death y^e gains And eke the end of all this worldly blysse. Elizabeth. O England nowe of right thou mayst reioyce, Sith myghtye Joue hath placed in princely throne, Elisabeth, therfore with heart and voyce, Prayse God: and giue all laude to him alone, Whose myghtye hand hath placed nowe suche one, As vertues force full amply hath endued: More hope of welthe and ioye we haue had none, Then God his grace to vs nowe hath renued. For we his wrath against vs stil did moue, And he his grace thus vndeserued sent, We did rebell and he did shewe his loue, In placing hir, whiche with our whole intent We so did wishe: nowe let our heartes relent, And pray to God that as she gracious is, We maye be worthye tyll our lyues be spente, Hyr to enioye, and thankfull be for this. Only two copies of this rare chronicle are at present known, and those are in the collections of Earl Spencer, and the right honourable Thomas Grenville. [14] Warton, in the account of the Mirror for Magistrates, given in his History of English Poetry, Vol. III. at p. 216, has copied the title of the edition of 1559, then extracted Baldwin’s Dedication from that of 1563, as from the same. In another place he refers to the Induction as printed in 1559. But this confusion is still more exceeded by the following note at p. 220. “These lines in Collingbourne’s legend are remarkable, fol. cxliiii. a. Like Pegasus a poet must have wynges, To flye to heaven, or where him liketh best; He must have knowledge of eternal thynges, Almightie Jove must harbor in his brest.” The reference of roman capitals can only be to the edition of 1563, where the second line stands thus: “To flye to heaven, _thereto to feede and rest_.” The above alteration first appeared in 1571. [15] The following critical disquisition upon the claim of Sackville, contained in a letter from my intelligent and excellent friend Sir Egerton Brydges, it would be unjustifiable on my part to suppress, however militating against the position I have above sought to establish: