Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
[665] Neither regarding his othe, nor estemynge the great abundaunce
of plate and riche clothes of Arras, to hym by the mother and vncles
of his wife liberally geuen and frendly deliuered, (of whiche sorte of
riches fewe or none before that daie wer euer seen in the countrey of
Scotlande) like a dogge whiche hath cast vp his stomacke and retourneth
to his vomet, or like a snake whiche after his engenderyng with a
lampray taketh again his old poyson, after he had once taken the ayre
and smelled the sent of the Scottishe soyle became like his false
fraudulent forefathers, an vntrue prince, &c. _Hall._
[666] The. 1559, 63.
[667] He (Walter Steward, erle of Atholl) perswaded Robert Steward, hys
nephew, and Robert Grame, hys cosyn, and dyuerse other, to murther and
sleye the kynge theyre souereigne lorde, whiche therto by diuelyshe
instigacyon incenced and procured, came to the toune of Pertho
(commonly called S. Ihon’s towne) and there entered into the kinge’s
priuy chambre, and slewe first diuerse of hys seruauntes, whiche made
resistance and after kylled the kyng with many mortall strokes, and
hurt the quene, whiche, in defence of her husband, felled one of the
traytors. _Hall._
[668] Or. 1559, 63, 71, 78.
[669] Such as. 1559.
[670] Without signature in every edition, and therefore attributed to
Baldwin.
[671] The legends of dame Elinour Cobham, and of Humphrey, duke of
Gloucester, were only first printed 1578. That they were written, and
probably printed, in 1559, (if not for the edition in folio,) appears
certain as well by the table of contents, where they are enumerated, as
by the interlocutory connection being nearly the same with the above,
and which in the succeeding editions of 1563, 1571, and 1575, is varied
according to the notes upon the prefixture of the legend of the duke of
Suffolk, given p. 146.
[672] Quod. 1559.
[673] (Q. M. Fer.) and as. 1559.
[674] Haue here ready penned ii. 1559.
[675] The. 1559.
[676] Is fyrst to be placed in. 1559.
[677] Was cause of ouerthrow to both. 1559.
[678] Blith. N.
[679] Form. N.
[680] Dames. N.
[681] For to diuine. N.
[682] There was taken also Margerie Gurdemaine, a witch of Eye, besides
Westminster, whose sorcerie and witchcraft the said Elianor had long
time vsed, and by hir medicines and drinkes enforced the duke of
Glocester to loue hir, and after to wed hir. _Stowe._
[683] Furies and feends her. N.
[684] Corps. N.
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