Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
With _Sorrow_ for my guide, as there I stood,
A troope of men the most in armes bedight,
In tumult clustred ’bout both sides the flood;
’Mongst whom, who were ordaind t’eternall night,
Or who to blissefull peace and sweet delight
I wot not well, it seem’d that they were all
Such as by death’s vntimely stroke did fall.
Some headlesse were, some body, face and hands,
With shamefull wounds despoil’d in euery part.
Some strangled, some that dide in captiue bands,
Some smothred, drown’d, some stricken through the hart
With fatall steele, all drown’d in deadly smart:
Of hastned death, with shrikes, sobs, sighs and teares,
Did tell the woes of their forepassed yeares.
[1565] Pewed. 1571, 75, 78.
[1566] O. Capell.
[1567] Warton has given this stanza, in a note, as from the edition of
1559, but the Induction was first printed 1563.
[1568] Omitted by Warton.
[1569] The last four lines not in Warton.
[1570] Forlorne. Warton.
[1571] Layne. Warton.
[1572] In. 1563.
[1573] Warily. N.
[1574] Swaye. 1563.
[1575] And gayn. 1563.
[1576] The vnsuerty. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1577] Season. 1578.
[1578] That he him nere in. N.
[1579] Than. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1580] Liued. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1581] Wistand. N.
[1582] Matchlesse. N.
[1583] ‘O,’ added. 1587. N.
[1584] Crieth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1585] Murderers. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1586] Traytours. 1571, 75, 78. N.
[1587] Auenge. N.
[1588] Suffereth. 1578. N.
[1589] The examples. 1563.
[1590] Murdered. 1578.
[1591] On. 1563.
[1592] Longer. N.
[1593] Folly. 1587. N.
[1594] Pressed. 1563.
[1595] Murders. N.
[1596] Gleluis. 1578.
[1597] Deepely graue. 1578.
[1598] Startlesse. 1571, 75, 78.
[1599] Grieved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1600] Furth brought. 1563.
[1601] ‘Strayned’ is the reading of 1563. All the other editions have
stayned.
[1602] By. 1563.
[1603] T’encrease. N.
[1604] Searcheth. 1563, 71 75, 78.
[1605] Foreyrked. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1606] Loth’d. N.
[1607] Agriefde. 1575, 78. Agrieud. N.
[1608] Sauag’d. N.
[1609] Never. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1610] So foule. N.
[1611] Nay. N.
[1612] Wealaway. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1613] Nay. N.
[1614] Could tourne. 1563.
[1615] Nay. N.
[1616] Hard to. 1563.
[1617] Cursed case. 1763.
[1618] Sillye. 1563. N.
[1619] That. 1563.
[1620] Basely. N.
[1621] Count’st. N.
[1622] Inconstancye. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1623] The vnstable. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1624] Recur’d. N.
[1625] Ben. N.
[1626] Livedst. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1627] They, misprint. 1587.
[1628] Might. N.
[1629] Heauens. N.
[1630] Mate. 1575, 78. N.
[1631] Whych. 1563.
[1632] Loved. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1633] And every. 1563.
[1634] Sown’d. N.
[1635] Lyeth. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1636] Rufull. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1637] Was his. 1578.
[1638] Spirites. 1563.
[1639] Thy. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1640] Gevest. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
[1641] Trone despyse. 1563.
[1642] That. 1563.
[1643] The vnhappy. 1563, 71, 75, 78.
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