Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 2

Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources

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

    Mirrour for Magistrates,

    AS] A

    WINTER

    NIGHT’S

    _VISION_:

    Being an addition of svch Princes especially
    _famous, who were exempted in the_
    former Historie.

    PART IV.

    _By_ RICHARD NICCOLS,

    Oxon. Mag. Hall.

    From the edition imprinted by Felix
    Kyngston, 1610.
]


    To the Right Honorable, the Lord Charles
      Howard, Earle of Notingham, Baron of
         Effingham, Knight of the noble
         Order of the Garter, Lord high
          Admirall of England, Ireland
             and Wales, &c. one of
               his Maiestie’s most
                Honorable priuie
                    Counsell.

      As once that doue (true honor’s aged lord)
    Houering with wearied wings about your arke,
    When Cadiz towers did fal beneath your sword,
    To rest her selfe did single out that barke:
      So my meeke muse, from all that conquering rout,
    Conducted through the sea’s wilde wildernes
    By your great selfe, to graue their names about
    Th’Iberian pillars of Joue’s Hercules:
      Most humblie craues your lordly lions aid
    Gainst monster enuie, while she tels her storie
    Of Britaine princes, and that royall maid,
    In whose chaste hymne her _Clio_ sings your glorie:
      Which if (great lord) you grant, my muse shall frame
      Mirrours more worthie your renowned name.

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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 2, Part 2

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