AT LONDON, Imprinted for George Bishop. God saue the Queene. Reduced Leaf in original, 7.75 11.12 inches Our historic plays are allowed to have been founded on the heroic narratives in the Mirror for Magistrates; to that plan, and to the boldness of Lord Buckhurst's new scenes, perhaps we owe Shakespeare. WALPOLE ¶_A MYRROVR FOR_ Magistrates. Wherein maye be seen by example of other, with howe greuous plages vices are punished: and howe frayle and vnstable werldly prosperity is founde, even of those whom Fortune seemeth most highly to fauour. _Fælix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum._ _Anno._ 1563. ¶_Imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere to Saynct Dunstans Churche by Thomas Marshe._ Two chieftaines who having travailed into Italie, and there tasted the sweete and stately measures and stile of Italian Poesie, as novices newly crept out of the schooles of Dante, Arioste, and Petrarch, they greatly pollished our rude and homely maner of vulgar Poesie, from that it had bene before, and for that cause may justly be sayd the first reformers of our English meetre and stile. PUTTENHAM ¶_SONGES AND SONETTES Written by the right honorable Lord Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and others._ _Apud Richardum Tottell._ 1567. _Cumpriuilegio._ It is full of stately speeches, and well-sounding phrases, clyming to the height of Seneca his stile, and as full of notable moralitie, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtayne the very end of Poesie. SIDNEY ¶The Tragidie of Ferrex and Porrex, set forth without addition or alteration but altogether as the same was shewed on stage before the Queenes Maiestie, about nine yeares past, _vz._ the xviij. day of Ianuarie. 1561. by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple. =Seen and allowed, &c.=