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Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint : Allegorically shadowing the truth of loue, in the constant fate of the phoenix and turtle. A poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie; now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert Chester. With the true legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine worthies, being the first essay of a new Brytish poet: collected out of diuerse authenticall records. To these are added some new compositions, of seuerall moderne writers whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes, vpon the first subiect: viz. the phoenix and turtle.
LIBRA STC 5119a
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chester, Robert, 1566-1640.
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered pages, 144, 141-183 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; (4to)
- Other Title:
- Loves martyr
- Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint
- Rosalins complaint
- Hereafter follovv diuerse poeticall essaies on the former subiect; viz: the turtle and phoenix
- Hereafter follow diverse poeticall essaies on the former subject; viz: the turtle and phoenix
- Place of Publication:
- London : Imprinted [by R. Field] for E. B[lount], 1601.
- Notes:
- In fact written by Chester.
- In verse.
- Printer's and publisher's names from STC.
- "Hereafter follovv diuerse poeticall essaies on the former subiect; viz: the turtle and phoenix" has separate dated title page; pagination and register are continuous. It contains "The phoenix and the turtle" and "Threnos" by William Shakespeare, and poems by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston.
- Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-2A⁴ 2B².
- Photocopy of microfilm. (Early English books, 1475-1640)
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.), 5119a
- OCLC:
- 222245983
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