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The mirour for migistrates : wherein may bee seene, by examples passed in this realme, with how greeuous plagues vices are punished in great princes and magistrates, and how fraile and vnstable worldly prosperity is found, where fortune seemeth most highly to fauour: newly imprinted, and with the addition of diuers tragedies enlarged.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Standardized Title:
- Mirrour for magistrates. Part 1, 3.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Political ethics.
- Great Britain--History--Poetry.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain--History--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (12 unnumbered leaves, 272 leaves)
- Other Title:
- Mirour for magistrates.
- Place of Publication:
- At London : In Fleetestreete, by Henry Marsh, being the assigne of Thomas Marsh, 1587. Cum priuilegio.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- The first part (by John Higgins, who signs the dedication), and the third part, by William Baldwin and others; with additions to both parts.
- In verse.
- The third part is a continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum". The second part, by Thomas Blenerhasset, is not included here; a fourth part, by Richard Niccols, was added in 1610.
- The first leaf is blank.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 324:01) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed) 13445.
- Case, A.E. Poetical miscellanies, 4(i,j).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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