A crovvne garland of goulden roses Gathered out of Englands royall garden. Being the liues and strange fortunes of many great personages of this land. Set forth in many pleasant new songs and sonetts neuer before imprinted. By Richard Iohnson.

Title

A crovvne garland of goulden roses Gathered out of Englands royall garden. Being the liues and strange fortunes of many great personages of this land. Set forth in many pleasant new songs and sonetts neuer before imprinted. By Richard Iohnson.

Author

Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?

Publication

London :: Printed by G. Eld for Iohn Wright and are to be sold at his shop at Christ Church gate,

1612.

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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• A PRINCELY SONG made of the Red Rose and the White, royally vnited to∣gether by king Henry the seauenth, and Elizabeth Plantaginet, daughter to Ed∣ward the fourth, from whom our now Soueraigne Lord King Iames linnially descended.
• A delightfull song, of the foure famous feasts of England, the one of them ordayned by King Henry the seuenth, of the honor of Marchant Taylers, shewing how seauen Kings haue bin free of that company, and now stly graced with the loue of our renowned Prince Henry of great Brittaine.
• The Lamentable song of the Lord Wigmoore gouernor of Warwicke Castle, and the fayre maid of Dunsmoore: as a warning to all maids to haue care how they yeeld to the wanton delights of young gallants.
• The complaint of faire Isabell for the losse of her honor, at the end whereof shee slew her selfe.
• A Song of Sir Richard Whittington, who by strange fortunes, came to bee thrice Lord Maior of London, with his bountifull guifts and liberallity giuen to this honorable Citty.
• The life and death of the great Duke of Buck∣ingham, who came to an vntimely end, for consenting to the deposing of the two gal∣lant young princes, King Edward the fourths Children.
• The wofull death of Queene Iane Wife to King Henry the eight. and how King Edward was cut out of his mothers belly.
• A short and sweet sonnet made by one of the maides of honor vpon the death of Queene Elizabeth, which she sowed vppon a sampler in red silke.
• The life and death of famous Th. Stukely, an English gallant in the time of Queene Eliza∣beth, who ended his dayes in a battaile of Kings in Barbarie.
• A most royall song of the life and death of our late renowned Princesse Queene Eli∣zabeth.
• A Song of a Beggar and a King.
• A Louers Song in praise of his Mistresse.
• Another.
• In praise and dispraise of women.
• The Louers fairing sent to his best beloued.
• The Maidens kind answere to her louer.
• A maides complaint for lack of a loue: Expressing the anguish in mind she doth prooue
• The Lamentation of an Ale wises daughter for the losse of her Virginity.
• Coridons Complaint.
• Phyllidaes kind replye.
• A New sonnet of a Knight and a faire Virgin.
• A new song of an Hostisse and her Guests.
• A Lamentable Ditty on the death of a noble∣man who was executed in the time of King Edward.
• A pleasant new Sonnet intituled, mine owne deare Lady braue,
• A new Sonnet, of a curst wife and her husband.