Strange histories, or, Songs and sonnets, of kinges, princes, dukes, lords, ladyes, knights, and gentlemen and of certaine ladyes that were shepheards on Salisburie plaine : very pleasant either to be read or songe, and a most excellent warning for all estates / by Thomas Delone.

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Strange histories, or, Songs and sonnets, of kinges, princes, dukes, lords, ladyes, knights, and gentlemen and of certaine ladyes that were shepheards on Salisburie plaine : very pleasant either to be read or songe, and a most excellent warning for all estates / by Thomas Delone.
Author
Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.
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At London :: Printed by R.B. for W. Barley, and are to be sold at his shoppe ouer against Cree-church neere All-gate,
1612.
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Ballads, English.
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THE TABLE

  • Cant 1. A mournefull Dittie on the death of faire Rosamond, King Henrie the seconds Concubine.
  • Cant 2. The Kentish-men with long tayles.
  • Cant 3. Of King Henrie the first, and his Children.
  • Cant 4. The Dutchesse of Suffolkes calamitie.
  • Cant 5. King Edward the Second crowning his Sonne King of Eng∣land.
  • Cant 6. The imprisonment of Queene Elinor.
  • Cant 7. The death of King Iohn poysoned by a Frier.
  • Cant 8. The imprisonment of King Edward the second.
  • Cant 9. The murthering of King Edward the second, being kild with a hot burning Spit.
  • Cant 10. The Lamentation of the Lord Matreuers, and sir Thomas

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  • ... Gurney, being banished the realme.
  • Cant 11. A new Song of King Edgar.
  • Cant 12. Of King Edward the third, and the Countesse of Salis∣burie.
  • Cant 13. The winning of the Ile of Man, by the Earle of Salis∣burie.
  • Cant. 14. The Rebellion of Watte Tiler and Iacke Straw against King Richard the second.
  • Cant 15. A Dialogue betweene Troylus and Cressida.
  • Cant 16. A Mayde in prayse of her Loue.
  • Cant 17. A Louer bewayling the absence of his Loue.
  • Cant 18. A speech betweene Ladyes being Shepheards on Salis∣burie plaine.
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