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.
- Publication
- 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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Contents
- title page
- THE TABLE
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part - 1
- A mournefull Dittie on the death of faire Rosamond, King Henrie the seconds Concubine.
- The valiant courage and policie of the Kentishmen with long tayles, whereby they kept their auncient Lawes and Customes which William the Conquerour sought to take from them. Cant. 2.
- How King Henrie the first, had his Children drowned in the Sea, as they came out of France. Cant. 3.
- The Dutchesse of Suffolkes calamitie. Cant. 4.
- How King Henrie the second crowning his Sonne King of England in his owne life time, and was by him most grieuously vexed with warres. Cant 5.
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The imprisonment of Queene Elinor, wife to King Henrie the second, by whose meanes the King Sonnes so vnna∣turally rebelled against their Father, & of her lamentati∣on, being
xvi. yeares in Prison, whom her Sonne Richard when he came to be King, released: and how at her de∣liuerance, she caused many Prisoners to be set at libertie. Cant. 6. - The lamentable death of king Iohn, how he was poysoned in the Abby of Swinested, by a Frier. Cant. 7.
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The cruell imprisonment of King Edward the second, at the Castle of Barkeley the
22. of September.1327. Cant. 8. - How the King was poysoned, and yet hee escaped: and after∣ward how when they saw thereby he was not dispatched of life they locked him in a most noysome filthy place, that with the stincke thereof he might be choaked: and when that preuailed not, how they thrust a hotte burning Spitte into his Funda∣ment till they had burnt his Bowels within his Body, whereof he dyed. Cant. 9.
- The dolefull lamentation of the Lord Matreuers, and Sir Thomas Gurney, being banished the realme. Cant 9.
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The second part of Strange Histories, or Songs and Sonnets.
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A new Song of King
Eegar of England, how he was depriued of a Lady which he Loued by a Knight of his Court. Cant 10. -
Of
Edward the third and the faire Countes ofSalisburie, setting forth her constancie and endlesse glorie. Cant. .11 - The winning of the Ile of Man, by the Noble Earle of Salisburie. Cant 12.
- Cant. 13. Of Venus and Adonis.
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The Rebellion of Wat Tyler and Iacke Straw: with others against
K. Richard the second. Cant 13. -
Cant 14. A
Louers wonder. - Cant 15. The Louer by gifts thinkes to conquer Chastity, And with his gifts sends these verses to his Lady.
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A new Dialogue betweene Troylus and Cressida. Cant 16. - Cant 17. The Gentle womans reply.
- Cant 18. The Louers thankes to his beloued, sent and inclosed in a Cockle shell.
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A new Sonnet made by a Maiden in praise of her Louer, in whose truth and constancy she doth triumphe. Cant 19. -
A Louer bewailing the absence of his Loue Cant 20. - A Speech betweene certaine Ladies being Shepheards on Salisburie plaine.
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A new Song of King