Mirror for magistrates: in five parts, Volume 1Lackington, Allen, and Company, 1815 |
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Popular passages
Page xxxv - Printed for Nathaniel Butter, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Pide Bull neere Sf.
Page ix - Bochas left, unto this present time, chiefly of such as Fortune had dalyed with' here in this ylande: which might be as a myrrour for al men...
Page xlvii - ... the one bearing in her hand a snake, the other a whip, and the third a burning firebrand, each driving before them a king and a queen, which, moved by furies, unnaturally had slain their own children.
Page x - A Treatise excellent and compedious, shewing and declaring, in maner of Tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable Princes and Princesses with other Nobles, through y mutabilitie and change of unstedfast Fortune together with their most detestable & wicked vices.
Page l - ... beholden to him ; and the truth is, as he was a wise man and a stout, he had no reason to be a partaker, for he stood sure in blood and in grace, and was wholly intentive to the Queen's service : and such were his abilities, that she received assiduous proofs of his sufficiency...
Page xlii - ... for a reward ; and also set a hogshead of wine, and a barrell of beere, at his gate, for his traine that followed him ; the residue of his gentlemen and servants dined at other Aldermen's houses, and with the...
Page xxxiv - OF THE MIROUR FOR MAGISTRATES, wherein may be seene by examples passed in this Realme with how...
Page 358 - ... keepe these trifles from the view of all men, and as you promysed, let them not raunge out of your priuate study.
Page xxxvii - A Winter Nights Vision : being an addition of svch Princes especially famous, who were exempted in the former Historic. By Richard Niccols, Oxon. Mag. Hall. At London, Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, ]6lO...
Page 430 - The seruing man must serue and crouch with cap and knee, The lawier he must pleade and trudge from bentch to barre, Who phisicke doth professe, he is not voyde of care: But churchmen they be blest, they turne a leafe or two, They sometime sing a psalme, and for the people pray, For which they honour...