Preface signed: J.C. and Signature of the elder Samuel Jeake and price he had paid for the book on title page. Autograph of Henry M. Dexter on 2nd free front endpaper.
Subject (Name):
Dexter, Henry Martyn,--1821-1890--Autograph and Jeake, Samuel,--1623-1690--Autograph
George Strangwidge's lamentation for consenting to Page's death, Lamentation of Mister Page's wife of Plimouth, and Mrs. Page's complaint for causing her husband to be murthered
Description:
BEIN 2000 Folio 6 293: Mounted to 30 x 42 cm., Place and date of publication from Wing., Verse -- "Unhappy the whom fortune hath forlorn,"., and With two additional caption titles:"Mrs. Page's complaint for causing her husband to be murthered for the love of George Strangwidge" and "George Strangwidge's lamentation for consenting to Page's death for the love of Ulalia, Page's wife".
Publisher:
Printed by and for Alex. Milbourn ...,
Subject (Topic):
Ballads, English--England--Texts and Murder--Poetry--Early works to 1800
Contents: [1] Beeing in passion, he writes a farewell to his hopes and successe in loue (First line: Dead are my hopes, which could not be releeued) / Ess. -- [2] Upon better aduise, he writeth an answere to the same (First line: Hopes are not dead, but sleepe, by beautie charmed) / Ess. --[3] Beeing wearie of life, in regard of his loues losse, he wrote as followeth (First line: Leave now deare life the prison of my minde) / Ess. -- [4] An answere imagined on his loues behalfe (First line: Leaue not your life, which libertie may finde / Ess. -- [5] His conclusion vpon both the former (First line: In such a life, no freedome can be found) / Ess. -- [6] To his fairest mistresse (First line: More then most fair, full of the louely fire) / H.W.S. -- [7] Of the fauour of the gods vnto men (First line: Oft haue I heard of stories long agoe) / S.P.S. -- [8] He writes a sonnet vpon his owne poe¨sie, vnder his armes (First line: Virtutis comes inuidia) / Ess. -- [9] As desirous to be his mystresses painter (First line: All things on earth, her fairenes farre excelles) / S.P.S. -- [10] Concering his suite and attendance at the court (First line: Most miserable man, whom wretched fate) / Edm. Spencer -- [11] The poore labouring bee (First line: It was a time, when sillie bees could speake).
Description:
An extract (gathering B4) from an unrecorded Elizabethan poetry collection entitled "The muses garland."