H i I 41 1 ffje jWtrror for f EDITED from ORIGINAL TEXTS in the
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY by LILY B. CAMPBELL I I I I 1 BARNES NOBLE, INC.
. NEW YORK PUBLISHERS . BOOKSELLERS . SINCE 1873 Published in 1938
by the Cambridge University Press Reprinted by Barnes Noble, Inc.
by Special Arrangement with the Cambridge University Press All
rights reserved First printing, 1960 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA Contents Introduction pages 3-60 Tragedies of the 1559
Edition 61-240 Prefaces to the 1559 Edition 63 1. Robert Tresilian,
Chief Justice of England 73 2. The Two Rogers, surnamed Mortimers
82 3. Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester 91 4. Lord Mowbray
101 5. King Richard the Second in 6. Owen Glendower 120 7. Henry
Percy, Earl of Northumberland 132 8. Richard, Earl of Cambridge 139
9. Thomas Montague, Earl of Salisbury 143 10. King James the First
155 n. William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk 162 12. Jack Cade 171 1
3 . Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York 182 14. Lord Clifford 192 15.
John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester 197 1 6. Richard Neville, Earl of
Warwick 205 17. King Henry the Sixth 212 1 8. George Plantagenet,
Duke of Clarence 220 19. King Edward the Fourth 236 CONTENTS
Tragedies Added in the Edition of 1563 P a g es 241-421 Preface to
the Second Part of the 1563 Edition 243 20. Anthony Woodville, Lord
Rivers and Scales 245 21. Lord Hastings 268 Sackvilles Induction
298 22. Henry, Duke of Buckingham 318 23. The Poet Collingbourne
347 24. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester 360 25. Shores Wife
373 26. Edmund, Duke of Somerset 388 27. The Blacksmith 402
Tragedies Added in the Edition of 1578 427-460 28. Eleanor Cobham,
Duchess of Gloucester 432 29. Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke
ofGloucester 445 Tragedies Added in the Edition of 1587 461-51 1
30. Sir Nicholas Burdet 463 31. King James the Fourth 483 32. The
Battle of Brampton or Flodden Field 489 33. Cardinal Wolsey 495
Appendices 513-554 A. Description of the Huntington Library Copies
of the Texts 5I B. Indexes Showing the Arrangement of the Tragedies
in the Various Editions 522 C. Collation of MS 364 in St Johns
College, Cambridge, with Sackvilles Induction and Tragedy 22 532 D.
Collation of Poems in Harleian MS 2252 with Tragedies 31 and 32 548
vi Illustrations IN COLLOTYPE Tide-page and Verso from the Dyce
Copy of Way lands Edition of Lydgate frontispiece By the courtesy
of the Victoria and Albert Museum Title-page from the Undated
Wayland Edition of Lydgate pages A Page from the Undated Wayland
Edition of Lydgate Additional Tide-page sometimes bound with Way
lands Edition of Lydgate Verso of Additional Tide-page sometimes
bound between 6 j with Waylands Edition of Lydgate The Recto and
Verso of the Single Leaf extant from between the Suppressed Edition
of the Mirror for Magistrates 8 9 The Verso of Fol. 39 introduced
as a cancel into the 1578 Edition facing 430 LINE BLOCKS IN THE
TEXT The Tide-page of the 1559 Edition 62 The Tide-page of the 1563
Edition 242 The Tide-page of the 1571 Edition 423 The Last Page of
the Index to the 1571 Edition 424 The Tide-page of the 1574 Edition
425 The Tide-page of the 1575 Edition 426 The Tide-page of the 1578
Edition 428 The Original FoL 39 Recto and Verso from the 1578
Edition 429, 430 The Tide-page of the 1587 Edition 462 vii THE
MIRROR for MAGISTRATES f INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION SINCE the
publication of Wartons History of English Poetry, 1 some account of
the Mirrorfor Magistrates has been included in almost every history
of English literature. 2 Bibliographers have recognized as
intriguing the complex history of its printing. 3 Sackvilles
induction has been decreed the best poem in English between Chaucer
and Spenser and is duly incorporated in anthologies of the period.
Historians of the drama have from time to time noted that the work
contains tragedies which in the reign of Elizabeth were remade in
dramatic form...
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