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Uniform Title	Mirrour for magistrates.
Title	The falles of vnfortunate princes : Being a true chronicle historie of the vntimely death of such vnfortunate princes and men of note, as haue happened since the first entrance of brute into this iland, vntill this our latter age. Whereunto is added the famous life and death of Queene Elizabeth, with a declaration of all the warres, battels and sea-fights, wherein at large is described the battell of 88. with the particular seruice of all such ships, and men of note in that action.
Alternative Title	Variable fortune and vnhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest.
	Variable fortune and unhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest.
	Falles of unfortunate princes.
Accompanying uniform title	Winter nights vision.
	Englands Eliza.
Publication Info	At London : Imprinted by F. K[ingston] for William Aspley, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Churchyard at the signe of the Parrot, 1620.

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Descript	[20], 875, [1] p. : ports.
Note	Another issue, with cancel title page, of the 1610 edition: A mirour for magistrates.
	The first part is by John Higgins, who signs the dedication; the second (which here follows the first without break) by Thomas Blenerhasset; the third by William Baldwin and others; and "A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" by Richard Niccols, who also edited the whole.
	In verse.
	The third part is a continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".
	"The variable fortune and vnhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest" (i.e. part 3), "A vvinter nights vision", and "Englands Eliza" have separate dated title pages (the first dated 1609); pagination and register are continuous.
	Leaf Oo4, a cancel, has a dedication to the Earl of Nottingham. Variant 1: with cancellandum, with a dedication to Henry, Prince of Wales.
	Leaf 3E3 is a cancel. Variant: 3E3 is uncancelled, with verso lines 10-11 with phrase "and by an analysis of euery chiefe exploit inserted in their proper places" (cancel lacks this phrase). The cancel leaf recto is signed "Niccols". Variant 3: cancel leaf signed "Nicols".
	"A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" together identified as STC 18526 on UMI microfilm reel 896.
	Imperfect; lacks leaves Oo4 and 3E3.
	Reproductions of the originals in the Bodleian Library and British Library.
	Appears at reel 896 (Bodleian Library copy, "A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" only), and at reel 1603 (British Library copy).

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Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
	Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
Alt author	Higgins, John, active 1570-1602.
	Baldwin, William, approximately 1518-1563?
	Blenerhasset, Thomas.
	Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616.
	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
Alternative Title	Variable fortune and vnhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest.
	Variable fortune and unhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest.
	Falles of unfortunate princes.
Accompanying uniform title	Winter nights vision.
	Englands Eliza.

Descript	[20], 875, [1] p. : ports.
Note	Another issue, with cancel title page, of the 1610 edition: A mirour for magistrates.
	The first part is by John Higgins, who signs the dedication; the second (which here follows the first without break) by Thomas Blenerhasset; the third by William Baldwin and others; and "A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" by Richard Niccols, who also edited the whole.
	In verse.
	The third part is a continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".
	"The variable fortune and vnhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest" (i.e. part 3), "A vvinter nights vision", and "Englands Eliza" have separate dated title pages (the first dated 1609); pagination and register are continuous.
	Leaf Oo4, a cancel, has a dedication to the Earl of Nottingham. Variant 1: with cancellandum, with a dedication to Henry, Prince of Wales.
	Leaf 3E3 is a cancel. Variant: 3E3 is uncancelled, with verso lines 10-11 with phrase "and by an analysis of euery chiefe exploit inserted in their proper places" (cancel lacks this phrase). The cancel leaf recto is signed "Niccols". Variant 3: cancel leaf signed "Nicols".
	"A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" together identified as STC 18526 on UMI microfilm reel 896.
	Imperfect; lacks leaves Oo4 and 3E3.
	Reproductions of the originals in the Bodleian Library and British Library.
	Appears at reel 896 (Bodleian Library copy, "A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" only), and at reel 1603 (British Library copy).

Series	Early English books online.
Subject	Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
	Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
Alt author	Higgins, John, active 1570-1602.
	Baldwin, William, approximately 1518-1563?
	Blenerhasset, Thomas.
	Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616.
	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.
Alternative Title	Variable fortune and vnhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest.
	Variable fortune and unhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest.
	Falles of unfortunate princes.
Accompanying uniform title	Winter nights vision.
	Englands Eliza.

Subject	Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.
	Great Britain -- History -- Poetry.
Descript	[20], 875, [1] p. : ports.
Note	Another issue, with cancel title page, of the 1610 edition: A mirour for magistrates.
	The first part is by John Higgins, who signs the dedication; the second (which here follows the first without break) by Thomas Blenerhasset; the third by William Baldwin and others; and "A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" by Richard Niccols, who also edited the whole.
	In verse.
	The third part is a continuation of John Lydgate's "The fall of princes", which is a translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's "De casibus illustrium virorum".
	"The variable fortune and vnhappie falles of such princes as hath happened since the Conquest" (i.e. part 3), "A vvinter nights vision", and "Englands Eliza" have separate dated title pages (the first dated 1609); pagination and register are continuous.
	Leaf Oo4, a cancel, has a dedication to the Earl of Nottingham. Variant 1: with cancellandum, with a dedication to Henry, Prince of Wales.
	Leaf 3E3 is a cancel. Variant: 3E3 is uncancelled, with verso lines 10-11 with phrase "and by an analysis of euery chiefe exploit inserted in their proper places" (cancel lacks this phrase). The cancel leaf recto is signed "Niccols". Variant 3: cancel leaf signed "Nicols".
	"A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" together identified as STC 18526 on UMI microfilm reel 896.
	Imperfect; lacks leaves Oo4 and 3E3.
	Reproductions of the originals in the Bodleian Library and British Library.
	Appears at reel 896 (Bodleian Library copy, "A winter nights vision" and "Englands Eliza" only), and at reel 1603 (British Library copy).
Alt author	Higgins, John, active 1570-1602.
	Baldwin, William, approximately 1518-1563?
	Blenerhasset, Thomas.
	Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616.
	Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375. De casibus virorum illustrium.

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