"Certaine verses made by the Earle of Essex about a weeke before he entered into this action;" a ten-line stanza, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. C. 744, fol. 29b

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Beg. "Happie were he could finish forth his fate."

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MS. Rawl. C. 744, fol. 29b

Part of copies of papers relating to the Earl of Essex in 1601.

Printed in Biog. Brit. p. 1670, where the lines are supposed to have been written at the time of the Earl's going to Ireland; and, from MS. Tanner 76, in Devereux's Lives of the Earls of Essex, 1853, vol. ii. p. 120.

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