O thou mortal wight!
Whose mournful muse, but whilome, did recite
Our Britain’s princes and their woeful fates
In that true 'Mirrour of our Magistrates.’
[51] Compare Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. iii p. 234. with vol. ii, p. 330.
[52] See the Induction: However, according to Stowe, there was not any Lord Mayor’s Show for three years after 1605 “by reason of continuall sickness.”
[53] Hee. edit. 1575.
[54] Will you that I rehearse. ib.
[55] Of. ed. 1575.
[56] Of. ib.