Examples are in all the ages seene before,
And also daily proofe declareth well the same.
Wherefore I will of this as nowe resite no more.
Perchaunce I may incurre some vndeserued blame.
But next beholde on stage apear’d a noble dame,
(Whose beauty braue Locrinus’ senses did confound)
Declaring how therfore Queene Guendoline her droun’d.
How Qveene Elstride the Concubine and second wife of king Locrinus was miserably drowned by Queene Guendoline, The yeare before Christ, 1064.
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And must I needes my selfe recite my fall,