THE LAMENTABLE LIFE AND
death of Prince Alfred, brother to
King Edmund Ironside.
THE ARGUMENT.
“By death of this braue prince,” quoth Memorie,
“The English lost both fame and libertie,
Too cruell were inexorable fates,
On him so swiftly t’execute their hates:
Yet with his brother Alfred’s wofull end
For tragicke act, his death may not contend,
Who liues an exile all his infancie
With his deare vncle, duke of Normandie,