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  • Title: The Phoenix and Turtle (Quarto, 1601)
  • Editor: Hardy M. Cook
  • ISBN: 978-1-55058-411-0

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Hardy M. Cook
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    The Phoenix and Turtle (Quarto, 1601)

    HEREAFTER
    FOLLOVV DIVERSE
    Poeticall Essaies on the former Sub-
    iect; viz: the Turtle and Phoenix.
    Done by the best and chiefest of our
    moderne writers, with their names sub-
    scribed to their particular workes:
    neuer before extant.
    And (now first) consecrated by them all generally,
    to the loue and merite of the true-noble Knight,
    Sir Iohn Salisburie.
    Dignum laude virum Musavetat mori.
    MDCI.