Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: Hardy M. Cook
Not Peer Reviewed

The Phoenix and Turtle (Quarto, 1601)

LOVES MARTYR:
OR
ROSALINS COMPLAINT.
Allegorically shadowing the truth of Loue,
in the constant Fate of the Phe}}nix
and Turtle.
A Poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie;
now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato
Caeliano, by ROBERT CHESTER.
With the true legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine
Worthies, being the first Essay of the new Brytish Poet: collected
out of diuerse Authenticall Records.
To these are added some new comositions, of seuerall moderne Writers
whose names are subscribed as their seuerall workes, upon the
first Sujiect: viz. the Phe}}nix and
Turtle.
Mar:---------- Mutare dominum non potest liber notus
LONDON
Imprinted for E. B.
1601.