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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 462 — How Qveene Cordila in dispaire slew her selfe, The yeare before Christ, 800.

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Yet nathelesse my father did me not mislike, But age so simple is and easy to subdue, As childhode weake thats voide of wit and reason quite; They thinke thers nought you flatter fainde, but all is true, Once old and twyse a childe tis said with you, Which I affirme by proofe that was definde, In age my father had a childishe minde.

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