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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 477 — How Qveene Cordila in dispaire slew her selfe, The yeare before Christ, 800.

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This stanza follows in edit. 1575.

The one hight Morgan th’ elder sonne of Gonnerell, My sister, and that other Conidagus hight. My sister Ragan’s sonne, that lou’de me neuer well, Both nephewes mine yet would against mee Cordell fight, Because I lou’de always that semed right; Therefore they hated mee and did pursue Their aunte and Queene as she had bene a jewe.

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