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Mirror for Magistrates, Volume 1

Note 293 — How Qveene Elstride the Concubine and second wife of king Locrinus was miserably drowned by Queene Guendoline, The yeare before Christ, 1064.

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Ne stoode she still but with hir handes on syde Walkte vp and down, and oft hir palmes she stroke; “My husband now (quoth she) had not thus dyde, “If such an harlot whore he had not tooke:” And there withall she gaue me such a looke As made me quake. ed. 1575.

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