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DEVO
DEVOREUX, OR VIRTUE'S TEARS, KEYPUNCHED FROM A COPY OF THE 1597 EDITION
IN THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY. PURPORTED TO BE FIRST WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY
A LEARNED GENTLEWOMAN, MADAM GENEVIEVE PETAU, AND TRANSLATED INTO
ENGLISH BY MARKHAM. KEYPUNCHED MAY 8, 1979. LOUIS ULE.
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VIRTUE'S TEARS FOR THE
LOSS OF THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING HENRY
THIRD OF THAT NAME, KING OF FRANCE, AND THE
UNTIMELY DEATH OF THE MOST NOBLE AND HEROIC
GENTLEMAN, WALTER DEVOREUX, WHO WAS
SLAIN BEFORE ROUEN IN FRANCE.
FIRST WRITTEN IN FRENCH BY THE MOST EXCELLENT AND
LEARNED GENTLEWOMAN, MADAM GENEVIEVE,
PETAU MAULETTE,
AND PARAPHRASTICALLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
BY GERVASE MARKHAM.
DDEVOREUX.
ARETEAE LACHRIMAE.
WOE-WEARIED WITH THE EVER-WEEPING WOE
THAT BREAKS THE AGED REINS OF WITHERED FRANCE,
AND THINKING HOW THOSE THOUGHTS TO OVERGO
THAT GIVE ETERNAL MEMORY TO MISCHANCE,
OR WILLING . . .
