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Virtue's tears for the loss of the most christian King Henry Third of the 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 learned gentlewoman, Madam Genevieve [sic], Petau Maulette ; and paraphrastically translated into English by Gervase Markham

 
dc.contributor Ule, Louis
dc.contributor.author Petau de Maulette, Geneviève
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-21T15:54:25Z
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dc.date.created 1597
dc.date.issued 1979-05-08
dc.identifier ota:0083
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0083
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dc.language English
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dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Poems -- France -- 16th century
dc.title Virtue's tears for the loss of the most christian King Henry Third of the 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 learned gentlewoman, Madam Genevieve [sic], Petau Maulette ; and paraphrastically translated into English by Gervase Markham
dc.title.alternative Devoreux, or, Virtue's tears
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otaterms.date.range 1500-1599

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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.
)

             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 . . .
										

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