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... Essex . " He died for lack of bread in King Street , " Jonson told Drummond , " and refused twenty pieces sent to him by my Lord of Essex , and said that he was sorry he had no time to spend them . " As a poet usually poor , and seldom ...
... Essex . " He died for lack of bread in King Street , " Jonson told Drummond , " and refused twenty pieces sent to him by my Lord of Essex , and said that he was sorry he had no time to spend them . " As a poet usually poor , and seldom ...
Page 287
... Essex finally sailed for Ireland with 16,000 troops under instructions to destroy the rebels at any cost . As the many accounts of Elizabeth and Essex make clear , her hopes were in vain ; she had selected a man of unbounded ambition ...
... Essex finally sailed for Ireland with 16,000 troops under instructions to destroy the rebels at any cost . As the many accounts of Elizabeth and Essex make clear , her hopes were in vain ; she had selected a man of unbounded ambition ...
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... Essex and Elizabeth , but I have turned most often to an old one for accounts of Cecil's relations with Essex , Essex in Ireland , and Essex and O'Neill : G. B. Harrison's Robert Devereux , Earl of Essex ( New York , 1937 ) . Inder 305 ...
... Essex and Elizabeth , but I have turned most often to an old one for accounts of Cecil's relations with Essex , Essex in Ireland , and Essex and O'Neill : G. B. Harrison's Robert Devereux , Earl of Essex ( New York , 1937 ) . Inder 305 ...
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