University of Reading

Copy.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed Certaine verses made by the queenes ma^tie and wryghten w^th hir one hand, on one side of a single leaf.

Late 16th century.

ElQ 25: Queen Elizabeth I,

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.