Add. MS c/22
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[1596?]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
Poem starting "One faire par-royall, hath our [is]land bred", with "R.C. 1596" at bottom, accompanied by a later transcript starting "One fair pair-royal hath our island bred / Whereof one is alive and two are dead - / Sydney the prince of prose and sweet conceit, Spenser of number and heroic rhyme - / ... Camden thou livst alone of all the three ...."
Cotton, Sir Robert Bruce (1571–1631) 1st baronet, antiquary and politician