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 THE

HISTORY

of the Life and Death of

FAIR ROSAMOND,

Concubine to King HENRY II.

Of Fair Rosamond's Parantage and Perfection

THERE ſprung from that ancient and ble houſe of Cliffords, a damſel nam Roſamond, daughter to the Lord Walter Clifford, her best was couched in her name, was nature's maſter piece and one of the fai eſt roſes that ever flouriſhed on earth.

his lady as the grew in years, the grew favour, cach year adding to her perfection; a when the attained to maturity, her ſame ſpre into many foreign places, whereby ſhe was only the public and common diſcourſe of o own nation but even the table talk of remo countries and foreign people. Her modes was ſuch, that she fought by all means to all