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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARDS  . C- Old Plays, vol. i., and See also:Ancient See also:British See also:Drama, vol. i . It is written in rhymed lines of See also:rude construction, varying in length and neglecting the See also:caesura . A number of the author's shorter pieces are preserved in the See also:Paradise of Dainty Devices, first published in 1575, and reprinted in the British Bibliographer, vol. iii.; the best known are the lines on May, the A mantium Irae, and the See also:Commendation of See also:Music, which has the See also:honour of furnishing a See also:stanza to Romeo and Juliet . The Historie of See also:Damocles and Dionise is assigned to him in the 1578 edition of the Paradise . See also:Sir See also:John See also:Hawkins credited him with the See also:part See also:song " In going to my lonely See also:bed "; the words are certainly his, and probably the music . In his own See also:day See also:Edwards was highly esteemed . The See also:fine poem, " The Soul's Knell," is supposed to have been written by him when dying . See See also:Grove's See also:Diet. of Music (new edition) ; the See also:Shakespeare See also:Soc . Papers, vol. ii. See also:art. vi.; See also:Ward, See also:English Dram . Literature, vol. i .

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