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(Chester, Robert, 1566-1640)

Chester, Robert, 1566-1640: Robert Chester's "Loves Martyr, or, Rosalins Complaint" (1601); With its Supplement, "Diverse Poeticall Essaies" on the Turtle and Phoenix (includes Shakespeare's "Phoenix and Turtle" poem; London: Pub. for the New Shakspere Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1878), ed. by Alexander Balloch Grosart, contrib. by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Chester, Robert, 1566-1640: Loves martyr (London : Printed [by E. Allde] for Mathew Lownes, 1611), also by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Chester, Robert, 1566-1640: "Love's martyr : or, Rosalins complaint (1601)" (Trübner, 1878), also by Alexander Balloch Grosart, John Marston, George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
Chester, Robert, 1566-1640: Loves martyr: or, Rosalins complaint. Allegorically shadowing the truth of loue, in the constant fate of the phœnix and turtle. A poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie; now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato Cæliano, by Robert Chester. With the true legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine worthies, being the first essay of a new Brytish poet: collected out of diuerse authenticall records. To these are added some new compositions, of seuerall moderne writers whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes, vpon the first subiect: viz. the phœnix and turtle. (London : Imprinted [by R. Field] for E. B[lount], 1601), also by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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