Abstract
In 1596, Thomas Lodge wrote of the garrulous brothel-keeper Cousenage inWits Miserie: Shee will reckon you vp the storie of Mistris Sanders, and weepe at it, and turne you to the Ballad ouer her chimney, and bid you looke there, there is a goodly sample: I wenches (saies she, turning hirselfe to hir maidens of yt second scise) looke to it, trust not these dissimulation men, there are few good of the[m], yt there are not.¹ The story of ‘Mistris Sanders’ concerns the true-life murder of the London merchant George Saunders in 1573 by George Browne. Browne was the...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Early Modern Women and the Poem |
| Editors | Susan Wiseman |
| Place of Publication | Manchester, New York |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Pages | 181-200 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-5261-1092-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |