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Location of Transcription (in Secondary Source)

Primary author(s)
Collier, John Payne
Title
Memoirs of the Principal Actors in the Plays of Shakespeare
Publication Year
1846 (Source of claim: original)
Page/folio/ membrane(s)
52-5

Primary Source Transcribed

Primary author(s)
Title
MS in the possession of 'the late Mr Heber', 'A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Famous Actor, Richard Burbadge, who died on Saturday in Lent, the 13th of March, 1618'
Publication Year
circa 1619 (Source of claim: externally supplied)

Primary Source as Cited in Secondary Source

Authors
Title / MS reference
A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Famous Actor, Richard Burbadge, who died on Saturday in Lent, the 13th of March, 1618

Notes

Transcription notes
fully transcribed; record appears in multiple documents; spelling and punctuation standardized
Transcription Record notes
Collier interpolates a lengthy section of forged verse into this genuine elegy. His additions begin at 'Friends, every one, and what a blank instead' and continue to 'It fill'd their brain with fury more divine.'

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