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The Complaint of Verity

Published: 1559
Length: 31,594 words
Reading: ~2 hours
Divisions: 14

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The complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe

[London John Day? for Owen Rogers?] Anno Domini. 1559.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

FrontispieceIOHN BRADEFORD
Title page
Poem❧ The complaint of Veritie.
Poem¶ The inſtruction of a Father to his Children, which he wrote a few dayes before his burnynge.
PoemA lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, vnto god our onely healper.
PoemA briefe reherſal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled God is my comforte.
Poem¶The ſonge of the poore priſoners in Lolers tower.

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