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Whetstone, George
(temp. Elizabeth). “The Rocke of Regard” (1576), “The right excellent and famous Historye of Promos and Cassandra” (1578); “An Heptameron of Civill Discourses” (1582); “A Mirur for Magestrates of Cyties” (1584); “An Addition; or, Touchstone of the Time” (1584); “The Honourable Reputation of a Souldier” (1586); “The English Myrror” (1586); “The Enemie to Unthriftynesse” (1586); “Amelia” (1593); Remembrances of Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Nicholas Bacon, George Gascoigne, etc. For Biography and Criticism, see Warton’s “English Poetry,” Ritson’s “Bibliographia Poetica,” Beloe’s “Anecdotes of Literature,” Brydges’ “Censura Literaria,” and Collier’s “Poetical Decameron.”
