E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Southwell, Robert
(b. St. Faith’s, Norfolk, 1560; d. London, February 20th, 1595). “A Supplication to Queen Elizabeth” (1593); “Marie Magdalen’s Funerall Teares” (1594); “St. Peter’s Complaynt, with other Poems” (1595); “Mæoniæ” (1595); “The Triumphs over Death” (1595); “Epistle of Comfort to the Reverend Priests and Others of the Lay Sort Restrained in Durance for the Catholike Fayth.” (1605); and “A Short Rule of Good Life.” Prose “Works” edited by Walter in 1828; poetical works by Turnbull in 1856. For “Biography,” see the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1798, Brydges’ “Censura Literaria,” Ellis’s “Specimens,” Campbell’s, “English Poets,” Challoner’s “Martyrs to the Catholic Faith,” and Morley’s “English Writers,” vol. xi. For Criticism, see MacDonald’s “England’s Antiphon.”
