Six excellent treatises of life and death / collected (and published in French) by Philip Mornay, sieur du Plessis ; and now (first) translated into English.

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Publication InfoImprinted at London : by H.L. for Mathew Lownes: and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls churchyard, at the signe of the Bishops head., 1607.
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Other author/creatorMornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.
Other author/creatorCyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage.
Other author/creatorAmbrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397.
Other author/creatorCicero, Marcus Tullius.
Other author/creatorSeneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Running title Discourse of life and death
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
Contents Plato his Axiocus -- A discourse of Tvllivs Cicero's, concerning death -- Collections out of Seneca's Works, touching life & death -- A sermon of mortality / made by S. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage -- A treatise of Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, touching the benefit & happinesse of death -- Certain places of Scripture, prayers & meditations, concerning life and death.
General noteSignatures: A-Y¹², Z⁶ (Z6 blank except for rules).
General note"Axiocvs. A dialogue written by Plato ... " (A5r-D10r) is spurious.
General note"The translator to the reader. Here knowe, that the first discourse, mentioned in the aduertisement ensuing, is none of these sixe ... but another ... formerly translated by the Countesse of Pembroke [i.e. Mornay's A discovrse of life and death]"--A2v.
General noteReproduction of original in the Newberry Library.
With noteWith: A discovrse of life and death / written in French by Phil. Mornay ; done in English by the Countesse of Pembroke. At London : Printed by H.L. for Mathew Lownes ..., 1606.
References STC 18155
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1029:2b)
Contains title Axiochus. English. 1607.
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