The book of British ballads . AIR ROSAMOND. The fate of Fair Rosamond,was a favourite theme with the early minstrels,and the historians have not disdained to preservethe memory of her exceeding beauty, and her sad is, however, briefly told. She was, according to Stowe,who follows Higden the monk of Chester, the daughter ofWalter Lord Clifford; became the lemman of Henry theSecond, to whom she bore two sons, William Longsword, Earl ofSalisbury, and Geoffrey, Bishop of Lincoln; and died at Wood-stock, 1177,— poisoned by Queen Eleanor, as some proceeds to relate, that
The book of British ballads . AIR ROSAMOND. The fate of Fair Rosamond,was a favourite theme with the early minstrels,and the historians have not disdained to preservethe memory of her exceeding beauty, and her sad is, however, briefly told. She was, according to Stowe,who follows Higden the monk of Chester, the daughter ofWalter Lord Clifford; became the lemman of Henry theSecond, to whom she bore two sons, William Longsword, Earl ofSalisbury, and Geoffrey, Bishop of Lincoln; and died at Wood-stock, 1177,— poisoned by Queen Eleanor, as some proceeds to relate, that her royal lover had made for her ahouse of wonderfull working; so that no man or woman might come to herbut he that was instructed by the king, or such as were right secret withhim, touching the matter. This house, after some, was named Labyrinthus, orDedalus worke, which was wrought like unto a knot, in a garden called amaze. Drayton, in his Epistle to Rosamond, using the poets license,describes it as consisting of vaults
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