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Thomas Churchyard 1520?-1604, English author. In his youth he was page to Henry Howard, earl of Surrey. He spent most of his life as a professional soldier, serving in Scotland, Flanders, and France. His best-known work, the poem Shore's Wife, was contributed to the 1563 edition of the Mirror for Magistrates. Much of his work reflects his war experiences, most notably the narrative poems, Wofull Warres in Flaunders (1578) and General Rehearsall of Warres (1579).

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Churchyard, Thomas (?1523–1604), published, before 1552, A Myrrour for Man. Between 1560 and 1603 he issued a multitude of broadsheets and small volumes in verse and prose. His best-known works are Shores Wife (1563), in the Mirror for Magistrates, and the General Rehearsall of Warres (1579). Spenser in his Colin Clout refers to Churchyard as ‘old Palemon… That sung so long untill quite hoarse he grew’.

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