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England's Looking Glass

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There are a number of works with England's Looking Glass in the title. During the

16th and 17th centuries looking glass, meaning mirror,^[1] was frequently used in the titles of books.^[2]^[3]

Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England (c.1590), an Elizabethan era stage play
Edmund Calamy the Elder, England's Looking Glass (1642)
William Mercer (poet), "Angliae speculum, or, England's Looking-Glasse" (1646)
Elizabeth Pool, The Bloudy Almanack, or England's Looking-Glass (1651). (Containing the Scots Prophesie to their King)
Rowlinson, "A Recollection of the Times, or England's Looking-Glass" (1680). It is a ballad that begins "0 Sinful World ! rouse up thy sleepy head ..."

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1. ^In the same way mirror is now used figuratively in the names of publications like The Daily Mirror
2. ^Oxford English Dictionary "Looking-glass" b. fig. (In the 16th and 17th cents. frequently used in the titles of books.) Now rare (= ‘mirror’).
3. ^Lily B. Campbell (2005) Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy, Routledge, {{ISBN|0-415-35310-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-415-35310-6}}. Chapter "poetical mirrors of history" [https://books.google.com/books?id=KPe5Wuecan0C&pg=PA107 p.107]

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