LONDON.
IMPRINTED FOR WILLIAM PONSONBIE,
DWELLING IN PAULES CHURCHYARD
AT THE SIGNE OF THE
BISHOPS HEAD.
1591.
1. The Ruines of Time.
2. The Teares of the Muses.
3. Virgils Gnat.
4. Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale.
5. The Ruines of Rome: by Bellay.
6. Muiopotmos, or The Tale of the Butterflie.
7. Visions of the Worlds Vanitie.
8. Bellayes Visions.
9. Petrarches Visions.
Since my late setting foorth of the Faerie Queene, finding that it hath found afavourable passage amongst you, I have sithence endevoured by all good meanes,(for the better encrease and accomplishment of your delights,) to get into myhandes such smale poemes of the same Authors as I heard were disperst abroad insundrie hands, and not easie to bee come by by himselfe; some of them havingbene diverslie imbeziled and purloyned from him, since his departure over sea.Of the which I have by good meanes gathered togeather these fewe parcelspresent, which I have caused to bee imprinted altogeather, for that they alseeme to containe like matter of argument in them, being all complaints andmeditations of the worlds vanitie, verie grave and profitable. To which effectI understand that he besides wrote sundrie others, namelie: Ecclesiastesand Canticum Canticorum translated, A Senights Slumber, The Hell ofLovers, his Purgatorie, being all dedicated to ladies, so as it may seemehe ment them all to one v