[1142] See Prefaces to Perimedes (S. R. March 29, 1588); Pandosto, pub. 1588; Menaphon, pub. August 1589 (perhaps before July, 1588); and Ciceronis Amor, pub. 1589. The dates are of historical importance.
[1143] Philomela, 1592, is of earlier style and composition.
[1144] As "chiefe agent of the companie" of poets and writers (Lyly, Nashe, Greene, and probably Lodge and Peele) whom Richard Harvey in his Lamb of God had "mistermed piperly makeplaies and make-bates." Nashe, Strange Newes, etc.
[1145] Sister to Cutting Ball, "trust under a tree" at Tyburn.
[1146] Foure Letters and Certain Sonnets, London, 1592.
[1147] "Physique is ... to techen ... of everichon" (herbs, stones, etc.),
"That ben of bodely substaunce
The nature and the substance."
—Gower, Conf. Am., VII.
[1148] Chaucer, Prol. C. T., 414-420.