Frauenlob's poetry was edited by L. Ettmueller in 1843; a selection will be found in K. Bartsch, _Deutsche Liederdichter des 12. bis 14. Jahrhunderts_ (3rd ed., 1893). An English translation of Frauenlob's _Cantica canticorum_, by A. E. Kroeger, with notes, appeared in 1877 at St Louis, U.S.A. See A. Boerkel, _Frauenlob_ (2nd ed., 1881). FRAUNCE, ABRAHAM (c. 1558-1633), English poet, a native of Shropshire, was born between 1558 and 1560. His name was registered as a pupil of Shrewsbury School in January 1571/2, and he joined St John's College, Cambridge, in 1576, becoming a fellow in 1580/81. His Latin comedy of _Victoria_, dedicated to Sidney, was probably written at Cambridge, where he remained until he had taken his M.A. degree in 1583. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1588, and then apparently practised as a barrister in the court of the Welsh marches. After the death of his patron Sir Philip Sidney, Fraunce was protected by Sidney's sister Mary, countess of Pembroke. His last work was published in 1592, and we have no further knowledge of him until 1633, when he is said to have written an _Epithalamium_ in honour of the marriage of Lady Magdalen Egerton, 7th daughter of the earl of Bridgwater, whose service he may possibly have entered. His works are: _The Lamentations of Amintas for the death of Phyllis_ (1587), a version in English hexameters of his friend's, Thomas Watson's, Latin _Amyntas; The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe_ (1588); _Arcadian Rhetorike_ (1588); _Abrahami Fransi Insignium, Armorum ... explicatio_ (1588); _The Countess of Pembroke's Yvychurch_ (1591/2), containing a translation of Tasso's _Aminta_, a reprint of his earlier version of Watson, "The Lamentation of Corydon for the love of Alexis" (Virgil, eclogue ii.), a short translation from Heliodorus, and, in the third part (1592) "Aminta's Dale," a collection of "conceited" tales supposed to be related by the nymphs of Ivychurch; _The Countess of Pembroke's Emanuell_ (1591); _The Third Part of the Countess of Pembroke's Ivychurch, entituled Aminta's Dale_ (1592). His _Arcadian Rhetorike_ owes much to earlier critical treatises, but has a special interest from its references to Spenser, and Fraunce quotes from the _Faerie Queene_ a year before the publication of the first books. In "Colin Clout's come home again," Spenser speaks of Fraunce as Corydon, on account of his translations of Virgil's second eclogue. His poems are written in classical metres, and he was regarded by his contemporaries as the best exponent of Gabriel Harvey's theory. Even Thomas Nashe had a good word for "sweete Master France."