I thought none yll, my heade was layde full saft, All carke and care my wandring sprite had laft. Not lying thus one houre by the clocke, Me thought the chamber shone with torches bright, And in the haste at doore I hearde one knocke, And sayde: “What slugge, why sleepest all the night?” I starting vp behelde one in my sight, Dasht all in golden raies before me did appeare, And sayde: “I am a god, beholde that standeth here.” Miue eares were filde with noysè of trumpets sounde, And dazled were mine eies, my sence was almost gon, But yet amazde my knee vaylde to the grounde, And sayde: “Heare lorde, thy will and mine be one, What is thy minde, more redie there is none, To ride, to runne, to trauell here and there, By lande and seas halfe worthie if I were. But first to know thy name I humbly thee beseeche, Forgiue my rudenesse this of thee to craue:” He aunswering sayd, with meeke and lowlie speeche: “_Morpheus_ is my name, that alwaies power haue, Dreames to shewe in countrie, courte, or caue. In the heauens aboue, or Plutoe’s kingdome loe, Its I that haue the power each thing t’unfolde and shoe.” Morpheus, as the guide, conducts the author through Pluto’s dominions, who selects the following subjects as fit for his muse. 1. Hellen, tormented for her treason to her husbande, and liuing in fornication ten yeares. 2. Pope Alexander the sixt rewarded for his wickednesse and odible lyfe, with his colledge of cardinals, bishops, abbots, moonckes, freers, and nunnes, with the rabble of greasie priestes, and other members of idolatory and superstition. 3. Young Tarquine rewarded for his wickednesse. 4. The rewarde of Medea for hir wicked actes, and false deceyuing of hir father, sleying of hir children, and hir owne brother, and working by inchauntment. This historie is merueylous tragicall and a good example for women. 5. The wordes of tormented Tantalus, being rewarded for his extortion and couetousnes: Oppressing the poore people of his countrey, and for other wicked actes. 6. The rewarde of an ambicious and vaine glorious counseller, called Vetronius Turinus, for his wicked life among them that hee might ouercome and for his pride. 7. The wofull complaint of the monstrous Emperor Heliogabalus for spending of his dayes in abhominable whoredome. 8. The two Iudges for slaundering of Susanna: and bearing false witnesse against hir, be rewarded for the same most terribly. Q. Pope Ihoan rewarded for hir wickednesse. 10. Newes betwene the Pope and Pluto, and of the proclamation about the ladder betwixt hell and heaven. 11. The torment of Tiranny and the reward for his wickednesse, being a king called Mydas, which tirannouslye swallowed not onely his countrey for lucre sake, but his housholde seruauntes also. 12. The rewarde that Rosamonde had in hell, for murdering of hir husbande Albonius and