Produced by David Starner, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. SEVEN MINOR EPICS OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1596-1624) =Philos and Licia= (1624) by Anonymous =Pyramus and Thisbe= (1617) by Dunstan Gale =The Love of Dom Diego and Ginevra= (1596) by Richard Lynche =Mirrha= (1607) by William Barksted =Hiren= (1611) by William Barksted =Amos and Laura= (1613) by Samuel Page =The Scourge of Venus= (1613) by H.A. FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL W. MILLER Gainesville, Florida SCHOLARS' FACSIMILES & REPRINTS 1967 SCHOLARS' FACSIMILES & REPRINTS 1605 N. W. 14th Avenue Gainesville, Florida, 32601, U.S.A. Harry R. Warfel, General Editor To Mary Joan L. C. Catalog Card Number: 67-10125 MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S.A. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction VII =A Pleasant and Delightfull Poeme of Two Lovers, Philos and Licia.= 1 =Pyramus and Thisbe.= By Dunstan Gale. 37 =The Love of Dom Diego and Ginevra.= By Richard Lynche. 61 =Mirrha the Mother of Adonis: or, Lustes Prodegies.= By William Barksted. 103 =Hiren: or The Faire Greeke.= By William Barksted. 169 =The Love of Amos and Laura.= By Samuel Page. 213 =The Scourge of Venus.= By H.A. 229 INTRODUCTION Professor Elizabeth Story Donno, in her recent =Elizabethan Minor Epics= (New York, 1963), has made an important contribution to both scholarship and teaching. Not only has she brought together for the first time in one volume most of the extant Elizabethan minor epics, but in so doing, she has hastened the recognition that the minor epic, or "epyllion" as it has often been called in modern times,[1] is a distinctive literary genre as deserving of study as the sonnet, the pastoral, or the verse satire. The purpose of the present volume is to supplement and complement Professor Donno's collection by making available in facsimile seven minor epics of the English Renaissance omitted from it. With the publication of these poems all the known, surviving minor epics of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods will for the first time be made available for study in faithful reproductions of the earliest extant editions.