In summation, then, we see that although =Pyramus and Thisbe= and =Amos and Laura= have slight literary value, =The Scourge=, while failing to score very high as a minor epic, yet has a certain crude, narrative vitality. And =Dom Diego=, =Mirrha=, =Hiren=, and =Philos and Licia=, by virtue of their charm, inventiveness, or skillful adaptation of minor epic conventions to their expressive needs, form a hierarchy of increasing literary value that raises them as a group well above the level of the merely imitative. For permission to reproduce =Philos and Licia= (for the first time), =Mirrha=, and =Hiren=, I am much indebted to the Bodleian Library; for permission to reproduce =Dom Diego and Ginevra= I am similarly indebted to the Trustees of the British Museum. I am also under heavy obligation to the Folger Library for permission to reprint =Pyramus and Thisbe=, =Amos and Laura=, and =The Scourge of Venus= (1613), all for the first time. I also wish to express my thanks to The British Museum, the Bodleian Library, the University of Michigan, and the Ohio State University libraries for generous permission to use their collections, and to the Board of College Education of the Lutheran Church in America for a six-week summer study grant, which enabled me to gather research materials for this project. For help and encouragement in a great variety of ways I am grateful to the following mentors and colleagues: Professor John Arthos, who first introduced me to the beauty of minor epic, the late Professor Hereward T. Price, and Professor Warner G. Rice, all from the University of Michigan; Professor Helen C. White of the University of Wisconsin; librarians Major Felie Clark, Ret., U. S. Army, of Gainesville, Florida, and Professor Luella Eutsler of Wittenberg University; and Dr. Katharine F. Pantzer of the Houghton Library, Harvard University, editor of the forthcoming, revised =Short-Title Catalogue=. Paul W. Miller _Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio December, 1965_ Footnotes: [1] See in this connection my article "The Elizabethan Minor Epic," =SP=, LV (1958), 31-38, answered by Walter Allen, Jr., pp. 515-518. My chief concern in this article was to show that the kind of poetry described therein, though in years past loosely and variously referred to by such terms as "Ovidian poetry" or "mythological love poetry," and often lumped together indiscriminately with other kinds such as the complaint, the tragical history, and the verse romance, actually constitutes a distinct genre recognized in practice by Renaissance poets. Whether or not there is classical authority for use of the term "epyllion," though a significant point of scholarship, is not the main issue here. Either the term "minor epic" or "epyllion" is satisfactory, provided its referent is clear, and accurately described.