Of the seven minor epics included here, three--=A Pleasant and Delightfull Poeme of Two Lovers, Philos and Licia=, =STC= 19886 (1624); Dunstan Gale's =Pyramus and Thisbe=, =STC= 11527 (1617); and S[amuel] P[age's] =The Love of Amos and Laura= (1613)[2]--have not previously been reprinted in modern times. And of these three, one, =Philos and Licia=, though listed in the =Short-Title Catalogue=, seems not to have been noticed by Renaissance scholars, nor even by any of the principal bibliographers except William C. Hazlitt, who gives this unique copy bare mention as a book from Robert Burton's collection.[3] The remaining four books--R[ichard] L[ynche's][4] =The Amorous Poeme of Dom Diego and Ginevra= published with Lynche's =Diella, Certaine Sonnets=, =STC= 17091 (1596); William Barksted's =Mirrha The Mother of Adonis: Or, Lustes Prodegies=, =STC= 1429 (1607), published with =Three Eglogs= by Lewes Machin; Barksted's =Hiren: or The Faire Greeke=, =STC= 1428 (1611); and H. A's =The Scourge of Venus, or, The Wanton Lady. With the Rare Birth of Adonis=, =STC= 968 (1613)--have been edited by the "indefatigable" Alexander B. Grosart in =Occasional Issues of Very Rare Books= (Manchester, 1876-77), limited to 50 copies each and hence extremely scarce today.[5] =Dom Diego and Ginevra= was also reprinted by Edward Arber in =An English Garner=, VII (Birmingham, 1883), 209-240. With the exception of =Philos and Licia=, these poems are printed in their approximate order of composition from 1596 to 1613.[6] AUTHORSHIP As befits the paucity of their known literary productions, the authors of these poems have in common chiefly their anonymity, or a degree of obscurity approaching it. The authors of =Philos and Licia= and of H. A's =The Scourge= are unknown. Though the authors of the other poems are known, little is known about them. The mystery of the authorship of =The Scourge= was compounded in the nineteenth century by its incorrect attribution to one Henry Austin. Grosart, for example, argued that the H. A. on the title page and on the address "To the Reader" of the 1614 impression, and the A. H. on the corresponding pages of the 1620 impression, =STC= 970, was the Austin denounced by Thomas Heywood for stealing his translations of Ovid's =Ars Amatoria= and =De Remedio Amoris=. Arthur Melville Clark, in correcting this error, pointed out that these stolen translations of Ovid should not be confused with =The Scourge=, an original poetic composition based on Book X of a quite different work by Ovid, =The Metamorphoses=. Clark concluded that "H. A. or A. H. was probably the editor, not the author, although he may have made certain corrections and additions, as the title-page of the second edition states."[7]