However, H. A.--not A. H.--was almost certainly the author of =The Scourge=, as evidenced, among other details, by the title page of the 1613 =Scourge=,[8] unknown to Clark, which unequivocally states: "Written by =H. A.=" As to the initials H. A. appended to the address "To the Reader" of the 1614 impression and the A. H. on the title and address pages of the 1620 impression, they were probably printer's errors, arising in the 1614 impression from the printer's careless assumption that the address "To the Reader" was the work of the author rather than the bookseller, and in the impression of 1620 from a simple typographical metathesis of the letters H and A.[9] The authorship of the remaining five poems, together with such relevant facts of the authors' lives as are known, is as follows. =Pyramus and Thisbe= is by one Dunstan Gale (fl. 1596), about whom nothing else is known. =Dom Diego and Ginevra= has long been attributed to Richard Lynche (fl. 1601), otherwise chiefly known for his =Diella=, a conventional sonnet sequence accompanying =Dom Diego=, and for his translation of Cartari's =Le Imagini=, Englished as =The Fountaine of Ancient Fiction= (1599). =Mirrha= and =Hiren= are by William Barksted (fl. 1611), "one of the servants of his Majesties Revels," as the title page of =Hiren= proclaims. Barksted is believed to have completed =The Insatiate Countess= after Marston's withdrawal from the stage in 1608 or 1609. This play, bearing Barksted's name in one issue of the 1631 edition, contains a number of lines and phrases identical with lines and phrases in =Mirrha= and =Hiren=.[10] =Amos and Laura= has been attributed, probably correctly, to Samuel Page (1574-1630),[11] who is mentioned by Meres as "most passionate among us to bewaile and bemoane the perplexities of Love,"[12] and by his fellow-Oxonian Anthony a Wood as long-time Vicar of Deptford.[13] Although a few additional facts are known about these authors, none seems to contribute to an understanding of the poems reprinted, and all may be found under the appropriate authors' names in the =DNB=. SOURCES