The second English translation of the “Épître d’Othéa” referred to above can be so little known that a brief account of it will not be superfluous. It exists only in the form of a small printed octavo in black-letter with the title _Here foloweth the C. Hystoryes of Troye_, and there is no doubt that it was taken from Pigouchet’s French edition of 1490,[90] or one of the reprints; in fact it copies the second title in French, merely omitting the imprint “à Paris.” Many of its rough woodcuts, one of which accompanies each “texte,” also come from the same source, being generally reversed, but others are independent and their subjects often have no connexion whatever with the text. In place of the dedication to the Duke of Orleans the translator gives a prologue of his own in ten seven-line stanzas, the first two of which are as follows: “Boke, of thy rudenesse by consyderacion Plunged in the walowes of abasshement, For thy translatoure make excusacion To all to whom thou shalt thy selfe present, Besechynge them vpon the sentement In the composed to set theyr regarde And not on the speche cancred and frowarde. “Shewe them that thy translatour hath the wryten, Not to obtain thankes or remuneracions, But to the entent to do the to be wryten As well in Englande as in other nacyons. And where mysordre in thy translation is, Vnto the perceyuer with humble obeysaunce Excuse thy reducer, blamyng his ygnoraunce.” All the information which he gives about himself in this prologue is that, when he made his translation, he was “flowring in youth,” but after the “Finis” he has added, “Thus endeth the .C. Hystories of Troye, translated out of Frenche in to Englysshe by me. R.W.” This again is followed by the colophon, “Imprynted by me Robert Wyer, dwellyng in S. Martyns parysshe at Charyng Crosse at the sygne of S. John̄ Euangelist besyde the Duke of Suffolkes place”; and it is therefore highly probable that R. W. and Robert Wyer were identical, though the latter is not otherwise known except as a printer. A list of nearly a hundred books issued by him has been made up,[91] ranging in date from 1530 to 1556, and all those which, as in this instance, have the Duke of Suffolk’s name in the imprint must have been published after 1536, when the property referred to, which previously belonged to the Bishop of Norwich, passed into his possession. The date of the book therefore is about 1540–1550, though the translation may have been made some years before. For the sake of comparison with the earlier version of Stephen Scrope, one of the texts with its commentary is here given: THE .XXVIII. TEXTE. Loue and prayse Cadmus so excellente, And his dyscyples holde thou in chyerte. He gaygned the fountayne of the Serpente With ryght great payne afore that it wolde be.