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OF THOMAS LODGE ARRANGED
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER[1]
[Footnote 1: The titles are given in abbreviated form.]
1580 (?) Defence of Plays
1584 An Alarum against Usurers
1589 Scillaes Metamorphysis (reprinted with a new title-page in 1610
as A most pleasant Historie of Glaucus and Scilla)
1590 Rosalynde
1591 Robert, Second Duke of Normandy
1591 Catharos
1592 Euphues Shadow

1593 Phillis
1593 William Longbeard
1594 The Wounds of Civill War
1594 A Looking Glass for London (in collaboration with Greene)
1595 A Fig for Momus
1596 The Divel coniured
1596 A Margarite of America
1596 Wits miserie
1596 Prosopopeia
1602 Paradoxes
1602 Works of Josephus
1603 A Treatise of the Plague
1614 The Workes of Seneca
1625 A Learned Summary of Du Bartas
Rosalynde.
Euphues golden legacie:
found after his death in his Cell at Silexedra.
Bequeathed to Philautus sonnes
noursed vp with their
father in
England.
Fetcht from the Canaries.
By T.L. Gent.

LONDON,
Imprinted by Thomas Orwin_ for T.G. and _John Busbie.
1590.
To the Right Honorable and his most esteemed Lord the Lord of
Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain to her Majesty's Household, and Governor
of her Town of Berwick: T.L.G. wisheth increase of all honorable
virtues.
Such Romans, right honorable, as delighted in martial exploits,
attempted their actions in the honor of Augustus, because he was a
patron of soldiers: and Vergil dignified him with his poems, as a
Maecenas of scholars; both jointly advancing his royalty, as a prince
warlike and learned. Such as sacrifice to Pallas, present her with bays
as she is wise, and with armor as she is valiant; observing herein that
excellent [Greek: to prepon], which dedicateth honors according to the
perfection of the person. When I entered, right honorable, with a deep
insight into the consideration of these premises, seeing your Lordship
to be a patron of all martial men, and a Maecenas of such as apply
themselves to study, wearing with Pallas both the lance and the bay,
and aiming with Augustus at the favor of all, by the honorable virtues
of your mind, being myself first a student, and after falling from books
to arms, even vowed in all my thoughts dutifully to affect your
Lordship. Having with Captain Clarke made a voyage to the island of
Terceras and the Canaries, to beguile the time with labor I writ this
book; rough, as hatched in the storms of the ocean, and feathered in the
surges of many perilous seas. But as it is the work of a soldier and a
scholar, I presumed to shroud it under your Honor's patronage, as one
that is the fautor and favorer of all virtuous actions; and whose
honorable loves, grown from the general applause of the whole
commonwealth for your higher deserts, may keep it from the malice of
every bitter tongue. Other reasons more particular, right honorable,
challenge in me a special affection to your Lordship, as being a scholar
with your two noble sons, Master Edmund Carew, and Master Robert
Carew, two scions worthy of so honorable a tree, and a tree glorious in
such honorable fruit, as also being scholar in the university under that

learned and virtuous knight Sir Edward Hoby, when he was Bachelor in
Arts, a man as well lettered as well born, and, after the etymology of
his name, soaring as high as the wings of knowledge can mount him,
happy every way, and the more fortunate, as blessed in the honor of so
virtuous a lady. Thus, right honorable, the duty that I owe to the sons,
chargeth me that all my affection be placed on the father; for where the
branches are so precious, the tree of force must be most excellent.
Commanded and emboldened thus with the consideration of these
forepassed reasons, to present my book to your Lordship, I humbly
entreat your Honor will vouch of my labors, and favor a soldier's and a
scholar's pen with your gracious acceptance, who answers in affection
what he wants in eloquence; so devoted to your honor, as his only
desire is, to end his life under the favor of so martial and learned a
patron.
Resting thus in hope of your Lordship's courtesy in deigning the
patronage of my work, I cease, wishing you as many honorable
fortunes as your Lordship can desire or I imagine.
Your Honor's soldier
humbly affectionate:
Thomas Lodge
TO THE GENTLEMEN READERS
Gentlemen, look not here to find any sprigs of Pallas' bay tree, nor to
hear the humor of any amorous laureate, nor the pleasing vein of any
eloquent orator: Nolo altum sapere, they be matters above my capacity:
the cobbler's check shall never light on my head, _Ne sutor ultra
crepidam_; I will go no further than the latchet, and then all is well.
Here you may perhaps find some leaves of Venus' myrtle, but hewn