The Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Conteining the affectionate life, and vnfortunate death of Phillis and Amyntas: that in a pastorall; this in a funerall; both in English hexameters. By Abraham Fraunce.
Fraunce, Abraham,active 1587-1633.
Watson, Thomas,1557?-1592.Amyntas.English.
Tasso, Torquato,1544-1595.Aminta.
Virgil.Bucolica.2.English.
Heliodorus,of Emesa.Aethiopica.English.Selections.
London : Printed by Thomas Orwyn for William Ponsonby, dwelling in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Bishops head,
1591.
In verse.
The first part is adapted from "Aminta" by Torquato Tasso; the second is a revision of Fraunce's translation of "Amyntas" by Thomas Watson. Followed by translations of the second Bucolic of Virgil (first published in Fraunce's "The lawiers logike"), and of the opening of "Aethiopica" by Heliodorus.
Signatures: A-M⁴.
A third part was published the following year.
Microopaque only contains "Amyntas".
Copy filmed at UMI microfilm Early English Books, Tract Supplement reel E4 has title page only.
STC (2nd ed.)
Greg
Pforzheimer
ESTC
Microopaque.
Microfilm.