title: Romancio-Mastrix, or A Romance on Romances
variant_description: There are three issues of this collection, with different book titles and author attributions on their title pages. Wing H2437 contains the original title leaf dated 1656; its preliminaries contain a dedication but not an engraved frontispiece. In Wing H2445, dated 1656, the original half-sheet <i>A</i><sup>4</sup> was replaced by a single fold <i>A</i><sup>2</sup>; its preliminaries contain an engraved frontispiece [<i>A</i>1v] but no dedication. In Wing H2443, dated 1660, the original half-sheet <i>A</i><sup>4</sup> was replaced a single fold <i>A</i><sup>2</sup>; its preliminaries contain an engraved frontispiece [<i>A</i>1v] but no dedication, and the imprint lists the book as "Printed for the Author." (Greg distinguishes these three issues as 768a(i), 768a(ii), and 768a(iii), but these changes to the collection do not affect the play <i>Venus and Adonis</i>, which remains unchanged in each issue). See also Wing 
title_page_title: <i>Romancio-Mastrix:</i> OR, A Romance on  Romances. <i>In which the prodigious vanities of a great part of them are </i>(<i>as in a Mirrour</i>)<i> most lively represented, and so naturally personated, that the ingenious Reader, observing their deformities, may delightfully be instructed and invited to the pursuing of more honourable and profitable Studies</i>.
title_page_author: By <i>Samuel Holland</i>, Gent.
title-page_latin_motto: H<small>ORAT</small>. [in single column] <i>Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci</i>. | No man more worthy, of true praise doth write | Then he who mingleth profit with delight.
title_page_imprint: Printed for the Author, in the year of our L<small>ORD</small>. 1660.
transcript_modern_spelling: Romancio-mastix or a romance on romances in which the prodigious vanities of a great part of them are as in a mirror most lively represented and so naturally personated that the ingenious reader observing their deformities may delightfully be instructed and invited to the pursuing of more honorable and profitable studies by Samuel Holland gent. Horat omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci no man more worthy of true praise doth write than he who mingleth profit with delight. Printed for the author in the year of our lord 1660