title: Pleasant Dialogues and Dramas
title_page_title: PLEASANT DIALOGVES AND DRAMMA'S, ... With sundry <i>Emblems</i> ... As also certaine <i>Elegies, Epitaphs</i>, and <i>Epithalamions</i> or <i>Nuptiall Songs</i>; <i>Anagrams</i> and <i>Acrosticks</i>; With divers Speeches (upon severall occasions) ... With other <i>Fancies</i>
title_page_author: SELECTED OVT OF L<small>UCIAN</small>, E<small>RASMUS</small>, T<small>EXTOR</small>, O<small>VID</small>, &c. ... extracted from the most elegant <i>Iacobus Catsius</i>. ... translated from B<small>EZA</small>, B<small>UCANAN</small>, and sundry Italian Poets. <i>By</i> T<small>HO</small>. H<small>EYWOOD</small>.
title_page_performance: spoken to their most Excellent Majesties, King C<small>HARLES</small>, and Queene M<small>ARY</small>.
title-page_latin_motto: <i>Aut prodesse solent, aut delectare</i>.——
title_page_imprint: LONDON, Printed by <i>R. O.</i> for <i>R. H.</i> and are to be sold by <i>Thomas </i>S<i>later</i> at the S<i>wan</i> in <i>Duck-lane</i>. 1637.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: Henry Carey (1st Earl of Dover); <i>from</i>: Thomas Heywood [A3r]
paratext_other_paratexts: "The Table" of contents [A6r]; "The Annotations upon" several texts [T7r], including <i>Jupiter and Io</i> [V5r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Aug 29, 1635: Entered to Richard Hearne: "A booke called Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's selected out of Lucian Erasmus Textor Ovid. &c by Tho: Heywood."
transcript_modern_spelling: Pleasant dialogues and dramas selected out of Lucian Erasmus textor ovid etc. with sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant jacobus catsius as also certain elegies epitaphs and epithalamiums or nuptial songs anagrams and acrostics with divers speeches upon several occasions spoken to their most excellent majesties king charles and queen mary with other fancies translated from beza Buchanan and sundry Italian poets by tho. Heywood aut prodesse solent aut delectare London printed by r.o. for r.h. and are to be sold by Thomas slater at the swan in duck lane 1637