A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie
By: gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish gardins of Euripides, Ouid, Petrarke, Ariosto, and others ; and partly by inuention, out of our owne fruitefull orchardes in Englande, yelding sundrie sweete sauours of tragical, comical, and morall discourses, bothe pleasaunt and profitable to the well smellyng noses of learned readers
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 244
Publisher: Imprinted for Richarde Smith
Published: 1573
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Notes: Colophon on verso of X4 (1st count): Printed by Henrie Bynneman for Richarde Smith.

"[Henry] Middleton app[arently] pr[inted] 2nd A to the end."--STC (2nd ed.)

Errors in paging, including 37-44 (1st count) omitted in the numbering.

"Faultes escaped": verso of 3d prelim. leaf.

First edition; reprinted, with a few omissions and additions and with a different arrangement of the poems, in 1575 with title: The posies of George Gascoigne ...

The first part of this volume (A-X⁴) contains "The supposes" and "Jocasta". The first of these is Gascoigne's prose adaptation of Ariosto's comedy "Gli suppositi" and is the earliest extant comedy in English prose; from it Shakespeare probably derived the underplot for "The taming of the shrew". The "Jocasta" is a tragedy translated from Dolce (not adapted from Euripides, as pretended) by Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmersh; it is the second earliest English tragedy in blank verse.

Signatures: A⁴, B⁴ (B1-2 cancelled), C-X⁴, A-Y⁴, Aa-Ii⁴ (Ii4 blank).

Variants are: line 3, p 445 reads "... they feede their fancies so." or "... they holde their fancies so."

STC (2nd ed.) 11635