| Philos and Licia (1624) by Anonymous |
| Pyramus and Thisbe (1617) by Dunstan Gale |
| The Love of Dom Diego and Ginevra (1596) by Richard Lynche |
| Mirrha (1607) by William Barksted |
| Hiren (1611) by William Barksted |
| Amos and Laura (1613) by Samuel Page |
| The Scourge of Venus (1613) by H. A. |
| Introduction | VII |
| A Pleasant and Delightfull Poeme of Two Lovers, Philos and Licia. | 1 |
| Pyramus and Thisbe. By Dunstan Gale. | 37 |
| The Love of Dom Diego and Ginevra. By Richard Lynche. | 61 |
| Mirrha the Mother of Adonis: or, Lustes Prodegies. By William Barksted. | 103 |
| Hiren: or The Faire Greeke. By William Barksted. | 169 |
| The Love of Amos and Laura. By Samuel Page. | 213 |
| The Scourge of Venus. By H. A. | 229 |
Professor Elizabeth Story Donno, in her recent Elizabethan Minor Epics(New York, 1963), has made an important contribution to bothscholarship and teaching. Not only has she brought together for thefirst time in one volume most of the extant Elizabethan minor epics,but in so doing, she has hastened the recognition that the minor epic,or "epyllion" as it has often been called in modern times,[1] is adistinctive literary genre as deserving of study as the sonnet, thepastoral, or the verse satire.
The purpose of the present volume is to supplement and complementProfessor Donno's collection by making available in facsimile sevenminor epics of the English