Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood

A speech spoken to their two excellent Majesties, at the first Play play'd by the Queenes Servants, in the new Theater at White Hall.

When Greece, the chiefe priority might claime For Arts, and Armes, and held the eminent name Of Monarchie; They erected divers places, Some to the Muses, others to the Graces: Where Actors strove, and Poets did devise With tongue and pen, to please the eares and eyes Of Princely Auditors; The time was, when To heare, the rapture of one Poets pen, A Theater hath beene built, By the fates doome, When th' Empire was removed from thence to Rome. The potent Caesars had their Circi, and Large Amphitheaters: in which might stand And sit, full fourescore thousand, all in view, And touch of voice: This great Augustus knew. Nay Rome, it's wealth, and potency injoyd, Till by the barbarous Gothes these were destroy'd. But may this structure last, and you be seene Here a spectator, with your Princely Queene, In your old age, as in your flourishing prime, To out-strip Augustus both in fame and time.