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(vi) 'The Songe after Dinner at the two Ladies entrance.'

Celebrates the setting free by a prince's grace, of captive knights and ladies, and bids farewell to inconstancy.

(vii) 'The Ladies Thankesgeuing for theire Deliuerie from Unconstancie.'

A speech to the Queen, in the same vein as (vi), followed by a dialogue between Li[berty], or Inconstancy, and Constancy. This is datable in 1592 from another copy printed in The Phoenix Nest (1593), with the title 'An Excellent Dialogue betweene Constancie and Inconstancie: as it was by speech presented to her maiestie, in the last Progresse at Sir Henrie Leighes house'. Yet another copy, in ''Inner Temple Petyt MS.'' 538, 43, f. 299. 'A Dialogue betweene Constancie and Inconstancie spoken before the Queenes Majestie at Woodstock' is ascribed to 'Doctor Edes'.

(viii) 'The last Songe.'

A rejoicing on the coming of Eliza, with references to constancy and inconstancy, the aged knight, and the pillar and crown.

(ix) 'The second daies woorke where the Chaplayne maketh this Relation.'

An Oration to the Queen by the chaplain of Loricus, 'an owlde Knight, now a newe religiouse Hermite'. The story of Loricus was once told [in 1575] 'by a good father of his owne coate, not farr from this coppies'. Once he 'rann the restles race of desire Sometymes he consorted with couragious gentelmen, manifesting inward joyes by open justes, the yearly tribute of his dearest Loue. Somtimes he summoned the witnesse of depest conceiptes, Himmes & Songes & Emblemes, dedicating them to the honor of his heauenlye mistres'. Retiring, through envy and age, to the country, he found the speaker at a homely cell, made him his chaplain, and built for their lodging and that of a page 'the Crowne Oratory', with a 'Piller of perpetual remembraunce' as his device on the entrance. Here he lies, at point of death, and has addressed his last testament to the Queen. This is in verse, signed 'Loricus, columnae coronatae custos fidelissimus', and witnessed by 'Stellatus, rectoriae coronatae capellanus', and 'Renatus, equitis coronatae servus obseruantissimus'.

(x) 'The Page bringeth tydings of his Maister's Recouerie & presenteth his Legacie.'

A further address to the Queen, with a legacy in verse of the whole Mannor of Loue, signed by Loricus and witnessed by Stellatus and Renatus.

This exhausts the Ferrers MS., but I can add from the Petyt MS. f. 300^v—

(xi) 'The melancholie Knights complaint in the wood.'

This, like (vii), is ascribed in the MS. to 'Doctor Edes'. It consists of 35 lines in 6 stanzas of 6 lines each (with one line missing) and begins:

What troupes are theis, which ill aduised, presse Into this more than most vnhappie place.