The title-page declares it to be "by Robert Greene, Maister
of Arts, in Cambridge," and to have been printed at London
by "Th. C. for William Ponsonbie. " The date, surprisingly,
is 1593. We have here a difference of ten years, a difference
as strangely unaccountable as that of the First Part, for
the Second Part, too, was both licensed by, and printed for,
the same man. Various theories have been propounded,
among them those of Bernhardi, ¹ as an explanation of these
facts; but the wisest course seems to be that of saying merely
that there is no explanation.

Of the Myrrour of Modestie there is nothing to state
except that there was apparently only one edition, that
"Imprinted at London by Roger Warde" 1584, and that
there is no entry of the pamphlet in the Stationers'
Register.

The year 1584 saw the production of four other works.
The first of these was Greenes Carde of Fancie. Of this work
the earliest known edition is that of 1587. I think there
can be no doubt, however, that the pamphlet published in
1587 by Ponsonby is to be identified with that entered by
him on April 11, 1584, that "yt is granted unto him that if
he gett the card of phantasie lawfullie allowed unto him,
that then he shall enioye yt as his own copie."

As regards Arbasto, in spite of the fact that Grosart
found in the S. R. no early notice of it, the pamphlet was,
nevertheless, entered therein on the thirteenth of August,
1584. ² It was published that same year by Jackson, and
it is the first of Greene's works to bear on its title-page his
celebrated motto, "Omne tulit puncture qui miscuit utile
dulci."

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