In verse.

Leaf L4 is blank.

"The glasse of time, in the second age" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous.

Signatures: pi¹ A-Y⁴ Z⁴ (-Z4)

Some copies have a part 2 title page substituted for the first; one copy may have had a slip over "second", the others have it erased and "first" substituted in MS.

Variant: with an additional dedication to James I.

Another setting of the title page has "Seene and allowed." below author statement and imprint has "printed by Bernard Alsop, for Lawrence Chapman"

Prefixed to the poem are four dedications, all in verse: "To [king] James"; "To Prince Charles, Prince of Wales"; "To Francis [Bacon], Lord Verulam"; and "To the reader".

This poem bears a great resemblance to Milton's Paradise Lost, which appeared about 40 years later, and which according to the belief of some authorities was suggested by it.

STC (2nd ed.), 19824

ESTC (RLIN), S114595

This copy has the general title-page and a separate title-page for [Pt. II.]: "The glasse of time in the second age". Both titles are within ornamental borders, with a supposed portrait of the author "Ætatis 31". There is no separate title-page for [Pt. I].

This copy has the general title-page and a separate title-page for [Pt. II.]: "The glasse of time in the second age". Both titles are within ornamental borders, with a supposed portrait of the author "Ætatis 31". There is no separate title-page for [Pt. I].

The title-page to [Pt. I] "The glasse of time in the firste age" has ornamental borders with the supposed portrait of the author "Ætatis 31". It has been repaired on the outer edge in facsimile.

This copy does not have the general title-page nor the title-page to [Pt. II.].