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EDWARDS  . C- Old Plays, vol. i., and Ancient British Drama, vol. i . It is written in rhymed lines of rude construction, varying in length and neglecting the caesura . A number of the author's shorter pieces are preserved in the Paradise of Dainty Devices, first published in 1575, and reprinted in the British Bibliographer, vol. iii.; the best known are the lines on May, the A mantium Irae, and the Commendation of Music, which has the honour of furnishing a stanza to Romeo and Juliet . The Historie of Damocles and Dionise is assigned to him in the 1578 edition of the Paradise . Sir John Hawkins credited him with the part song " In going to my lonely bed "; the words are certainly his, and probably the music . In his own day Edwards was highly esteemed . The fine poem, " The Soul's Knell," is supposed to have been written by him when dying . See Grove's Diet. of Music (new edition) ; the Shakespeare Soc . Papers, vol. ii. art. vi.; Ward, English Dram . Literature, vol. i .