Two months later Lyly's Sapho and Phao was given in the same theater with a cast of seventeen boys.

His "Sapho" and "Kings in Exile" have also been widely read.

(ib.) Parthenia, healed from the poison, returns her right Beauty new shining like the Queen of night, Appearing fresher after she did shroud Her gawdy forehead in a pitchy cloud: Love triumphs in her eyes; (III, end.) and the pastoral poetess Sapho promises an 'epithalamy' for the bridal pair,