Ornatus sees his mistress asleep and in a kind of deshabille, employs a noble go-between, Adellena (a queer spelling of "Adelina" which may be intentional), is rejected with apparent indignation, of course; writes elaborate letters in vain, but overhears Artesia soliloquising confession of her love for him and disguises himself as a girl, Silvia.

Then the villain of the piece, Floretus, to obtain the love of this supposed Silvia, murders a person of distinction and plots to poison Artesia herself.

Ornatus-Silvia is banished: and all sorts of adventures and disguises follow, entirely in the Greek style.

The book is not very long, extending only to signature R in a very small quarto.

Except that it is much less lively and considerably less "free," it reminds one rather in type of Kynaston's verse _Leoline and Sydanis_.