is in the Bodleian Library in England. A reprint, which was limited to sixty copies, was edited by John Payne Collier in 1867. The second edition was also published in 1557; thirty of Grimald's poems were removed but thirty-nine additional ones were added to the "uncertain authors" category with a final tally of 281 poems. There are only two copies of this work in existence left, one in the Grenville Collection at the British Museum, the other at Trinity College, Cambridge. The next seven editions were all printed between 1558 and 1586, with the final ninth edition being published in 1587. Impact It was so popular during the Elizabethan era it is considered the most influential of all Elizabethan miscellanies. It is generally included with Elizabethan era literature even though it was, in fact, published in 1557, a year before Elizabeth I took the throne. Shakespeare uses some of its verses in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Hamlet, and directly quotes the anonymous poem "Against him that had slaundered a gentlewoman with him selfe", in The Rape of Lucrece: "To me came Tarquin, armed to beguild, With outward honesty but yet defiled..." In the Miscellany the quote is "so was the house defiled, Oh Collatiue: so was the wife beguilde." Songes and Sonettes is also known as the most important English poetic collection in the 16th century and inaugurated a long series of poetic anthologies in Elizabethan England. References External links Tottel's Miscellany edited by Edward Arber at Internet Archive. 1557 books English poetry anthologies 16th-century poetry books