in 1632 was followed by an authorized version a plagiarii unguibus vindicata, aucta et agnita ab Aithore, Gulielmo, Alabastro. One book of an epic poem in Latin hexameters, in honour of Queen Elizabeth, is preserved in manuscript (MS) in the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. This poem, Elisaeis, Apotheosis poetica, Spenser highly esteemed. "Who lives that can match that heroick song?" he says in Colin Clout's come home againe, and begs "Cynthia" to withdraw the poet from his obscurity. Alabaster's later cabalistic writings are Commentarius de Bestia Apocalyptica (1621) and Spiraculum tubarum (1633), a mystical interpretation of the Pentateuch. These theological writings won the praise of Robert Herrick, who calls him "the triumph of the day" and the "one only glory of a million". List of works: Roxana – () Latin drama. Elisaeis – Latin epic on Elizabeth I. Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu Christi (1607). De bestia Apocalypsis (1621) Ecce sponsus venit (1633) Spiraculum Tubarum (1633) Lexicon Pentaglotton, Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Talmudico-Rabbinicon et Arabicum (1637) Notes References – Traces the lineage of the Winthrop family from 1498 forward 200 years. William Alabaster, Book Owners Online. Attribution Endnotes: T. Fuller, Worthies of England (ii. 343) J. P. Collier, Bibl. and Crit. Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language (vol. i. 1865) Pierre Bayle, Dictionary, Historical and Critical (ed. London, 1734) The Athenaeum (December 26, 1903), where Mr. Bertram Dobell describes a MS. in his possession containing forty-three sonnets by Alabaster. Further reading both books Ceri Sullivan, examine Alabaster's prose and poetry respectively. External links Text of Alabaster's Carmina Text of Alabaster's Conversion, Text of Alabaster's Intelligence Report, 1599 Text of Alabaster's Roxana, translated by Dana F. Sutton. Text of Alabaster's Six Responses, 1598 1567 births 1640 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 17th-century English poets 17th-century English male writers 17th-century English writers English dramatists and playwrights People from Hadleigh, Suffolk English Roman Catholics 16th-century English poets 17th-century English Anglican priests 16th-century Roman Catholics 17th-century Roman Catholics English religious writers English male dramatists and playwrights English male poets People from Little Shelford 16th-century Latin-language writers 17th-century Latin-language writers New Latin-language poets Sonneteers