The volume contained commendatory verses by Michael Drayton, among others, and was dedicated to George Gordon, then Earl of Enzie, son and heir to George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, and a favourite of King James, who had him educated with his own sons, Prince Henry and Prince Charles.
[6] Another poem by Holland, the satirical A continued just inquisition against paper persecutors, was appended to A Scourge for Paper-Persecutors (1625).
Included in it were an elegy on King James, an elegy on Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford, a lengthy poem on the 1625 plague in London, an epistle to his father, Philemon Holland, who was in ill health at the time, as well as various epistles, translations of the Psalms in verse, and his own epitaph.
Holland's 1625 poem on the plague from the Posthuma, under a new title, London Looke-Backe, was appended to Salomon's Pest-House or Towre-Royall...By I. D.
[12] Ashmole MS 36–7 f. 157 contains a poem by Holland addressed 'To my honest father, Mr. Michael Drayton, and my new, yet loved friend, Mr. Will.