Edwards may have contributed the Latin verse to Adriaan van Roomen's Parvum theatrum urbium, published in 1595.
Edwards's poems were published as a single volume in 1595; Cephalus and Procris is in couplet form, Narcissus using a seven-line stanza.
[4] A mysterious poet "in purple robes" praised at the end of the list has not been convincingly identified.
Various authors starting with Thomas Warton have suggested that Shakespeare satirised Cephalus and Procris in the Pyramus and Thisbe episode in A Midsummer Night's Dream, supposedly written by an incompetent poet, Peter Quince.
However, this view has been generally discounted since the poem was located, as it bears no resemblance to the verses attributed to Peter Quince.