sydney's closet drama "antonius" is a translation of a french play, "marc-antoine" (1578) by robert garnier. mary is known to have translated two other works: "a discourse of life and death" by philippe de mornay, which was published with "antonius" in 1592, and petrarch's "the triumph of death," which was circulated in manuscript. her original poems include the pastoral, "a dialogue betweene two shepheards, thenot and piers, in praise of astrea," and two dedicatory addresses, one to elizabeth i and one to her brother philip, contained in the tixall manuscript copy of her verse psalter. an elegy for philip, "the dolefull lay of clorinda", which was published in "colin clouts come home againe" (1595), has been attributed to spenser and to mary herbert, but pamela coren is probably right in awarding it to spenser, and certainly right to say that mary's poetic reputation does not suffer from loss of the attribution.