googe was an ardent protestant, and his poetry is coloured by his religious and political views. in the third "eglog", for instance, he laments the decay of the old nobility and the rise of a new aristocracy of wealth, and he gives an indignant account of the sufferings of his co-religionists under mary i of england. the other eclogues deal with the sorrows of earthly love, leading up to a dialogue between corydon and cornix, in which the heavenly love is extolled. the volume includes epitaphs on nicholas grimald, john bale and on thomas phaer, whose translation of virgil googe esteemed.