grimald contributed forty poems to the original edition (june 1557) of "songes and sonettes" (commonly known as tottel's "miscellany"). two of grimald's poems printed in "miscellany", "the death of zoroas" and "marcus tullius ciceroes death", are regarded as some of the first examples of english blank verse ever published. it is also possible that grimald was an editor of the first edition of miscellany. it is speculated that most of grimald's work was removed from the second edition due to his recantation of protestantism. tottel feared that grimald's recantation would cause book sales to decline, and thus decided to omit many of grimald's original works from the updated version. all of grimald's more personal works were left out of the second edition, and only his initials were used to signify his authorship of the nine remaining poems.