In 1593 Richard Field obtained a license to print a work entitled The first Parte of Christian Passions, conteyninge a hundred Sonnets of Meditation, Humiliation, and Prayer. No copy of this book is now extant. In 1597 Richard Field printed Lok's verse rendering of Ecclesiastes.Ecclesiastes, otherwise called the Preacher, compendiously abridged, and also paraphristically dilated in English Poesie. . .composed by H. L., Gentleman. Whereunto are annexed sundrie Sonets of Christian Passions heretofore printed, and now corrected and augmented, with other affectionate Sonets of a feeling Conscience of the same Authors (London). The whole work is dedicated by Lok to Queen Elizabeth. An address to the reader, in which he refers to earlier paraphrases of Ecclesiastes by Theodore Beza, Tremellius, and others, is followed by commendatory verses, including some in Latin, by John Lyly, and others in English by 'M.C.,' i.e. Michael Cosworth, Lok's cousin. With it are printed Sundry Psalms of David, translated into Verse as briefly and significantly as the scope of the Text will suffer.
