Sir Francis Walsingham, to the effect that the bookseller, William Ponsonby, had informed him that some one was about to print the Arcadia, and that if they were acting without authority a notification of the fact should be lodged with the archbishop.  Greville proceeds to say that he had sent to Walsingham’s daughter, that is, Lady Sidney, the corrected manuscript of the work ’don 4 or 5 years sinse, which he left in trust with me; wherof there is no more copies, and fitter to be reprinted then the first, which is so common[144].’  A complaint was evidently lodged, and the publication stayed, and we may assume that Ponsonby was rewarded for his notification by being entrusted with the publication of the revised manuscript mentioned by Greville, for it was from his house that issued the quarto edition of 1590.  Evidence that it was Greville who was responsible for the publication of the Arcadia is found in the dedication of Thomas Wilson’s manuscript translation from the Diana, where, addressing Greville, the translater speaks of Sir Philip’s Arcadia, ‘w^{ch} by yo^{r} noble vertue the world so hapily enjoyes.’  In this edition, containing the first two and a half books only, the division into chapters and the arrangement of the incidental verse were the work of the ‘over-seer of the print.’  The text, however, was not considered satisfactory, and when the romance was reprinted in 1593 the division into chapters was discarded, certain alterations were made in the arrangement of the verse, and there was added another portion of the third book, together with a fourth and fifth, compiled by the Countess of Pembroke from the loose sheets sent her from time to time by her brother.  This edition has been commonly regarded as the first published with due authority, and the term ‘surreptitious’ has been quite unjustly applied to the original quarto.  The charge, indeed, receives colour from the preface, signed H. S., to the second edition; but, whoever H. S. may have been, there is nothing to make one suppose that he was speaking with authority.  The quarto of 1590 having been duly licensed on August 23, 1588, the rights of the work were in Ponsonby’s hands, and to him the publication of the revised edition had to be entrusted.  In 1598 a third edition, to which other remains of the author were for the first time added, was also published by Ponsonby.  There still remained, however, a lacuna in Book III, which was not remedied till 1621, when a supplement was added from the pen of Sir William Alexander.  In the edition of 1627 a sixth book was appended, the work of one Richard Beling, whose initials alone, however, appear.  The early editors seem to have assumed that the unfinished state of the work, or rather the unrevised state of the later portions, was due to the author’s early death, but most of it must have been written between the years 1581 and 1583, and it may well be questioned whether in any case Sidney would have bestowed any further attention