As early as 1628, that is, in his tenth year, he composed his "Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe", an epic romance written in a six-line stanza, a style of his own invention. It is not too much to say that this work is the most astonishing feat of imaginative precocity on record; it is marked by no great faults of immaturity, and possesses constructive merits of a very high order. Two years later the child wrote another and still more ambitious poem, "Constantia and Philetus", being sent about the same time to Westminster School. Here he displayed extraordinary mental precocity and versatility, and wrote in his thirteenth year the "Elegy on the Death of Dudley, Lord Carlton". These three poems of considerable size, and some smaller ones, were collected in 1633, and published in a volume entitled "Poetical Blossoms", dedicated to Lambert Osbaldeston, the head master of the school, and prefaced by many laudatory verses by schoolfellows.