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Thomas Peend (de la Pend) ( fl . 1559–66), son and heir of John Peend of Leeds in Kent, matriculated as a pensioner at Christ's College, Cambridge in May 1559 and was admitted to the Middle Temple five years later, on 15 May 1564 ( Venn & Venn 1922–54 ; Sturgess 1949 ). There he published the two translations in fashionable genres for which he is remembered, both in 1565: The pleasant fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis , from Ovid's Metamorphoses , and The history of John Lord Mandozze , based on Bandello's Novelle . Peend apparently composed no further works apart from a commendatory poem to John Studley's translation of Seneca's Agamemnon (1566), and nothing more is known about his life. In the letter of dedication to Hermaphroditus and Salmacis , Peend claims that he had started on a full translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses , but abandoned the project when he discovered someone had pre-empted him – a reference, no doubt, to Arthur Golding, whose translation of the first four books of Ovid's work appeared earlier in 1565 and whose full translation was published two years later in 1567. Hermaphroditus and Salmacis , however, belongs to the popular Elizabethan genre of the translation or adaptation of a single story from the Metamorphoses . The poem recounts the narrative from book IV of the boy Hermaphroditus, who, curious to see the world, travels to the country ... log in or subscribe to read full text