Thomas Peend or Delapeend (fl. 1556–1577) was a Tudor poet and lawyer. He is chiefly remembered as the author-translator of A Pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditus...

great work. In his Pleasant Fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis (1565), Thomas Peend says that he had already started on his own version when he heard that...

English verses were supplied by H. C., T. B., and W. Parkar, as well as by Thomas Peend (here Delapeend), who was recently the author, in 1565, of Hermaphroditus...

of Adventures (1576); and Thomas Twyne, a fairly prolific author. One of his gifted literary-minded pupils was Thomas Peend. Twyne was a reputed antiquary...