 A comedy of May's, "The Old Couple," later published in 1658, claims to have been performed in 1636.In 1640 May published a Latin adaptation and translation of his "Continuation" of Lucan, the "Supplementum Lucani".Befitting a major work of neo-Latin poetry it was published in Leiden, one of the centres of continental humanist scholarship, and received dedications from a number of Dutch intellectuals including Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn and Nicolaus Heinsius.