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 224 NOTES AND QUERIES. [w» s. iv. SEPT. w. Cluveriua Florilegium. GreekeTest., two. Ovida Metam., two. Antiquit. Hibernise. Isocratia Scripts, Systemse Logicie. Megirua (?). Eleanchua Mot., £c. (-')• •Tanua Ling. French Grammer. iSmetiua. Keckermans Geomet. De Sapient. .Egypt. Tulliea Epiatlea. Sennert. Epist. (?). Horrace, Juvenall, &c. De Precedentia Reg. Seneca. French Dialougues. Virgills, two. Ovid[a] Epistles, two. Belluni Jugurt. Latine Bibles, two. Dialog. Sacr. Greek Grammer, two. Liviea Orations. Summa Ethiere. Plynys Epistlea. Homer. ., ,A- S. [We hope to print, shortly a note by MR. F. J. OPK on ' A Private Library of Charles I. s Reign. J ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS. (See ante. pp. 1,81,162.) 12. "Though Polypus chaunge his hue, yet -the Salamander keepeth his coulour" (73). "Though the Polipe chaungeth colour every lioure, yet the Saphyre," <fec., 'Mamillia' (ii. 61); and at 17, 180, <fcc., passim in Greene. 13. "Who more traiterous to Phillis then Demophoon ? yet hee a traveller. Who more perjured to Dido then .-Eneas? and he a straunger Who more false to Ariadne then Theseus? yet he a sayler. Who more fickle to Medea then Jason 1 yet he a starter" (77). We have these couples, the four to- gether, in Greene: " Howe trustie was Theseus •to poore Ariadne? Demophoon dissembled •with Phillis and yet she died constant. yKneeas a verie stragler, yet Dido never founde halting. Jason without faith, and yet Medea never fleeting," ' Mamillia' (ii. 225); and the combinations of couples three at a time, or two at a time, occur in every tract. See 4Mamillia' again, pp. 264, 283; 'Tri- tameron ' (iii. 163), .fee. 14. "Euphuee being nipped on the head, •with a pale countenaunce as though his soule had forsaken his body, replyed as followeth " (95). " He stoode as if he had with Medusa's head beene turned toast/--- <ped on the pate with this newe inischaunce," ' Ma- millia ' (ii. 22); " So nipped on the pate with this last clause that hee stoode like one trans- formed by Medusae's head into a stone," 'Tritameron, Second Part'(iii. 145). "Head" occurs vii. 115. This is a regular Greenism, and is of interest from its use by Shakespeare in ' Measure for Measure,' where I have not seen it properly explained. He uses it with reference to a fowl of some sort, and the earliest use I have of it is of killing a hen or partridge in North's 'Doni's Philosophic,' 1570. Greene uses the phrase very often (see Grosart's ' Index'). and it is in Nashe and in Beaumont and Fletcher. " He was nipped in the head like a bird " is in ' Thomas of Reading,' circa 1590. 15. "Though Curio bee as hot as a toast, yet Euphues is as colde as a clocke" (106). " Their talke burnes as hotte as the mount . HUM. when as their affection is as cold as a clock," ' Mamillia' (ii. 66). And for the other simile in Lyly: " If thou be as hot as ye Mount . Ki.ua, faine thy selfe as colde as the hil Caucasus " (117). ''When he faineth Etna he proveth Caucasus," ' Mamillia' (ii. 263). Here 'Euphues to Ephojbus' takes up eighty pages. It is dull reading, or at any rate Greene found it so, and I have made no reference to it. Dr. Dowden has pointed out that it is a translation of Plutarch ' On Education." See note at p. 479 in Arber. 16. '' And in this I resemble the Lappwing. who fearing his young ones to be destroyed by passengers, flyeth with a false cry farre from their nestes, making those that looke for them seeke where they are not" (214). "Thought to shadow his fault with a false colour, & with the Lapwing to cry farthest off from her nest," ' Tritameron of Love' (iii. 78). And again in ' Penelope's Web' (v. 192), 1587, and in 'Alcida' (ix. 102). The intro- duction of this metaphor seems to be due to Lyly, and there was no greater favourite with the Elizabethan poets ; which redounds to their credit, since it had truth in its favour. 17. "I will not deny, but that I am one of those Poets which the painters faine to come unto Homer's bason, there to lap up that he doth cast up " (215). Greene is nicer : " Every onedippes not his finger with Homer in the bason," ' Mourning Garment' (ix. 221). 18. "The Image of a Prince stampt in copper goeth as currant, and a Crow may cry Ave Ccesar without any rebuke" (256). " Caesar's crow durst never cry, Ave, but when she was pearked on the Capitoll,1' ' Pandosto * (iv. 231); " If the Cobler hath taught thee to say Ave Caesar, disdain not thy tutor, because