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 io- s. iv. SEPT. ic, iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 225 thou pratest in a King's chamber," 'Never too Late ' (viii. 132). 19. "Satirus, not knowing what fire was, wold needs embrace it, and was burned "(259). " Canst thou not drawe nie the fire and warme thee, but thou must with Satyrus kisse it and burne thee 1" ' Arbasto' (iii. 192). 20. " And therefore me thinketh, the time were but lost, in pullyng Hercules' shoe uppon an Infant's foot" (258). " To use this reason in this case is to pull on Hercules' hose on a childe's foot," 'Tritameron' (iii. 68): "Dallie how you list. Hercules' shoo will never serve a childe's foote," ' Penelope's Web'(v. 229); "So, least I should shape Hercules' shoo for a childe's foote, I commit your worship to the Almightie," ' Perimedes' (vii. 6). 21. " Bewitched like those that viewe the head of Medusa, or the Viper tyed to the bough of the Beech tree, which keepeth him in a dead sleepe, though it beginne with a aweete slumber" (209). "Beautie bringeth such extreame delight to the heart, so that as the Viper being tyed to a Beech tree, falleth into a slumber, so diverse have stoode as though with Medusa's head they had bin turned to a stone," ' Mamillia' (ii. 283). 22. " For as ye precious stone Sandastra hath nothing in outward appearance but that which seemeth blacke, but being broken poureth forth beanies lyke the sunne: so vertue," &c. (282). " But sith I hope, Petronius, thou wilt prove like the stone Sandastra. which outwardlie is rough, but inwardly full of glistring beames," 'Mamillia' (ii. 295). From Pliny. 23. " There is a stone in the floud of Th racia, yat whosoever findeth it is never after grieved " (317). " The propertie of the Thracian stone; for who toucheth it, is exempted from griefe," ' James the Fourth ' (xiii. 290). 24. " But as that rude Poette Cherilus hadde nothing to be noted in his verses, but onely the nameof Alexander So Euphues hath no one thing," &c. (321). "As the Poet Uherillus had nothing to be praised in his verses but the name of Alexander, so he hath nothing," Ac.,'Maraillia'(ii. 293). 25. " It is a mad Hare yat will be caught with a Taber, and a foolishe bird that staieth .the laying salt on hir taile, and a blinde goose that commeth to the Foxe's sermon, Euphues is not entangled with Philautus' charmes" (327). " It is a mad Hare, Arbasto, that will be caught with a Taber, a greedie fish that commeth to a bare hooke, a blind goose that runneth to the foxe's sermon, and shee a loving foole," &c., ' Arbasto' (iii. 208-9). 26. "If I should say anything, then would you boast that I would be woed, for that castles that come to parleie and women- that delight in courting, are willing to yeelde" (334). " Syr, quoth she, although the common proverb saieth that the Citie [generally Town "1 which comes to parle and the woman that lendes an attentive eare, the one is soon sacked, and the other is easilye gayned," ' Mamillia' (ii. 63). 27. "Camilla to Philautus thinking women are to be drawen by their coyned and counterfait conceipts as the straw is by the Amber or the yron by the Loadstone, or the gold by the minerall Chrysocolla as little agreement shal there be between us as is betwixt the Vine and the Cabish, the Oke and the Olyve tree, the yron and Thea- medes But if thou attempt againe to wring water out of the Pommice, thou shalt augment thy shame and my severitie " (372- 374). " Doralicia to Arbasto Dost thou thinke 1 will be drawne by thy countorfaite conceites, as the strawe by the iet, or as the gold by the minerall chrysocolla ] no, no, if thou seekest to obtaine favour at my hands, thou doest strive to wring water out of the Pummyce, and doest worke the meanes to increase thine owne shame and my severitie : for as by instinct of nature there is a secret hate betweene the vine and the cabash, be- tweene the boxe and the goord, and betweene iron and ye Theamicles, so in my minde I feele," &c., 'Arbasto' (iii. 236-7). Lyly got some of this from Pliny. 28. " Not farre differing from the natures- of Dragons, who, sucking bloud out of the Elephant, kill him, and with the same poyson themselves" (372). "He playeth like the- Dragon, who, sucking bloud out of the Ele- phant, kylleth him, and wyth the same poisoneth hir selfe," 'Arbasto' (iii. 220). 29. "No Ivory so tough but seasoned with Zutho it may be ingraven " (382). Ver- batim in ' Arbasto' (iii. 215); and repeated in ' Alcida' (ix. 34), " Zutho" becoming. " Zathe " in the latter. This has been men- tioned above in Greene's repetition of himself. 30. " Hard is the choice, fayre Ladye, when one is compelled eyther by silence to dye with greefe, or by writing to live with shame" (354-5, and 425). This is a very old senti- ment, occurring in Euripides, in the Latin Vulgate (Book of Tobit), in Rabelais, i. 39j and Malory's ' Morte d'Arthur.' But Euphues- gave it a fresh lease of life, since Ben Jonson quotes from it verbatim (' Every Man out of his Humour," V. vii.). And Burton (' Anat. of Melancholy,' ed. 1854, p. 609) refers to Euphues for it. " The choice is hard, Madame Dora- licia (quoth I), where the partie is compelled