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 10* S. V. MARCH 17, 1906.] NOTES AND QUERIES,

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Greene, 'Mamillia' (ii. 45), 1583. And in Greene.
 * Tritameron ' (iii. 117). A favourite with

" Taking great gifts for little gods," Lodge, 24. "Gifts are little gods," Greene, 'Euphues to Philautus' (vi. 350), 1587. But earlier in Lyly's plays.

"Love taking her at discovert stroke so

deepe," Lodge, 32. - "Cupid seeing hir

now at discovert, drew home to the head, and stroke hir so deepe," Greene, 'Arbasto' (iii. 245), 1584. And in 'Mamillia,' ii. 189, 255, &c.

" Unfortunate Rosalynde, whose mis- fortunes," &c., Lodge, 33. A form of soliloquy very characteristic of Greene : iii. 196, 210 ; iv. 279, &c.

"Si nihil attuleris ibis Homere foras," Lodge, 34. Greene, 'Orpharion' (xii. 80), 1589 1 And elsewhere in Greene.

"Solamen miseris so/:ios habuisse doloris," Lodge, 40. Greene (vi. 45), * Menaphon,' 1589.

" Amantium ine amoris redintegratip est," Lodge, 23. Greene, * Tullie's Love ' (vii. 124), 1589; and * Never too Late' (viii. 183), 1590.

" Olim hsec meminisse juvabit," Lodge, 40. Greene, 'Ixoyall Exchange' (vii. 235), 1590. "You may see (quoth Ganimede) what mad cattel you women be," Lodge, 42. "And yet women are wylie cattel," Greene, * Never too Late '(viii. 190), 1590.

" By the help of Coridon swapt a bargaine with his Landslord," Lodge, 54." We swapt a bargaine," Greene (xi. 19), 1592.

"If they passe over your playntes, sicco ped-e," Lodge, 55." But sicco pede past them over," Greene, ' Never too Late ' (viii. 28).

"Constant in nothing but inconstancie," Lodge, 58. " Constant in nothing but in- constancie," Greene, * Penelope's Web ' (v. 178), 1587. Perhaps earlier in Lyly's 'Galathea.'

"Drawe him out of his memento with a shake by the shoulder," Lodge, 28 (twice) and 74. From Greene (iii. 128), 1587.

"Thou hast with the deere fedde against the winde, with the crabbe strove against the streame," Lodge, 64." He found that to wrestle with love was with the crabbe to swimme against the streame, and with the deere to feede against the wind," Greene,
 * Planetomachia ' (v. 115), 1585.

'* There is no sting to the worm of con- science, no hell to a mind toucht with guilt/' Lodge, 64. "The worme of conscience" is in Greene's ' Philomela,' xi. 168 and 190 ; and in his * Groatsworth of Wit ' (xii. 109 and 138), both later than 'Rosalynd.'

<v ln loving mee thou shalt but live by the 1 losse," Lodge, 109. Several times in Greene..

"Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus^" Lodge, 115. Quoted by Greene, 'Penelope'* Web' (v. 151), 1587, and 'Never too Late" (viii. 52), 1590.

'* Women's ears are sooner content with a pound of give me than a dram of have me," Lodge, p. 34. Greene (vi. 263), 1587. Bub earlier in Lyly's plays.

"Women necessary evils," Lodge, 117.

Greene, ' Tritameron ' (iii. 101), 1587.

" Why but Montanus, quoth Ganimede,'' Lodge, 124. "Why but Doralice," and "Why but Gwydonius," in Greene, iii. 247 and iv. 67, &c.

" Ganimede rose as one that would suffer no fish to hang on his fingers," Lodge, 127. In Greene's 'Mamillia' (ii. 85 and 244), 1583V, and 'Carde of Fancie 7 (iv. 140), 1587.

And Lodge gives us the Wolves of Syria,. Apis indica, the herb Spattania, and several other standard Euphuisms of Greene's.

Lodge says he wrote this romance whil'e- on board ship. It is hardly likely, but of course it is possible, he had all Greene's tracts with him to make use of, even if he would have stooped to such work. It is much more likely that Greene polished up the tract for the press with Ms own orna* mentation.

Greene and De la Primaudaye.

At the outset of this survey I referred 1 sufficiently to the work which I shall hence- forth merely designate as Primaudaye, its- date of appearance being 1586. With the- original French (1577) we have nothing to do. La Primaudaye was born circa 1545, of a Protestant family in Anjou. He enjoyed great reputation in his own time, but he- makes no figure in histories of French litera- ture. He resided at Court under Henri III.,, and was conseiller and maltre d'kotel under Henri IV. The date of his death is unknown. He wrote other works, chiefly of a religious nature.

As Primaudaye is the original writer, I put my references to him in the first place, as with Lyly ; and though unable to give the exact date of the edition I ara referring to,, but certain that it is identical, except in pagination, with that of 1586, I give the- page- reference as well as the chapter. It is a dumpy quarto, of 812 pages, with a final table of contents of 10 pages ; a preliminary 'Epistle Dedicatorie' by the translator,- T(homas) B(owes) C. (?), of 5 pages (wherein he designates the work "this PlatonicaJ Academic & Schoole of Moral Philosophy ") ;