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with Philoxenus to have his necke as long as a Crane that he may with more pleasure swill in the sweete tast of their superfluous deinties." On the same page in Primaudaye, "We read of the emperor Vitellius Spinter

at one supper seven thousand flying

foules " is copied exactly into Greene's 'Fare- well to Follie,' ix. 336. He alters the version of Vespasian's being chosen emperor, and resumes with Priraaudaye (p. 215) : "In our time Muleasen, king of Thunes [whose name becomes Mulcasser] was so drownd in pleasure"; and the description of a hundred- crown dinner off a peacock, "as Paulus lovius rehearseth," is faithfully transcribed in Greene on p. 337, from the following page in Primaudaye.

Primaudaye, chap. xx., p. 214 : "Alexander

being overtaken with wine, he slew

Ciitus, one of the valientest captains he had, to whom he was beholding for his own life. Afterward, when he was come to himself, he would oftentimes have murdered himself, and wept three days together." Greene

(ix. 337-8): "Alexander at another

dronken feast he slew his faithful friende Ciitus, a worthie captaine and a counsellor, to whome hee had so many times beene beholding for his life, but afterward when he

came to him selfe he sought to shorten

his dayes with his owne sword, and spent many dayes in continuall teares."

Primaudaye, chap. xx. pp. 217-19 : " This is that which Heraclitus meant to teach his countreymen, when, after a sedition appeared and quieted, being asked what waie were best to be taken that the like should not fall out againe : he went up into that place from whence orations were made to the people, & there in steed of speaking, began to eate a morsel of browne bread, and to drinke a glass of water. Which being done he came

downe againe, and spake never a word

If this counsell were ever requisite in a Monarchic, it is certainly most necessarie at this present in ours." Greene, 'Farewell to Follie' (ix. 338): "This meant Heraclitus to teache his countrie men, when after a muti- nous sedition was appeased, and the commons

demanded of him, what antydote cleere

water : thus setting downe a golden precept

by silence if this counsell of Heraclitus

were requisite in a monarchie, what neede have we of such." And on p. 219 in Primau- daye, " Excesse of apparell (saith Erasmus)

rather whetteth the eies of the beholders

thereof to wicked desires than to any honest opinion and conceite," appears exactly in Greene, p. 339 (ut supra), of " trimming and decking out of the bodie," from Erasmus.

Primaudaye (p. 219) continues: "Decke not thy house (saith Epictetus) with tables and pictures, but paint it with temperance. For the one is to feede the eies vainely, but the-

other is an eternall ornament [four line*

omitted]. That great Monarke Augustus- Caesar wore no other garments than such as his vvife and daughters made, and those very modest. Agesilaus, King of Lacedemonia, never had but one kind of garment for winter and summer. Epaminondas, generall captaine of the Thebans, was contented with one onely gowne al the yeere long. Further, if we lookeunto their simplicitie and modestie in their traine it was woorthie of rever- ence." Greene reads (p. 339): "Epictetus- gave this onely precept unto his countrie at hij^leath : Friendes (quoth he) decke not your bodies with curious superfluitie of ap- parell, but paint them with temperaunce, for the one is but a shadowe that bleareth the- eyes, the other an ornament that inricheth the minde Augustus never wore other gar- ments [as above] those verie moderate.

Agesilaus [as above, reading "coat" for " garment "]. Epaminondas [same words]! yeere long : this simplicitie and moderate use," &c.

Primaudaye, chap, xxii., "Of Voluptuos- nes and Lecherie,' p. 235: "Many have- placed their soveraigne good in pleasure and in the enjoyment of those things which most of all tickle the senses. Aristippus and alt the Cyrinaiks, Epicurus, Metrodorus, Chry-

sippus, and many others laboured to-

prove it." Greene, * Farewell to Follie : the Second Discourse of Folly ' (ix. 289) : " The Cyrinaike Philosophers, as Aristippus, Metro- dorus, and Epicurus, who sounded [? founded] their Summum bonum in pleasure, &c." Immediately following in Greene is the alle- gory of Hercules meeting Vice and Vertue (Primaudaye, p. 237), but alterec^ into the rankest nonsense (p. 290) by Greene. On p. 283 in the same tract Greene adduces " Marcus Curcius that had thrice bene dic- tator and triumphed " from Primaudaye,. chap, xxxiii. p. 335, altering "Curius" in- correctly. H. C. HART. (To be continued.)

"ROAN": ITS ETYMOLOGY. The history of this word has never been satisfactorily explained in any etymological work written in English. Prof. Skeat connects the word* with Span, rodado, "a horse of dapple-grey colour," but fails to give a satisfactory account of the suffix -an. See ' Notes on English Etymology,' Philological Society, 1905. An interesting account of the word is