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R. Child, in his "Large Letter" in Hartlib's Legacie, gives the explanation of the difference in the custom: "Our sheep do not follow their shepherds as they do in all other countries: for the shepherd goeth before and the sheep follow like a pack of dogs. Dante, Purg. It is related that a neighbour's sow strayed on Tremelius' land and was caught and killed as a vagrant.
Among his romances may be mentioned Euphues' Shadow, Forbonius and Prisceria , and Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie . His poems include Glaucus and Scilia , Phillis honoured with Pastoral Sonnets, Elegies, and Amorous Delights . Rosalynde, his best known work, and the source from which Shakespeare is said to have drawn As you like It, was written to beguile the tedium of a voyage to the Canaries.
They had, however, a test for sourness of land which is still practised even where the convenient litmus paper is available. On the general question of pasture vs. arable land, cf. Hartlib's Legacie: "It is a misfortune that pasture lands are not more improved. England abounds in pasturage more than any other country, and is, therefore, richer.
The book is not to be found in his sale catalogue; he had Lyly's plays in quarto, seven of them each marked 'rare, and he had two copies of a well-known book called Euphues Golden Legacie, written by Thomas Nash. The Perkins Sale catalogue shows neither of Lyly's novels. List after list of the spoils of mighty book-hunters has only a blank where the Anatomy of Wit ought to be.
"If any discord 'twixt my friends arise Within the Borough of beloved Saint Ies, It is desyred that this my cup of love To every one a peacemaker may prove; Then am I blest, to have given a legacie So like my heart unto posteritie." A little later we read of sixpence paid "to one that did whipp the mayde that would drowne herself"; from which it is clear that the town did not encourage suicide.
"The improving a kingdom in matter of husbandry is better than conquering a new kingdom," says old Samuel Hartlib, Milton's friend, in his Legacie. It is a curious fact that as the Romans derived agricultural wisdom from their ancient enemies, so did the English. Cf. Thorold Rogers' Six Centuries of Work and Wages. "We owe the improvements in English agriculture to Holland.
He is thought to have died of the plague in 1625. "ROSALYNDE. EUPHUES' GOLDEN LEGACIE: Found after his death in his cell at Silexedra, Bequeathed to Philantus' sonnes nursed up with their Father in England. Fetched from the Canaries by T.L., Gent." Such is the fanciful title of the story which Shakespeare transformed into "As You Like it."
HENRY V. . MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Partly from Italian. AS YOU LIKE IT Lodge's Rosalynde, Euphues' Golden Legacie. TWELFTH NIGHT B. Riche's Apolonius and Silla. THIRD PERIOD 1602-1608 JULIUS CÆSAR North's Plutarch. OTHELLO Cinthio's Hecatommithi. LEAR do. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA North's Plutarch. CORIOLANUS do.
And I must sue to him! be witnes, heaven, If this poore life were forfeyt to his mercy, At such a rate I hold a scornd subiection I would not give a penney to redeeme it. I have liv'd ever free, onely depended Upon the honestie of my faire Actions, Nor am I now to studdy how to die soe. Bred. Take better thoughts. Bar. They are my first and last, The legacie I leave my friends behind me.
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