181. Poetica, 23, 190.

182. De artis poeticae natura, II, 4.

183. Euphues, edited by M. W. Croll and H. Clemens (New York), Introd. iv.

184. Preface to Maggi's Aristotle (1550), p. 2.

185. Prolog. ibid., p. 15.

186. Spingarn, p. 312.

187. Jacob Pontanus, S. J., Poeticarum institutionum libri tres (Ingolstadi, 1594), p. 36.

188. Ibid, p. 81.

189. "Tres autem sunt virtutes narrationis, brevitas, perspicuitas, probabilitas. Secundam & tertiam diligentissime consectabitur Epicus, earumque rationem a Rhetoricae magistris percepiet," p. 72. These three virtues of a "narratio" are based on the analysis of the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum.

190. Arist., Rhet., III. 16.