[200] He also wrote several plays.
[201] This would supply the ghost of Varus with a crushing answer to "Give me back my legions!" in such form as "Why did you send me with them?"
[202] At another time there might have been a little gentle satire in this, but hardly then.
[203] It would seem, however, that the Scudérys were not originally Norman.
[204] Chateaubriand hardly counts in strictness.
[205] Although some say that almost every one of the numerous personae of the Astrée had a live original.
[206] These books, having been constantly referred to in this fashion, offer a good many traps, into some of which I have fallen in the past, and may have done so even now. For instance, Körting rightly points out that almost every one calls this "La Jeune Alcidiane," whereas A. is the hero, who bears his mother's name.
[207] I had made this remark before I knew that Körting had anticipated it.
[208] The more recent books which refer to him, and (I think) the British Museum Catalogue, drop this addition. But he was admittedly of the Pontcarré family.
[209] Neither the original, however, nor this revision seems to have enjoyed the further honour of a place in the British Museum. Other books of his which at least sound novelish were Darie, Aristandre, Diotrèphe, Cléoreste (of which as well as of Palombe analyses may be found in Körting). The last would seem to be the most interesting. But in the bibliography of the Bishop's writings there are at least a dozen more titles of the same kind.