[73] Fragments of which remain in the "Codex Exoniensis," ed. Thorpe, London, 1842, 8vo. The Panther, p. 355; the Whale, p. 360, &c.
[74] "An old English Miscellany, containing a bestiary," ed. R. Morris, London, Early English Text Society, 1872.
[75] Recently published by Miss Lucy Toulmin Smith and M. Paul Meyer, Paris, Société des anciens textes Français, 1889, 8vo.
[76] "The historie of Foure-footed beastes, describing the true and lively figure of every beast," London, 1607, fol. "The historie of Serpents or the second book of living creatures," London, 1608, fol.
[77] "Alcida. Greenes metamorphosis," licensed 1588; earliest known edition, 1617.
[78] "Foure-footed beastes," ut supra, pp. 1, 199, 328, 453.
[79] "Historie of serpents," ut supra, pp. 111, 140, 236, &c.
[80] It should not, however, be thence concluded that Lyly is original in all his moral dissertations; as Dr. Landmann has pointed out (see supra, p. 106) he often borrows large passages from Plutarch and Guevara; but what is remarkable is the intense and persistent conviction, and also the success, at least success in so far that it was read, with which this young man of twenty-five, who was of the world and not of the church, preaches good morals to all classes of society.
[81] Preface to Part II.
[82] "Correspondence of Samuel Richardson," ed. Barbauld, London, 1804, 6 vols. 12mo.