[83] The meaning of his name is thus given by Ascham in his "Scholemaster" (1570): "Εὐφυής is he that is apte by goodnes of witte and appliable by readines of will, to learning, having all other qualities of the minde and partes of the bodie that must an other day serve learning, not troubled, mangled or halfed, but sounde, whole, full, and hable to do their office." So was Grandison.
[84] Arber's reprint, pp. 106 et seq.
[85] "Pantagruel," bk. iii. ch. xxxi.
[86] Compare the meditations of the same sort of the Pedant in the "Pédant joué," of Cyrano de Bergerac.
[87] For instance, the letter on the nursing of children by their mothers (vol. iii. of the original edition, letter 56), and the long letter where Pamela takes to pieces Locke's "Treatise on Education," and remodels it according to her own ideas (vol. iv. letters 48 et seq.).
[88] Arber's reprint, ut supra, "Euphues and his Ephœbus," pp. 123 et seq.
[89] "Euphues and Atheos," Arber's reprint, ut supra, pp. 160, et seq.
[90] "Certeine Letters writ by Euphues to his friends," ibid., pp. 178 et seq.
[91] "Euphues and his England. Containing his voyage and adventures, myxed with sundry pretie discourses of honest love, the description of the countrey, the court and the manner of that Isle.... by John Lyly, Maister of Arte, London 1580," reprinted by Arber, ut supra.
[92] "Euphues and his England," ut supra, p. 442.