[193] Plutarch tells the story in his account of Demosthenes (Orat. Vit.):—“Πώλου δέ ποτε τοῦ ὑποκριτοῦ πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰπόντος, ὅτι δυσὶν ἡμέραις ἀγωνισάμενος τάλαντον λάβοι μισθὸν, Ἐγὼ δὲ, εἶπε, τέντε τάλαντα, μίαν ἡμέραν σιωπήσας.”

[194] Nashe persistently twitted Gabriel Harvey with being the son of a ropemaker.

[195] The housings of a horse.

[196] Ed. 1. “hate.”

[197] Eds. 1. and 3. “an.”

[198] “So”—omitted in eds. 1. and 3.

[199] “The œstrum or gadfly is here meant, which extremely torments cattle in the summer. It is metaphorically used for inspired fury of any kind.”—Dilke.

[200] Ovid, Remed. Am., l. 91.

[201] Not marked in eds. 1. and 3.

[202] Eds. 1. and 3. “that have seconded.”