The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY [containing the xv. books] OF ... EUCLIDE ... now first translated into the Englishe Toung, by H. Billingsley. Whereunto are annexed certaine annotations of the best mathematiciens, etc. 1570.

[The first printed Greek text was published in Basle in 1533.]

EULENSPIEGEL.

A half-mythical German jester, said to have died in 1350. His name is perpetuated in a famous chap-book, once very popular with the peasantry of many nations, and containing many ludicrous stories. The book was probably written by Thomas Murner.

EULENSPIEGEL (TYLL OWLGLASS).

Here beginneth a merye Jest of a man that was called Howleglass and of many marveylous things and Jestes that he dyd in his lyfe, in Eastlande and in many other places. [1528].

'"Eulenspiegel": a series of amusing trickeries which are reflected in the English Robin Goodfellow'.

EURIPIDES. b. 480, d. 406 B.C. Greek tragic dramatist.

JOCASTA: a Tragedie, translated [from the Phoenissæ] and digested into Acte by G. Gascoygne and F. Kinwelmershe [1575].