_Origin and Parallels._--_Cf._ Caxton's _aesop_, ed. Jacobs, Ro. iii.

1, vol. i. p. 243.

_Painter_, I. i. 44; II. i. 41; III. i. 79; IV. i. 89.]

XXIII. FAVORINUS.

A pretie disputation of the philosopher Phauorinus, to perswade a woman not to put forth her child to nursse, but to nourishe it herselfe with her owne milke.

[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ xvii. 12.

_Painter_, I. i. 45; II. i. 42; III. i. 77; IV. i. 91.]

XXIV. SERTORIUS.

Of Sertorius, a n.o.ble Romaine capitaine.

[_Source and Origin._--A Gellius, _Noct. Att._

_Painter_, I. i. 48; II. i. 45; III. i. 81; IV. i. 95.

_Derivates._--A tragedy with this t.i.tle, by J. Bancroft, appeared in 1679, but it is scarcely likely to have been derived from Painter.]

XXV. SIBYLLINE LEAVES.

Of the bookes of Sybilla.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 19.

_Origin._--Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ xiii. 28.

_Painter_, I. i. 49; II. i. 46; III. i. 84; IV. i. 98.]

XXVI. MASTER AND SCHOLAR.

A difference and controuersie betwene a maister and a scholler, so subtile that the iudges coulde not geue sentence.

[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius.

_Painter_, I. i. 80; II. i. 46; III. i. 85; IV. i. 99.]

XXVII. SELEUCUS AND ANTIOCHUS.

Seleucus king of Asia, gaue his wife to his owne sonne in mariage, being his mother in lawe; who so feruently did loue her, that he was like to die, whiche by a discrete and wyse inuention, was discouered to Seleucus by a Phisition.

[_Source and Origin._--Plutarch, _Demetrius_ (probably in Amyot's translation).

_Parallels_.--Val. Max. v. 7; Wanley, _Wonders_, III. ix. 4.

_Painter_, I. i. 51; II. i. 48; III. i. 88; IV. i. 102.]

XXVIII. TIMON OF ATHENS.

Of the straunge and beastlie nature of Timon of Athens, enemie to mankinde, with his death, buriall, and Epitaphe.

[_Source and Origin._--Plutarch, _Marc Antonius_ (probably through Amyot's translation).

_Parallels_.--Erasmus, _Adagio_; _Sabell. Exemp._ ii. 2; Reynolds, _Treatise of Pa.s.sions_, c. 13; Wanley, _Wonders_, II. ix. 8.

_Painter_, I. i. 57; II. i. 54; III. i. 98; IV. i. 112.

_Derivates._--Shakespeare's _Timon of Athens_ (c. 1608) is founded on this, though much expanded. There is a play of _Timon_ anterior to Shakespeare's, and printed by Mr. Hazlitt.]

XXIX. MARRIAGE OF WIDOW AND WIDOWER.

The mariage of a man and woman, hee being the husband of xx. wiues: and shee the wife of xxii. husbandes.

[_Source._--Pedro di Messia, _Selva di varie Lezzioni_, i. 34.

_Origin._--St. Jerome.

_Painter_, I. i. 59; II. i. 55; III. i. 100; IV. i. 114.]

x.x.x. THE THREE RINGS.

How Melchisedech a iewe, by telling a pretie tale of three Ringes, saued his life.

[_Source._--Boccaccio, _Decameron,_ giorn. i., nov. 3.

_Origin._--_Cento novelle antichi_, 72 (through Busone), _L'avventuroso Ciciliano_; _cf._ Landau, _Die Quellen_{2} 183.

Probably original source was Jewish. _Cf._ G. Paris in _Revue des etudes juives_, t. xvii., and A. Wunsche in _Lessing-Mendelssohn Gedenkbuch_.

_Parallels._--_Med.: Shebet Jehuda_ (Heb.), _Gesta Rom._ 89.

Lessing, _Nathan der Weise_.

_Painter._--I. i. 60; II. i. 56; III. i. 102; IV. i. 116.]

x.x.xI. BORSIERI AND GRIMALDI.

One called Guglielmo Borsiere with certaine wordes well placed, taunted the couetous life of Ermino Grimaldi.