XIV. METELLUS ON MARRIAGE.

The woordes of Metellus of mariage, and wiuing with the prayse and dispraise of the same.

[_Source._--Aulus Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 6.

_Origin._--Livy, ii. 32.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plut. _Coriol._ 6. Dio. Halic. vi. 76.

_Painter_, I. i. 36; II. i. 24; III. i. 60; IV. i. 74.]

XV. LAIS AND DEMOSTHENES.

Of Lais and Demosthenes.

[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 8.

_Parallels._--Repeated in Painter II. xiii.

_Painter_, I. i. 38; II. i. 35; III. i. 63; IV. i. 77.]

XVI. FABRICIUS AND PYRRHUS.

C. Fabritius and Emillius Consuls of Rome, beyng promised that king Pyrrhus for a somme of money should be slayne (which was a notable enemie to the Romaine state) aduertised Pyrrhus thereof by letters, and of other notable thinges doen by the same Fabritius.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 14.

_Origin._--(?) Livy, _Epit._ xiii.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch _Pyrr._ 18, 19; _An seni sit_, &c., 21; Cicero, _Pro Cl._, 14, 24; _Brut._ 14, 55; 16, 61; _Phil._ i. 5, 11; _Cato_, vi. 16; Val. Max., viii. 13, 5; Sueton. _Tib._, 2; Justin, 18, 2; Ovid, _Fasti_, xvi. 203.

_Painter_, I. i. 38; II. i. 36; III. i. 64; IV. i. 78.]

XVII. CAMILLUS AND SCHOOLMASTER.

A Scholemaister traiterously rendring the n.o.ble mens sonnes of Faleria to the hands of Camillus, was wel acquited and rewarded for his paines and labour.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ xvii. 24.

_Origin._--Livy, v. 26.

_Parallels._--I. _Ancient_: Plutarch, _Camillus_, 10; Dion. Halic.

excerp. Vatec. 13, 1; Frontinus, _Strat._ iv. 4, 1; Polyaenus, _Strat._ viii. 7; Val. Max. vi. 5, 1; Aur. Victor, _De vir. ill._ 33; Zonar. vii. 32. II. _Modern_: _Enxemplos_, 187. III. _Modern_: Gallensis, _Commumilog._ 1489, i. 11; H. Sachs, III. ii. 46; Hanmer, _Hist. Roseng._ 1654, 437; _Acerra_, i. 100; Kirch, i. 18.

_Painter_, I. i. 39; II. i. 37; III. i. 66; IV. i. 80.]

XVIII. PAPYRIUS PRaeTEXTATUS.

The Hystorie of Papyrius Praetextatus [and how he misled his mother].

[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 23.

_Parallels._--_Sabell. Exemp._ i. 3; Bruson, _Facet._ iv. 4; Wanley, _Wonders_, III. xlvii. 4.

_Painter_, I. i. 41; II. i. 38; III. i. 69; IV. i. 83.]

XIX. PLUTARCH'S ANGER.

How Plutarche did beate his man, and of pretie talke touching signes of anger.

[_Source and Origin._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ i. 26.

_Painter_, I. i. 42; II. i. 39; III. i. 71; IV. i. 85.]

XX. aeSOP'S FABLE OF THE LARK.

A pretie tale drawne out of the Larke of aesope.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ ii. 29.

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

i. 20; vol. i. p. 238.

_Painter_, I. i. 42; II. i. 40; III. i. 72; IV. i. 86.

_Derivates._--A ballad on the subject, ent.i.tled _A mirror most true_, was licensed to Richard Jones 1576-7.]

XXI. HANNIBAL AND ANTIOCHUS.

A merie geste, uttered by Hanniball to King Antiochus.

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

_Painter_, I. i. 44; II. i. 41; III. i. 74; IV. i. 88.]

XXII. ANDRODUS.

The marueilous knowledge of a Lion, being acquainted with a man, called Androdus.

[_Source._--A. Gellius, _Noct. Att._ v. 14, 10.