236 SMYTH — PERICLES AND APOLLONIUS. [Oct. 7, 



The dramatist evidently found himself embarrassed by the variety 

 of adventure in his story, and, while it is unlikely that he was fam- 

 iliar with Shakespeare's Pericles, he resorts to the introduction 

 of characters who are strangers to the plot but who by their con- 

 versation account for the many incidents for which the action of 

 the drama has no room or time — an expedient not unlike the intro- 

 duction of Gower as chorus. Bor lived at the time of the rhetorical 

 guilds and he introduces upon the stage characters after the manner 

 of the rederij'kersperiode, as, for example, Fama, Verdriet en Blys- 

 chap (Chagrin and Gayety), Verneem-al ett Veel-snaps (Eavesdropper 

 and Gossip). Bor's verse is monotonous and drowsy, and, as the 

 Dutch proverb says, ^*^hangs together like dry sand." 



There is yet another drama in the literature of Holland — Appol- 

 lonms, Koningh van Tyrus, Treuer-spel {h.ms\.QTd2iva, Jacob Vinckel, 

 1662) — which has the name but not the story of our ApoUo- 

 nius. It is the performance of the cruelties of a mad king, and 

 while in the dramatis perso7t(B we find the familiar names ApoUo- 

 nius, Licoris, Stragulio, Archistratus, and Antiochus, yet the char- 

 acters are changed, and Antiochus is a mild and benevolent king 

 of Syria, and Apollonius is a murdering madman. The work is 

 dedicated to a woman well known in the history of Netherland 

 literature, Anna van Hoorn (wife of Cornelis van Vlooswyck), and 

 the dedicator declares that the play is none of his invention, but 

 the work of another hand, left in his care by the real author, who 

 had departed on a journey. D. Lingelbach, who writes the dedi- 

 cation or inscription (Opdracht), concludes, ''Ontfangh dan, 

 Hooghwaerde Vrouwe, 't geen ick UE opdrage : niet als eygen, 

 maer als een werck dat vry hooger draeft " ('* receive, estimable 

 lady, this work, which I dedicate to you, not as mine, but as a 

 work which /r(?/i- much higher^'). The dedication is dated '^Am- 

 sterdam, den 4 van Grasmaent [April 4J, Anno 1662." Maugre 

 this denial of authorship the work is nevertheless ascribed to Ling- 

 elbach by Grasse {Tresor, i, 166), Schroder {Grise/dis, Ixxix), and 

 in the Catalogue of the Library of the Maatschappij der Neder. Let- 

 terkunde te Leiden (iii, No. 432). 



Still another Dutch version is De Wonderlyke Gevallen van Apol- 

 lonius van Tyr, T' Amsterdam, by Isaac Trojel, Boeckverkoper op 

 't Rokkin, in M. Antonius (/. c., ''at the sign of Marcus Anto- 

 nius "), 1 710. The little work is dedicated to Jan Munter Cornelis, 

 " Geheimschryver van de vermaerde Koopstad Amsterdam " (clerk 



