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



Twine calls the daughter of ApoUonius Tarsia and the mother 

 Lucina ; Gower gives the mother no name and calls the daughter 

 Thaise (the Anglo-Saxon text calls the country Thasia^ which cor- 

 responds to Shakespeare's Thaisa). In the Fatte?'ne of PainefuU 

 Pleasures it is Cerimon's pupil, Machaon, who discovers the pres- 

 ence of life in the body of Lucina. And this is the original plan of 

 the Latin Historia. In Heinrich v. Neustadt, Gower and Shakes- 

 peare it is Cerimon himself who restores the princess to life. If 

 we consider the incident of the erection by the grateful citizens of 

 Tharsis of a statue to the hero who has timely succoured them 

 against famine, we find it in the oldest MSS., in Heinrich von 

 Neustadt, the Gesta Pomanorum, and it naturally flows thence into 

 Twine, Shakespeare and Wilkins. Gower has copied his account 

 from Godfrey, but adds a touch; the statue, he says, was ** over- 

 gilt." Twine has: ''they erected in the market-place a monument 

 in the memoriall of him, his stature made of brasse, standing in a 

 charret, holding corne in his right hand, and spurning it with his 

 left foot." Collier observes that ''Shakespeare wrote statute iox 

 statue, probably as a joke at the expense of the ignorant folks temp. 

 Elizabeth; but in the Gesta Rom anonwi, ed. Madden, p. 25, we 

 have statute for statue, and it is to be suspected that the word in the 

 text should properly be statute " (Collier, Shake sp e ai- e'' s Librai-yy 

 Vol. iv, p. 263 ; statue is the spelling of Q. i, statute of Q. 2, Q.3). 



" And to remember what he does 

 ^'Build his statue to make him glorious." 



(^Pericles, ii, Pro.) 



The vows of ApoUonius have special interest. Shakespeare makes 

 Pericles say of his daughter : 



" Till she be married, madam 

 By bright Diana, whom we honour, all 

 Unscissared shall this hair of mine remain, 

 Though I show ill in't." Ill, iii, 27. 



This is all that Shakespeare gives of the ancient vows common to 

 both Latin and Teutonic peoples. Twine says, " hee sware a 

 solemne othe, that he would not poule his head, clip his beard, nor 

 pare his nailes untill hee had married his daughter at ripe yeares." 



The episode of the striking of Tharsia by ApoUonius varies in 

 the different versions. It is an incident more repugnant than the 



