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



interesting survival of a once popular and significant species of 

 literary entertainment. Riddle-teaching was parable-preaching. It 

 was a mnemonic device, and it became, no doubt, cottage wisdom. 

 But certainly in its genesis, at least, it contained suggestions of 

 something deeper, and the riddle was employed to conceal dangerous 

 truth. 



The points of likeness between Gower and Shakespeare are 

 brought out by P. Z. Round in his '' Introduction " to Griggs' Fac- 

 simile Quartos. The source of the play is mainly the story as told 

 in Confessio Amanfis (Bk. viii), but the recrimination scene between 

 Cleon and his wife (iv, iii) is from Twine. 



Wilkins borrowed phrases from Sidney's Arcadia, which are 

 pointed out by the Variorum editors. 



Twine follows the Latin Historia rather narrowly, bat adds occa- 

 sionally to the narrative. The additions are the following (I quote 

 from the reprint of Twine in Hazlitt's Shakespeare Library ) : 



P. 264, lines 11-22 the storm at sea (cf Tempest, in Griggs qu.). 



P. 265, " a rough fisherman, with an hoode upon his head, and a 

 filthie leatherne pelt upon his backe." 



P. 273, line 10, " examining her urine." 



P. 275, lines 14-21 and 22-25 C^^- Chap. vi). 



P. 276, lines 23 to bottom. 



P. 277, the king's speech to Apollonius, and Apollonius' answer. 



P. 278, 279, the description of the marriage. Twine depicts the 

 dresses and jewelry. 



P. 284, description of Lucina's faultless beauty. 



P. 296, explanation of the term Priapus. 



P. 303, lines 9-13, 19-23, 25-28. 



P. 312, lines 7-1S. 



P. 320, lines 10 to bottom. 



P. 321, lines 18 to bottom. 



P. 323, lines 7-20. 



P. 325, lines 7-16. 



Nearly all of Chap, xxii is original with Twine. 



P. 330, line 19 to end of Chap, xxiii. 



Generally speaking, Twine enlarges as much as possible, giving 

 speeches in full even when the substance has been related previously. 

 Wilkins did not improve the parts he stole from Twine; witness the 

 account of the wedding festivities and the storm. 



Twine was far surpassed, however, as an amplifier by Heinrich 



