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thing’ will presume to disquiet or grieve the owner (Art 
of Gardening , 1593, p. 22). 
Lyly explains the origin of the toadstool, a fungus that 
springs up in what are called fairy rings :— 
“ I am of this minde with Homer, that as the snayle that crept out 
of hir shell was turned eftsoones into a toad, and therby was forced to 
make a stoole to sit on, disdaining her own house: so the travailler 
that stragleth from his own countrey, is in short tyme transformed 
into so monstrous a shape, that hee is faine to alter his mansion with 
his manners, and to live where he canne, not where he would.” 
( Euphues , p. 240.) 
