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.