allurement of a filed tongue. To be brief, gentlemen, room for a
soldier and a sailor, that gives you the fruits of his labors that he
wrote in the ocean, when every line was wet with a surge, and every
humorous passion counterchecked with a storm. If you like it, so; and
yet I will be yours in duty, if you be mine in favor. But if Momus or
any squint-eyed ass, that hath mighty ears to conceive with Midas, and
yet little reason to judge; if he come aboard our bark to find fault
with the tackling, when he knows not the shrouds, I'll down into the
hold, and fetch out a rusty pole-axe, that saw no sun this seven year,
and either well baste him, or heave the coxcomb overboard to feed
cods. But courteous gentlemen, that favor most, backbite none, and
pardon what is overslipped, let such come and welcome; I'll into the
steward's room, and fetch them a can of our best beverage. Well,
gentlemen, you have Euphues' Legacy. I fetched it as far as the island
of Terceras, and therefore read it; censure with favor, and farewell

Yours, T.L.




ROSALYNDE


There dwelled adjoining to the city of Bordeaux a knight of most
honorable parentage, whom fortune had graced with many favors, and
nature honored with sundry exquisite qualities, so beautified with the
excellence of both, as it was a question whether fortune or nature
were more prodigal in deciphering the riches of their bounties. Wise
he was, as holding in his head a supreme conceit of policy, reaching