The orator: : handling a hundred seuerall discourses, in forme of declamations: some of the arguments being drawne from Titus Liuius and other ancient vvriters, the rest of the authors owne inuention: part of which are of matters happened in our age. /
Le Sylvain,approximately 1535-approximately 1585.
Pyott, Lazarus.
Munday, Anthony,1553-1633.
London : Printed by Adam Islip,
1596..
Alexander Silvayn known as: Le Sylvain. -- Grand dict. univ. du 19e siècle, (1866).
Grand enc.: b v. 30, p. 748 (Sylvain, Alexandre van den Bussche, dit le; Belgian author; b. 1535, d. 1585; lived at French court and wrote in French).
Grand dict. univ.: b v. 14, p. 1307 (Sylvain, Alexandre van der Bussche, dit le; Belg. poet; b. ca. 1535, d. ca. 1585; served in French court).
Dict. de lettres fran.: b v. 2, p. 45 (Le Sylvain (Alexandre van den Bussche, dit le Sylvain de Flandre); poet; ca. 1535-1585).
A translation, by Lazarus Pyott, of: Epitomes des cent histoires tragicques.
"L. P." in statement of responsibility area identified as Lazarus Piot at end of dedication, p. [2].
The translation sometimes attributed to Anthony Munday.
Caption title reads: The mirrour of eloquence.
Said to contain the original story from whence Shakespeare took the character of Shylock the Jew and the incident of the bond. [See p. 400 and the story "Of a Jew who would for his debt have a   pound of the flesh of a Christian", [i.e. "Of a Jew who would have a pound of a Christian's flesh for his debt."]
Signatures: A⁴ B-2E⁸ 2F⁴.
The first leaf is blank.
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Pforzheimer
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Oratory
Rhetoric
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