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# The Golden Ass of Apuleius/Chapter 1

THE
FIRST BOOKE
of LUCIUS APULEIUS of
THE GOLDEN ASSE
THE FIRST CHAPTER
How Apuleius riding in Thessaly, fortuned to fall into company with two strangers, that reasoned together of the mighty power of Witches.
S I fortuned to take my voyage into Thessaly, about certaine affaires which I had to doe ( for there myne auncestry by my mothers side inhabiteth, descended of the line of that most excellent person Plutarch, and of Sextus the Philosopher his Nephew, which is to us a great honour) and after that by much travell and great paine I had passed over the high mountaines and slipperie vallies, and had ridden through the cloggy fallowed fields; perceiving that my horse did wax somewhat slow, and to the intent likewise that I might repose and strengthen my self (being weary with riding) I lighted off my horse, and wiping the sweat from every part of his body, I unbrideled him, and walked him softly in my hand, to the end he might pisse, and ease himself of his weariness and travell: and while he went grazing freshly in the field (casting his head sometimes aside, as a token of rejoycing and gladnesse) I perceived a little before me two companions riding, and so I overtaking them made a third. And while I listened to heare their communication, the one of them laughed and mocked his fellow, saying, Leave off I pray thee and speak no more, for ​I cannot abide to heare thee tell such absurd and incredible lies; which when I heard, I desired to heare some newes, and said, I pray you masters make me partaker of your talk, that am not so curious as desirous to know all your communication: so shall we shorten our journey, and easily passe this high hill before us, by merry and pleasant talke.
But he that laughed before at his fellow, said againe, Verily this tale is as true, as if a man would say that by sorcery and inchantment the floods might be inforced to run against their course, the seas to be immovable, the aire to lacke the blowing of windes, the Sunne to be restrained from his naturall race, the Moone to purge his skimme upon herbes and trees to serve for sorceries: the starres to be pulled from heaven, the day to be darkened and the dark night to continue still. Then I being more desirous to heare his talke than his companions, sayd, I pray you, that began to tell your tale even now, leave not off so, but tell the residue. And turning to the other I sayd, You perhappes that are of an obstinate minde and grosse eares, mocke and contemme those things which are reported for truth, know you not that it is accounted untrue by the depraved opinion of men, which either is rarely seene, seldome heard, or passeth the capacitie of mans reason, which if it be more narrowly scanned, you shall not onely finde it evident and plaine, but also very easy to be brought to passe.
# The Golden Ass of Apuleius

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This edition is a verbatim and literatim reprint of the 1639 edition.
THE TUDOR
TRANSLATIONS
EDITED BY
W. E. HENLEY
IV
THE GOLDEN ASS OF
APULEIUS
TRANSLATED OUT OF LATIN BY
WILLIAM ADLINGTON
ANNO 1566
With an Introduction by
CHARLES WHIBLEY
LONDON Published by DAVID NUTT
IN THE STRAND
1893
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty
TO
STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ
THIS METAMORPHOSIS OF
AN ANTIENT DECADENT
NOTE
This text is reprinted verbatim and literatim from the edition of 1639
THE XI. BOOKES OF
THE GOLDEN ASSE
CONTAINING
THE METAMORPHOSIE OF
LUCIUS APULEIUS
INTERLACED WITH SUNDRY PLEASANT AND
DELECTABLE TALES: WITH AN EXCELLENT
NARRATION OF THE MARRIAGE OF
CUPID AND PSYCHES
SET OUT IN THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND
THE SIXTH BOOKES
TRANSLATED
OUT OF LATINE INTO ENGLISH, BY
WILLIAM ADLINGTON
* Introduction
* Dedication
* To the Reader
* Life of Lucius Apuleius
* Preface
* The First Booke
** Chapter 1
** Chapter 2
** Chapter 3
** Chapter 4
** Chapter 5
** Chapter 6
** Chapter 7
* The Second Booke
** Chapter 8
** Chapter 9
** Chapter 10
** Chapter 11
* The Third Booke
** Chapter 12
** Chapter 13
** Chapter 14
** Chapter 15
** Chapter 16
** Chapter 17
* The Fourth Booke
** Chapter 18
** Chapter 19
** Chapter 20
** Chapter 21
* The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
** Chapter 22
* The Sixth Booke
** Chapter 23
* The Seventh Booke
** Chapter 24
** Chapter 25
** Chapter 26
** Chapter 27
** Chapter 28
** Chapter 29
** Chapter 30
** Chapter 31
* The Eighth Booke
** Chapter 32
** Chapter 33
** Chapter 34
** Chapter 35
** Chapter 36
* The Ninth Booke
** Chapter 37
** Chapter 38
** Chapter 39
** Chapter 40
** Chapter 41
** Chapter 42
** Chapter 43
* The Tenth Booke
** Chapter 44
** Chapter 45
** Chapter 46
* The Eleventh Booke
** Chapter 47
** Chapter 48
EDINBURGH
T. & A. CONSTABLE
Printers to Her Majesty
1893
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# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Nathan

Edition of 1920. See also Nathan Abbott on Wikipedia, and the disclaimer.
ABBOTT, Nathan, American jurist and educator, son of Abiel Abbott: b. Norridgewock, Me., 11 July 1854. He was graduated from Yale College in 1877, then studied law in Boston University. For some years he applied himself to his private law practice in Boston, after which he became Tappan Professor of Law in the University of Michigan. In 1893 he was appointed professor of law in Northwestern University. In 1895 he became professor of law and Dean of the Law School at Leland Stanford University. After holding this position for 12 years he became, in 1907, professor of law at Columbia University, New York city. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the English and American law of real property.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbreviators

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ABBREVIATORS, a body of 72 writers in the Papal Chancery who have charge of sketching and putting in shape papal bulls, briefs, and consistorial decrees, and signing them in the name of the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor. This body receives its name from the fact of their taking short-hand notes of the decisions to be later expanded. They have existed at least since 1400.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Lyman

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ABBOTT, Lyman, American clergyman and editor, third son of Jacob: b. Roxbury, Mass., 18 Dec. 1835. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1853; studied law, and went into partnership with his brothers Austin and Benjamin in 1856; but feeling more inclined to the ministry studied theology with his uncle John Stephens Cabot, and was ordained in 1860. Till 1865 he was pastor at Terre Haute, Ind.; 1865–68 secretary of the Freedmen's Commission, residing in New York, also becoming pastor of the New England Church there; in 1869 resigned his pastorate for journalism and literature. He was successively editor of the “Literary Record” department of Harper's Magazine, and at the same time chief editor of the Illustrated Christian Weekly; then associate editor with Henry Ward Beecher of the Christian Union, now the Outlook, of which he became chief editor on Mr. Beecher's death in 1887, succeeding him also in the Plymouth Church pulpit, which he resigned in 1899 to devote himself wholly to literary work. Since that time he has devoted himself to the editorship of The Outlook, other occasional contributions to literature, and to preaching in various pulpits during seven or eight months of the year, generally in colleges. He has taken an active part in social and industrial reform and in the religious and theological movements of the time. His earliest works were two novels written in collaboration with his brothers Benjamin and Austin Abbott (see Abbott, Austin) published under the nom-de-plume, composed by the three first syllables of their names, “Benauly.” The following is a list of his published volumes: ‘Commentary on the New Testament. Mathew to Romans’ (1875); ‘In Aid of Faith’ (1886); ‘Evolution of Christianity’ (1892); ‘Plymouth Hymnal’ (1893); ‘Christianity and Social Problems’ (1896); ‘The Theology of an Evolutionist’ (1897); ‘Life and Letters of Paul’ (1898); ‘Life and Literature of the Ancient Hebrews’ (1901); ‘The Rights of Man’ (1901); ‘The Other Room’ (1903); ‘Life of Henry Ward Beecher’ (1903); ‘The Great Companion’ (1904); ‘The Christian Ministry’ (1905); ‘The Home Builder’ (1908).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Wilbur Cortez

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ABBOTT, Wilbur Cortez, American educator: b. Kokoma, Ind., 28 Dec. 1869. After graduating from Wabash College in 1892 he took a post-graduate course at Cornell University, then studied at Oxford, where he received a degree of B. Litt. in 1897. From 1893 to 1895 he was instructor in history at Cornell. In 1897 he became instructor in history at the University of Michigan. Two years later he was appointed assistant professor of history in Dartmouth College; in 1902 professor of history in the University of Kansas, and in 1908 he was appointed professor of history at the Sheffield Scientific School, at Yale University. He is the author of ‘Colonel Blood, Crown Stealer’ (1911).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbé

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ABBÉ, ab-ā, originally the French name for an abbot, but later used in the general sense of a priest of clergyman. By a concordant between Pope Leo X and Francis I in 1516, the French king had the right to nominate upward of 200 abbés commendataires, who drew a third of the revenues of the monasteries without having any duty to perform. They were not necessarily clergy, but were expected to take orders unless exempted by a dispensation. The hope of obtaining one of these sinecures led multitudes of young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, which however seldom went further than taking the inferior orders; and it became customary to call such aspirants abbés, jocularly, Abbés of St. Hope. They formed a considerable and influential class in society; and an abbé, distinguished by a short violet-colored robe, was often found as chaplain or tutor in noble households, or engaged in literary work. This class of nominal clergy disappeared at the Revolution. In Italy they are called abbate.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abd Allah ibn Zubair

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ABD ALLAH IBN ZUBAIR, ’bn′zoo′bėr, Moslem Caliph: b. 622: d. 692. He was the son of Zubair, nephew of Mohammed, the Prophet, and the grandson of Abu Bekr. After the death of Husain he had himself proclaimed caliph by the people of Mecca in 681, taking the title of Amir al Muminin. Soon he was attacked by the armies of Yazid and was besieged in Mecca. Yazid’s death, however, in 683, put an end to the siege, and Irak, Arabia, and the greater part of Syria recognized Abd Allah as caliph. But presently Abd al Malik renewed the war and again laid siege to Mecca. After a long resistance the city finally fell in 692, and Abd Allah was slain.
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

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ABBOTT, Thomas Kingsmill, Irish educator: b. Dublin, 26 March 1829; d. 1913. He was a graduate of Trinity College. In 1867 he was appointed to fill the chair of moral philosophy at the same institution, which position he held until 1872. From 1875 to 1888 he was professor of biblical Greek and from 1879 until 1900 he was professor of Hebrew. His works are: a translation of Kant's ‘Introduction to Logic’ (1878), and Kant's ‘Ethics’ (1909); ‘Essays’ (1892); ‘The Elements of Logic’ (1895); ‘Commentary on Ephesians and Colossians’ (1897); ‘Elementary Theory of the Tides’ (1901); ‘Catalogue of 15th Century Books in the Library of Trinity College’ (1905).
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abd

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ABD (Arab. “slave”); Abd-Allah, “Slave of God,” generally romanized as “Abdullah.” Abdul Hamid, “Slave of the Praiseworthy,” i. e., God; Abdul or Abd-el-Aziz, “Slave of the Beloved.”
# The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Abd-er-Rahman I

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ABD-ER-RAHMAN I, äbd-er-rā′mạn, founder of the Moorish emirate (later caliphate) of Cordova (q. v.): b. Damascus, 731; d. 788. He was a grandson of the Ommiad caliph Hishám, and having fled to Africa escaped the frightful massacre of his family (see Ommiads and Abbassides) by Abu ’l-Abbas; a hunted fugitive in the desert, but faithfully protected by the tribesmen, who respected his blood and pitied his misfortunes. Meanwhile Spain was seething with anarchy; each new caliph sent a new emir there; the governor of Africa claimed the right to interfere on the ground that the African governors had captured it; the native chiefs were unwilling to submit to a constant succession of interlopers with no interest but their own, and at last the situation became so intolerable that the Spanish Arabs determined to choose a ruler with his residence in Spain. They selected the wandering heir of the overthrown house, and seeking him out in Africa offered him the place. He landed in Spain 25 Sept 755, and fixed his royal seat at Cordova. His reign was one of incessant warfare. Hosein ben-Yahya, the Abbasside emir, driven from Spain, fled to Charlemagne and implored his assistance: it was granted and Hosein was re-enthroned at Saragossa, but while the Frankish army was returning through the Pyrenees, the Basque mountaineers fell upon the rear-guard and annihilated it in the pass of Roncesvalles, with its commander Roland. Saragossa was taken after two years’ siege, Hosein put to death as a rebel, and Spain to the Pyrenees subdued. A formidable rising in 786 was crushed, and Abd-er-Rahman had two years of life to devote to the arts of peace and the building of his famous mosque at Cordova (now used as a cathedral), with its rows of cupolas supported by 850 pillars of jasper.
# The Firm of Girdlestone

THE
FIRM OF GIRDLESTONE
A ROMANCE OF THE UNROMANTIC
BY
A. CONAN DOYLE
AUTHOR OF
"MICAH CLARKE," "THE CAPTAIN OF 'THE POLESTAR,'" ETC.
London CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1890
TO MY OLD FRIEND
PROFESSOR WILLIAM K. BURTON,
OF THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY, TOKIO,
WHO FIRST ENCOURAGED ME, YEARS AGO, TO PROCEED WITH
THIS LITTLE STORY,
I DESIRE AFFECTIONATELY TO
DEDICATE IT.
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
I cannot let this small romance go to press without prefacing it with a word of cordial thanks to Mr. P. G. Houlgrave, of 28, Millman Street, Bedford Row. To this gentleman I owe the accuracy of my African chapters, and I am much indebted to him for the copious details with which he furnished me.
A. CONAN DOYLE.
March 14th, 1890.
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# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 9/Chapter 287

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STRIKE up, you lusty gallants, with musick and sound of drum, For we have descryed a rover, upon the sea is come; His name is Captain Ward, right well it doth appear, There has not been such a rover found out this thousand year. For he hath sent unto our king, the sixth of January, Desiring that he might come in, with all his company: 'And if your king will let me come till I my tale have told, I will bestow for my ransome full thirty tun of gold.' 'O nay! O nay!' then said our king, 'O nay! this may not be, To yield to such a rover my self will not agree; He hath deceivd the French-man, likewise the King of Spain, And how can he be true to me that hath been false to twain?' With that our king provided a ship of worthy fame, Rainbow she is called, if you would know her name; Now the gallant Rainbow she rowes upon the sea, Five hundred gallant seamen to bear her company. The Dutch-man and the Spaniard she made them for to flye, Also the bonny French-man, as she met him on the sea: When as this gallant Rainbow did come where Ward did lye, 'Where is the captain of this ship?' this gallant Rainbow did cry. 'O that am I,' says Captain Ward, 'There's no man bids me lye, And if thou art the king's fair ship, thou art welcome unto me:' 'I'le tell thee what,' says Rainbow, 'our king is in great grief That thou shouldst lye upon the sea and play the arrant thief, 'And will not let our merchants ships pass as they did before; Such tydings to our king is come, which grieves his heart full sore.' With that this gallant Rainbow she shot, out of her pride, Full fifty gallant brass pieces, charged on every side. And yet these gallant shooters prevailed not a pin, Though they were brass on the out-side, brave Ward was steel within; 'Shoot on, shoot on,' says Captain Ward, 'your sport well pleaseth me, And he that first gives over shall yield unto the sea. 'I never wrongd an English ship, but Turk and King of Spain, For and the jovial Dutch-man as I met on the main. If I had known your king but one two years before, I would have savd brave Essex life, whose death did grieve me sore. 'Go tell the King of England, go tell him thus from me, If he reign king of all the land, I will reign king at sea.' With that the gallant Rainbow shot, and shot, and shot in vain, And left the rover's company, and returnd home again. 'Our royal king of England, your ship's returned again, For Ward's ship is so strong it never will be tane:' 'O everlasting!' says our king, 'I have lost jewels three, Which would have gone unto the seas and brought proud Ward to me. 'The first was Lord Clifford, Earl of Cumberland; The second was the lord Mountjoy, as you shall understand; The third was brave Essex, from field would never flee; Which would a gone unto the seas and brought proud Ward to me.'
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 9/Chapter 285

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THE George Aloe and the Sweepstakes too, With hey, with ho, for and a nony no They were two merchant-men, a sailing for Safee. And along the course of Barbary [The George Aloe to anchor came, But the jolly Sweepstake kept on her way.] They had not sayled leagues two or three Before they spyed a sail upon the sea. 'O hail, O hail, you lusty gallants, From whence is your good ship, and whither is she bound?' 'O we are some merchant-men, sailing for Safee:' 'And we be French rebels, a roving on the sea. 'O hail, O hail, you English dogs, [hail!]' 'The[n] come aboard, you French dogs, and strike down your sail!' 'Amain, amain, you gallant Englishmen!' 'Come, you French swades, and strike down your sails!' They laid us aboard on the starboard side, And they overthrew us into the sea so wide. When tidings to the George Aloe came That the jolly Sweepstakes by a Frenchman was tane, 'To top, to top, thou little ship-boy, And see if this French man-of-war thou canst descry.' 'A sail, a sail, under your lee, Yea, and another under her bough.' 'Weigh anchor, weigh anchor, O jolly boatswain, We will take this Frenchman if we can.' We had not sailed leagues two or three But we met the French man-of-war upon the sea. 'All hail, all hail, you lusty gallants, Of whence is your fair ship, and whither is she bound?' 'O we are merchant-men, and bound for Safee;' 'And we are Frenchmen, roving upon the sea. 'Amain, amain, you English dogs!' 'Come aboard, you French rogues, and strike your sails!' The first good shot the George Aloe shot, It made the Frenchmen's hearts sore afraid. The second shot the George Aloe did afford, He struck the main-mast over the board. 'Have mercy, have mercy, you brave English[men].' 'O what have you done with our brethren on [shore]?.' As they sail[ed]. 'We laid them aboard on the starboard side, And we threw them into the sea so wide.' 'Such mercy as you have shewed unto them, Even the like mercy shall you have again.' We laid them aboard on the larboard side, And we threw them into the sea so wide. Lord, how it grieved our hearts full sore To see the drowned Frenchmen float along the shore! Now, gallant seamen all, adieu, With hey, with ho, for a nony no This is the last news that I can write to you. To England's coast from Barbary
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 9/Chapter 291

For more information, see Wikipedia: Child Owlet
LADY ERSKINE sits in her chamber, Sewing at her silken seam, A chain of gold for Childe Owlet, As he goes out and in.
But it fell ance upon a day She unto him did say, Ye must cuckold Lord Ronald, For a' his lands and ley.
"O cease! forbid, madam," he says, "That this shoud eer be done! How would I cuckold Lord Ronald, And me his sister's son?"
Then she's ta'en out a little penknife, That lay below her bed, Put it below her green stay's cord, Which made her body bleed.
Then in it came him Lord Ronald, Hearing his lady's moan; "What blood is this, my dear," he says, "That sparks on the fire-stone?"
ung Childe Owlet, your sister's son, Is now gane frae my bower; If I hadna been a good woman, I'd been Childe Owlet's whore."
Then he has taen him Childe Owlet, Laid him in prison strong, And all his men a council held How they woud work him wrong.
Some said they woud Childe Owlet hang, Some said they woud him burn; Some said they woud have Childe Owlet Bewteen wild horses torn.
ere are horses in your stables stand Can run right speedilie, And ye will to your stable go, And wile out four for me."
They put a foal to ilka foot, And ane to ilka hand, And sent them down to Darling muir, As fast as they coud gang.
There was not a kow in Darling muir, Nor ae piece o a rind, But drappit o Child Owlet's blude And pieces o his skin.
There was not a kow in Darling muir, Nor ae piece o a rash, But drappit o Childe Owlet's blude And pieces o his flesh.
# The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 9/Chapter 284

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As it fell on a holy-day, And vpon an holy-tide-a, Iohn Dory bought him an ambling nag, To Paris for to ride-a. And when John Dory to Paris was come, A little before the gate-a, John Dory was fitted, the porter was witted To let him in thereat-a. The first man that John Dory did meet Was good king John of France-a; John Dory could well of his courtesie, But fell downe in a trance-a. 'A pardon, a pardon, my liege and my king, For my merie men and for me-a, And all the churles in merie England, I'le bring them all bound to thee-a.' And Nicholl was then a Cornish man, A little beside Bohide-a, And he mande forth a good blacke barke, With fiftie good oares on a side-a. 'Run vp, my boy, vnto the maine top, And looke what thou canst spie-a:' 'Who ho! who ho! a goodly ship I do see, I trow it be John Dory[-a'] They hoist their sailes, both top and top, The meisseine and all was tride-a, And euery man stood to his lot, What euer should betide-a. The roring cannons then were plide, And dub-a-dub went the drumme-a; The braying trumpets lowde they cride To courage both all and some-a. The grappling-hooks were brought at length, The browne bill and the sword-a, John Dory at length, for all his strength, Was clapt fast vnder board-a.