Note 77 — INTRODUCTION TO THE GALATEA.

This, however, may be an unintentional slip into realism. But it has all the effect of humour, and may fairly be bracketed with a passage from the fourth book of Sidney's Arcadia, quoted by Professor Rennert (op. cit., p. 11, n. 29): "O my dun-cow, I did think some evil was towards me ever since the last day thou didst run away from me, and held up thy tail so pitifully."