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Representative English Comedies, v. 1. From the beginnings to Shakespeare

Note 787 — CAMPASPE

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Lyly refers blindly to the following: "Seeing a mouse running over a Room and considering with himself that it neither sought for a Bed, nor was affraid to be alone in the dark, nor desired any of our esteemed Dainties, he contrived a way to relieve his own Exigencies; being the first, as some think, that folded in the Mantle, because his necessity obliged him to sleep in it." Lives of Philosophers, VI., 402.

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