Note 1452 — THE HONORABLE HISTORIE of frier Bacon, and frier Bongay.

"This," observes my friend, Mr. W. N. Lettsom, "is much as if France were to send claret and burgundy down her Thames." Dyce. Quoted as with approval by G. and W. But may not Greene indulge in a figure of speech? The Volga was the typical great river of the Elizabethans, their Amazon or Mississippi; and is here used for the Euphrates by antonomasia. Q 1 does not capitalize this volga, and the emphasis is on her. See Appendix C, 1 a.