Note 125 — Chapter III · ANCESTRY OF SHAKESPEARE’S ROMAN PLAYS (continued 2)

Yet in these three cases, where North is certainly behind Amyot as a narrator, he is more faithful to the Greek. This is the sort of thing that makes one ask whether he was not really in closer contact with the original than he professes to have been. One remembers his similar modesty in regard to the Diall, which, nominally from the French, really made use of the Spanish as well.