" Mr Malone ("Shakespeare," by Boswell, ii. 250) contends that Spenser alludes to Lodge, in his "Tears of the Muses," under the name of Alcon, in the following lines:

"And there is pleasing Alcon, could he raise His tunes from lays to matters of more skill;" and he adds that Spenser calls Lodge Alcon, from one of the characters in "A Looking Glasse for London and Englande;" but this argument would apply just as much to Lodge's coadjutor Greene.

"And there is pleasing Alcon, could he raise His tunes from lays to matters of more skill;" and he adds that Spenser calls Lodge Alcon, from one of the characters in "A Looking Glasse for London and Englande;" but this argument would apply just as much to Lodge's coadjutor Greene.

Alcmena, ii.; brood of, v. Alcon, iv.; v. Alcyon, iv.; v. Alcides, ii.; iii. Alebius, iii. Alexander, ii.; iii. Alexis, iv.

The slight chance of a peace was then tried by two persons; Alcon a Saguntine, and Alorcus a Spaniard.

Alcon, thinking he could effect something by entreaties, having passed over, without the knowledge of the Saguntines, to Hannibal by night, when his tears produced no effect, and harsh conditions were offered as from an exasperated conqueror, becoming a deserter instead of an advocate, remained with the enemy; affirming that the man would be put to death who should treat for peace on such terms.

Alcon having denied that the Saguntines would accept such terms of peace, Alorcus, asserting that when all else is subdued, the mind becomes subdued, offers himself as the proposer of that peace.

"If your citizen Alcon, as he came to implore a peace from Hannibal, had in like manner brought back to you the terms of peace proposed by Hannibal, this journey of mine would have been unnecessary; by which circumstance I should not have had to come to you as the legate of Hannibal, nor as a deserter.

Daphnis, finding her cold to his suit, seeks the help of Alcon, who supplies him with a magic glass, in which whoso looks shall not choose but love the giver.

Returning now to the shepherds, the play shows us Daphnis and Alcon seeking the tomb of Nerina with a restorative.

The glass, it seems, was intentionally poisoned by Alcon, who adopted this elaborate device for placing the nymph in the power of her lover should she continue obdurate.

Aeneid Aethiopica Affectionate Shepherd Affò, Ireneo Ages Agincourt Alba Alberti, Leo Battista Albion's England Albumazar Alceo Alchemist Alcon Alcuin Aldus Manutius, the elder Aldus Manutius, the younger Alexander VI, Pope Alexander, Sir William (Earl of Stirling) Alexis Allacci, Leone Allegro Almerici, Tiburio Alva, Duke of Amadis of Gaul Amaranta Amarilli Ambra (Lorenzo de' Medici)

A very useful and representative, though of course by no means complete, collection is that by G. Ferrario, in the 'Classici italiani.' Castiglione also figured among the Latin eclogists of his day, and the influence of his Alcon is even traced by Saintsbury in Lycidas (Earlier Renaissance, p. 34).