The shepherd Corin, who was never in court, has the true philosophy.

Certainly his expectations had not been very exalted; but there had run through them a hope of something melodramatic, dreams of May-pole dancing and athletic games, somewhat of village-belle rivalry, of the Corin and Sylvia school; or, failing that, a few Touchstones and Audreys, some genial earnest buffo humour here and there.

Man has much to answer for; and the part he plays is yet more damnable and parlous than Corin's in the eyes of Touchstone.

[Note 13: Damnable and parlous than Corin's in the eyes of Touchstone.

CORIN, "the faithful shepherdess," who, having lost her true love by death, retired from the busy world, remained a virgin for the rest of her life, and was called "The Virgin of the Grove."

Corin was skilled "in the dark, hidden virtuous use of herbs," and says: Of all green wounds I know the remedies In men and cattle, be they stung by snakes, Or charmed with powerful words of wicked art, Or be they love-sick.

From Corin came it first?

(See CORIN).

"Corin, | cease this | idle | teasing; Love that's | forc'd is | harsh and | sour; If the | lover | be dis | -pleasing, To per | -sist dis | -gusts the | more.

" CORIN.

" CORIN.

Harpalus and eke Corin Were herdmen both yfere: And Phillida could twist and spin And therto sing full clere.

For Corin was her onely joye, Who forst her not a pynne.

Thus Corin is Chapman; Musaeus, of course Marlowe; English Horace, no doubt Jonson; Melicert, Shakespeare; Coridon, Drayton; Anti-Horace, most likely Dekker, and Moelibee, mentioned with him, possibly Marston.

Thus Lodge added to the original story the figures of the usurper, Rosalynde, Alinda (Celia), and the shepherds Montanus (Silvius), Coridon (Corin) and Phoebe, while to Shakespeare we owe Amiens, Jacques, Touchstone, Audre, and a few minor characters; whence it appears that Lodge's contribution forms the mainstay of the plot as familiar to modern readers.

We also have to lament the non-survival of a Phillida and Corin, which, we learn from the Revels' accounts, was acted by the Queen's men before the court, at Greenwich, on St. Stephen's day, 1584.

We find in it a coarse, dialect-speaking rustic, named Corin, who at one point succours Clyomon, and with whom Neronis, daughter of the King and Queen of the Strange Marshes, seeks service in the disguise of a boy.

Pescatoria amorosa Pescetti, Orlando Petit de Julleville, L. Petowe, Henry Petrarca, Francesco Petrarca, Gherardo Phanocles Philaster Philetas Phillida and Corin Phillida and Corydon Phillida flouts me Phillips, Edward Phillis Phillis of Scyros, see Filli di Sciro.

[Footnote Z: Corin=Corydon?