Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Robert Laneham's Letter: Wherein Part of the Entertainment Untoo the Queenz Majesty, at Killingworth Castle in Warwick-Sheer, in This Soomerz Progress 1575, Iz Signified
Golden Fleece, (43) The Golden Apple, (44) The 3 Weird Sisters [parcae or Fates], (45) Daedalus and the Minotaur, (46) Midas and his ass-ears, - as against Captain Cox's none, for we can hardly call the middle-age necromancer of XV, Virgil's Life, classical, though he may have originated in the poet Virgil. This contrast means, I take it, not that Scotch shepherds or merchants knew more classics, or cared more for them, than our Coventry mason, or Robert Laneham, but that the writer of the Oomplaynt was a far more 'bookish' man - he's brimfull of classics - than Laneham, our London mercer.
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