ABSTRACT
Inherent in the very fabric of the romance world,13 therefore, are suppositions about reality and perfection which force the author to modify and soften the kind of antithesis and paradox at the heart of E uphues; Lyly’s own E n d im io n offers as strong an example of this need for modification as does R osalynde. But Lodge complicated his task by including within his romance the nucleus of hardness which literally and figuratively forms its “legacy”— the euphuistic wisdom of old Sir John of Bordeaux (pp. 161-163).
