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Treatise against the Four Labyrinths of France, by Walter of St. Victor. We find the word used in this sense of verbal or mental entanglements in theological matters as the title of a book written some five centuries later by Thomas Carwell (_alias_ Thorold). The full title of this work, which was printed in Paris in 1658, is:
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Labyrinthus Cantuarensis; or Doctor Lawd's Labyrinth. Beeing an answer to the late Archbishop of Canterburies relation of a conference between himself and Mr. Fisher, etc. Wherein the true grounds of the Roman Catholique religion are asserted, the principall controuersies betwixt Catholiques and Protestants thoroughly examined, and the Bishops meandrick windings throughout his whole worke layd open to publique view.
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Labyrinthus, according to Hazlitt's Bibliographical Collections, was the name of a Latin comedy performed at Cambridge before King James I. Perhaps this had some connection with that play which Pepys mentions in his Diary on May 2, 1684:
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By coach to the King's Playhouse to see 'The Labyrinth' ... the poorest play, methinks, that ever I saw, there being nothing in it but the odd accidents that fell out, by a lady's being bred up in man's apparel and a man in a woman's.
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in a book-title seems to suggest that the term was regarded as an equivalent for
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Thesaurus or
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Compendium of Knowledge in respect of any particular branch of learning. This is the case in the
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Gardener's Labyrinth of Didymus Mountayne (Thomas Hill), to which we referred in Chapter XIII. The title has no reference to the discourse on mazes which occupies a small section of the book, but simply means the gardener's book of instructions or _vade mecum_. Much the same meaning is conveyed also by the title of a rather earlier book, the
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Labyrinthus Medicorum Errantium or
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Labyrinth of Lost Physicians, which was one of the last works of the great Swiss doctor and alchemist Paracelsus, and was published in 1553, twelve years after his death. The Polish educational reformer Komensky, better known as Comenius (1592-1671), likewise published a
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Labyrinthus of this kind. An English translation of it was printed early in the present century under the title of
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The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart.
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Labyrinthus or
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Laborintus ascribed to the monk Eberhard of Bethune, who wrote in A.D. 1212 or thereabouts, is an elaborate and critical treatise on poetry and pedagogics; it is alternatively entitled
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De Miseriis Rectorum Scholarum,
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sang Pope; but he was only making use of an old and well-worn metaphor, which we mention at the moment because it has so often figured in book-titles. In 1593 Dr. G. Fletcher, uncle of the dramatist, wrote a poem of ingenious form entitled
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A Lover's Maze. A similar title,
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Love in a Maze, was given by Shirley to one of his plays, a performance of which was witnessed by Pepys on May 22, 1662.
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The play hath little in it, says Pepys,
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In 1611 a suite of poems entitled
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Le Labyrinthe d'Amour was published by a French poet, who modestly veiled his identity behind the initials
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H. F. S. D. C. A century and a half later another French writer, equally retiring--his initials were
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T. M.
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The Maze
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Within the Maze,
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The Maze of Scilly, by E. J. Tiddy,
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The Maze, by A. L. Stewart,
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The Labyrinth, by R. Murray Gilchrist (perhaps in this case the reference is to the rambling old House with Eleven Staircases which features largely in the book), and finally, as an instance of undeniable descriptiveness,
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The Physiology of the Human Labyrinth, by S. Scott. We have already made mention of O. W. F. Lodge's play,
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The Labyrinth, when speaking of Fair Rosamond (Chap. XIX). The same title has recently been bestowed on one of a series of fanciful prose sketches by Mr. Martin Armstrong published collectively as
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The Puppet Show.
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Forse che si, forse che no (
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Perhaps yes, perhaps no