[Is not "_Verse Lyon_" Puttenham's translation of _Leonine Verse_?]
_Passage from Cymbeline_ (Vol. ii., p. 135.).--
"Some jay of Italy,
Whose mother was her _painting_, hath betrayed him."--Act III. Sc. 4.
The word _painting_ (your correspondent's stumbling-block) evidently means
resemblance--resemblance of character, and as such exactly corresponds to
the German word _Ebenbild_, an image or painting, which is used in the same
sense; _e.g._ _Sie hat das Ebenbild ihres Mutters_, "She is the very image
of her mother."