Its minor shortcomings 174 And major heresies 175 The excuses of both 175 And their ample compensation 176 King James’s _Reulis and Cautelis_ 176 Webbe’s _Discourse_ 178 Slight in knowledge 179 But enthusiastic 180 If uncritical 180 In appreciation 182 Puttenham’s (?) _Art of English Poesie_ 182 Its erudition 183 Systematic arrangement 184 And exuberant indulgence in Figures 185 Minors: Harington, Meres, Webster, Bolton, &c. 186 Campion and his _Observations_ 187 Daniel and his _Defence of Rhyme_ 189 Bacon 191 The _Essays_ 192 The _Advancement of Learning_ 192 Its denunciation of mere word-study 193 Its view of Poetry 194 Some _obiter dicta_ 194 The whole of very slight importance 195 Stirling’s _Anacrisis_ 196 Ben Jonson: his equipment 197 His _Prefaces_, &c. 198 The Drummond Conversations 199 The _Discoveries_ 200 Form of the book 203 Its date 204 Mosaic of old and new 204 The fling at Montaigne 205 At _Tamerlane_ 206 The Shakespeare Passage 206 And that on Bacon 206 General character of the book 208 INTERCHAPTER IV. 211 BOOK V. THE CRYSTALLISING OF THE NEO-CLASSIC CREED. CHAPTER I. FROM MALHERBE TO BOILEAU.