His Career and that of Cervantes compared 189 Epithets of Praise heaped on him 190 1562. His Birth 190 His Parentage 191 His Boyhood 191 An Adventure related of him while at School 192 He becomes the Protégé of Geronimo Manrique, the Grand Inquisitor 193 He enters the University of Alcala 193 He enters the Service of the Duke of Alva 194 His "Arcadia;" a Detail of the Story 195 1598. Publication of the "Arcadia" 198 Lope de Vega leaves the Duke's Service 198 His Marriage 199 He is engaged in a Duel, which causes him to go to Valencia 199 He returns to Madrid; Death of his Wife 200 1588. He becomes a Soldier, and joins the Invincible Armada 200 His Eclogue to Claudio 200 1604. His Sonnets 200 A Translation of two of his Sonnets 202 Some Account of his "Dorotea" 204 Sanguine Expectations of the Invincible Armada 209 Piratical Expeditions of Drake and Hawkins excite the Animosity and Vengeance of the Spaniards 209 An animated Description of the setting forth of the Invincible Armada, by Lope de Vega 210 He composes "The Beauty of Angelica" 210 1590. He returns from the Armada, and enters the Service of Count Lemos 211 His second Marriage 211 1620. His Work, "The True Lover" 212 Extracts from his Epistles 213 Uncertain Dates of the various Events of his Life 216 1598. Canonisation of St. Isidro 217 The Reputation of Lope de Vega awakens the Enmity of Rivals and Critics 217 His War with Gongora 218 1616. His unexampled Popularity 219 1621. His Novel 219 His "Soliloquies on God" 220