[84] B. 1515; d. 1568. His works (in English) were collected and edited by Bennett in 1761. Fuller (_of the Worthies_) writes of Ascham: “He was an honest man and a good shooter. His _Toxophilus_ is a good book for young men; his _Scholemaster_ for old; his _Epistles_ for all men.” [85] Report of Giacomo Soranzo (Venetian Ambassador) under date of 1554: Rawdon Brown’s Calendar State Papers, 1534-54. [86] Rawdon Brown’s Calendar State Papers, 1554. From Venetian Archives. [87] A Thomas Sackville, b. 1527; d. 1608, was author of a portion of _Mirror for Magistrates_; also associated with Thomas Norton, in production of the Tragedy of _Gorboduc_. [88] Thomas Tusser, b. about 1527; d. 1580. [89] Raphael Holinshed, d. about 1580. First edition of his Chronicle was published in 1577. [90] William Cecil, b. 1520; d. 1598. Biography by Nares, 1828-31. [91] Richard Hooker (1553-1600). Edition of his works (by Keble) first appeared 1836. First book of _Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity_ has been edited for Clarendon Press Series by R. W. Church, 1868. [92] Grosart, in his _Life of Spenser_ (pp. 236-37), gives good reasons for doubting this story which is based mainly on the Jonson-Drummond interviews. Grosart also questions--as Prof. John Wilson had done before him--all the allegations of Spenser’s extreme indigence. [93] Philip Sidney, b. 1554; d. 1586. [94] The first edition of Rinaldo was printed at Venice in 1562: this great epic was completed at Padua in 1575. [95] John Lyly, b. 1554; d. 1606. [96] The style of Lyly has been traced by Dr. Landmann, an ingenious German critic, to the influence of Don Antonio de Guevara, a Spanish author, who wrote _El Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio_, 1529. It was translated into English by Lord Berners in 1531 (published in 1534). [97] James Spedding, b. 1803; d. 1881. His chief work was the Bacon life; and there is something pathetic in the thought of a man of Spedding’s attainments, honesty of purpose, and unflagging industry, devoting thirty of the best years of his life to a vindication of Bacon’s character. His aggressive attitude in respect to Macaulay is particularly shown in his _Evenings with a Reviewer_ (2 vols., 8vo), in which he certainly makes chaff of a good deal of Macaulay’s arraignment. [98] We are disinclined, however, to accept the same biographer’s over-mild treatment of the bribe-taking, as a “moral negligence”--coupling it with Dr. Johnson’s moral delinquency of lying a-bed in the morning! See closing pages of _Evenings with a Reviewer_. [99] The extraordinary habits of Hobbes are made subject of pleasant illustrative comment in Sydney Smith’s (so-called) _Sketches of Moral Philosophy_, Lecture XXVI.