_snatched a_ [wild and] _fearful joy_. Gray's "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College." P. 16. _Fletcher the poet_. John Fletcher the dramatist died of the plague in 1625. _The course of true love_. "Midsummer Night's Dream," i, 1, 34. _The age of chivalry was not then quite gone._ Cf. Burke: "Reflections on the French Revolution" (ed. Bohn, II, 348): "But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." _fell a martyr_. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), poet, soldier, and statesman, received his mortal wound in the thigh at the battle of Zutphen because, in emulation of Sir William Pelham, he threw off his greaves before entering the fight. _the gentle Surrey_. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1518?-1547), was distinguished as an innovator in English poetry as well as for his knightly prowess. _who prized black eyes_. "Sessions of the Poets," verse 20. _Like strength reposing_. "'Tis might half slumb'ring on its own right arm." Keats's "Sleep and Poetry," 237. P. 17. _they heard the tumult_. "I behold the tumult and am still." Cowper's "Task," IV, 99. _descriptions of hunting and other athletic games_. See "Midsummer Night's Dream," iv, 1, 107 ff., and "Two Noble Kinsmen," iii. _An ingenious and agreeable writer_. Nathan Drake (1766-1836), author of "Shakespeare and his Times" (1817). In describing the life of the country squire Drake remarks: "The luxury of eating and of good cooking were well understood in the days of Elizabeth, and the table of the country-squire frequently groaned beneath the burden of its dishes; at Christmas and at Easter especially, the hall became the scene of great festivity." Chap. V. (ed. 1838, p. 37). _Return from Parnassus_. Hazlitt gives an account of this play in the "Literature of the Age of Elizabeth," Lecture V. P. 18. _it snowed_. "Canterbury Tales," Prologue, 345. _as Mr. Lamb observes_, in a note to Marston's "What You Will" in the "Specimens of Dramatic Literature" (ed. Lucas, 1, 44): "The blank uniformity to which all professional distinctions in apparel have been long hastening, is one instance of the decay of Symbols among us, which, whether it has contributed or not to make us a more intellectual, has certainly made us a less imaginative people." Cf. Schlegel's remark in the first note. _in act_. "Othello," i, I, 62. _description of a mad-house_. "Honest Whore," Part 1, v. 2. _A Mad World, My Masters_, the title of a comedy by Middleton.