Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air. Greene has his Ah, what is love, it is a pretty thing, As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, which is in the spirit of Burns's best songs of rural love; and his courtly love song with the French refrain, _N'oserez vous, mon bel ami!_ and his Lullaby Weep not my wanton, smile upon my knee, When thou art old, there's grief enough for thee. This has the charm of the folk-songs, Old and plain, And dallying with the innocence of love. It may also be said that, at the opposite pole, Greene's snatches of English hexameters are the best of their kind then written. If nothing else Of Lyly's existed his Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses--Cupid payed, would keep his memory green. Lodge has been blamed as a common plagiary because he translated so many of his lyrics, not always or often with due acknowledgment, from Des Portes and Ronsard. But in some cases he improved the land which he conquered, and his "Love in my bosom like a bee," "Down a down!" "Thus Phyllis sung," and "Pluck the fruit and taste the pleasures," are genuine additions to English song, and prelude to Shakespeare's, and the music of the coming generation. All of the treasures of his predecessors are not equivalent or nearly equivalent to the small change of Shakespeare's genius. But the best things in his predecessors' work indicate that, in a favourite phrase of Aristotle, "Nature was wishing to make" a Shakespeare. Yet was the birth of his genius none the less a miracle. He did much more than combine all that was good in all the others. He added that which is universal and eternal. Shakespeare. Concerning the life of William Shakspere (as he signed it), or Shakespeare (as his name was usually spelled), only a few essential facts are known from records of his own time, mainly documents concerning the legal affairs of himself, his family, and the theatrical company with which he was connected. Unlike many of the contemporary playwrights he was not a member of either University, and so college records about him are necessarily absent: and there is no contemporary roll of names of pupils at the school of his native place, Stratford-on-Avon.