[Footnote 287: Warton, vol. II. sec. 35. Before 1600 all the great poets were translated into English, and between 1550 and 1616 all the great historians of Greece and Rome. Lyly in 1500 first taught Greek in public.] [Footnote 288: Ascham, "The Scholemaster" (1570), ed. Arber, 1870, first book, 78 et passim.] [Footnote 289: Ma il vero e principal ornemento dell' animo in ciascuno penso io che siano le lettere, benche i Franchesi solamente conoscano la nobilita dell'arme... et tutti i litterati tengon per vilissimi huomini. Castiglione "Il Cortegiano," ed. 1585, p. 112.] [Footnote 290: See Burchard (the Pope's Steward) account of the festival at which Lucretia Borgia was present. Letters of Aretinus, "Life of Cellini," etc.] [Footnote 291: See his sketches at Oxford, and those of Fra Bartolomeo at Florence. See also the Martyrdom of St. Laurence, by Baccio Bandinelli.] [Footnote 292: Benvenuto Cellini, "Principles of the Art of Design."] [Footnote 293: "Life of Cellini." Compare also these exercises which Castiglione prescribes for a well-educated man, in his "Cortegiano," ed. 1585, p. 55: "Peró voglio che il nostro cortegiano sia perfetto cavaliere d'ogni sella.... Et perche degli Italiani è peculiar laude il cavalcare bene alia brida, il maneggiar con raggione massimamente cavalli aspri, il corre lance, il giostare, sia in questo de meglior Italiani.... Nel torneare, teper un passo, combattere una sbarra, sia buono tra il miglior francesi.... Nel giocare a canne, correr torri, lanciar haste e dardi, sia tra Spagnuoli eccelente.... Conveniente è ancor sapere saltare, e correre;... ancor nobile exercitio il gioco di palla.... Non di minor laude estimo il voltegiar a cavallo."] [Footnote 294: Puttenham, "The Arte of English Poesie," ed. Arber, 1869, book I. ch. 31, p. 74.] [Footnote 295: Surrey's "Poems," Pickering, 1831, p. 17.] [Footnote 296: Ibid. "The faithful lover declareth his pains and his uncertain joys, and with only hope recomforteth his woful heart," p. 53.] [Footnote 297: Ibid. "Description of Spring, wherein everything renews, save only the lover," p. 2.] [Footnote 298: Ibid. p. 50.] [Footnote 299: Syrrey's "Poems. A description of the restless state of the lover when absent from the mistress of his heart," p. 78] [Footnote 300: In another piece, "Complaint on the Absence of her Lover being upon the Sea," he speaks in direct terms of his wife, almost as affectionately.] [Footnote 301: Greene, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Shakespeare, Ford, Otway, Richardson, De Foe, Fielding, Dickens, Thackeray, etc.] [Footnote 302: "The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty."] [Footnote 303: "Description of Spring. A Vow to Love Faithfully."] [Footnote 304: "Complaint of the Lover Disdarned."] [Footnote 305: Surrey, ed. Nott.]