[Footnote 306: The Speaker's address to Charles II on his restoration. Compare it with the speech of M. de Fontanes under the Empire. In each case it was the close of a literary epoch. Read for illustration the speech before the University of Oxford, "Athenæ Oxonienses," I. 193.] [Footnote 307: His second work, "Euphues and his England," appeared in 1581.] [Footnote 308: See Shakespeare's young men, Mercutio especially.] [Footnote 309: "The Maid her Metamorphosis."] [Footnote 310: Two French novels of the age of Louis XIV, each in ten volumes, and written by Mademoiselle de Scudéry.--Tr.] [Footnote 311: Celadon, a rustic lover in "Astrée," a French novel in five volumes, named after the heroine, and written by d'Urfé (d. 1625).--Tr.] [Footnote 312: "Arcadia," ed. fol. 1629, p. 117.] [Footnote 313: "Arcadia," ed. fol. 1629, p. 114.] [Footnote 314: "The Defence of Poesie," ed. fol. 1629, p. 558: "I dare undertake, that Orlando Furioso, or honest King Arthur, will never displease a soldier: but the quidditie of Ens and prima materia, will hardly agree with a Corselet." See also, in the same book, the very lively and spirited personification of History and Philosophy, full of genuine talent.] [Footnote 315: "The Defence of Poesie," ed. fol. 1629, p. 553.] [Footnote 316: Ibid. p. 550.] [Footnote 317: Ibid. p. 552.] [Footnote 318: Ibid. p. 560. Here and there we find also verse as spirited as this: "Or Pindar's Apes, flaunt they in phrases fine, Enam'ling with pied flowers their thoughts of gold."--p. 568.] [Footnote 319: "Astrophel and Stella," ed. fol. 1629, 101st sonnet, p. 613.] [Footnote 320: Ibid. 8th song, p. 603.] [Footnote 321: "Astrophel and Stella" (1629), 8th song, 604.] [Footnote 322: Ibid. 10th song, p. 610.] [Footnote 323: Ibid, sonnet 69, p. 555.] [Footnote 324: "Astrophel and Stella" (1629), sonnet 102, p. 614.] [Footnote 325: Ibid. p. 525: this sonnet is headed E. D. Wood, in his "Athen. Oxon." i., says it was written by Sir Edward Dyer, Chancellor of the Most noble Order of the Garter.--Tr.] [Footnote 326: Ibid, sonnet 43, p. 545.] [Footnote 327: "Astrophel and Stella" (1629), sonnet 18, p. 573.] [Footnote 328: Ibid, last sonnet, p. 539.] [Footnote 329: Nathan Drake, "Shakspeare and his Times," I. Part 2, ch. 2, 3, 4. Among these 233 poets the authors of isolated pieces are not reckoned, but only those who published or collected their works.] [Footnote 330: Drayton's "Polyolbion," ed. 1622, 13th song, p. 214.] [Footnote 331: Shakespeare's "Tempest," act IV. 1.] [Footnote 332: Ibid, act IV. 2.] [Footnote 333: Greene's Poems, ed. Bell, "Eurymachus in Laudem Mirimidæ," p. 73.] [Footnote 334: Ibid. Melicertus's description of his Mistress, p. 38.] [Footnote 335: Spenser's Works, ed. Todd, 1863, "The Faërie Queene," I. c. II, st. 51.] [Footnote 336: Ben Jonson's Poems, ed. R. Bell. Celebration of Charis; her Triumph, p. 125.] [Footnote 337: "Cupid's Pastime," unknown author, ab. 1621.]