IV Of Revenge. (From the "Essays") V Of Marriage and Single Life. (From the "Essays") VI Of Envy. (From the "Essays") VII Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature. (From the "Essays") VIII Of Studies. (From the "Essays") IX Of Regiment of Health. (From the "Essays") WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE--(Born in 1564, died in 1616.) I Brutus to His Countrymen. (From "Julius Caesar") II Shylock in Defense of His Race. (From the "Merchant of Venice") III Hamlet to the Players. (From "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark") BEN JONSON--(Born in 1573, died in 1637.) Shakespeare and Other Wits. (From "Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter") IZAAK WALTON--(Born in 1593, died in 1683.) I The Antiquity of Angling. (From Part I, Chapter IV, of "The Compleat Angler") II Of the Trout. (From Part I, Chapter IV, of "The Compleat Angler") III The Death of George Herbert. (From the "Lives") JAMES HOWELL--(Born in 1595, died in 1666.) I The Bucentaur Ceremony in Venice. (From the "Familiar Letters") II The City of Rome in 1621. (From the "Familiar Letters") SIR THOMAS BROWNE--(Born in 1605, died in 1682.) I Of Charity in Judgments. (From the "Religio Medici") II Nothing Strictly Immortal. (From Chapter V of "Urn Burial") JOHN MILTON--(Born in 1608, died in 1674.) I Of His Own Literary Ambition. (From "The Reason of Church Government") II A Complete Education Defined. (From the "Tractate on Education") III On Reading in His Youth. (From the "Apology for Smectymnus") IV In Defense of Books. (From the "Areopagitica") V A Noble and Puissant Nation. (From the "Areopagitica") VI Of Fugitive and Cloistered Virtue. (From the "Areopagitica") LORD CLARENDON--(Born in 1608, died in 1674.) Of Charles I. (From the "History of the Rebellion") THOMAS FULLER--(Born in 1608, died in 1661.) Qualities of the Good Schoolmaster. (From "The Holy and Profane State") JEREMY TAYLOR--(Baptized in 1613, died in 1667.) The Benefits of Adversity. (From the "Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying") ABRAHAM COWLEY--(Born in 1618, died in 1667.) I Of Obscurity. (From the "Essays") II Of Procrastination. (From the "Essays") GEORGE FOX--(Born in 1624, died in 1691.) An Interview with Oliver Cromwell. (From the "Journal") JOHN BUNYAN--(Baptized in 1628, died in 1668.) I A Dream of the Celestial City. (From "The Pilgrim's Progress") II The Death of Valiant-for-truth and of Stand-fast. (From "The Pilgrim's Progress") III Ancient Vanity Fair. (From "The Pilgrim's Progress") JOHN DRYDEN--(Born in 1631, died in 1700.) Of Elizabethan Dramatists. (From the "Essay on Dramatic Poetry")