[207] "Arcadia," book iii. p. 248. In the "[Greek: Eikon Basilike], the portraiture of his sacred majesty in his solitude and sufferings," 1648, 8vo, towards the end of the book, where are to be found "praiers used by his majestie in the time of his sufferings, delivered to Dr. Juxon, bishop of London, immediately before his death," the end of the prayer of course is altered: "... so that at the last, I may com to thy eternal kingdom through the merits of thy son our alone Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen." [208] His contemporaries agreed in his belief: "Sir Philip Sidney writ his immortal poem 'The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia' in prose; and yet our rarest poet" (F. Meres "Paladis Tamia," 1598). [209] Pp. 138 and 51. [210] On this and other occasions Sidney combines alliteration with the repetition of words. Here is another example: "Is it to be imagined that Gynecia, a woman, though wicked, yet witty, would have attempted and atchieved an enterprise no lesse hazzardous than horrible without having some counsellor in the beginning and some comforter in the performing?" (book v. p. 466). [211] Pp. 10, 17, 129, 267, &c. The same curious repetition of words is sometimes to be noticed in Sidney's poetry: "Nor faile my faith in my fayling fate; Nor change in change, though change change my state." ("The Smokes of melancholie.") [212] Pp. 2, 137, 51. [213] "La, possible au sortir du combat, un oeillet tout sanglant tombe de lassitude; la un bouton de rose, eufle du mauvais succes de son antagoniste, s'epanouit de joie; la le lys, ce colosse entre les fleurs, ce geant de lait caille, glorieux de voir ses images triompher au Louvre, s'eleve sur ses compagnes et les regarde de haut en bas." Ice is for Cyrano: "une lumiere endurcie, un jour petrifie, un solide neant" ("Lettre pour le printemps"; "Lettre a M. le Bret"). [214] Book i. p. 4. [215] Here is an example among many others. Sidney's portrait, now belonging to Earl Darnley, bears the following inscription painted on its canvas: "S^r Phillip Sidney, who writ the Arcadia" (Tudor Exhibition, 1890). [216] "The Guls Horne-booke," "Works," ed. Grosart, vol. ii. p. 254. [217] Act ii. sc. 1, performed 1599, printed 1600. See also in "Bartholomew fair," performed in 1614, act iv. sc. 2, how Quarlous chooses the word "Argalus" to try his luck in a love affair. [218] The British Museum, which does not possess a complete collection, has editions of 1590, 1598, 1599, 1605, 1613, 1621, 1623, 1627, 1629, 1633, 1638, 1655, 1662, 1674. [219] From book ii. of the "Arcadia." It resembles the episode of Gloucester and his sons, and shows the old King of Paphlagonia dispossessed, become blind and led by his son Leonatus. See "Shakespeare's Library," ed. Collier and Hazlitt, London, 1875, 6 vol. 8vo, "King Lear." [220] A philosophical and scientific poem by N. Baxter, dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke, Lady Mary Wroth, &c., and published in 1606, 4to.