Anglo-Saxons, songs and legends of the, 32; gloom of the literature of the, 33, 34 "Apologie for Poetrie," Sidney's, 229-233; 235, 254, 255, 301 Apulaeus, 86 "Arbasto," 155; 175-178 "Arcadia," Sidney's, 226, 229; account and criticism of, 234-262; popularity, imitations and translations of, 262-283; criticised in the eighteenth century by Addison, Cowper and Young, 270-272; Milton's and Horace Walpole's criticism of, 272; Niceron on, 283; drawings from editions of, 16, 17, 273, 275, 277 "Arcadianism," Dekker and Ben Jonson on, 261 Arcady, land of, 218, 219 Architecture, Elizabethan, 12, 99, 100, 101, 102 Aretino, 298, 348 "Argalus and Parthenia," Quarles', 16, 264, 267; as a chap-book, 271-275 D'Argenson's opinion of England, 24 "Ariosto," 43, 173, 237, 363; Harington's translation of, 13, 76, 77, 79, 80, 366 "Arisbas," Dickenson's, 146 Arthur, the Celtic hero, 39; and his knights, 35 Arundel, Earl of, 159 Ascham, Roger, denounces foreign travel and literature, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79 _note_, 85, 318; condemns Morte d'Arthur, 63, 74; on the study of Greek and Latin, 87, 88; his views on the old romances endorsed by Nash, 307, 308 "Astree," d'Urfe's, 205, 247, 364, 365 "Astrophel and Stella," 229, 233, 234 D'Aubigne, 398 "Aucassin and Nicolete," 36, 37, 59, 60, 353 B. Bacon, Francis, 24, 43; "New Atlantis," 50; and English prose, 52; essay on Gardens, 241; 300, 403, 413 Bacon, Friar, stories about, 28 Bandello, 81 _note_, 86, 147 "Baron de Foeneste," 398 Baudoin, translation of Sidney's "Arcadia" into French, 276-280 Baxter's "Sir Philip Sidney's Ourania," 262 Beattie, 26 Beckett, engraver, 19 Behn, Mrs., 414-417 Bell's "Theatre," engraving from, 14, 97 Belleforest's tales translated and imitated by Paynter, 86; "Histoires tragiques," 147 "Bentivolio and Urania," Ingelow's, 413 "Beowulf," the oldest English romance, 11; fac-simile of the beginning of the MS., 31; 33, 34; want of tenderness in, 35 "Berenice," Racine's, translated by Otway, 397 "Berger extravagant," 21, 280, 398, 401 Bergerac, Cyrano de, his "Etats et empires de la lune et du soleil," 50; his "Pedant joue," 128 _note_; style of, 258; humour of, 289, 290 Berners, Lord, 106-107 Bestiaries, 108, 111, 112, 115, 116, 119 Blount, Charles, Lord Mountjoy, Earl of Devonshire, 227 Blount, Edward, publisher of Lyly's comedies, 137, 138 Boccaccio, 43; "Filocopo," "Amorous Fiammetta," "Decameron," English translations of, 75, 76; 86 Boileau, 258, 356 _note_, 363, 390 Borde, Dr. Andrew, 288, 289, 326 Bossuet, 387 Bovon of Hanstone, poem imitated from a French romance, 39 Boyle, Roger, Lord Broghill, 384-389 Bozon, Nicole, 111 Breton, Nicholas, 192, 198-202 Brunne, Robert Manning de, 38, 39 Bullen, 22 Bunyan, John, 159, 413 Burghley House, 12, 101, 102 Byron's "Don Juan," 409, 410 C. Caesarius, 48, 49 Callot, 317, 337 Camden Society, 18 "Campaspe," Lyly's, 138 Carey, 412