"Lady of May," Sidney's masque of, 229, 289 La Fontaine, 232 Landmann, Dr., 106, 123 _note_ Laneham, Robert, account of the Kenilworth Festivities, 85 Languet, Hubert, the French Huguenot and friend of Sidney, on English manners, 136, 137; correspondence with Sidney, 221, 223, 288; poem on, in the "Arcadia," 222 "La Pucelle," 294, 350 Layamon, 39, 40 Lee, 392, 397 Leicester, Earl of, 91, 96, 159, 223 "Lenten Stuff," Nash's, 324, 325 Le Sage, style of, 47; "Gil Blas," 294 "Le Sopha," 24 "Lettre a l'Academie," Fenelon's, 229 "Life and Death of Ned Browne," Greene's, 187, 188 Lindsey, Earl of, 382 Lodge, Thomas, imitator of Lyly, 145, 150, 151; birth, education, travels, 202; novels, 203; "Rosalynde," 144, 204, 205, 206, 207-215; 290, 403 Longueville, Mme. de, 352, 357 "Looking Glasse for London and England," by Greene and Lodge, 215 Louis XIII., 354 Louis XIV., 352 Loveday, Robert, translator of La Calprenede's "Cleopatre," 369; frontispiece of, 20, 369, 371 Ludlow Castle, 219, 220 Lyly, John, editions of "Euphues," 27; denounces foreign travel, 73 _note_; writes for women, 104, 105; his style, 107; knowledge of plants and animals, 119, 120; the moral teaching of Lyly's "Euphues," 126-135; comedies by, 137-139; imitators of, 145-215; Sidney's style compared with, 255; kind of novel, 290; and the Martin Marprelate Controversy, 297; an ancestor of Richardson, 317; anticipates Rousseau, 131, 415 M. Malory's "Morte d'Arthur," 54-57, 60-63 "Mamillia," Greene's, 154, 155, 168 Mandeville, 296 Map, Walter, 38; his faculty of observation, 49 Mareschal, Antoine, 282 "Margarite of America," Lodge's, 202, 203 "Marianne," 24 Marlowe, heroes and heroines of, 247, 249; dies young, 295; Nash's criticisms of, 299, 306, 307 Mary, Queen of Scots, 92 Massinger, 331 Master Reynard, 292 "Matchless Orinda," The, 384, 391 Medicis, Marie de, 276 Melbancke, imitator of Lyly, 145 Melville, Sir James, ambassador of Mary Queen of Scots to the English court, on the manners of the English, 91-95; on the liking of the Elizabethans for disguises, 239 "Menaphon," Greene's, 146, 155, 160, 185-187 Meres, Francis, 198 _note_, 254 _note_, 300 Merimee's style, 305 "Midas" comedy by Lyly, 139 Middleton, 331 Milton's "Comus," 220, 221; opinion of Sidney's "Arcadia," 250, 251 Moliere, his love for old songs, 232; his denunciation of the behaviour of gallants at the playhouse, 343, 344; the "Precieuses ridicules," 373; English translations of, 397; the "Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes," 405 Monmouth, Geoffrey of, 38, 41 Montaigne, 43 Montausier, 352, 388, 391 Montchrestien, Antoine de, 354, 355 Montemayor's "Diane," 76; translation of, 227; style of, 229; imitated by Sidney, 236 Montesquieu's "Lettres persanes," 132 More, Sir Thomas, writes in Latin; the "Utopia," 50, 51; Erasmus' opinion of, 87; hero in Nash's novel, 348; his "Utopia," a political novel, 413