II. "Euphuism," its foreign origin--How embellished and perfected by Lyly--Fanciful natural history of the time--The mediaeval bestiaries--Topsell's scientific works 106 III. The plot of the novel--Moral tendencies of "Euphues"--Lyly's precepts concerning men, women and children 123 IV. Lyly's popularity--Courtly talk of the time--Translations and abbreviations of "Euphues" in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 135 CHAPTER IV. _LYLY'S LEGATEES_ 145 I. Lyly's influence--His principal heirs and successors, Riche, Dickenson, Melbancke, Munday, Warner, Greene, Lodge, &c. 145 II. Robert Greene's biography--His autobiographical tales--His life and repentance, characteristic of the times 150 III. His love stories and romantic tales--His extraordinary success--His tales of real life--His fame at home and abroad 167 IV. N. Breton, an imitator of Greene--Thomas Lodge, a legatee of Lyly--His life--His "Rosalynd" and other works--His relation to Shakespeare 192 CHAPTER V. _SIR PHILIP SIDNEY AND PASTORAL ROMANCE_ 217 Of shepherds. I. Sidney's life--His travels and friendship with Languet--His court life and love--His death--The end of "Stella" 219 II. Sidney's works--Miscellaneous writings--The "Apologie"--Sidney's appreciation of the poetic and romantic novel. The "Arcadia," why written--Sidney's various heroes: shepherds, knights, princesses, &c.--Eclogues and battles, fetes, masques and tournaments--Anglo-arcadian architecture, gardens, dresses and furniture. Sidney's object according to Fulke Greville, and according to himself--His lovers--Youthful love, unlawful love, foolish love, innocent love--Pamela's prayer--The final imbroglio. Sidney's style as a novel writer--His wit and brightness--His eloquence--His bad taste--His fanciful ornaments 228 III. Sidney's reputation in England--Continuators, imitators, and admirers among dramatists, poets and novelists--Shakespeare, Jonson, Day, Shirley, Quarles--Lady Mary Wroth and her novel--Sidney's reputation in the eighteenth century, Addison, Young, Walpole, Cowper--Chap-books. In France--He is twice translated, and gives rise to a literary quarrel--Charles Sorel's judgment in the "Berger extravagant," and Du Bartas' praise--Mareschal's drama out of the "Arcadia"--Niceron and Florian 260 CHAPTER VI.