[262] Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the great statesman. His _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ appeared in 1790.--T. [263] François Duc de Montmorency (_circa_ 1530-1579) was Ambassador to England in 1572, when Shakespeare was still a child.--T. [264] Charles de Gontaut, Duc de Biron (_circa_ 1562-1602), was Ambassador from Henry IV. to Elizabeth at the close of the sixteenth century. He was beheaded, 31 July 1602, at the Bastille, for conspiring against the King.--T. [265] Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully (1560-1641), Henry IV.'s great minister.--T. [266] Elizabeth, Queen of England (1533-1603), reigned from 1558 to 1603, and the plays produced by Shakespeare during her reign include _Love's Labours Lost_, the _Comedy of Errors_, _King Henry VI._, the _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, the _Midsummer Alight's Dream_, the _Life and Death of King Richard III._, _Romeo and Juliet_, the _Life and Death of King Richard II._, _King John_, the _Merchant of Venice_, _King Henry IV._, _King Henry V._, the _Taming of the Shrew_, the _Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will, Julius Cæsar, All's Well that Ends Well_, and _Hamlet Prince of Denmark._--T. [267] James I. King of England and VI. of Scotland (1566-1625). In his reign were produced _Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, the Moor of Venice, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Pericles Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline_, the _Tempest_, the _Winters Tale_, and _King Henry VIII._--T. [268] Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) flourished exactly three centuries before Shakespeare.--T. [269] Bulstrode Whitelock (1605-1675), a prominent member of the Long Parliament, and author of the _Memorials of the English Affairs_, in which mention is made of the fact that the Swedish Ambassador complains, in 1656, of the delay caused in the translation of certain articles into Latin through their being entrusted to a blind man.--T. [270] Jean Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), known as Molière, played the principal part in his own comedies. _Monsieur de Pourceaugnac_, one of the most farcical of these, was produced in 1669.--T. [271] JOB. XIII. 15.--T. [272] _An Epitaph on the admirable Dramatic Poet William Shakespeare_, 1-2.--T. [273] Michael Angelo Buonarotti (1474-1563) left a number of slight poems in addition to his vast works of sculpture, painting, and architecture.--T. [274] Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) lost the use of his right leg when eighteen months old.--T. [275] _Sonnets_, XXXVII. 3.--T. [276] _Sonnets_, LXXI, I, 5-12.--T. [277] Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), the voluminous author of _Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe_, and the _History of Sir Charles Grandison. Clarissa Harlowe_ was published in 1748.--T. [278] Henry Fielding (1707-1754), author of _Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones_ (1749), etc.--T. [279] Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), author of _Tristram Shandy_ (1759-1767), etc.--T.