'So much for the time _when_. Now for the ground _which_; which I mean I walked upon: it is ycleped thy park. Then for the place where; where I mean I did encounter that obscene and most preposterous event, that draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou beholdest, surveyest, or seest, etc.... 'Thine in all compliments of devoted and heart-burning heat of duty. 'DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.' And in another letter from the same source, the dramatic criticism on that style of literature which it was the intention of this School 'to reform altogether' is thus continued. ... 'The magnanimous and most illustrate King _Cophetua_, set eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar _Zenelophon_. And it was he that might rightly say, _Veni, vidi, vici_; which to _anatomise_ in the vulgar, (_O base and obscure vulgar_!) _Videlicet_, he came, saw, and overcame... Who came? the king. Why did he come? to see. Why did he see? to overcome. To whom came he? to the beggar. What saw he? the beggar. Who overcame he? the beggar. The conclusion is victory. On whose side? etc. 'Thine in the dearest design of industry.' [_Dramatic comment_.] _Boyet. I am much deceived but I remember the style. _Princess_. Else your memory is bad going o'er it erewhile._ _Jaquenetta_. Good Master Parson, be so good as to read me this letter--it was sent me from Don _Armatho_: I beseech you to read it. _Holofernes_. [Speaking here, however, not in character but for 'the _Academe_.'] _Fauste precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra Ruminat_, and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice --Vinegia, Vinegia, Chi non te vede, ei non te pregia. Old Mantuan! Old Mantuan! Who understandeth thee not, _loves thee not.--Ut re sol la mi fa.--Under pardon_, Sir, what are THE CONTENTS? or, rather, as Horace says in his--What, my soul, _verses_? _Nath_. Ay, Sir, and _very learned_ [one would say so _upon examination_]. _Hol_. Let me have a _staff_, a stanza, a verse; _Lege Domine_. _Nath_. [Reads the 'verses.']--'If love make me forsworn,' etc. _Hol_. You _find not the apostrophe_, and _so--miss_ the _accent_--[criticising the reading. It is necessary to find the _apostrophe_ in the verses of this Academy, before you can give the accent correctly; there are other points which require to be noted also, in this refined courtier's writings, as this criticism will inform us]. Let me _supervise_ the canzonet. Here _are only numbers_ ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, _caret_. _Ovidius Naso_ was the man. And _why_, indeed, Naso; but for _smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy_, the _jerks of invention_. _Imitari_ is nothing; so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider. [It was no such reading and writing as _that_ which this Academy was going to countenance, or teach.] But, Damosella, was this directed to you?