may be sure that Beaumont many a time held his sides,--a wag whose "excellent witt gave him letters of commendacion to all ingeniose persons," a great friend of Beaumont's Jonson, and of Raleigh, Donne, Selden, Camden, and Daniel. Of the participants in Serjeant Hoskins's _Convivium Philosophicum_, we find, then, that several were of those who came into personal contact with Beaumont, and that of the rest, nearly all moved in the field of his acquaintance. Concerning a few, Arthur _Meadow-pigmies'-foe_ (Cranefield), Sir Robert _Horse-lover_ (Phillips), _Rabbit-tree-where-acorn-grows_ (Conyoke or Connock), and John _Hesperian_ (West), I have no information pertinent to the subject. FOOTNOTES: [95] _The Ghost of Richard III_, I, viii (1614). [96] In _Cal. State Papers (Dom.)_, under Sept. 2, 1611, I find "Description by Ralph Colphab [Thomas Cariat] of Brasenose College, Oxford, of a philosophical feast the guests at which were Chris Brook, John Donne," and others in exactly the order given below, save for one error. "In Latin Rhymes." Dr. A. Clark in his Aubrey's _Brief Lives_, II, 50-51, gives the Latin verses from an old commonplace book in Lincoln College Library, "authore Rodolpho Calsabro, Aeneacense"; but prefers the attribution of another old copy, owned by Mr. Madan of Brasenose, "per Johannem Hoskyns, London." The translation by Reynolds, who died in 1614, is also given by Dr. Clark. CHAPTER XI BEAUMONT AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY'S DAUGHTER; RELATIONS WITH OTHER PERSONS OF NOTE Glimpses of the more personal relations of Beaumont with the world of rank and fashion, and to some extent of his character, are vouchsafed us in the few non-dramatic verses that may with certainty be ascribed to him. Unfortunately for our purpose, most of those included in the _Poems_, "by Francis Beaumont, Gent.," issued by Blaiklock in 1640 and printed again in 1653, and among _The Golden Remains_ "of those so much admired Dramatick Poets, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gents.," in 1660, are, as I have already said, by other hands than his: some of them by his brother, Sir John, and by Donne, Jonson, Randolph, Shirley, and Waller. Of the juvenile amatory lyrics, addresses, and so-called sonnets in these collections, it is not likely that a single one is by him; for in an epistle to Sidney's daughter, the Countess of Rutland, written when he was evidently of mature years and reputation,--let us suppose, about 1611, Beaumont says: I would avoid the common beaten ways To women used, which are love or praise. As for the first, the little wit I have Is not yet grown so near unto the grave But that I can, by that dim fading light, Perceive of what or unto whom I write. Let others, "well resolved to end their days With a loud laughter blown beyond the seas,"--let such