In still another way the lines on the death of Sidney's daughter are instructive. Its noble tribute to Sidney's _Arcadia_ is payment of a debt manifest in more than one of the dramas to which Beaumont had contributed. Of Sir Philip, Beaumont here writes: He left two children, who for virtue, wit, Beauty, were lov'd of all,--thee and his writ: Two was too few; yet death hath from us took Thee, a more faultless issue than his book, Which, now the only living thing we have From him, we'll see, shall never find a grave As thou hast done. Alas, would it might be That books their sexes had, as well as we, That we might see this married to the worth, And many poems like itself bring forth. The _Arcadia_ had already brought forth offspring: in prose, Greene's _Menaphon_ and _Pandosto_, and Lodge's _Rosalynde_; in verse, Day's _Ile of Guls_. It had fathered, immediately, the subplot of Shakespeare's _King Lear_,--and, indirectly, portions of the _Winter's Tale_, and _As You Like It_, and of other Elizabethan plays.[100] Within the twelve months immediately preceding August 1612, it had inspired also, as we have already observed, Beaumont and Fletcher's _Cupid's Revenge_, the finest scenes in which are Beaumont's dramatic adaptation of romantic characters and motives furnished by Sir Philip. And from that same "faultless issue," the _Arcadia_, virtue, art, and beauty, loved of all, had earlier still been drawn by Beaumont, certainly for _The Maides Tragedy_, and, perhaps, for _Philaster_ as well. The acquaintance with the Rutland family was continued after the death of Francis by his brother John, and his sister Elizabeth. The Nymph "of beauty most divine ... whose admired vertues draw All harts to love her" in John's poem, _The Shepherdess_, is Lady Katharine Manners, daughter of Francis, sixth Earl of Rutland, and now the wife of George Villiers, Marquis of Buckingham; and the Shepherdess herself "who long had kept her flocks On stony Charnwood's dry and barren rocks," the country dame "For singing crowned, whence grew a world of fame Among the sheep cotes," is Elizabeth Beaumont of Grace-Dieu, back on a visit from her Seyliard home in Kent. She had wandered into the summer place of the Rutlands and Buckinghams near the Grace-Dieu priory--"watered with our silver brookes," and had been welcomed and had sung for them. And now John repays the courtesy with indirect and graceful compliment.