Spenser was the poet who caught the spirit of this teaching. Pastorella’s beauty is presented not as Una’s, the beauty of wisdom, nor as Britomart’s, the beauty of the inward purity of womanhood; but it is a beauty of pure form. “And soothly sure she was full fayre of face, And perfectly well shapt in every lim, Which she did more augment with modest grace, And comely carriage of her count’nance trim, That all the rest like lesser lamps did dim.” (VI. ix. 9.) And yet as she stands on the little hillock she is encompassed with a cloud of glory. “Upon a litle hillocke she was placed Higher then all the rest, and round about Environ’d with a girland, goodly graced, Of lovely lasses, and them all without The lustie shepheard swaynes sate in a rout; The which did pype and sing her prayses dew, And oft rejoyce, and oft for wonder shout, As if some miracle of heavenly hew Were downe to them descended in that earthly vew.” (VI. ix. 8.) They saw in the object before their eyes the idea of beauty in earthly form. The miracle is no more and no less than this; it is “the privilege of beauty, that being the loveliest she is also the most palpable to sight.” BIBLIOGRAPHY ARISTOTLE. “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle,” translated into English by Robert Williams. London, 1869. AYRES, PHILIP. “Lyric Poems.” London, 1687. AYTOUN, ROBERT. “Poems,” edited by Charles Rogers. London, 1871. BIGG, C. “Neo-platonism.” London, 1895. BOYLE, ROBERT. “A Treatise of Seraphic Love.” Edinburgh, 1825. BROME, ALEXANDER. “Songs and Other Poems.” Second edition. 1664. CAMPION, THOMAS. “Works,” edited by A. H. Bullen. London, 1889. CAREW, THOMAS. “Poems,” edited by Arthur Vincent. London and New York, 1899. CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM. “Comedies, Tragi-comedies with Other Poems.” London, 1651. CHARLETON, WALTER. “The Ephesian and Cimmerian Matrons.” London, 1668. CLEVELAND, JOHN. “Works.” London, 1687. COWLEY, ABRAHAM. “Works.” 2 vols. Eleventh edition. London, 1710. CRAIG, ALEXANDER. “Poetical Works,” printed for the Hunterian Club, 1873. CRASHAW, RICHARD. “Complete Works,” edited by A. B. Grosart. 2 vols. 1873. DANIEL, GEORGE. “Poems,” edited by A. B. Grosart. 4 vols. 1878. DANIEL, SAMUEL. “Complete Works in Verse and Prose,” edited by A. B. Grosart. 4 vols. 1885. D’AVENANT, WILLIAM. “Dramatic Works,” edited by James Maidment and W. H. Logan. 5 vols. Edinburgh and London, 1872–1874. DE VERE, AUBREY THOMAS. “Characteristics of Spenser’s Poetry” and “Spenser as a Philosophic Poet,” in “Essays, chiefly on Poetry.” 2 vols. London, 1887.