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few days ago; an investigation of the state of the stage before the date when Shakespeare began to write for it.

ELLIOT. A very interesting topic, upon which I confess myself almost wholly ignorant.

Thus terminated the first ten days' conversations between the three friends: the discussions were continued to the end of the fortnight, to which the visit of Morton and Elliot was originally intended to be limited, but when the period fixed for departure arrived, the weather continued so beautiful, the river and the country near it so delightful, and the occupation in the library so agreeable, that the guests were easily prevailed upon to prolong their stay, and to continue their inquiries.

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Eneid of Virgil, translated by Vicars, quoted

Affanie, 1601, by C. Fitzgeffrey, the authors mentioned

in

Alarum against Usurers, by T. Lodge

described...

Alcilia, Philoparthen's Loving Folly, 1619

quotations from ......

ii. 323

ii. 319

i. 112

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ii. 118, 119

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Allot, Robert, his claim to the compilation of "Englands

Parnassus," 1600......

Amos and Laura, the Loves of, 1619, dedicated to Iz.
Walton

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ii. 111, 113, 114

Ant and the Nightingale of Father Hubberd's Tales
quoted in reference to Spenser...

Apology for Actors, by T. Heywood, referred to

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quoted
Refutation of the, by J. G. 1615 ii. 301

ii. 288, 290, 291, 293, 299

..

Apology of Poetry, by Sir P. Sidney, Constable's Son-
nets before

...

Edw. Wootton mentioned in
by Sir J. Harington alluded to ....

Apolonius and Silla, a novel, by B. Rich, on which

ii. 104

ii. 107

ii. 288

Shakespeare founded his Twelfth Night, examined.. ii. 146

Arcadia, Sir P. Sidney's, mentioned

Sonnet omitted in

.... .........

Arraignment of Paris, by G. Peele, song from

Vol. Page
i. 65, 67

i. 66

i. 123

As you Like it, compared with T. Lodge's "Rosalynde" ii. 170
Ascham, Roger, cited on the taste for Italian Poetry

against rhyme in English

Aske, James, quotation in blank verse from his Eliza-

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Ass, The Nobleness of the, 1595, examined

the admirable properties of the animal
its most melodious voice.....

Authors, self-delusion of, as to their fame

i. 81

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i. 92

i. 126

i. 168

i. 169

i. 170

i. 46

Bankes' horse, curious tract relating to, called "Ma-

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Barkstead, Will. his "Myrrha the Mother of Adonis".

i. 237

Barnes, Barnabe, his "Parthenophil and Parthenophe,"

dedicated to Will. Percy, referred to

i. 13

his "Four Books of Offices," 1606,
noticed, and a question regarding two editions of it

i. 14

Madrigal, by W. Percy..

i. 15

Barry, Lod. his "Ram Alley" quoted

ii. 27, 284

Bastard, Thos. Epigrams from his Chrestoleros, 1598..

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Belvedere, the Garden of the Muses, by Bodenham
Blank verse, Peele's "Farewell to Norris and Drake,"

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Blank verse, inquiry into the origin of undramatic

........

early specimens of
Blenerhasset, Tho. a writer of blauk verse in "the
Mirror for Magistrates"

his recommendation to hunt down the Irish

Vol. Page

i. 88

i. 94 to 144,

ii, 231

i. 102

Kernes

i. 105

Blessed Birth-day, by Fitzgeffrey, specimen of..
Boccacio, his novel of Titus and Gisippus

i. 71

ii. 79

ii. 196

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early English translations of his Decameron..
Bodenham, John, mention of his "Belvedere," 1600
Bramins, etymology of

Brathwayte, R. his "Strappado for the Devil," 1615,

his "Time's Curtain drawn," &c. 1621, and

imitations

his "Health from Helicon," with a specimen ii. 59
Breton, N. said to have written blank verse

"Cornu-copiæ, Pasquil's Night-cap," assigned

to him

his "Pasquil's Pass and Passeth not" quoted
"Tis merry when Gossips meet," 1602, perhaps
his..

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his "Mad World my Masters," account of and
extracts from
i. 331, 332, 333, 335
poem by him in Hind's "Eliosto Libidinoso"
MS. poem by him in praise of Virtue, Wisdom,

& c.

ii.

ii. 10

Bright burning Beacon, &c. 1580, by Abr. Fleming
Broughton, Rowland, his poem on the Marq. of Win-

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Brysket, Lod. his claim to the poem of the "Mourning
Muse of Thestylis" considered

i. 98

his "Discourse of civil Life" 1606

i. 99

Bucke, Paul, his "Three Lords and three Ladies of

London," 1590

ii. 294

Burgh, Sir John, R. Markham's poem on the death of.. ii. 100
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" quoted..

ii. 317

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