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. 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 ........ ii. 118, 119 Allot, Robert, his claim to the compilation of "Englands Parnassus," 1600...... Amos and Laura, the Loves of, 1619, dedicated to Iz. .... ii. 111, 113, 114 Ant and the Nightingale of Father Hubberd's Tales Apology for Actors, by T. Heywood, referred to quoted ii. 288, 290, 291, 293, 299 .. Apology of Poetry, by Sir P. Sidney, Constable's Son- ... Edw. Wootton mentioned in 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. 66 i. 123 As you Like it, compared with T. Lodge's "Rosalynde" ii. 170 against rhyme in English Aske, James, quotation in blank verse from his Eliza- Ass, The Nobleness of the, 1595, examined the admirable properties of the animal Authors, self-delusion of, as to their fame i. 81 i. 92 i. 126 i. 168 i. 169 i. 170 i. 46 Bankes' horse, curious tract relating to, called "Ma- 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, i. 14 Madrigal, by W. Percy.. i. 15 Barry, Lod. his "Ram Alley" quoted ii. 27, 284 Bastard, Thos. Epigrams from his Chrestoleros, 1598.. Belvedere, the Garden of the Muses, by Bodenham Blank verse, inquiry into the origin of undramatic ........ early specimens of 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.. i. 71 ii. 79 ii. 196 early English translations of his Decameron.. 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 "Cornu-copiæ, Pasquil's Night-cap," assigned to him his "Pasquil's Pass and Passeth not" quoted his "Mad World my Masters," account of and & c. ii. ii. 10 Bright burning Beacon, &c. 1580, by Abr. Fleming Brysket, Lod. his claim to the poem of the "Mourning 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 ii. 317 |