words, 29; limitations of his genius,
54; his precocity, 204-6
Church, the, and the State, 47; the
attitude of Bacon towards, 108, 549;
and of the author of Leicester's Com-
monwealth, 193, 196; of Gascoigne,
229, 243; and of Spenser, 489, 548
Cobler of Canterburie, The, 168-70
"Colin," as the author, 14, 19, 23,
167, 330, 332, 365; Leicester the
early patron of, 163

Colin Clout's Come Home Again, date
of composition, 43, 66, 178, 350;
eulogies in, inconsistent with the
Complaints, 44, 178, 349; "The
Ladie of the Sea," 333;
"The
Shepheard of the Ocean," 333;
Aetion," 334; Corydon," 348;
the Queen and the ladies of the
Court, 349; "Amaryllis," 65, 349;
'Amyntas," 65, 66, 349
Complaints, The, publication of, 43,
159, 160

"

Congreve, William, class feeling, 52;
precocity, 204, 207

Court, the, conditions of under Eliza-

beth, 47, 177, 501; suitors at, 47,
162; competition for power at, 395,
420, 438, 445

Crowds, Bacon's opinion that men are

more open to impressions in, 154
Cumberland, George Clifford, Earl of,
in Faerie Queene, 87, 505, 506; his
character, 87; dispute with the
Crown as to share in the capture of the
Madre de Dios, 423, 431, 432, 505
Cumberland, Margaret, Countess of,
in Faerie Queene, 87; her character,
88; allusions to, 164, 349 n.

Daniel, Samuel, his claim to immor-

"

tality, 5 n.; pleads necessity" for
writing for the stage, 9 n.; on the
masque, 133 n.; A Defence of
Ryme, 228, 338, 342; 'impersona-
tion" of, 334 sq.; his life and
circumstances, 335, 337; Mountjoy
his patron, 335, 337, 343 sq.; his
relations with the Countess of Pem-
broke, 335, 342, 343, 347, 360;
tutor to Lady Anne Clifford, 88,
335; the
347, 360;

'Delia" sonnets, 336,
M. P.," 337, 347; his
character as a poet, 338, 343, 344,
347; the "Letter from Octavia,"

224, 342

Dante, autobiographical element in
his poetry, 54; the imagination of,
151
Daphnaida, 133 n., 330

Davison, Secretary, his part in the
execution of Mary, Queen of Scots,
91, 92; letter on travel, 191;
official form used by, 572
Declaration of the True Causes, etc., A,
174 N., 209

Defence of Poesie. See Apologie for

Desmond, Earl of, the rebellion of,
32, 36, 71, 81, 558, 563
Devonshire, Earl of. See Mountjoy
Dickens, Charles, the limitations of his
invention, 54, 230, 231

Discourse of English Poetrie, A,
reference to the authorship of the
Shepheards Calender, 5; compared
with the "E. K." Glosse, 9; con-
temporary rymers denounced,
II; Platonic love, 16 n.; use of
the term " 'simple," 142
Donne, John, his character as a poet,
49, 348; regrets publishing verse,
49:
allusion to, and connection
with, Essex, 64 n., 349; on private
practice at the Bar, 167 n.; on the
accession of King James, 439 n.
Dorset, Anne, Countess of, erects a
monument to Spenser, 34, 88
Drake, Sir Francis, alleged poem by,
315

Du Bellay, 203, 392

"E. K.," and Edward Kirke, 3, 14;
explains his undertaking the

Glosse," 5, 13, 14; denounces
contemporary “rymers,'' 7 ; manner
of writing about love, 8, 18; on
Platonic" love, 15; on old age,
16; on Elfes and Goblins," 22;
on Homer, 25; his commentary on
the Dreames, 14, 26; on the Queen,
20; no mention by of "Immerito
in Ireland, 33; and "G. T.," 216.
See also under Harvey
Elizabeth, Queen, Irish policy of, 32,
35, 69-71; parsimony of, 32, 96,
189, 506, 549, 554, 558; her Court
and government, 47; the Alençon
marriage, 62, 84 n., 172, 176, 177,
185, 195; references to marriage
with Leicester, 62, 172, 194, 256,
259, 275, 280 n., 474, 477; admira-
tion of the Turk for, 67; letter to
Henry of Navarre, 68; her relations
with her favourites, 74, 75, 421-23
[see also under Essex and Ralegh];
two letters to Mountjoy, 75 n., 421 ;
her position in regard to the execu-
tion of Mary, Queen of Scots, 90-
92; and Leicester's marriage, 175.
176; visit to Kenilworth, 248 sq.;

Some poetical allusions to: in
Faerie Queene, 59, 66, 74, 80, 90, 94,
100; extravagant eulogy of, 84 n.,
178, 223, 256 sq.; deification of,
113 m., 272, 330, 334; addressed
in the language of love, 332, 366,
370, 422, 475-78; the practice
discussed, 58, 105, 256, 257,
448; various allusions to, 379 sq.,
501
Elizabethan Age, simplicity of, 14,
222; described as iron and
malitious," 48; severe penalties, 51,
240, 311; material prosperity, 164;
over-sea adventure, 77 2., 300, 314-
319, 326-27, 462; piratical war-
fare, 303, 431, 505; strength of
men's feelings, 412 n.; Civil Service,
31; Church controversy, 47, 549;
popularity of sermons, 549 n. ;
Puritans, 72 n., 548 n.; allusions
to the teaching in the Grammar
Schools, 233, 586

Books and writers in:
use of
books, 46; difficulties of publica-
tion, 157 n., 220, 329; absence of
publicity, 4., 9, 14, 146, 262 ; press
censorship, 51, 169, 176 n., 329;
dangers of writing, 51, 107, 177,
358 n.; risks of a reputation for
scientific inquiry, 127; advantages
of writing under a great name, 188 n.;
condition of professional writers and
scholars, 3, 119 n., 146, 256, 336,
517

See also under Court, England,
Poetry, and Stage

England, the Church of, 47, 210, 546,
548; Bacon on the union of with
Scotland, 318; as The Lady of
the Sea," 333 n.; drunkenness in,
286, 289-92; fashions of dress in,
290; efforts made by for the re-
duction of Ireland, 344-46. See
also under Elizabethan Age
English, the, admiration of gravity

by, 46, 353; turbulent early his-
tory of, 47, 537, 538; language
monosyllabic, 226; reserve of,
387

Epithalamion, 34, 223, 386 sq.
Essex, Robert Devereux, second Earl

of, alleged friendship with Spenser,
39-46; pays for his funeral, 39, 46;

his rivalry with Ralegh, 44-46, 73,
418 n., 438-41; literary assistance
rendered to by Bacon, 45, 188 n..
191, 391, 392 n.; his relations with
Bacon, 46, 69, 90, 199, 395 sq.,
412, 552-56; his character, 46,
395, 412, 555; in Faerie Queene, 61,
63, 64, 67-74, 95, 96, 488; pos-
sibility of his marrying the Queen,
64, 391; and of succeeding to the
throne, 64, 395, 439; the popularity
of, 64, 395; his relations with the
Queen, 44, 68, 403, 404, 422;
offends her by marrying, 75, 488;
the story of the ring, 88 n.; his
marriage with Frances Walsingham,
95 n., 488; his 'Apology" at-
tributed to Anthony Bacon, 188 n. ;
and the account of Squire's conspiracy
(by Francis Bacon) to him, 198;
alleged reason for the charge against
Lopez, 199; and Daniel's Tragedy
of Philotas, 338; connection with
Donne, 64 n., 349; allusions to by
Shakespeare, 64 n., 437; his Irish
command and Bacon's advice, 438,
550-56; Ralegh's reference to as
Bothwell," 440; his appointment
as Earl Marshal, 552, 553
Euphuism, 221, 294, 327

Faerie Queene, The, publication of, 43.
44, 579; written from the point of
view of the Court, 47, 82, 89; length
of the poem, 53: purpose of the
work, 55 incongruities of, 56;
alleged dream-character of, 56; in-
terpretations offered, 57; character-
istics of the author of, 57-60; sense of
humour in, 58, 494; the nature and
method of, 59, 60, 80, 89; the
"general" and the "particular,"
59, 60; Upton on the characters,
60; the personal element in, 60, 61,
470 sq.; reference to by Nashe, 66;
Irish allusions in, 76-82, 468; the
"Mutabilitie" cantos, 79-82, 492;
its aristocratic standpoint, 103, 507 n.;
allusions to the completion of, 385,
579; paper explanatory of the alle-
gories, 470 n. ; possible dates of
composition of Books I. and II.,
473, 482; the religious motive in,
489; use of law terms in, 499; im-
partiality, 501; Bryskett's reference
to, 579, 582

The characters referred to: Alma,
97 n., 481, 482; Amoret, 74, 94,
469, 483; Arthegal, 35 n., 36, 46,
62-74, 90, 97, 135, 391, 472;

Arthur, 59, 67, 68, 90, 97, 473-82,
484, 486; Belphoebe, 59, 74 n.,
389, 447, 448, 466, 483, 484 ;
Blandamour, 92-94, 440 n., 468;
Blatant Beast, the, 72, 486-88;
Braggadochio, 62, 471, 473; Brito-
mart, 63, 83, 135, 389, 391, 472,
494, and Amoret, 74 n., 94, and
Scudamore, 469; Burbon, 68, 71;
Calepine, 96, 487, 488; Calidore,
95, 96, 487, 488; Cleopolis, 471,
490; Continent, the, 83; Cupid,
the Maske of, 98; Cynthia, 80,
370; Despetto, Decetto and Defetto,
486; Desyre, 99; Detraction, 72;
Dragon, the, 61; Duessa, 72 n.,
90, 92, 480; Ease, 99, 100; Fansy,
99; Florimell, 82, 85-89; Flourdelis,
the Lady, 68; Fosters, the three,
83 n.; Glaucè, 494-99; Grantorto,
70-72; Guyon, 61, 470-73, 481,
482; Hope, 100; Irena, 70-72;
Lady of Delight, the, 472 n.; Lee,
the river, 97, 98; Marinell, 80-90,
505; Melibo, 95, 96; Mercilla, 90;
Mirabella, 486 n., 500; Mona, 65;
Oberon, the mightie, 96; Orgoglio,
480; Palmer, the, 61, 62; Paridell,
92-94, 468; Pastorella, 95, 96, 488;
Pollantè and Lady Munera, 97;
Pride, the house of, 501; Radi-
gund, 97; Redcrosse Knight, the,
60, 66, 68, 470 sq., 474, 477, 489-
492; Rich Strond, the, 82, 83, 89;
Satyrane, 78; Scudamore, 73-76,
94, 468, 469; Serena, 96, 486-88;
Sergis, 70, 71; Spanish Armada,
the, 63, 97; Talus, 71, 73, 98, 102;
Timias, 46, 73, 74, 84 n., 371, 386,
448, 466, 483-88; Una, 60, 471,
474, 477, 490; Zele, 90
Fleming, Abraham, 279 n.
Fowre Hymns, The, 44, 88 n., 113 n.,
164, 349 n., 507

Frobisher, Sir Martin, and the North-

West Passage, 295, 297 n., 300;
alleged poem by, 316; capture of
the Madre de Dios, 423, 424, 425

his character and later circumstances,
242, 244-46; his church views, 243:
The Steele Glas, 242, 244; verses
by Ralegh, 243; The Grief of Joye,
246, 281, 282; The Tale of Hemetes,
247, 279 sq.; The Princely Pleasures
at Kenelworth, 248 sq.; The Queenes
Maiesties entertainment at Wood-
stock, 280 n.; A Delicate Diet for
daintiemouthde Droonkardes, 282-

292; Lewis and John Dyve, 283-
285; The Spoyle of Antwerpe, 282,
283; The Droomme of Doomsday,
292; Prefatory Epistle to Gilbert's
Discourse, 247, 293 sq.

Genius, its instinct for concealment,
53; limitations of, 54; judicial
control of, 104; feminine element
in, 182; precocity of, 204 sq.
Geoffrey of Monmouth and Spenser,
67, 144, 494

Gibbon, Edward, class feeling, 52
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, A Discourse of
a Discoverie, etc., to Cataia, object
of, 294; account of publication of,
295 sq.; contents of, 305, 306, 310-
312; his circumstances, 295, 296,
302; his initiative in North-Western
discovery, 299-301; paper as to
How her Majesty might annoy
the King of Spain," 302; his start
for Newfoundland and fate, 304,
324; Camden on his project and
character, 304, 327 n.; Peckham's
Report on his voyage, 312-20, 3245q.;
and the Report by Hayes, 320-24
"Golden wyre," 389

44

Greene, Robert, connection with
Nashe, 5 n.; employed by Bancroft
in the "
Martin Marprelate " contro-
versy, 52 n.; his Pandosto and the
Winter's Tale, 96; and "Euphues,"
167 n.; Harvey's account of his
death, 168; on the authorship of
The Cobler of Canterburie, 168, 169;
the "Panther" parallel, 170; the

Peacock's feet" parallel, 286;
his motto, 480 n.; a suggested
allusion to his genius, 480 ".
Grey de Wilton, Arthur, Lord, his
Irish appointment, 31, 32; reasons
for taking Spenser as his secretary,
32, 34; his administration, 35, 70,
559; his recall, 35; his action at
Smerwick, etc., 35, 72, 371, 559-
563; early services under his father,
35 n., 284 n.; death, 35, 69; sonnet
to in Faerie Queene, 35; alluded to
Arthegal," 35 m., 36, 67, 69-73;
and Bryskett, 576 sq.

as "

Grindal, Archbishop, in Faerie Queene,
61; Bacon's eulogy of, 62; and
Leicester, 173

"G. T.," 213-16, 235, 348

Hakluyt, Richard, and the Gilbert

voyage, 313, 321, 328; on the
capture of the Madre de Dios, 506;
and the account of the last fight of
the Revenge, 506 n.
Harriot, Thomas,

127 n., 459

"

mathematician,

Harvey, Gabriel, letters between and
Immerito," 2, 3, 8, 22, 26, 76,
211, 236, 473 n., 503, 591; intro-
duction of Spenser by to Sidney, 2;
address by E. K." to, 6; allusions
by E. K." to unpublished works
by, 8, 11, 23; and by Webbe, 10; his
two brothers, 10, 23 n.; his Latin
works, 10, 11, 23; his patron, Sir
Thomas Smith, II; the Harvey-
Nashe controversy, 11, 329; sudden
cessation of publications by, 11,
479 n.; his Letter-book, 12, 15, 19,
22, 23, 221, 277 n., 296, 329;
his intimacy with Immerito," 15,
28; as Hobbinol, 15, 28, 332; on
sizars, 102; his account of Greene's
death, 168; controversial satire,
169 n.; on Mother Hubberds Tale,
176; on poetry and St. John's
Revelation, 211; compared by
Nashe to a peacock, 286; the sonnet
addressed to him by Spenser, 369,
"Immerito
579; on
and 44
Rosa-
linde," 503; Spenser mentioned in
a note in one of his books, 572.
See also under Nashe

'Imitation' (dramatic), effect on
character of, 146, 147

"Immerito," The Shepheards Calender
published under the name of, 6;
denounces contemporary "rymers,'
8; verses by, and by "E. K.,", 22;
intimacy with Harvey, 15, 28; his
self-esteem, 28; no mention by of
Irish experience, 33, 34; early con-
nection with Sidney and Leicester,
2, 3, 19, 25, 27, 31; Holinshed
used by, 77; his motto, 89 n., 202;
compared with "G. T.," 216; and
with Gascoigne, 227; alleged pub-
lication of Harvey's poems without
his consent, 296; his correspondence
with Harvey, 329, 503. See also
under Harvey

Impersonation, 9, 9 n.
Ireland, Elizabeth's policy in, 32, 35;
sheriff's post in, 38; episode in
Faerie Queene, 69 sq.; local allusions
to in Faerie Queene, 76-82; the
harp of, 81, 531; Bacon's views on
the reduction of, 319, 529-32; also
Daniel's, 344; and the English, 572

James, King, possible reference to in

Faerie Queene, 64; position of the
leading men before and on his
accession, 395, 396, 439; Bacon's
habit of addressing, 448, 449, 520;
Bacon's relations to, 458; his hatred
of Ralegh, 465

Jonson, Ben, his account of Spenser's
death, 38; "Sir John Daw," 48;
narrow escape from mutilation, 51;
on the allegories in Faerie Queene,
72 n., 470 n.; on Daniel, 339 n. ;
on Ralegh as a writer, 460; on
Bacon, 513-16, 518; and on Shake-
speare, 515; in Bacon's establish-
ment, 516-18

Keats, John, letters of, 362
Kilcolman, Spenser at, 36-38; de-
scription of, 36 n.; poem dated
from, 43, 332, 349; allusions to
district of in Faerie Queene, 78, 79,
98; Ralegh's supposed visit to, 38,
332 sq., 350, 373

Kirke, Edward, and "E. K.," 3, 14,
479 n.

Knollys, Lettice, Countess of Essex
and Countess of Leicester, perhaps
referred to in Faerie Queene, 63;
her marriage with Leicester, 175;
Queen's visit to at Chartley, 356
Laneham, Robert, 248, 249, 255,
260 n., 261 sq., 479 n.

"Lee," the river, in Ireland and

England, 97, 98

Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, as
Spenser's patron, 2, 25, 27, 31,
163, 172-74, 477 [cf. 260, 275];
intended originally as the hero of
Faerie Queene, 24, 62; allusions to
his death, 63, 163, 174; offence
given by Spenser to, 164, 172, 173,
177, 179, 180; poetical advocacy of
his marriage to the Queen, 172, 259.
275, 280 n. ; his relations with
Burghley, 173, 177, 180; an allusion
to his marriage with the Countess
of Essex, 175; and Sidney's letter
to the Queen, 186; his ambitious
projects and character, 67 n., 194,
197; entertains the Queen at Kenil.
worth, 248; relations with Ralegh,
373, 417; allusions to in Faerie
Queene, 62-64, 66, 68, 473-77, 481
Leicester's Commonwealth, 192 sq.
Leicester's Ghost, 67 n., 192, 196
Lilly (Lyly) John, a parallel, 170;
character as a writer, 230, 478 n. ;
eulogy of the Queen, 257, 477, 478 n.
London, descriptions of, 174, 490
Love and the passions, 8, 18, 99,
131, 277, 362, 387, 491, 507
Lucretius on the nature of deity, 112

Man, Bacon on, 114; "the kingdom

of," 120; Shakespeare on, 331;
habit of attributing his faults to the
influence of the stars, 535, 536, 590
Marot, Clément, 15, 16, 27, 203, 208,
209

"Martin Marprelate" controversy, the,
52, 487, 548

Mary, Queen of Scots, in Faerie Queene,

72 n., 90-92, 97, 472 n., 480; and
Queen Elizabeth, 91, 92

Masque, the, Bacon and Daniel on,
133

Meres, Francis, 371 n., 479 n.
Milton, John, and the tradition as

to Spenser's Irish service, 33; an
autobiographical element in his
poems, 54; connection with Spenser's
Amaryllis," 65 n.; the precocity
of, 204 n.; price received by for
Paradise Lost, 220; correspondence
in style between his poems and other
writings, 416; Aubrey's life of,
418 n.

Mother Hubberds Tale, date of com-
position, 43, 160, 175, 176, 178;

the attack on Burghley in, 41, 50-

52, 174, 196; and the censorship,
51, 52, 176 n.; description of the
suitor in, 162; alluded to in a
Catholic pamphlet, 174 n.; and by
Harvey, 176; suppressed, 177;
reference to the state of the clergy,

548

Mountjoy, Charles Blount, Lord, the
Queen's attachment for, 75 n., 421 ;
reduction of Ireland by, 75 n., 343-
346, 420, 438; a dedication to by
Bacon, 156; patron of Daniel, 335,
337; Daniel's funeral poem on, 343;
his relations with Lady Rich, 75,
346, 356; death of, 357; his dislike
of Ralegh, 420
Muiopotmos, 44, 179 sq.

Munster, settlement of, 36, 38, 42, 81;
rising in, 38, 565; remoteness of,
52; Sir Henry Sidney's description
of, 549 n., 557, 558; Spenser's
account of in the View, 556, 558;
in the petition, 570

"Mutability," the sense of in Spenser,
19, 104, 133 n., 163, 174, 184,
208, 330, 492; Shakespeare on,
104, 132, 331; Bacon on, 331,
493

"

Nashe, Thomas, first mention of
Spenser as a poet, 5 n.; the soul
in the body, 18 n.; his style com-
pared with that of others, 8, 12,
279 n., 288, 291, 361; the Harvey-
Nashe controversy, 11, 329; em-
ployed by Bancroft in the Martin
Marprelate controversy, 52 n. ; on
"Amyntas" and Faerie Queene, 65,
66; his complaints, 102, 360;
suggested as the author of Tarleton's
Newes, 168; compares Harvey to
a peacock, 286; unauthorised publi-
cation by of Astrophel and Stella
and of Daniel's sonnets, 336, 358-
362; suggests that Harvey himself
wrote the sonnet addressed to him
by Spenser, 369
Nature, philosophical conception of in
Faerie Queene, 80, 492; Bacon's
reverence for, III; his insight into,
116, 118; his "Interpretation of,"

120

Norris, Sir John, in Faerie Queene,
68;
dissensions with Russell in
Ireland, 570
Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl
of, his intrigues against Ralegh, 465
Northumberland, Henry Percy, eighth
Earl of, in Faerie Queene, 93, 94;
440 n.