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Palladis Tamia, 370
Partheniades, the, 84 n.
Pedantius, 277 n.

Pelham, Sir William, 32, 558; alleged
poem by, 314

Pembroke, Henry Herbert, Earl of,
186, 503

Pembroke, Mary, Countess of, relations
with Spenser, 160, 349, 351, 502-
504; with Daniel, 335, 342, 343,
347, 360, 361; and with Nashe,
360; perhaps at Kenilworth, 276 n. ;
her translation of Antonius, 342;
paraphrase of the Psalms, 343;
marriage, 503; the additions to the
Arcadia, 362, 504; epitaph on, 504
Perrot, Sir John, in Faerie Queene, 78,
82; in the View, 571 n., 578 n.;
in Bryskett's Discourse, 578
Plato, the soul, 109; poets, 119;
effect on character of dramatic work,
146; his ideal and the modern State,
147; Atlantis," 305; Bryskett on,
581, 588, 589

Poetry-I. In the age of Elizabeth:

publication of by people in good
position not well regarded, 9, 48,
49; complaints of the contempt for,
13, 24 prejudice against, 160; the
"new," 7, 47, 255, 340, 347;
English metres, 226; strictures on
contemporary "rymers": "E. K.,"
7. "Immerito," 8, Webbe, 11, 12,
Puttenham, 12 n., Gascoigne, 225-
227, Bryskett, 589; allusions to
popular tales and ballads, 12 n.,
266, 267

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II. General: imagination and
experience, 54: French criticism
of English, 105; "invention" in,
105'; feigned history," 105 n.,
149, 152-54 Sidney on, 148 sq.;
Bacon on, 152 sq.; Puttenham on
the "artificial" and the "natural"
in, 157, 158; Gascoigne on,
225 sq.; the sonnet and blank
verse, 347 new metres, 354, 447,
454; imagination and reason, 387;
as a feature of Court life, 388, 442;
correspondency between an author's
poetry and his other writings, 415;

the difficult art of, 433; myths
and the poetry of antiquity: Bacon
on, 123 n., Sidney on, 124 n.,
Gascoigne on, 288, Bryskett on,
590

Poets, the inspiration of: "E. K.," 13.
Puttenham, 137, 157, Sidney, 149 sq.,
Bacon, 388; honour and rewards
for, 25, 26, 99; Plato on, 119,
147; "right,' 105 n., 147, 150;

effect on character of "imitation
(dramatic), 146; Sidney on the
historian and the poet, 151

Pope, Alexander, precocity of, 204,
206

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Ralegh, Sir Walter, his estates in
Munster, 38, 374, 565; his retreat
from the Court and visit to Ireland
in 1589, and his denial of loss of
favour, 38, 333, 350, 418, 445;
consulted by the Queen in Irish
matters, 38, 420, 564; denounced
to the Queen by Essex, 44 [see further
under Essex]; his position at Court,
47; his relations with the Queen, 73,
74, 421-27, 443; exploration of the
Orinoco, 77 n., 460 sq.; verses in
Gascoigne's Steele Glas, 243; his
early life, 244, 304 m., 372, 416;
an "adventurer in Gilbert's New-
foundland voyage, 304, 323; con-
nection with Hakluyt, 321, 506 n.;
and Colin Clout, 332-35, 350;
scurrilous epitaph on Cecil attributed
to, 332 n.; elegy on Sidney attributed
to, 355; his verses to Spenser in
Faerie Queene, 367, 459; and
"Ignoto," 367-69; his " 'Cynthia,"
369, 370, 442 sq.; Spenser's inti-
macy with considered, 371-74; at
Smerwick, 371, 560; differences with
Lord Grey, 373, 419, 420; as a
retainer of Leicester, 373, 417:
Devonshire antiquaries on his lineage,
376, 378 n.; jealousy at his rise,
378; his marriage and loss of favour,
392, 414; his prospects on the
death of the Queen, 395, 435; his
attitude towards the succession of

James, 396, 439, 465; his influence on Bacon, 396; charged with atheism, 414, 487; his style of writing, 416, 433; the spelling of his name, 416; descriptions of, 419; his unpopularity, 419, 420, 432; his arrogance, 419. 420, 445; charged with unscrupulous ambition, 420, 428; the Queen's respect for his opinion, 420; grants to by the Queen, 423; and the Madre de Dios, 423, 431, 432, 505, 506 n.; reports of his marriage, 424; committed to the Tower, 425; gross flattery of the Queen, 426, 435; his relations with his wife, 427-29; on piracy, 431; his respect for Cecil, 432, 437 ; as a man of action, 432, 433; allusion by to Richard the Second, 436; the "Bothwell" letter, 438-41; his imprisonment under James, 439, 465; the verse petition to Queen Anne, 454; his epitaph, 457, 458; assistance rendered by others in his History of the World, 458-60; his exaggerations, 463; intrigues against him by Northampton and Cecil, 465; paper explaining Faerie Queene allegories given to, 470 n.; his proposals for garrisoning Ireland, 563, 564; suggested poetical allusions to in Faerie Queene, 73-76, 94, 468 [see also under Timias], and in Shakespeare, 378, 397, 465 Rich, Penelope, Lady, her relations with Mountjoy, 75, 346, 356; and "Stella," 190, 349, 351-64, 502504

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Scott, Sir Walter, autobiographical element in, 230 Shakespeare, William, claim to immortality, 5 n. ; the play Sir Thomas More, 49; absence of manuscripts, 53; the alleged "unconscious" order of his work, 55; on Essex, 64 n., 437; some characters in the Winter's Tale, 96; his attitude towards the people, 101, 106; sense of mutability, 104, 132, 331; his "invention," 105; Tolstoi's hatred of, 106; the Tempest examined, 121-33; his use of the term " 'spirits," 121 sq., 134137; and of the term "simple," 141; his " inaccuracy," 142, 587; his

"anachronisms," 143-45; the "impersonality" of, 147; the complaints of Hamlet, 148, 163, 331; his plays and Bacon's remarks on the drama, 155; a description applicable to his genius and art, 157, 158; the allusions in the Teares of the Muses, 164; "Yorick," 171; early Shakespearian humour, 224, 269; the "autobiographical" element in, 230, 231; Midsummer Night's Dream and the Queen's entertainment at Kenilworth, 248, 255, 268, 273; the impetuous sequence of his ideas, 287, 463: on drunkenness, 291, 292; the style of Lucrece, 341; the "argument" of Antony and Cleopatra, 342; his prose, 415; The Phoenix and Turtle, 422; an allusion by Ralegh to Richard the Second, 436; Othello, 465; some parallels with Spenser, 494-99; his way of using law terms, 500; absence in love, 501; and the Countess of Pembroke, 502; the sonnets of, 502, 503; Ben Jonson on, 515

Passages quoted from, or references to Othello (Iago's age), 3: King Lear (the gods and old age), 18; Richard III. (and "E. K."), 21; Measure for Measure (the people), 106; Troilus (reference to), 106; Hamlet("the groundlings"), 106 n. ; Tempest ("spirits"), 124-33; Macbeth ("mutability "), 132 n. ; L.L.L., Lear, Troilus, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Sonnet cxxix. ("spirits"), 134, 135; Antony and Cleopatra (transmission of impressions), 136; L. L.L., Troilus and Cressida ("simple"), 141, 142; King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline ("anachronisms"), 144, 145; Hamlet ("Yorick"), Merry Wives (reference to), 171; Hamlet ("mighty opposites"), 180n.; Macbeth (ambition), 200; Hamlet (man and nature), 238 n., 331; Midsummer Night's Dream (acting), 255 n., 268; ibid. (moonlight), 273 n.; Hamlet, Othello (drunkenness), 291; Romeo and Juliet (beauty's ensign"), 341; Othello (feminism"), 342; ibid. (his ancestry), 378; Hamlet (on Horatio), 397; Much ado (reference to), 403; Coriolanus (the child and the butterfly), 407 n.; Macbeth (prose letter), 415; Henry V. (Essex), 437; Sonnet lxxiii. (reference to), 454; Othello ("Anthropophagi"), 464;

ibid. (Othello and his courtship),
465-67; Othello, King Lear, Venus
and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet,
(parallels), 494; Romeo and Juliet,
L.L.L. (legal metaphors), 500 n. ;
As you like it, Antony and Cleopatra,
(absence in love), 501; Timon (last
words), Cymbeline (reference to), 519;
King Lear (men blaming the stars
for their own follies), 535
Shepheards Calender, The, contem-
porary ignorance as to the authorship
of, 4, 5; the archaic language of, 6, 7,
28; new style for the year adopted in,
12; evidence for the author's youth,
15, 20, 24, 27-29; a probable allusion
to Queen Elizabeth, 28 [cf. 260]
Sidney, Sir Henry, connection with
Spenser, 19, 31, 40; recalled from
Ireland, 32; advises Lord Grey,
32 n.; Irish policy of, 70; death
of, 163; on the state of religion in
Ireland, 549; his description of
Munster, 559

Sidney, Mary. See Pembroke
Sidney, Sir Philip, his early connection

with Spenser, 2, 3, 19, 31; author-
ship of The Shepheards Calender
attributed to, 4, 5; his Apologie for
Poetrie and Spenser's English Poete,
10, 14, 148; his correspondence,
3 n., 186 sq.; his desire to succeed
his father in Ireland, 32 n., 64; his
death, 163; letter to the Queen on the
French marriage, 84 n., 185 sq.; his
marriage and relations with his wife,
357; in Faerie Queene, 95, 96, 487,
488; his reply to Leicester's Common-
wealth, 186, 193, 194; his character,
187, 189, 190; his Protestant sym-
pathies, 190, 353, 487; letter on
travel, 191; at Kenilworth, 276 n.;
as an "adventurer" in Gilbert's
voyage, 328; verses to in Daniel's
works, 338, 342; his betrothal to
Penelope Devereux, 356; account of
with Bryskett abroad, 590. See also
under the several works

Sizars, 2 n., 3, 43, 102
Soul, the, imprisoned in the body, 18,

151; Bacon's ideas as to, 99, 108 sq.;
Aristotle on, 109 sq.; sense of com-
pleteness, a passion of, 104; attitude
towards in writings of Spenser,
Shakespeare and Bacon, 331
Southampton, Earl of, 75

Spencer, Sir John, of Althorpe, 1, 65,
184, 378

Spencer, Sir John, merchant and Lord
Mayor of London, 89

Spenser, Edmund-I. As an official
and settler in Ireland: his identity
and early life, 1-4, 31, 33 n.; his
supposed friendship with Sir Philip
Sidney, 3 n.; first mention of his
name as a writer of poetry, 5 n. ;
the external evidence for his identity,
30 sq.; his appointment as secretary
to Lord Grey, 31, 34; perhaps in
Ireland earlier, 33; evidence for an
early marriage, 31, 34, 375, 568
[and see under II.]; his death,
interment and monument, 34, 38,
39. 46, 88; appointments and grants
of land in Ireland, 35, 36, 374, 574,
577; his life as a settler, 36-38, 548,
570; fate of in the Munster rising,
38, 39; his petition to the Queen,
39, 41, 42, 569; his connection
with Ralegh, 36, 38, 44, 73, 371-74:
his alleged friendship with Essex,
39-46, 554 his pension, 40, 41;
the visits to London, 41-44, 159;
absence of manuscripts and corre-
spondence, 53; Faerie Queene con-
Isidered in relation to his circum-
stances, 55, 56, 76-82; evidence
that he was secretary to the Bishop
of Rochester, 572

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II. As a writer: his habit and
methods of concealment, 6, 9, 14, 55,
58; his methods of "advertising
and reviewing" his works, 6, 369,
576 [cf. 169]; his habit of self-praise,
7, 28, 58, 166, 330, 334, 369; on
love, 8, 15, 18, 99, 507; his com-
plaints and suggested explanation
for, 50, 148, 162, 173, 331; charac-
teristics as a writer, 57-60, 80, 89,
98, 142, 143, 147, 494, 533; repre-
sentations of his genius, 62, 182,
480; his aristocratic standpoint, 101,
103, 164, 507, 534; primitiveness
of spiritual feeling, 113 n., 490, 585;
his use of the term "spirits," 134.
135; and of the term 'simple,"
138, 140, 141; his “inaccuracy," 143;
references to his poetry by Daniel,
340; his sonnet to Harvey, 369;
on Ralegh's Cynthia," 370; the
inference that he was at Smerwick,
371, 561; his marriage and the
poems, 365 n., 374 sq., 385 n.; his
family and the Spencers of Althorpe,
378; his attitude towards Church
questions, 548

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For his habit of writing about
the Queen, see Elizabeth. See also
Bryskett, "Immerito," Leicester, and
the several works

Spenser, Sylvanus, petition by, 374,
569; his name used for a dialogue
on Irish outrages, 566

"Spirits," Baconian meaning of, 107,
114 sq., 591

Stage, the, writing for not well regarded,

9; Daniel on, 9 n., 133 n., 340;
players licensed, 51; theory of
superior imaginative powers of the
audience questioned, 105, 106;
absence of the historical sense, 144;
Bacon on the contemporary and the
possible uses of, 154, 155; Spenser's
complaint about, 165; representation
of the "dumb show" in Faerie
Queene, 99, 100; the fashion at
Court for the masque, 133; descrip-
tion of Tarlton on, 171; allusions
to in metaphor, 368
Stanley, Ferdinando, fifth Earl of

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Derby, as Amyntas," 65, 66, 349
"Stella," 3 n., 349, 350 sq., 502

Tarletons Newes out of Purgatorie,
168-71

Tarlton, Richard, 166, 168, 171

Teares of the Muses, The, 43, 44, 161,
164-67, 171, 350

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, the metre of

In Memoriam, 354
Throgmorton, Elizabeth, in Faerie
Queene, 74, 483; her marriage with
Ralegh, 392, 393; courtship, 423,
465; committed to the Tower, 425;
her relations with her husband, 427-
429

Tides and sea currents, theories of,
300, 301, 306; Bacon on, 307-10
Tyrone, rebellion of, 70, 75 n., 82,

551, 554, 570

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27, 163

Warwick, Anne, Countess of, 88, 163,
349 n.

Webbe, William, 5, 9, 479 n. See
A Discourse of English Poetrie
"White and red," 390 n.
Whitgift, Archbishop, censorship of
the press by, 51; and the Martin
Marprelate" attack, 52; connection
with Bacon, 52, 61; Upton's sugges-
tion that he is in Faerie Queene, 61,
62

Wilson, A., account of Bacon by, 516
"Wit" and "will," 18, 118 n., 177 n.,
231, 487, 491

Wordsworth, William, a student of
Daniel, 344

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