Hakluyt, Richard, 160.

Hall, Edward, 153, 167. 169.

Hallam, his criticism of Hawes, 75; of
Hooker, 153.
Harington, Sir John, 169.
Harrington, 107.
Harvey, Gabriel, 130.
Hawes, Stephen, 74-75.

Henry VIII., 76, 92, 105, 106, 110, 114,
115, 121, 168, 175, 176.

Henry the Minstrel (Blind Harry), 79,
89.

Henryson, Robert, 82-86, 89.

Herbert, William, 161.

Heroic couplet, described, 55.

Heywood, John, 176.

Holbein, 105, 106, 109.

Lamb, Charles, his criticism of Spenser,
149; of Sidney's Sonnets, 163: of
Chapman's Homer, 170; of Mar-
lowe's Edward II., 195.

Land of Cockaigne, The, 36.
Landor, Walter Savage, 111, note,
138, note.

Langland, 27, 39-43
Langwet, Hubert, 161.
Latimer, Hugh, 114.
Layamon, 34-36, 37.

Legend of Good Women, Chaucer's,
46; quoted, 49, 51, 53-55.
Leland, John, 167.

Life of Saint Cecilia, Chaucer's, 50, 54.
Linacre, 100, 105.

Lodge, Thomas, as romance-writer,

157, 158; Shakespeare's debt to, 159;
as dramatist, 185, 188.

Lowell, J. Russell, his criticism of
Chaucer, 65.

Luther, Martin, 39, 116.

Lydgate, John, 61, 69, 70, 71-72, 74.
87, 89, 96, 101, 123.

Lyly, John, as romance-writer, 154-157:
159, note; as dramatist, 185, 188.
Lyndsay, Sir David, 88, 94-96.

Machault, Guillaume de, 59.
Maldon, Battle of, 31.

Malory, Sir Thomas, 34, 36, 101, 102-

103, 104.

Man of Law's Tale, Chaucer's, 61-62.
Mandeville, Sir John, 38.

Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, 107.
Map, Walter, 36.

Marlowe, Christopher, 123, 164, 185,

188, 189-195.

Marot, Clément, 77, 131.

Masques, described, 175-176.
Memling, 27.

57.

Paradise of Dainty Devices, 119.
Parson's Tale, Chaucer's, 62.
Paston Letters, The, 70.

Pastoral Poetry, described, 76.
Pearl, The, 43.
Pecock, Reginald, 104.
Peebles to the Play, 82.
Peele, George, 185, 186-187.

Pembroke, Countess of, 133, 140, 161,
165.

Petrarch, 48, 59, 76, 97, 119, 121, 136.
Plato, 107, 153.

Players, companies of, formed, 175.
Plays, historical, 184-185.

Plutarch, North's translation of, 169,

185.

Poor, Richard, 37.

Pope, Alexander, 82, 149.

Prick of Conscience, 37.

Printing, invention of, 100.

Prioress's Tale, Chaucer's, 60-61.
Prologue, Chaucer's, 56-57, 64-66.
Public schools, foundation of the, 99.
Pynson, the printer, 102.

Sackville, Thomas, his Gorboduc, 34,
183-184; his Mirror for Magistrates,
61, 123-128; influence of Hawes on,
74; his influence on Spenser, 140;
praised by Sidney, 112, note, 164.
Schoolmaster, Ascham's, 111-113.
Scott, Alexander, 96.
Scott, Sir Walter, 91.

Shakespeare, William, 27, 34, 44, 74,
78, 118, 120, 123, 136, 145, 157, 158,
159, 164, 169, 174, 177, 178, 179, 182,
184, note, 185, 187, 189, 192, 193,

194, 195.

Shelley, 147.

Shepherds Calendar, Spenser's, 130-
132, 164.

Sidney, Sir Phi'ip, 74, 119, 129, 130,
131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 138, 160-167,
184, 196, note.

Simon of Ghent, 37-
Skelton, John, 76-78.

Sonnet, described, 119, 120; how used
by Wyatt, 120, by Surrey, 122, by
Spenser, 137, by Sidney, 163.
Spenser, an interpreter of his age, 27;
debt to Geoffrey of Monmouth, 34,
to Hawes, 74, to Malory, 45, 103, to
Sackville, 127; and Chaucer, 69; and
the Shepherds Calendar, 76, 77, 86;
and the Sonnet, 120, 128; his life and
work, 129-149; praised by Sidney,
164.

Spenserian stanza, 61, note; described,

Tamburlaine, Marlowe's, 189-190.
Tasso, Fairfax's translation of, 169.
Tennyson, 28, note, 34, 36, 69, 102.
Theatres, the first, 178-180.
Thomson, James, 97.

Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, 99.
Tottel's Miscellany, 118, 119, 123.
Tragedy defined, 183; early, 183-184.
Troilus and Cressida, Chaucer's, 50,

51, 52, 55.

Tusser, Thomas, 128. Tyndale, William, 116, 117.

Udall, Nicholas, 181, 182. Universities, foundation of the, 99. Utopia, More's, 105, 106, 107-109.

Van Eyck, 27.

Vaux, Lord, 123. Vercelli Book, 28. Veronese, Paolo, 161.

Wace, 34, 35.

Waller, 160.

Walsingham, Sir Francis, 161.
Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, 34-
Walton, Izaak, 149, 195.
Watson's Sonnets, 138.
Wiclif, John, 39-40.

Wife of Bath's Tale, Chaucer's, 62-63.
Wilton, Lord Grey of, 132, 140.
Wolsey, Cardinal, 76, 77, 92.
Woodville, Earl Rivers, 99, 100.
Wordsworth, William, quoted, 69, 121,
149; 103, 120.

Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 118, 119-121. Wynkyn de Worde, the printer, 102.