16.-Chaucer's pilgrims seated round the table of ... ... PAGE 45 ... 57 ... 61 19." Then went Guy to fayre Phelis." From the metrical romance "Guy of Warwick," London, 1550 (?), 4to, Sig. Cc. iij ... ... 20.-Drawing by Isaac Oliver (b. 1556) after an Italian model, from the original preserved in the British Museum; illustrative of the cultivation of Italian art by Englishmen in Tudor times... ... ... ... 21.-Frontispiece to Harington's translation of Ariosto, London, 1591, fol. This engraving and the numerous copper-plates adorning this very fine book are usually said to be English. But these plates were in fact a product of Italian art, being the work of Girolamo 65 69 Porro, of Padua; they are to be found, It must be added that this portrait of ... ... ... 22 - How the knight Eurialus got secretly into his lady-love's chamber. From the German version of the history of the Lady Lucrece of Sienna, 1477, fol. (a copy in the British Museum) ... ... .... PAGE 77 82 ... 23.-Queen Cleopatra as represented on the English stage in the eighteenth century: Mrs, Hartley in "All for Love"; Page's engrav- ... 24.-Sketches made by Inigo Jones in Italy, 1614; from his sketch-book reproduced in facsimile by the care of the Duke of Devonshire, London, 1832 ... ... 25.-Persians standing as caryatides, from a drawing by Inigo Jones for the circular court projected at Whitehall, and reproduced by W. Kent: "The Drawings of Inigo Jones,' London, 1835, 2 vols., fol. ... ... ... PAGE 97 100 101 26.-A dragon according to Topsell, “The historie of Serpents," London, 1608, fol., p. 153 103 ... 27.-The "Egyptian or land crocodile," according to Topsell's "Historie of Serpents," London, 1608, fol., p. 140 ... ... ... ... 109 footed 28.-A Hippopotamus taking its food, according 29." The true picture of the Lamia," ibid., p. 453 117 30.-"The boas," from Topsell's "Serpents," 1608, frontispiece ... 31.-The Great Sea-serpent, ibid., p. 236 ... ... 32.-Knightly pastimes; Hawking; illustrative of Gerismond's life in the forest of Arden as described in Lodge's "Rosalynd"; from 121 125 Turberville's "Booke of Faulconerie," Lon- ... 33.-Another dragon from Topsell's "Serpents," 1608, p. 153 ... ... ... ... 33A.-Robert Greene in his shroud, from Dickenson's "Greene in conceipt," 1598 ... PAGE 144 145 ... 161 34.-Yet another dragon, from Topsell's "Ser 35.-Velvet breeches and cloth breeches, from Greene's "Quip," 1592, frontispiece ... 36.-Preparing for the Hunt, from Turberville's "Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting," London, 1575, 4to, frontispiece ... ... 37.-Penshurst, Sidney's birthplace, from a drawing by M. G. du Thuit. "Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport.. At his great birth, where all the Muses met." (Ben Jonson, "The Forest") ... 171 190 205 38.-A shepherd of Arcady, as seen on the title-page of various editions of Sidney's "Arcadia," e.g., the third, 1598 their garden; from Quarles' poem of 4to, p. 135.. ... 41." The renowned Argalus and Parthenia " ... ... ... PAGE 265 "See the fond youth! he burns, he loves, he dies; He wishes as he pines and feeds his famish'd eyes." From "The unfortunate Lovers, the History of Argalus and Parthenia, in four books," London, 12mo, a chap - book of the eighteenth century. Frontispiece . 273 42.-"How the two princesses, Pamela and her sister Philoclea, went to bath themselves in the river Ladon, accompanied with Zelmane and Niso And how Zelmane combated with Amphialus for the paper and glove of the princess Philoclea, and what after hapned." From "The famous history of heroick acts . . . being an abstract of Pembroke's Arcadia," London, 1701, 12mo, p. 31. Not without truth does the publisher state that the book is illustrated with "curious cuts, the like as yet not extant' 43.-"How the two illustrious princesses, Philoclea and Pamela, being Basilius's only daughters, were married to the two invincible princes, Pyrocles of Macedon and Musidorus of Thessalia and of the glorious entertainments that graced the happy nuptials," from the same chap-book, p. 139 277 ... ... 275 |