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16.-Chaucer's pilgrims seated round the table of
the "Tabard" at Southwark, a reproduction
of Caxton's engraving in his second edition.
of the "Canterbury Tales," 1484 ..
17.-Robert the devil on horseback (alias
Romulus), being the frontispiece of several
romances in verse published by Wynkyn de
Worde, London, 1510 (?), 8vo. The his-
tory of Robert is illustrated throughout
18. The knight of the swan, from the frontis-
piece of the metrical romance: "The Knight
of the Swanne. Here beginneth the history
of ye noble Helyas knyght of the swanne,
newly translated out of frensshe," London,
Copland, 1550 (?), 4to

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19." Then went Guy to fayre Phelis." From the metrical romance "Guy of Warwick," London, 1550 (?), 4to, Sig. Cc. iij ...

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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...

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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

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Porro, of Padua; they are to be found,
in the Italian edition of Ariosto published at
Venice in 1588, and in various other editions.
The English engraver, Thomas Coxon (or
Cockson), whose signature is to be seen at
the bottom of the frontispiece, only drew
the portrait of Harington in the space filled
in the original by a figure of Peace. Coxon,
according to the "Dictionary of National
Biography" and other authorities, is supposed
to have flourished from about 1609 to 1630
or 1636. The date on this plate (1st August,
1591), shows that he began to work nearly
twenty years earlier.

It must be added that this portrait of
Harington has an Italian softness and
elegance, and differs greatly in its style from
the other portraits signed by Coxon (portrait
of Samuel Daniel on the title-page of his
Works, 1609; of John Taylor, "Workes,"
1630, &c.). It is possible that Harington's
portrait was merely drawn by Coxon, and
engraved by an Italian

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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)

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23.-Queen Cleopatra as represented on the English stage in the eighteenth century: Mrs,

Hartley in "All for Love"; Page's engrav-
ing, dated 1776, for Bell's "Theatre'

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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

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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. ...

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26.-A dragon according to Topsell, “The historie of Serpents," London, 1608, fol., p. 153 103

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27.-The "Egyptian or land crocodile," according to Topsell's "Historie of Serpents," London, 1608, fol., p. 140

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footed

28.-A Hippopotamus taking its food, according
to Topsell's Historie of foure
beastes," London, 1607, fol., p. 328

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29." The true picture of the Lamia," ibid., p. 453 117

30.-"The boas," from Topsell's "Serpents," 1608, frontispiece

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31.-The Great Sea-serpent, ibid., p. 236

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32.-Knightly pastimes; Hawking; illustrative of Gerismond's life in the forest of Arden as described in Lodge's "Rosalynd"; from

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Turberville's "Booke of Faulconerie," Lon-
don, 1575, 4to, frontispiece...

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33.-Another dragon from Topsell's "Serpents,"

1608, p. 153

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33A.-Robert Greene in his shroud, from Dickenson's "Greene in conceipt," 1598

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34.-Yet another dragon, from Topsell's "Ser

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35.-Velvet breeches and cloth breeches, from Greene's "Quip," 1592, frontispiece

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36.-Preparing for the Hunt, from Turberville's "Noble Arte of Venerie or Hunting," London, 1575, 4to, frontispiece

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37.-Penshurst, Sidney's birthplace, from a drawing by M. G. du Thuit.

"Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show

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Thou hast thy walks for health as well as sport..
That taller tree which of a nut was set

At his great birth, where all the Muses met."

(Ben Jonson, "The Forest")

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38.-A shepherd of Arcady, as seen on the title-page of various editions of Sidney's "Arcadia," e.g., the third, 1598

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their garden; from Quarles' poem of
Argalus and Parthenia," London, 1656,

4to, p. 135..

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41." The renowned Argalus and Parthenia "

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"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

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