'And evermore upon the Goddesse face Mine eye was fixt, for feare of her offence; Whom when I saw with amiable grace To laugh at me, and favour my pretence,
I was emboldned with more confidence ; And nought for nicenesse nor for envy sparing, In presence of them all forth led her thence All looking on, and like astonisht staring, Yet to lay hand on her not one of all them daring.
'She often prayd, and often me besought, Sometime with tender teares to let her goe, Sometime with witching smyles; but yet, for nought That ever she to me could say or doe,
Could she her wished freedome fro me wooe: But forth I led her through the Temple gate, By which I hardly past with much adoe: But that same Ladie, which me friended late In entrance, did me also friend in my retrate.
'No lesse did Daunger threaten me with dread,
When as he saw me, maugre all his powre,
That glorious spoyle of beautie with me lead, Then Cerberus, when Orpheus did recoure His Leman from the Stygian Princes boure : But evermore my shield did me defend Against the storme of every dreadfull stoure : Thus safely with my love I thence did wend.' So ended he his tale, when I this Canto end.
All's Well that Ends Well, 31sq.; the character of Parolles, 32-33. Antony and Cleopatra, 36, 84, 123sq.; the character of Enobarbus, 129-132; the scene of Antony and Cæsar dividing the Empire, 132- 136.
Arcadia, The, 16, 23-24, 40. Arte of Englishe Poesie, 4, 31, 254-255.
Astrophel and Stella Sonnets, 36. As You Like It, 35-36.
Bacon, Ann, Lady, on her son Francis, 20, 220-221; her letter to Essex, 53-54, 287, 288sq.; her last years, 163- 164.
Bacon, Anthony, works with
Francis and Essex against the Cecils, 42-43; agent for Essex in his correspondence with James, 45, 59; his fidelity to Essex, 59. Bacon, Francis. The Maydes Metamorphosis, attributed to
travels in France and pro- bably Italy, 10, 179; alludes to his stay at Poictiers, 16; his early promise, 20; describes hair as excrement,' 27; engaged in literary work (1595), 28; the two vices of 1594-5, 26; charge to the jury at the Court of the Verge, 35; on the state of London streets in 1611, 35; his relations with Essex, 37sq.; and with the Cecils, 37sq.; his alliance with Essex against the Cecils, 42-43; his efforts to obtain office under the Crown, 46; fails to do so and prepares to desert Essex, 47-48; but still writes for him, 48-49; his letter of advice to Essex, Oct. 1596, 50; his interest in Irish affairs, 52; passage in his Apology on Essex in Ireland, 67sq.; begins to
abandon Essex and court Cecil, 72; arrested for debt,
72-73; his hand in Essex's letters to the Queen (1600) discussed, 79sq.; desertion of Essex, 85sq.; attitude at the York House inquiry, 89-90; Bacon and the authorship of the Cynthia poem, 97sq.; his part in the trial of Ralegh, 149sq.; his habit of anonymous self- expression,' 157-158; The Wisdom of the Ancients, 187- 189; aim of Bacon's philo- sophy, 189, 260 sq.; his theory of spirits,' 189-191, 196-198; Prospero and Bacon, 195; Bacon's fall, 210-213; his theories on dramatic poetry, 233-235; his writings on English history, 236-237; supposed cypher on Bacon's name in The Rape of Lucrece, 243; tributes to him as a poet, 243-244; anon. Latin play Pedantius attributed to him, 244; parallels between Shakespeare and Bacon, 245-247; Wilson's portrait of Bacon in Kennett's History quoted, 247-249; his literary style, 258-259; his aptitude for picking up technical terms, 271-272.
Blount, Sir C., 62, 63, 64. Bodley, Sir Thomas, letter to Bacon at Orleans, 10; his relations with Essex and the Cecils, 47. Burghley, William Cecil, Lord, his relations with Bacon, 37sq.; dependence of the Queen on, 46; favours peace with Spain, 54; his death (1598), 54; attempts to de- tach Anthony Bacon from Essex, 58-59.
Buzzeinge Bee's Complaynt, The, 98-99, 106-107.
Camden, William, on Essex, 76-77. Cecil, Robert, his relations with Bacon, 37sq.; secret corres- pondence with James, 94-95, 140sq.; his share in Essex's trial and execution, 95-96;
Egerton, Lord Keeper, 72. Elizabeth, Queen, her relations with Essex and Ralegh, 39-40, 57-58; her anxiety for Essex on the French expedition, 41 ; her unwillingness to make Essex too powerful, 46-47; her vacillation loses Calais, 49; her harshness towards Essex in his last days, 58; authorship of her letters, 67; displeased by Essex's truce with Tyrone, 76; alarmed by performances of Richard II., 76; her state of mind after Essex's death, 119; her death 145.
Elizabethan Age, The, author- ship in, 253sq,
Essex, Robert, 2nd Earl of, his relations with Bacon, 37sq.; his early life, 39-40, 275-276; joins the Lisbon Expedition, 40; displeases the Queen by his marriage, 40; leads an expedition to France, 41-42; his character outlined, 42; his popularity with the people, 43; correspondence with James of Scotland, 44sq.; his high opinion of Bacon 45-46; authorship of his letter to the Earl of Rutland attributed to Bacon, 48; his expedition to Cadiz, 49; the Island Voyage, 52, 53; intrigues with ladies of the Court, 53, 288sq.; opposes peace with Spain (1598), 54; his great quarrel with the
Queen, 54-56; harshly treated by the Queen in his last days 58; attributed to her know- ledge of his Scotch correspon- dence, 58-59; takes up the Irish command, 61; is not allowed to have Blount as his marshal, 62; intrigues against him while in Ireland, 62sq.; his letters to the Queen, 65; "Declaration of his treasons, 69-70, 77; prepares to attack Tyrone, 74; but agrees to a truce, 75; is committed to custody (1599-1600), 75; his illness and the popular indignation against the Court, 78; his letters to the Queen written during his disgrace, 79sq.; the Court of Inquiry at York House, 89-91 ; Mountjoy's efforts on his behalf, 91-92; the Queen refuses to renew his wine monopoly, 92-93; his Instructions James's ambassador, 94; his execution, 94, 95; character compared with that of Coriolanus, 136-139; Essex as Timias in The Faerie Queene, 274sq.; his reply to Lady Bacon's letter, 289; his verses, 309.
Phoenix and the Turtle, The, 111sq.
Pope, Alexander, emendation of gum' for gown' in Tim on of Athens, 5.
Ralegh, Sir Walter, his voyage to Guiana alluded to in The Merry Wives, 34-35; his relations with Bacon, 37sq.; and with Queen Elizabeth, 39; his authorship of the Cynthia poem doubted, 97sq., 292; his fall, 140sq.; the charge against him, 146; his trial, 147-148; his un- popularity, 148-149; his epitaph, 151-152; parallel between the careers of Ralegh and Othello, 154-157; his fidelity to his wife, 287; his poems, 292sq.; the verse petition to the Queen, 1618, 307-308; Ralegh as Scuda- more in The Faerie Queene, 310sq.
Rape of Lucrece, The, 242-243. Romeo and Juliet, 27; 29sq.; the Nurse and Spenser's Glauce. 30; allusion to Nurse in the Arte of English Poesie, 31.
Shakespeare, William. See names of the plays and poems; his authorship of the plays doubted, 1sq., 9; legal know- ledge in the plays, 14, 26-27, 35, 181, 229; the end of the period of the Comedies, 36; a contributor to Chester's "Love's Martyr," 112; his retirement, 214; purpose of the historical plays, 233; the doubtful plays, 239sq; paral- lels between Bacon and Shake- speare, 245-247; the Shake- speare-Bacon problem,' 250sq. Sidney, Mary, aft. Countess of Pembroke, 15, 23-24. Simier, French Ambassador, 105, 278.
Sir Thomas More, anon. play,
and Julius Caesar, 172-173; deprecation of poets in, 255. Sonnets, The, of Shakespeare, 242. Southampton, Henry Wriothes-
ly, Earl of, with Essex in Ireland, 63; recalled by the Queen, 63-64.
Spenser, Edmund, View of the State of Ireland, attributed to Bacon, 50; the writer's sug- gestions for the better govern- ment of Ireland, 51-52; on Essex's campaign, 66. See also Faerie Queen, The. Synesius's Paradoxe of Bald- nesse, 27.
Taming of the Shrew, The, 28sq.; the author on women, 29. Tempest, The, Sir Sidney Lee on, vi.; the play discussed, 185sq.; its position in the First Folio, 187; Prospero and Ariel, 191-194; Caliban, 194-195; the masque, 195; Bacon and Prospero, 195.
Timon of Athens, 5; 199sq.;
date of the play, 200-201 ; its sources, 201, 208-210. Titus Andronicus, 239-241. Troilus and Cressida, 167sq. Twelfth Night, 35-36, 183. Two Gentlemen of Verona, 16sq.; the character of Proteus, 20; and of Valentine, 22; the lyric, Who is Sylvia," 24. Two Noble Kinsmen, The, 241- 242.
Venus and Adonis, 242-243.
Walsingham, Frances, Sidney's widow, marries Essex, 40; as Serena in The Faerie Queene, 286.
Wilson, Arthur, his portrait of Bacon in Kennett's History, 247-249.
Winter's Tale, The, 181sq.; parallel passages in this play and Bacon's writings, 181- 182.
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