from
Hooker's notes.

Footnote 159: For titles and publishers of reference works see General
Bibliography at the end of this book.

Footnote 160: See, for instance, the "Hymn to St. Theresa" and "The
Flaming Heart."

Footnote 161: So called from Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece.

Footnote 162: See, for instance, "Childhood," "The Retreat,"
"Corruption," "The Bird," "The Hidden Flower," for Vaughan's mystic
interpretation of childhood and nature.

Footnote 163: There is some doubt as to whether he was born at the
Castle, or at Black Hall. Recent opinion inclines to the latter view.

Footnote 164: "On his being arrived to the Age of Twenty-three."

Footnote 165: "It is remarkable," says Lamartine, "how often in the
libraries of Italian princes and in the correspondence of great Italian
writers of this period you find mentioned the name and fame of this young
Englishman."

Footnote 166: In Milton's work we see plainly the progressive influence
of the Puritan Age. Thus his Horton poems are joyous, almost Elizabethan in
character; his prose is stern, militant, unyielding, like the Puritan in
his struggle for liberty; his later poetry, following the apparent failure
of Puritanism in the Restoration, has a note of sadness, yet proclaims the
eternal principles of liberty and justice for which he had lived.

Footnote 167: Of these sixty were taken from the Bible, thirty-three from
English and five from Scotch history.

Footnote 168: The latter was by Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor. It is
interesting to note that this book, whose very title is unfamiliar to us,
was speedily translated into five different languages. It had an enormous
sale, and ran through fifty editions soon after publication.

Footnote 169: Abridged from _Grace Abounding_, Part 3; _Works_ (ed.
1873), p. 71.

Footnote 170: For titles and publishers of reference works, see General
Bibliography at the end of this book.

Footnote 171: Guizot's _History of the Revolution in England_.

Footnote 172: Jeremy Collier (1650-1726), a clergyman and author, noted
for his scholarly _Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain_ (1708-1714) and
his _Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage_
(1698). The latter was largely instrumental in correcting the low tendency
of the Restoration drama.

Footnote 173: The Royal Society, for the investigation and discussion of
scientific questions, was founded in 166