of Sir Amias Poulet's Letters_, Roxburghe Club,
p. 89.

Footnote 86: _Letter-Book_, p. 16.

Footnote 87: _Letter-Book_, p. 89.

Footnote 88: _Poems of Thomas Carew_, ed. W.C. Hazlitt, 1870. Pp.
xxiii.-xxx.

Footnote 89: T. Birch, _Court and Times of James I._, vol. i. p. 218.

The embarrassments of an ambassador under these circumstances are hardly
exaggerated, perhaps, in Chapman's play, _Monsieur D'Olive_, where the
fictitious statesman bursts into a protest:

"Heaven I beseech thee, what an abhominable sort of Followers have I put
upon mee: ... I cannot looke into the Cittie, but one or other makes
tender his good partes to me, either his Language, his Travaile, his
Intelligence, or something: Gentlemen send me their younger Sonnes
furnisht in compleat, to learn fashions, for-sooth: as if the riding of
five hundred miles, and spending 1000 Crownes would make 'am wiser then
God meant to make 'am.... Three hundred of these Gold-finches I have
entertained for my Followers: I can go in no corner, but I meete with
some of my Wifflers in there accoutrements; you may heare 'am halfe a
mile ere they come at you, and smell 'am half an hour after they are
past you: sixe or seaven make a perfect Morrice-daunce; they need no
Bells, their Spurs serve their turne: I am ashamed to traine 'am
abroade, theyle say I carrie a whole Forrest of Feathers with mee, and I
should plod afore 'am in plaine stuffe, like a writing Schole-maister
before his Boyes when they goe a feasting."

Footnote 90: Strype, _Life of Sir Thomas Smith_, p. 119.

Footnote 91: _The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby_, 1547-1564, ed.
Powell, p. 27.

Footnote 92: Spelman, W., _A Dialogue between Two Travellers_, c. 1580,
ed. by Pickering for the Roxburghe Club, 1896, p. 42.

Footnote 93: Gratarolus, _De Regimine iter agentium_, 1561, p. 19.

Footnote 94: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. i. p. 69.

Footnote 95: _Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland_,
10th May 1909.

Footnote 96: Florio, _Second Frutes_, p. 95.

Footnote 97: _Sloane MS_., 1813, fol.7.

Footnote 98: Article on the third Lord North in the _Dictionary of
National Biography._

Footnote 99: T. Wright, _Queen Elizabeth_, vol. i. p. 316.

Footnote 100: Sir Thomas Overbury, _An Affectate Traveller_, in
_Characters_.

Footnote 101: Dieppe.

Footnote 102: Thomas Nash, _Pierce Pennilesse_, in _Works_, ed. Grosart,
vol. ii. 27.

Footnote 103: Nash, _The Un