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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
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