n conceipt," 1598 161

34.--Yet another dragon, from Topsell's "Serpents," p. 153 171

35.--Velvet breeches and cloth breeches, from Greene's
"Quip," 1592, frontispiece 190

36.--Preparing for the Hunt, from Turberville's "Noble Arte
of Venerie or Hunting," London, 1575, 4to, frontispiece 205

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

"Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show
Of touch or marble ...
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") 217

38.--A shepherd of Arcady, as seen on the title-page of various
editions of Sidney's "Arcadia," _e.g._, the third, 1598 242

39.--A Princess of Arcady, _ibid._ 243

40.--Argalus and Parthenia reading a book in their garden; from
Quarles' poem of "Argalus and Parthenia," London, 1656,
4to, p. 135 265

41.--"The renowned Argalus and Parthenia":

"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" 275

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