1895, p. 105.

[6] _Moliere et Shakspere._

[7] _Shakspere and Classical Antiquity_, Eng. tr. p. 297.

[8] See this point discussed in the _Free Review_ of July,
1895: and compare the lately published essay of Mr. John
Corbin, on _The Elizabethan Hamlet_, (Elkin Matthews, 1895).

[9] _Hamlet_, Act V, scene 2.

[10] Book I, Essay 33.

[11] _Advice_ in Florio.

[12] B. III, Ch. 8. _Of the art of conferring._

[13] B. III, Ch. 12.

[14] Act II, Sc. 1, 144.

[15] Book I, ch. II, _end_.

[16] Book I, ch. 23.

[17] _Ibid._

[18] Some slip of the pen seems to have occurred in this
confused line. The original _Et male consultis pretium est:
prudentia fallax_--is sufficiently close to Shakspere's
phrase.

[19] "O heaven! a beast that wants discourse of reason" (Act
I, Scene 2.)

[20] Act II, Sc. 2.

[21] Act IV, Scene 2.

[22] Act IV, Scene 4.

[23] See Furniss's Variorum edition of _Hamlet, in loc._

[24] B. I, Chap. 19; Edit. Firmin-Didot, vol. i, p. 68.

[25] B. II, Chap. 4; Ed. cited, p. 382.

[26] B. II, Chap. 12; _Ibid_, p. 459.

[27] B. II, Chap. 33.

[28] _Shakespere and Montaigne_, 1884, p. 88.

[29] B. III, Chap. 12.

[30] Act III, Scene 3.

[31] B. I, ch. 22.

[32] Act II, Scene 2.

[33] _Othello_, Act II, Scene 3.

[34] B. I, ch. 40, "That the taste of goods or evils doth
greatly depend on the opinion we have of them."

[35] B. I, ch. 50.

[36] B. I, ch. 22.

[37] B. III, ch. 10.

[38] Act V, Scene 4.

[39] On reverting to Mr. Feis's book I find that in 1884 he
had noted this and others of the above parallels, which I
had not observed when writing on the subject in 1883. In
view of some other parallels and clues drawn by him, our
agreements leave me a little uneasy. He decides, for
instance (p. 93) that Hamlet's phrase "foul as Vulcan's
stithy" is a "sly thrust at Florio" who in his preface calls
himself "Montaigne's Vulcan"; that the Queen's phrase
"thunders in the index" is a reference to "the Index of the
Holy See and its thunders"; and that Hamlet's lines "Why let
the stricken deer go weep" are clearly a satire against
Montaigne, "who fights shy of action." Mr. Feis's book
contains so many propositions of this order that it is
difficult to feel sure that he is ever judicious. Still, I
find myself in agreement with him on some four or five
points o