e of Shakspere_, pp. 29, 128.

[147] See it in his _Life of Shakspere_, pp. 120-124. Mr.
Fleay's theory, though perhaps the best "documented" of all,
has received little attention in comparison with Mr.
Tyler's, which has the attraction of fuller detail.

[148] Only in Chaucer (_e.g._, _The Book of the Duchess_) do
we find before his time the successful expression of the
same perception; and Chaucer counted for almost nothing in
Elizabethan letters.

[149] See Fleay's _Life of Shakspere_, pp. 130-1.

[150] Cp. the _Essays_, ii, 17: iii, 2. (Edit. cited, vol.
ii, pp. 40, 231.)

[151] _Essays_, i, 25; _cf._ i, 48. (Edit. cited, vol. i,
pp. 304, 429.)

[152] ii, 4. (Edit. cited, i, 380.)

[153] ii, 10. (Edit. cited, i, 429.)

[154] _Pensees Diverses._ Less satisfying is the further
_pensee_ in the same collection:--"Les quatre grand poetes,
Platon, _Malebranche_, _Shaftesbury_, Montaigne."

[155] Edition cited, i, 622-623.

[156] _Port Royal_, 4ieme edit., ii. 400, _note_.

[157] B. iii, Chap. 13.

[158] "In the midst of our compassion, we feel within I know
not what bitter sweet touch of malign pleasure in seeing
others suffer." (Comp. La Rochefoucauld, _Pensee_ 104.)

[159] B. iii, Chap. 1.

[160] i, Chap. 38.

[161] _L'Angleterre au Seizieme Siecle_, p. 133.

[162] This seems to be the ideal implied in the criticisms
even of Mr. Lowell and Mr. Dowden.

[163] _Hamlet: ein Tendenzdrama Sheakspere's_ [_sic_
throughout book] _gegen die skeptische und cosmopolitische
Weltanschanung des Michael de Montaigne_, von G. F.
Stedefeld, Kreisgerichtsrath, Berlin. 1871.

[164] B. i, Chap. 26.

[165] It is not disputed that the plot existed beforehand in
Whetstone's _Promos and Cassandra_; and there was probably
an intermediate drama.

[166] Edit. Firmin-Didot, i, 590.

[167] _Oxford Essays_, p. 279. Sterling, from his
Christian-Carlylese point of view, declared of Montaigne
that "All that we find in him of Christianity would be
suitable to apes and dogs rather than to rational and moral
beings" (_London and Westminster Review_, July, 1838, p.
340.)

[168] Sainte-Beuve has noted how in the essay on Prayer he
added many safeguarding clauses in the later editions.

[169] See Mr. Spedding's essay, so entitled, in the
_Cornhill Magazine_, August, 1880.

[170] Art. cited, _end_.

[171] Note cited by Mr.