, 231
Shakespeare's alleged paternity of, 265 328

Davies, Archdeacon, vicar of Saperton, on Shakespeare's 'unluckiness' in
poaching, 27
on 'Justice Clodpate' (Justice Shallow), 29 362

Davies, John, of Hereford, his allusion to the parts played by
Shakespeare, 44
celebrates in verse Southampton's release from prison, 149 388
his 'Wittes Pilgrimage,' 439
sonnets to patrons, 440 _n_

Davies, Sir John: his 'gulling sonnets,' a satire on conventional
sonnetteering, 106 107 and _n_ 1 128 _n_, 435 436
his apostrophe to Queen Elizabeth, 137 _n_ 273

Davison, Francis, his translation of Petrarch's sonnet, 102 _n_
dedication of his 'Poetical Rhapsody' to the Earl of Pembroke, 414

Death-mask, the Kesselstadt, 296 and _n_ 1

'Decameron,' the, indebtedness of Shakespeare to, 163 249 251 and n2

Dedications, 392-400

'Dedicatory' sonnets, of Shakespeare, 125 _seq._
of other Elizabethan poets, 138 _n_ 2 140 141

_Defence of Cony-Catching_, 47 _n_

Dekker, Thomas, 48 _n_
the quarrel with Ben Jonson, 214-20 228 _n_ 225
on King James's entry into London, 232
his song 'Oh, sweet content' an echo of Barnes's 'Ah, sweet
Content,' 433 _n_ 1

'Delia,' title of Daniel's collection of sonnets, 104 118 _n_ 2, 130 430
434
_See also under_ Daniel, Samuel

'Delie,' sonnets by Seve entitled, 442

Delius, Nikolaus, edition of Shakespeare by, 324
studies of the text and metre of the poet by, 345

Dennis, John, on the _Merry Wives of Windsor_, 171 172
his tribute to the poet, 332

Derby, Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of, his patronage of actors, 35
performances by his company, 56 59 66 73
Spenser's bestowal of the title of 'Amyntas' on, 385 _n_ 2

Derby, William Stanley, Earl of, 161

Desmond, Earl of, Ben Jonson's apostrophe to the, 140

Desportes, Philippe, his sonnet on Sleep, 101 and 431
plagiarised by Drayton and others, 103 and _n_ 3, 430 _seq._
plagiarised indirectly by Shakespeare, 110 111
his claim for the immortality of verse, 114 and _n_ 1
Daniel's indebtedness to him, 430 431 443 444 445 _n_

Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, 365

Devrient family, the, stage representation of Shakespeare by, 346

_Diana_, George de Montemayor's, and _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, 53
translations of, 53

'Diana' the title of Constable's collection of sonnets, 88 _n_ 96 _n_ 104
431

Diderot, opposition to Voltaire's strict