^{page 274 note 1} Works, London, 1869, i, 215.

^{page 274 note 2} Ward, History of English Dramatic Literature, London, 1899, iii, 79.

^{page 274 note 3} Mermaid Ford, new edition, 184.

^{page 275 note 1} Works, i, 7.

^{page 275 note 2} Mermaid Ford, 184.

^{page 277 note 1} Compare, for example, the famous story of Argalus and Parthenia, retold in verse by Francis Quarles, in 1621.

^{page 278 note 1} Works, iii; see Epistle Dedicatory of Fame's Memorial.

^{page 278 note 2} Ibid., 309.

^{page 278 note 3} Ibid., 281. See also, Fox-Bourne's Memorial of Sir Philip Sidney, London, 1862, 376, Note.

^{page 278 note 4} Ibid., iii, 279, Note.

^{page 280 note 1} Works, i, 218.

^{page 280 note 2} Symonds, Sidney, London, 1902, 36: “Writing to Lord Leicester, he (Sir Henry Sidney) couples Essex with his old enemy the Earl of Ormond, adding that ‘for that their malice, I take God to record, I could brook nothing of them both?‘”

^{page 280 note 3} Fox-Bourne, passim.

^{page 280 note 4} Works, i, 218.

^{page 281 note 1} Fox-Bourne, 129.

^{page 281 note 2} Works, i, 260.

^{page 281 note 3} Works, 219.

^{page 281 note 4} Fox-Bourne, 286.

^{page 281 note 5} Ibid.

^{page 281 note 6} Works, i, 219.

^{page 282 note 1} Ibid., 251.

^{page 282 note 2} Fox-Bourne, 288.

^{page 282 note 3} Works, i, 266.

^{page 282 note 4} Devereux, Lives of the Earls of the Essex, i, 155.

^{page 282 note 5} Works, i, 219.

^{page 282 note 6} Ibid.

^{page 282 note 7} Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, London, 1877, i, 36.

^{page 283 note 1} Works, i, 251.

^{page 283 note 2} Complete Poems, i, 85.

^{page 283 note 3} Complete Poems, i, 179.

^{page 284 note 1} Complete Poems, i, 84.

^{page 285 note 1} Works of Spenser, London, 1902, 561.