FOOTNOTES:
[121] From the portrait at Knole Park.
[122] Encyc. Brit., sub nomine.
[123] By Cockerell, in the Variorum Edition of B. and F.'s Works, Vol. I, 1904. See Frontispiece to this volume.
[124] Historical Portraits, Vol. II, 1600-1700, Oxford, 1911.
[125] Not to the third Earl, Richard, as Cyril Brett, Drayton's Minor Poems, p. xix, has it.
[126] Clark's Aubrey's Brief Lives, II, 175, 239. Not Mary (Curzon), the wife of the fourth Earl, as Professor Elton, Drayton (1895), p. 45, has it.
[127] After the appearance of Montague's edition of King James's Works, and before the execution of Raleigh.
[128] Save for non-dramatic productions such as Ben Jonson's Epigrams, etc.
[129] Grosart, D. N. B., art, Sir John Beaumont, and Sir J. B.'s Poems, xxxvi.
[130] B. and F., Vol. I, lii.
[131] Revised by Earle for the Commendatory Verses, Folio 1647; but I have retained some of the readings of the 1640 copy included in Beaumont's Poems.
[132] The version given above is that of Brit. Mus. MS. Lansdowne 777. Of other versions one is attributed to Donne; but the Lansdowne is the most authentic, and the evidence of authorship is all for Basse, whose name follows in the Lansdowne manuscript. So, Miss L. T. Smith in Centurie of Praise, p. 139.
[133] Mr. Bullen, D. N. B., under Fitzgeffrey, queries "Nathaniel Hooke." I have not been able to identify Hooke.
[134] Choice Drollery, Songs, and Sonnets, 1656, in Sh. Soc. Pap., III, 172.
[135] The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.
[136] Through the Villierses and therefore probably through the Coleorton Beaumonts.