LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Francis Beaumont	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
The Ruins of Grace-Dieu Nunnery	[22]
Ruins of Grace-Dieu	[26]
A Priory, Ulveston, Extant in 1730	[26]
Thomas Sackville, First Earl of Dorset	[66]
The Temple	[96]
The Globe Theatre, with St. Paul's in the Background	[104]
Ben Jonson	[120]
Francis Bacon	[146]
George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and Family	[160]
John Selden	[170]
The Beaumont of the Nuneham Portrait	[192]
Michael Drayton	[202]
John Fletcher	[226]
John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury	[244]
Don Diego Sarmiento, Count Gondomar	[372]

BEAUMONT'S LIFE, HIS ACQUAINTANCES, AND HIS CAREER AS POET AND DRAMATIST.

BEAUMONT,THE DRAMATIST