[279]Holinshed (1586), 1808, 6 vols. III. 763 et passim.
[280]Ibid., Reign of Henry VII "Elizabeth and James Progresses," by Nichols.
[281]Laneham's Entertainment at Killingworth Castle, 1575. Nichols's "Progresses," vol. I. London, 1788.
[282]Ben Jonson's works, ed. Gifford, 1816, 9 vols. "Masque of Hymen," vol. VII. 76.
[283]Certain private letters also describe the court of Elizabeth as a place where there was little piety or practice of religion, and where all enormities reigned in the highest degree.
[284]Nathan Drake, "Shakespeare and his Times," chap. V. and VI.
[285]Stubbes, "Anatomie of Abuses," p. 168 et passim.
[286]Hentzner's "Travels in England" (Bentley's translation). He thought that the figure carried about in the Harvest Home represented Ceres.
[287]Warton, vol. II. sec. 35. Before 1600 all the great poets were translated into English, and between 1550 and 1616 all the great historians of Greece and Rome. Lyly in 1500 first taught Greek in public.
[288]Ascham, "The Scholemaster" (1570), ed. Arber, 1870, first book, 78 et passim.