[299]Syrrey's "Poems. A description of the restless state of the lover when absent from the mistress of his heart," p. 78
[300]In another piece, "Complaint on the Absence of her Lover being upon the Sea," he speaks in direct terms of his wife, almost as affectionately.
[301]Greene, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Shakespeare, Ford, Otway, Richardson, De Foe, Fielding, Dickens, Thackeray, etc.
[302]"The Frailty and Hurtfulness of Beauty."
[303]"Description of Spring. A Vow to Love Faithfully."
[304]"Complaint of the Lover Disdarned."
[305]Surrey, ed. Nott.
[306]The Speaker's address to Charles II on his restoration. Compare it with the speech of M. de Fontanes under the Empire. In each case it was the close of a literary epoch. Read for illustration the speech before the University of Oxford, "Athenæ Oxonienses," I. 193.
[307]His second work, "Euphues and his England," appeared in 1581.
[308]See Shakespeare's young men, Mercutio especially.