[147] See it in his Life of Shakspere, pp. 120-124. Mr. Fleay's theory, though perhaps the best "documented" of all, has received little attention in comparison with Mr. Tyler's, which has the attraction of fuller detail.
[148] Only in Chaucer (e.g., The Book of the Duchess) do we find before his time the successful expression of the same perception; and Chaucer counted for almost nothing in Elizabethan letters.
[149] See Fleay's Life of Shakspere, pp. 130-1.
[150] Cp. the Essays, ii, 17: iii, 2. (Edit. cited, vol. ii, pp. 40, 231.)
[151] Essays, i, 25; cf. i, 48. (Edit. cited, vol. i, pp. 304, 429.)
[152] ii, 4. (Edit. cited, i, 380.)
[153] ii, 10. (Edit. cited, i, 429.)
[154] Pensées Diverses. Less satisfying is the further pensée in the same collection:—"Les quatre grand poëtes, Platon, Malebranche, Shaftesbury, Montaigne."
[155] Edition cited, i, 622-623.
[156] Port Royal, 4ième édit., ii. 400, note.