[439] The Reulis and Cautelis of Scottis Poesie by James VI. of Scotland is wholly based on Gascoigne's treatise.

[440] J. A. Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 157. Cf. also, Sidney, Defence, Cook's introduction, p. xxvii.

[441] Cf. Foffano, p. 173 sq. In Spain, Lope de Vega's Laurel de Apolo and Cervantes' Viage del Parnaso belong to the same class of poems.

[442] Cf. Dryden, ded. epist. to the Annus Mirabilis.

[443] Addison, Spectator, no. 62.

[444] Dryden, preface to the State of Innocence.


CHAPTER II

THE GENERAL THEORY OF POETRY IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE