FOOT-NOTES:

[499] Scholemaster, p. 139.

[500] Haslewood, ii. 40.

[501] Puttenham, p. 47 sq.

[502] Ibid. p. 41.

[503] Ibid. p. 49.

[504] Ascham, Works, ii. 189.

[505] Defence, p. 47 sq.

[506] Defence, p. 28. This is the Elizabethan equivalent for Aristotle's katharsis of "pity and terror."

[507] Cf. Scaliger, Poet. i. 7.