[418] Hannay, Later Renaissance, 1898, p. 39.

[419] Menéndez y Pelayo, iii. 434.

[420] Ibid. iii. 447 sq.

[421] Menéndez y Pelayo, iii. 464.

[422] The Commentaire is printed entire in Lalanne's edition of Malherbe, Paris, 1862, vol. iv. The critical doctrine of Malherbe has been formulated by Brunot, Doctrine de Malherbe, pp. 105-236.

[423] Cf. Horace, Ars Poet. 71, 72.

[424] Brunot, p. 149.

[425] Œuvres, Lalanne's edition, iv. 91.

[426] Caractères, "Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit."

[427] Lettres, i. 413. The references are to the edition by Tamizey de Larroque, Paris, 1880-1883.