[756] Probably a tragi-comedy by Du Ryer, acted in 1634; Upham, op. cit. p. 373.
[757] Diary, reprinted: Malone's Historical Account of the English Stage, in an edition of Shakespeare's works, completed by Boswell, 1821, iii. pp. 120, 122. Herbert makes many of his entries in French.
[758] Meurier, Communications familières, 1563.
[759] While the English visited France in great numbers, very few Frenchmen came to England, except those engaged on diplomatic missions, or exiles. Thus, Ronsard, Jacques Grévin, Brantôme, Bodin, in the sixteenth century; Schelandre, d'Assoucy, Boisrobert, Le Pays, Pavillon, Voiture, Malleville, and a few others in the early seventeenth century, spent a short time in England. Among scholars, Peiresc, Henri Estienne, Justel, Bochart, and Casaubon visited our country. St. Amant was twice in England, and on the occasion of his second visit wrote a satirical poem, Albion, in which he gave vent to his dislike of the people and the country (Œuvres, ed. Livet, 1855, vol. ii.). Guide-books to England were few, and far from giving a good impression of the country. See Jusserand, Shakespeare in France, pp. 8, 129.
[760] Rathery, Relations sociales et intellectuelles entre la France et l'Angleterre, pp. 22-23, 48 sqq.
[761] "Lord ghest tholb be sua virtiuff be intelligence, aff yi body schal biff be naturall rehutht tholb suld of me pety have for natur ..." (Œuvres de Rabelais, ed. C. Marty Laveaux, i. 261).
[762] Petitot et Monmerqué, Collection des Mémoires, tom. 68, Paris, 1828.
[763] A. Cohn, Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, London, 1865, pp. xxviii, cxxxiv, cxxxv.
[764] Jusserand, Shakespeare in France, 1899, pp. 51 sqq.; E. Soulié, Recherches sur Molière, Paris, 1863, p. 153.
[765] Journal de Jean Hervard sur l'enfance et la jeunesse de Louis XIII, 1601-28, Paris, 1868. Quoted by Jusserand, op. cit. p. 57 n. One of Louis's tutors was an Englishman, Richard Smith.