[98] See "Douce's Illustrations of Shakspeare."
[99] Sonnets 80, 83.
[100] Sonnet 172.
[101] Sonnets 110, 111.
CHAPTER XVI.
SYDNEY'S STELLA.
At the very name of Sir Philip Sydney,—the generous, gallant, all-accomplished Sydney,—the roused fancy wakes, as at the sound of a silver trumpet, to all the gay and splendid associations of chivalry and romance. He was in the court of Elizabeth, what Surrey had been in that of her father, Henry the Eighth; and like his prototype. Sir Calidore in the Fairy Queen,—
Every look and word that he did say
Was like enchantment, that through both the ears
And both the eyes, did steal the heart away.