[230]. Bussy d’Ambois. 1607.

The way of women’s will.

‘It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,

Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,

That woman’s love can win, or long inherit,

But what it is hard is to say,

Harder to hit....’

Samson Agonistes, 1010 et seq.

Hide nothing. Paradise Lost, I. 27.

[231]. Fulke Greville. Lord Brooke (1554–1628). Alaham and Mustapha were published in the folio edition of Brooke, 1633. He was the school friend, and wrote the Life, of Sir Philip Sidney. His self-composed epitaph reads, ‘Fulke Grevill, servant to Queene Elizabeth, councellor to King James, frend to Sir Philip Sidney.’ See Hazlitt’s Essay ‘Of Persons one would wish to have seen.’