and Juliet. The intellect was forced to rise in its own defense against the reactionary faction that would destroy it. Shakspeare was dead; Ben Jonson lived, his poetical talent decayed; Bacon was soon to fall in his degradation and his glory. Literature hung her withered garlands in the temple, resolved to try no more the wild and dangerous seas; and the chief friends of letters and progress were soon to become prisoners or exiles. In 1620 the white sails of a solitary ship were seen gliding away from the soft coasts of Devonshire, land of perpetual spring-time, to a cold and unknown shore; and the English intellect was to find new sources of strength in that political and religious example which was afterward called the "New England way." The Mayflower set out in search of that truth for which Bacon had labored, and toward which Spenser and Shakspeare had instinctively guided the human mind. INDEX. A B C rules, 33. A forgotten fable, 12. A sudden change, 56. BACON's aim, 144. Character, 145. Works, 148. Death, 148. Barklay, 54. Beaumont, 94. Rible, translation of, 144. Buchanan, 92. Burleigh, Lady, 73. CANTERBURY,journey to,38. 49. Caxton, 54. His press, 54, 55. Chancer, age of, 11. Works, 32, 33, 38, 40, 51. DECKER, 94. Donne, 95. Douglas, Gavin, 92. Dress of Richard's time, Drummond, W., 94, 143. EDWARD III., 17. Character of, 58. English revolution, 24. FAERY QUEEN, the, 109, 111, Fame, House of, 43, 44. Fancy, age of, 59. Marlowe, 86, 91. Massinger, etc., 94. Minot, 26. Flower and the Leaf, the, Mary, reign of, 80. 41, 42. Fourteenth century, the, Mayflower, the, 149. 13. Mirrour of Magistrates, 97. More, Sir Thomas, 55. Mother Hubberd's Tale, sions, 60. and proces- Paradyse of Daynty De- Parliament of Foules, 34. Plays, Shakspeare's, 131. Printing-press, the, 54. INDEX. RALEIGH, Sir W., 60, 62, 95. SACKVILLE, 65. Shakspeare, William : Works, etc., 130-139. 153 His Pastorals, 102, 103. Buried in Westminster His funeral, 115. Fate, 76, 77. TROILUS AND CRESEIDE, 39. Sidney, Sir Philip, 82, 83, 89. Tyndale, 65. Character, 84. Shakspeare, John, father WAT Tyler, 27. of the poet, 64. Shakspeare, Susanna, 128. Youth, 121. Westminster, 49, 71. Wycliffites, 16. Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 78. YORK, DUKE OF, 29. THE END. |