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FOOT-NOTES:
[445] Haslewood, ii. 103.
[446] Haslewood, ii. 28.
[447] _Ibid._ ii. 42.
[448] Haslewood, ii. 128.
[449] _Hist. Litt. de la France_, xxix. 502-525.
[450] Puttenham, p. 19 _sq._
[451] _Ibid._ p. 39.
[452] Gosson, p. 34.
[453] _Ibid._ p. 65.
[454] _Ibid._ pp. 25, 40.
[455] Lodge, _Defence_ (_Shakespeare Soc. Publ._), p. 6.
[456] Arber, _Transcript of the Stat. Reg._, iii. 154.
[457] Haslewood, ii. 28.
[458] Sidney's acquaintance with Minturno is proved beyond doubt, even were such proof necessary, by the list of poets (_Defence_, pp. 2, 3) which he has copied from Minturno's _De Poeta_, pp. 14, 15.
[459] Scaliger's _Poetics_ is specifically mentioned and cited by Sidney four or five times; but these citations are far from exhausting his indebtedness to Scaliger.
[460] _Defence_, p. 2 _sq._; _cf._ Minturno, _De Poeta_, pp. 9, 13.
[461] _Defence_, p. 9.
[462] This ancient phrase had become, as has been seen, a commonplace during the Renaissance. _Cf._, _e.g._, Dolce, _Osservationi_, 1560, p.
189; Vauquelin, _Art Poet._ i. 226; Camoens, _Lusiad._ vii. 76.
[463] Sidney's cla.s.sification of poets, _Defence_, p. 9, is borrowed from Scaliger, _Poet._ i. 3.
[464] _Defence_, p. 11. _Cf._ Castelvetro, _Poetica_, pp. 23, 190.
[465] _Defence_, p. 33. _Cf._ Ronsard, _Oeuvres_, iii. 19, vii. 310; and Sh.e.l.ley, _Defence of Poetry_, p. 9: "The distinction between poets and prose writers is a vulgar error."
[466] _Defence_, pp. 47, 51. _Cf._ Scaliger, _Poet._ i. 1, and vii. i.
2: "Poetae finem esse, docere c.u.m delectatione."
[467] Aristotle, _Ethics_, i. 1; Cicero, _De Offic._ i. 7.
[468] This was the usual att.i.tude of the humanists; _cf._ Woodward, p.
182 _sq._
[469] _Cf._ Daniello, p. 19; Minturno, _De Poeta_, p. 39.
[470] _Defence_, p. 18.
[471] _Ibid._ p. 22. _Cf._ Minturno, _De Poeta_, p. 106; Varchi, _Lezzioni_, p. 576.
[472] That is, the highest form of _human_ wisdom, for Sidney, as a Christian philosopher, naturally leaves revealed religion out of the discussion.
[473] _Poet._ ix. 1-4.
[474] _De Poeta_, p. 87 _sq._
[475] _Poet._ i. 1.
[476] _Defence_, pp. 7, 8.
[477] _De Van. et Incert. Scient._ cap. v.
[478] _Defence_, p. 34 _sq._
[479] _Cf._ Boccaccio, _Gen. degli Dei_, p. 257 _sq._; and Haslewood, ii. 127.
[480] _Defence_, pp. 3, 41; _cf._ Daniello, p. 22.
[481] Haslewood, ii. 129.
[482] _Ibid._ ii. 123.
[483] Haslewood, ii. 127.
[484] Bacon, _Works_, vi. 204-206.
[485] _Cf._ _Anglia_, 1899, xxi. 273.
[486] _Works_, vi. 203.
[487] _Discoveries_, p. 73. Jonson's distinction between poet (_poeta_), poem (_poema_), and poesy (_poesis_), was derived from Scaliger or Maggi.
[488] _Discoveries_, p. 49.
[489] _Ibid._ p. 34.
[490] _Ibid._ p. 74.
[491] _Ibid._ p. 34.
[492] _Works_, i. 333.
