ment of the unities is consistent with his theories as far as the circumstances of his age would permit. Several of his plays, The Alchemist and The Silent Woman especially, are triumphs over the difficulties of time and place. See Sir Philip Sidney's strictures on the popular stage of his earlier day, and Professor Cook's notes thereon (Defense of Poesie, ed. Cook, pp. 47-52).

85 35.

86 10.

86 14.

86 19.

86 20.

The action of one man to be one. Cf. Aristotle, Poetica, 8.
How he fought with Achilles: Iliad, 20. 404-409.

Error. In the Latin sense, wandering.

The philosopher. Aristotle.

For they

All the actions of Theseus . . . labors of Hercules. Cf. Poetica, 8: "Hence all those poets appear to have erred who have written the Heracleid and Theseid, and such like poems. suppose that because Hercules was one person, it was fit that the fable should be one. Homer, however, as he excelled in other things, appears likewise to have seen clearly, whether from art or from nature, for in composing the Odyssey, he has not related everything which happened to Ulysses, etc.; . . . but he composed the Odyssey, as also his Iliad, upon one action."

86 22. Hoarse Codrus. Cf. Juvenal, Satires, 1. 2 and 3. 203: "Codrus was possibly merely a fictitious name under which the Roman poets were wont to ridicule the poetasters of their age."

86 31. Sophocles, his Ajax. Of this play Professor Mahaffy says: "The Ajax . . . stands, perhaps, more remote than any of Sophocles's works from modern notions. . . . There is no finer psychological picture than the awakening of Ajax from his rage, his deep despair, his firm resolve to endure life no longer, his harsh treatment of Tecmessa, and yet his deep love for her and his child” (History of Greek Literature, i. p. 306).

Combat of Ajax with Hector (Iliad, 7. 204, et seqq.).

87 17. 87 19. After a reading of these later passages of the Discoveries, we may well agree with Professor A. W. Ward in his statement: "[Jonson's] veneration for Aristotle was no mere lip-service. He understood the definitions and rules of the Poetics better than those who were forever mumbling their dry bones in later periods of our dramatic literature" (Engl. Dram. Lit., i. p. 596).

87 22. Et, quæ per salebras, etc. (Martial, Epigrams, 11. 90). It will be noted that aside from the adaptation to the context, by which et is read for sed, the first word, Jonson has omitted two lines between the first and his second, and inverted the second and third. The whole passage translated reads thus: "You approve of no verses that run

with a smooth cadence, but of those only that vault, as it were, over hills and crags; you read with ecstasy such words as terrai frugiferai (the fruit-producing earth), as well as all that Actius and Pacuvius have sputtered forth." Actius and Pacuvius were early and popular Roman playwrights. It is to be remarked that this final note, as Mr. Swinburne 66 says, seems tumbled in without reference to the context," and that the first line of this epigram of Martial is a favorite of the author, as he has quoted it twice before in the Discoveries. Cf. 24 26 and 62 4.

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

(Folio) indicates a marginal reference, dependent alone on the authority of the
edition of 1641.

Archy (Archibald Armstrong) 13 18. Courtier, The, 71 31.

Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, Lysippus 79 10.

Gellius, Aulus, quoted 14 13, 14, Machiavelli, Nicholas, 38 23, 39 8;

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES.

Paterculus quoted 4 21.

Pegasus 76 3.

Persius quoted 1 9, 72 27, 76 20.

Pericles 80 3.

Petronius Arbiter quoted 36 22,
76 12 (folio).

Philip of Macedon, 51 4.

Pindar, see Spintharus.

165

Seneca, Lucius Annæus, 62 22,
70 21; quoted 20 15, 75 27.
Seneca, Marcus Annæus, 18 10;
quoted 18 8 seqq., 23 22, 28 17
seqq., 29 4-30 22 passim, 31 5,
63 21.

Shakespeare 23 9; quoted 23 27.
Sidney, Sir Philip, 30 31.

Plato 29 8, 58 18, 82 10; quoted Simonides quoted 49 3.

75 30.

Simylus quoted 78 11.

Plautus 57 35, 79 25, 26, 81 7, 11, 28, Smith, Sir Thomas, 30 27.

82 26; quoted 15 23, 25, 31.
Pliny 50 1; quoted 50 8, 14, 51 1.
Plutarch quoted 6 34, 13 25, 14 19,
20, 22, 29, 49 3, 80 3.
Polygnotus 51 1.
Pseudo-Plutarch quoted 15 11.
Pythagoras 15 11, 58 20.

Socrates 29 8, 50 34, 82 34.
Sophocles 80 1, 86 31, 87 19.
Spenser, Edmund, 22 15, 57 26.
Spintharus 14 21.
Statius 77 26.

Stilo, L. Ælius, 79 24.

Stobæus, Johannes, 78 12.

Suetonius 62 22; quoted 37 11,
81 2, 19.
Surrey, Earl of, 30 26.
Sylla 33 33.

Tacitus 62 22.
Tamerlane 27 4.

Tamer Cham 27 4.

Taylor, John, the Water Poet, 229,

14.

Terence 58 2, 81 23; quoted 43 5.
Terminus 40 12.

Theocritus quoted 44 28.

Thersites 14 12.

Theseus 86 1, 20.

Saville, Sir Henry, 31 1.

Scaliger, Joseph Justus, 80
(folio), 81 5.

Theseid 86 23.

Tiberius 37 15.

Titian 51 8.

Tityus 84 26.

19 Troy 86 14.

Scaliger, Julius Cæsar, 76 30, 80 19

(folio), 81 6.

Tully, see Cicero.

Ulysses 14 19, 86 2, 16, 87 1.

Valerius Maximus quoted 76 33.

Varro, Marcus 79 27.

Schortenhein, Comes de, 9 20 Urbino, see Raphael.

(folio).

Sebastian of Venice 51 8.

Sejanus 40 21.