itation of Nash, Greene and Sidney.

Dekker--His dramatic and poetical faculty--His prose
works--His literary connection with Nash--His pictures of
real life--His humour and gaiety--Grobianism--A gallant
at the play-house in the time of Shakespeare--Defoe and
Swift as distant heirs 327

CHAPTER VII.

_AFTER SHAKESPEARE_ 347

I. Heroical romances--Their origin mainly French--The new
heroism _a panache_ on the stage, in epics, in the novel,
in real life--The heroic ideal--The Hotel de Rambouillet 347

II. Heroes and heroism _a panache_ migrate to
England--Their welcome in spite of the
Puritans--Translations of French romances--Use of French
engravings--Imitation and appreciation of French
manners--Orinda, the Duchess of Newcastle, Dorothy
Osborne, Mrs. Pepys 362

III. Original English novels in the heroical style--Roger
Boyle, J. Crowne--Heroism on the stage 383

IV. Reaction in France--Sorel, Scarron, Furetiere,
&c.--Reaction in England--"Adventures of Covent Garden,"
"Zelinda," &c. 397

V. Conclusion--The end of the period--Ingelo, Harrington,
Mrs. Behn; how she anticipates Rousseau.

Connection between the master-novelists of the eighteenth
century and the prentice-novelists of the sixteenth 411

INDEX 419

[Illustration: ARIES.]

[Illustration: TAURUS.]

EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
1.--Queen Elizabeth in State costume, with the royal
insignia, after the engraving by William Rogers (born
in London, about 1545) _Frontispiece_

2 to 13.--The signs of the Zodiac, after Robert Greene's
"Francesco's Fortunes," 1590. Towards the end of this
novel a palmer is asked by his host to leave a
remembrance of his visit in his entertainer's house;
the palmer engraves on an ivory arch verses and
drawings illustrating at the same time, and in the same
way as the signs of the Zodiac, both the course of the
year and the course of human life _p. 9 et passim_
[_tail-pieces to all the chapter