ter, 38;
his faculty of observation, 49

Mareschal, Antoine, 282

"Margarite of America," Lodge's, 202, 203

"Marianne," 24

Marlowe, heroes and heroines of, 247, 249;
dies young, 295;
Nash's criticisms of, 299, 306, 307

Mary, Queen of Scots, 92

Massinger, 331

Master Reynard, 292

"Matchless Orinda," The, 384, 391

Medicis, Marie de, 276

Melbancke, imitator of Lyly, 145

Melville, Sir James, ambassador of Mary Queen of Scots to the English
court, on the manners of the English, 91-95;
on the liking of the Elizabethans for disguises, 239

"Menaphon," Greene's, 146, 155, 160, 185-187

Meres, Francis, 198 _note_, 254 _note_, 300

Merimee's style, 305

"Midas" comedy by Lyly, 139

Middleton, 331

Milton's "Comus," 220, 221;
opinion of Sidney's "Arcadia," 250, 251

Moliere, his love for old songs, 232;
his denunciation of the behaviour of gallants at the playhouse, 343, 344;
the "Precieuses ridicules," 373;
English translations of, 397;
the "Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes," 405

Monmouth, Geoffrey of, 38, 41

Montaigne, 43

Montausier, 352, 388, 391

Montchrestien, Antoine de, 354, 355

Montemayor's "Diane," 76;
translation of, 227;
style of, 229;
imitated by Sidney, 236

Montesquieu's "Lettres persanes," 132

More, Sir Thomas, writes in Latin; the "Utopia," 50, 51;
Erasmus' opinion of, 87;
hero in Nash's novel, 348;
his "Utopia," a political novel, 413

Morris, William, 63

"Morte d'Arthur," Malory's, 54-59;
Ascham on, 63

Munday, Anthony, imitator of Lyly, 145, 193, 331, 349

Muerger's "Scenes de la vie de Boheme," 150, 151

"Myrrour of Modesty," Greene's, 155, 168, 349

N.

Nash, Thomas, portrait of, 18;
his stories translated into French, 27;
initiator of the _picaresque_ novel, 294;
birth, education, studies, and travels, 295, 296;
works of, 297;
love of poetry, 299, 300;
style and vocabulary of, 302-307;
Dekker on, 327, 334;
begins the novel of real life, 347, 348;
406, 412, 418

Navarre, Queen of, 86

Newcastle, Duchess of, drawing from "Nature's Pictures," 20, 379;
literary works of the, 374-381

Newton, 24

North, Sir Thomas, 106, 107

Novels, in Tudor times, 80-102;
as sermons, 123, 124, 127;
pastoral, 235-283;
picaresque, 291-346;
heroical, 348-414;
philosophical, 414-416

Nucius, Nicander, on the study of Italian and French in England, 87;
on the manners of English women