"When diverfity of years, courfes of life and fortunes, enforced these dear friends to divide, there yet paffed fuch a continual courfe of intelligence by letters from one of them to another, as in their lofs (if they be loft) there be buried many delicate images and differences between the real and large complexions of those active times, and the narrow falves of this effeminate age."Life of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney, written by Sir Fulke Grevil. |