[Footnote 603:  Burleighs or Burghleys:  William Cecil, baron of Burghley, was an English statesman, who, for forty years, was Elizabeth’s chief minister.]

[Footnote 604:  Buckinghams.  George Villiers, the first duke of Buckingham, was an English courtier and politician, a favorite of James I. and Charles I.]

[Footnote 605:  Tudor dynasty.  The English dynasty of sovereigns descended on the male side from Owen Tudor.  It began with Henry VII. and ended with Elizabeth.]

[Footnote 606:  Bacon.  Consult English literature and history for an account of the great statesman and author, Francis Bacon, “the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind.”]

[Footnote 607:  Ben Jonson, etc.  In his Timber or Discoveries, Ben Jonson, a famous classical dramatist contemporary with Shakespeare, says:  “I loved the man and do honor his memory on this side idolatry as much as any.  He was indeed honest and of an open and free nature:  had an excellent fancy; brave notions and gentle expressions:  wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped....  His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so, too.  Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter....  But he redeemed his vices with his virtues.  There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.”]

[Footnote 608:  Sir Henry Wotton.  An English diplomatist and author of wide culture.]

[Footnote 609:  The following persons, etc.  The persons enumerated were all people of note of the seventeenth century.  Sir Philip Sidney, Earl of Essex, Lord Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Milton, Sir Henry Vane, Isaac Walton, Dr. John Donne, Abraham Cowley, Charles Cotton, John Pym, and John Hales were Englishmen, scholars, statesmen, and authors.  Theodore Beza was a French theologian; Isaac Casaubon was a French-Swiss scholar; Roberto Berlarmine was an Italian cardinal; Johann Kepler was a German astronomer; Francis Vieta was a French mathematician; Albericus Gentilis was an Italian jurist; Paul Sarpi was an Italian historian; Arminius was a Dutch theologian.]

[Footnote 610:  Many others whom doubtless, etc.  Emerson here enumerates some famous English authors of the same period, not mentioned in the preceeding list.]

[Footnote 611:  Pericles.  See note on Heroism, 352.]

[Footnote 612:  Lessing.  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a German critic and poet of the eighteenth century.]

[Footnote 613:  Wieland.  Christopher Martin Wieland was a German contemporary of Lessing’s, who made a prose translation into German of Shakespeare’s plays.]

[Footnote 614:  Schlegel.  August Wilhelm von Schlegel, a German critic and poet, who about the first of the nineteenth century translated some of Shakespeare’s plays into classical German.]

[Footnote 615:  Hamlet.  The hero of Shakespeare’s play of the same name.]