LIFE IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND

A BOOK OF

ELIZABETHAN PROSE

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
LONDON: FETTER LANE, E.C. 4

NEW YORK: G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

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The Queen as patron of Letters George Gascoigne, poet and dramatist, presenting his Hemetes the Heremyte

(c. 1579) to Elizabeth