496 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



that loved better to be a Poet tban to be counted so, called tlie author 

 a rhymer, notwithstanding he had more skill in good Poetry than my 

 sly gentleman had seemed to have in good manners or humanity."' 

 II Candido, perhaps, was the friend. 



In a Florio's Montaigne which I have, II Candido appears again. 

 The name on this occasion is appended to a sonnet wholly in Italian, 

 addressed in very adulatory terms to Anne, Queen of James I. The 

 whole book is dedicated to the Queen by Florio, quite in the Holo- 

 phernes' vein : "To the Most Royal and Renowned Majestie of the 

 High-borne Princesse Anna, of Denmarke, by the Grace of God 

 Queene of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, etc., Imperiall and 

 Imcomparable Majestie. Seeing with me, all of me is in your lioyall 

 possession, and whatsoever peeces of mine have heeretofore, under- 

 other Starres passed the publike view, come now of right to be under 

 the predomination of a Power, that both contains all their perfections, 

 and hath influences of a more sublime nature, I could not but also 

 take in this part (whereof time had worn-out the edition) which the 

 world hath long sirice had of mine, and lay it at your Sacred feet, a» 

 a memoriall of my devoted duty, and to shew that where I am, I must 

 be all I am, and cannot stand dispersed in my observance, being 

 wholly (and therein happy) your Sacred Majestie's most humble and 

 loyall servant, lohn Florio." The date of the edition before us is 

 1632. The first edition appeared in 1603, and it is in a copy of this 

 edition in the British Museum, that the autograph of Shakspeare 

 appears. But interest attaches to all the folio editions of Florio's 

 translation, for in th.em we see " the very form and pi-essure " of the 

 tome which Shakspeare handled when he consulted the Essays of 

 Montaigne. 



An eminent Milton scholar was Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, who> 

 in 1835, published an annotated edition of Paradise Lost, "dedicated 

 appropriately to William Wordsworth and Robert Southey." He 

 considered himself the direct heir of the first Baron Chandos j an^ 

 although the House of Lords decided against his claim. Sir Samuel" 

 occasionally subscribed himself " Chandos of Studely ;" and it is in 

 this form that I have his autograph in a volume of poems presented 

 to him by Chandos Leigh, who writes thus on a fly-leaf: "To Sir 

 Egerton Brydges, from Chandos Leigh, the author, who is proud of 

 bearing the same family name." It was this inscription that doubt- 

 less induced Sir Egerton to write on the opposite page, in explanation, 

 "Chandos of Studeley, given him by Chandos Leigh, 6th June, 1835." 



