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crown appointed for triumphant cap- 
tains doth worthily, of all other learn- 
ings, honor the poet’s triumph.”’ 
Other examples show how the soul 
of poetry breathed in all that he 
wrote : 
=,‘ They are never:alone that are 
accompanied with noble thoughts.” 
«Then will be a time to die nobly, 
when you cannot live nobly.” 
«‘There is nothing more terrible to 
a guilty heart than the eye of a 
respected friend.” 
“The only disadvantage of an hon- 
est heart is credulity ” 
“Our erect wit maketh us know 
what perfection is, and yet our infected 
will keepeth us from reaching unto 
tee 
As an author, Sidney’s fame rests 
chiefly -on his ‘‘Arcadia,” a long ro- 
mance partly prose and partly poetry, 
full of fanciful conceits, of knightly 
adventures, of pastoral simplicity and 
courtly wit. Its somewhat archaic 
style and its want of progress make it 
rather heavy reading, but for the 
public of Elizabeth’s time it had a 
wonderful charm, and it throws many 
a light upon life and mariners ‘in the 
age of the Tudors. ‘‘ Arcadia’’ was 
written during a season of forced 
idleness, on account of the Queen’s 
displeasure with the poet’s uncle, 
Leicester ; and it was written for the 
amusement of his sister, the gifted 
mother of the Earl of Pembroke, of 
whose early death Ben Jonson wrote : 
“ Underneath this sable hearse 
Lies the subject of all verse, 
Sidney’s sister, Pembroke’s mother ; 
Death! ere thou hast slain another, 
Learn’d, and fair, and good as she, 
Time shall throw a dart at thee.” 
Sidney’s noble strain breathed spir- 
itual life into his idling ; while he was 
writing “ Arcadia” he was also putting 
into verse, with his sister’s collabora- 
tion, the Book of Psalms: a work of 
which it is no disparagement to say 
that like other attempts to translate 
or paraphrase the Hebrew lyrics, it 
inevitably suffers by comparison with 
the divine original. 
Sidney was no mere literary trifler 
or carpet knight; he was filled with 
the spirit so common in his day of 
adventure and discovery ; he was not 
only what Cowper calls him, ‘a 
warbler of poetic prose,” a critic and 
a liberal benefactor of poets, a tavorite 
of the court, but a restless, ardent 
traveller to France and Italy, a fitter- 
out with Francis Drake of an expedi- 
tion to-the Spanish Main, and at last, 
hurried on by an unselfish impulse, he 
went over to the Netherlands to fight 
the battles of rising freedom. His 
cup of cold water, given to a dying 
soldier while he himself was suffering 
from a mortal wound, has moved with 
generous impulse every later age. 
After some words of affectionate and 
pious counsel to his two younger 
brothers, as his friend, Fulke Greville, 
relates, he was asked as he became 
speechless for some sign of his trust 
in God; the brave soldier folded his 
hands as in prayer upon his. breast, 
and in a few minutes the stainless 
representative of the young manhood 
of Elizabethan England passed away. 
All London assembled at St. Paul’s 
to celebrate the funeral of one of the 
most honored of England’s nobles, 
the friend of Spenser, the student, 
lover and philanthropist. © “It was 
accounted a sin,” says a writer of the 
next century, ‘for any Gentleman of 
qualitie for. many months after to 
appear at Court or City in any light or 
gaudy apparel.” 
The wonderful effect of Sidney’s 
personality has been little weakened 
in three centuries. His youth, his 
chivalrous spirit, his love story, his 
heroic and pathetic death, these are 
what move us far more than his books. 
These are found now only in libraries, 
and are known only to students. The 
‘* Defense of Poesie’’ has long since 
been superseded, and the ‘Arcadia,’? 
that admirable pastoral, with its train 
of abstractions, its Medoruses and 
Amarillises, its sweet woods, its de- 
light of solitariness, its soft Kentish 
landscape, has shared the fate of 
Moore’s ‘“‘ Utopia”’ and Plato’s ‘“ Re- 
public.” But the memory of the 
unselfish, generous, learned master of 
early English prose and* verse lives 
today wherever the English language 
is spoken, and wherever delicacy, 
fidelity, bravery and devotion still 
have power to charm. To Sidney 
belongs the meed of the literary artist, 
of the scholar, of the knightly cham- 
pion of freedom, and not least, 
“The grand old name of gentleman.” 
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