Des chemins de randonnée littéraires dans la vieille Angleterre. Etion de son collège daysat Cambridge, et a été coulage pour un oc-cupation dans la vie, il était l'invité de Sidney atPenshurst, et il a vu dans la chair tangible thehigh-souled homme qui est devenu pour lui l'idéald'un chevalier parfait et un homme. C'était atPenshurst, il y a toutes les raisons de croire, que Spenser a préparé son Berger Calender pour la presse, et sa compagnie avec Sidneythere explique son émission que le travail sous theshelter d'un dévouement à son hôte noble et vertueux. Il en est de même pour Sidney qui figure soargeusement dans le petit poème

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Literary by-paths in old England . etion of his college daysat Cambridge, and was casting about for an oc-cupation in life, he was the guest of Sidney atPenshurst, and there saw in tangible flesh thehigh-souled man who became for him the idealof a perfect knight and gentleman. It was atPenshurst, there is every reason for believing, that Spenser prepared his Shepherds Calender for the press, and his companionship with Sidneythere accounts for his issuing that work under theshelter of a dedication to his noble and virtuous host. It accounts, too, for Sidney figuring solargely in the little poem with which he prefacedthe book. Goe, little booke ! thy selfe present, As child whose parent is unkent, To him that is the presidentOf Noblesse and of chevalree.And if that Envie barke at thee, As sure it will, for succoure fleeUnder the shadow of his wing ;And asked who thee forth did bring, A shepherds swaine, saye, did thee singAll as his straying flocke he fedde ;And, when his honor has thee redde, Crave pardon for my hardyhedde.70. IN OLD ENGLAND Among the rich and rare collections of armouradorning the corridors and rooms of the mansionis Sidneys helmet, bearing his familiar porcupinecrest, and elsewhere is to be seen a fragment ofhis shaving-glass, enclosed in a rude frame. Thenthere are numerous portraits of the hero, in oneof which he has for companion his brother Robert, the first Earl of Leicester. Not less interestingare the portraits of his mother, Lady Mary Sid-ney, and that sister Mary, Countess of Pembroke, for whose amusement in the time of her travailwith her first-born he wrote his Arcadia. Each stately apartment of Penshurst is repletewith historical relics. In the ballroom, which isthe first to be visited, there is a bushel measuremade from gun metal captured in the fight withthe Spanish Armada, and overhead there hangthree priceless chandeliers, the gift of QueenElizabeth to Sir Henry Sidney. It is comfortingto know that her Majesty did give Sir Henrysomething, f

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