TO MY WIFE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Portrait of Francis Beaumont . Frontispiece rncraa PAGI The Ruins of Grace-Diew Nunnery . 22 Ruins of Grace-Dieu . . . . . . . . . 2 6 A Priory. Ulveston. Extant in 1730 . . . . . 26 Thomas Sackville. First Earl of Dorset . 66 The Temple . . . . . . . . . . . 96 The Globe Theatre. with St . Pauls in the Back-ground . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4 Ben Jonson . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 20 Francis Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6 George Villiers. First Duke of Buckingham. and Family . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 0 John Selden . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 0 The Beaumont of the Nuneham Portrait . . . . 19 2 Michael Drayton . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 John Fletcher . . . . . . . . . . . 22 6 John Earle. Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury . . 244 Don Diego Sarmiento. Count Gondomar . . . 372 BEAUMONT, THE DRAMATIST PART ONE BEAUMONTS LIFE, HIS ACQUAINTANCES, AND HIS CAREER AS POET AND DRAMATIST. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.