body of Albanian cavalry.--_The waning Dudley star_; Leicester, who was
near the end of his miserable career.--_Astrophel_; Sidney celebrated his
love for Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, in the series of Sonnets and
Lyrics named _Astrophel and Stella_:--posthumously published in
1591.--After, or with Shakespeare's Sonnets, this series seems to me to
offer the most powerful picture of the passion of love in the whole range
of our poetry.

St. 4 _Saker_; early name for field-piece.--_The Six Hundred_; The Crimea
in ancient days was named _Chersonesus Taurica_.

St. 5 _Black Norris_; had been at variance with Sir W. Stanley before the
engagement. Morris was one of twelve gallant brothers, whose complexion
followed that of their mother, named by Elizabeth 'her own
crow.'--_North_; was lying bedrid from a wound in the leg, but could not
resist volunteering at Zutphen, and rode up 'with one boot on and one
boot off.'--_Cuisses_;

I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,
His cuisses on his thighs: (_Henry IV_, Part I: A. iv: S. i):--

Sidney flung off his 'in a fit of chivalrous extravagance.'--_At the
joust_; In Sonnets 41 and 53 of _Astrophel and Stella_ Sidney describes
how the sudden sight of his lady-love dazzled him as he rode in certain
tournaments. In Son. 69 he cries:

I, I, O, I, may say that she is mine.