Charles Mills Gayley

Portrait of Francis Beaumont	Frontispiece
	FACING PAGE
The Ruins of Grace-Dieu Nunnery	22
Ruins of Grace-Dieu	26
A Priory, Ulveston, Extant in 1730	26
Thomas Sackville, First Earl of Dorset	66
The Temple	96
The Globe Theatre, with St. Paul's in the Background	104
Ben Jonson	120
Francis Bacon	146
George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and Family	160
John Selden	170
The Beaumont of the Nuneham Portrait	192
Michael Drayton	202
John Fletcher	226
John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury	244
Don Diego Sarmiento, Count Gondomar	372

BEAUMONT, THE DRAMATIST
PART ONE

BEAUMONT'S LIFE, HIS ACQUAINTANCES, AND HIS CAREER AS POET AND DRAMATIST.