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(42) Monmouth (The duke of) [already married] and Henrietta Wentworth, baroness Wentworth of Nettlestede.

(43) Montaine and Mmlle. de Gournay, who was called his “adopted daughter.”

(44) Nelson and lady Hamilton.

(45) Pericles and Aspasia.

(46) Peter the Great and Catherine, widow of a Swedish dragoon. He married her.

(47) Petrarch and Laura (wife of Hugues de Sade).

(48) Plato and Archianassa.

(49) Prior and Chloe or Cloe, the cobbler’s wife of Linden Grove.

(50) Propertius and Cynthia.

(51) Raphael and Julie Fornarina, a baker’s wife.

(52) Rousseau and Julie [la comtesse d’Houdetot].

(53) Scarron and Mme. Maintenon, afterwards his wife. On the death of Scarron, she became the wife of Louis XIV., whom she outlived.

(54) Sidney and Stella [Penelope Devereux].

(55) Spenser and Rosalind [Rose Lynde] of Kent.

(56) Sterne (in his old age) and Eliza [Mrs. Draper].

(57) Stersichoros [Ster-sic-o-ros] and Hemêra.

(58) Surrey (Henry Howard, earl of) and Geral. dine, who married the earl of Lincoln. (See Geral. dine.)

(59) Swift had two romantic love-affairs: (1) with Stella (i.e. Hester Johnson); and the other with Vanessa (i.e. Esther Vanhomrigh).

(60) Tasso and Leonora or Eleanora d’Este.

(61) Theocritos and Myrto.

(62) Vandyke and Margaret Lemon.

(63) Voltaire and the “divine Emilie” (i.e. Mme. Châtelet.)

(64) Waller and Sacharissa (i.e. lady Dorothea Sidney).

(65) William III. and Elizabeth Villiers or Villers, created countess of Orkney, with an allowance of £25,000 a year.

(66) William IV., when duke of Clarence, was devotedly attached to Mrs. Jordan [either Dora Bland or Dora Phillips, and called “Miss Francis”].

(67) Wolsey and Mistress Winter.

(68) Wyatt and Anna [Anne Boleyn], said to be purely Platonic affection.