Part 47
Imagines Mortis, a series of prints supposed to have been known to Shakspeare, 252
Infamis digitus, 302
Israel Von Mecheln, account of a curious print engraven by him representing a morris dance, 585
Jachimo, remarks on this name, 375
Jack of the clock-house, 337
Janus, his double head difficult to explain, 154
Jesus, corruption of his name into Gis, 475
----, name of, inscribed on swords, 455
Jews, their usury, 155
Joculator, ancient meaning of this word, 502
Jourdain, Margery, some account of her, 316
Judas, an allusion to him,. 215
K.
Kaukie, a sort of fairies, 239
Killigrew, not a regular jester, 503
King Henry the Sixth, account of prayers composed by him, 337
---- ---- ---- ----, reasons why the whole of the plays on his reign were not written by Shakspeare, 332
King Lear, an unpublished story of him and his daughters, 420
Kirke, Colonel, his conduct misrepresented by Mr. Hume, 95
Kirtle, some observations on it, 282, 294
Kissing, part of the ancient ceremony of betrothing, 248
Knight, remarks on this title, 378
Knights topers, ceremony of dubbing them, 293
L.
Labyrinthus, the author of this Latin comedy indebted to Shakspeare, 427
Lady of the May, 589
Lancaster, Duke of, an error relating to him corrected, 277
Lark, parallel passages relating to his singing extracted from old poets, 375
Lavolta, an ancient dance described, 300
Law of the twelve tables, permitting a creditor to mangle the debtor's body, 178
Lawyers compared to frogs by an old monkish writer, 528
Leland probably translated the Gesta Romanorum, 571, 573
Lenox, Mrs., the injustice of some of her criticisms on Shakspeare, 97, 110
Lion, generosity of this animal, 189
Liver, the seat of love, 38
Liveries of servants, 206
Lord of the May, 590
Love, blindness of, noticed by Chaucer, 138
Love's labour's lost, this play supposed to have been taken from a French novel, 152
Lowth, Bishop, mistaken in his opinion concerning wastel bread, 444
Lucifer the morning star, Aurora's harbinger, 120
Lullaby songs, remarks on them, 383
---- ----, specimens of, 385
Lydgate, his poem against horned head-dresses, 125
Lydgate, monk of Bury, supposed to have been concerned in an English translation of the Gesta Romanorum, 572
Lying at Ladies' feet, an ancient custom, 466
M.
Machiavellus, an unpublished Latin play, 163
Maiden, an instrument for beheading criminals, some account of it, 188
Maid Marian, her character in the morris dance described, 588
Maillard, Father, his sermons resemble those of the Methodists, 88
Majesty, when first used as a title by sovereigns, 319
Making the fig, explained, 302
Man, how expressed in the Chinese language, 415
Man in the moon, remarks on him, 9
Manuscript, account of a beautiful one, 471
Manus lasciva, 303
Maret, fool of Louis XIII., story of him, 505
Marian, derivation of this name, 588
Marie de France, a fable written by her, 525
Marigold, 219
Markham, Jervis, author of "a health to the gentlemanly profession of serving men", 207
Marshall, John, some account of him, 551
Mary, when this name first used, 589
Masks, 28
Masques, representations of ancient, 425
Matachins, dance of, 578
May-dew on fairy rings, superstition relating to it, 112
May games, 581, 584
---- ---- censured by the Puritans, 595
May lady, 589
Measure for measure, remarks on the story of it, 94
---- ---- ----, a story resembling its plot, 484
Medlars, some remarks on them, 186
Merchant of Venice, remarks on the story of it, 167
Merchant, particular application of this word in the time of Shakspeare, 429
Mill-sixpences, 33
Milton imitates Shakspeare, 113, 117, 130
Minstrels, some remarks on them, 216
Misletoe, ancient prejudice against the berries of it, 386
Moidor, its etymology, 309
Monarch of the North, a Devil invoked by witches, 315
Monkies, the ancient manner of retaining them, 335
Montfaucon, a mistake by him pointed out, 455
Moon, eclipse of, ideas of various nations concerning it, 18
Moon, how represented by the Chinese, 10, 243
---- ---- ---- by the Egyptians, 243
----, its moisture, 116
----, use of it among witches, 16
Mooncalf, 9
Morality, singular incident in one, 515
Moralizations, the practice of adding them to various works in former times, 522
Morris dance, characters of which it was composed, 586
---- ----, different sorts of it described, 581
---- ----, etymology of, 572
---- ----, French, 579
---- ----, music to a French one, 580
---- ----, origin of, 577
---- ----, representations of it described, 584
---- ----, when first introduced into England, 580
Morris dancers described, 601
Morton, Earl of, the manner of his execution, 188
Mother Bombie, 64
Mother Cole, some resemblance between her character and that of Falstaff, 276
Muffler, description of this article of female dress, 47
Muckle John, fool of Charles I., 502
Music, defence of it, against Lord Chesterfield and Mr. Steevens, 165
N.
Naked man with shears, this emblem of the versatility of fashion not peculiar to the English, 106
Nashe, a story from his Lenten stuffe, 368
Needle-work, ancient, some account of it, 59
Neptune, converted into a mischievous fairy, 240
Nicholas, Saint, why the patron of scholars, 26
Nicholas's clerks, a name for highwaymen, 27
Nicneven, 237
Night-mare, charm against it, 126
Night spells, 127
Nine men's morris, an account of this game and of the origin of the term, 114
Norman drinking song, 447
North, monarch of the, a Devil so called, 315
Northbrooke, John, a puritanical writer in the manner of Stubbes, 135
O.
Oberon, king of the fairies, 113
Occleve, indebted to the Gesta Romanorum for two of his stories, 552, 570
Occleve, supposed to have translated the Gesta Romanorum into English, 572
Odo de Ceriton, his tales and fables, 524
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----, specimens of them, 525
Orleans, duke of, account of his poems, 471
Ovid, his Metamorphoses moralized, 522
P.
Pageant of the nine worthies, 149
---- of the sea, 154
Painters, their errors in costume, 490
Pandarus, an allusion to him, 311
Paradin's heroical devises, a book probably used by the author of Pericles, 392
Parke's Curtaine drawer of the world, a book of great merit, 116
----, William, quotations from his Curtaine drawer of the world, 360, 418
Partizan, a different weapon from the pike, 370
Passameasure, music to an old dance so called, 281
Patch, not the real name of a fool as commonly supposed, 158
Patenson, the fool of Sir Thomas More, 513
Paul's, St., cathedral, bills formerly stuck up there as now at the Royal Exchange, 101
Pavan, an ancient dance, 72
Peacock pie, 448
Pengelden, Rees, a Welsh fool, story of him, 503
Penmanship in the time of Elizabeth remarkably beautiful, 87
Pentapolis, account of, 388
Pericles, the story of this play examined, 398
Perseus and Andromeda, errors of artists in representing the story of it, 348
Perseus's horse, a critique on it, 347
Perspective glasses, 73
Pheasant pie, 448
Phrases, particular ones in the mouths of theatrical characters, 37
Physicians formerly attended by servants to carry their swords, _ib._
Picture of old Adam new apparelled, 226
Pillory, remarks on this mode of punishment, 90
----, several specimens of it represented, 91
Platting of horses' manes, a superstitious notion explained, 425
Players censured for their stage interpolations, 498
Poking-sticks, 220
Poor Tom, hints for dressing this character on the stage, 415
Preachers, account of ancient, 523
----, their custom of introducing stories into their sermons, 521
Proverbs, old ones explained, 506, 525
Provincial roses, account of, 467
Provost, the story of one, 87
Punch, Dr. Johnson mistaken in his opinion concerning the origin of this theatrical character, 469
Purgatory, allusions to it in Measure for measure, 82
Puritans burlesqued the music of the Papists, 218
Putscet, a deity of the Samogitæ, 239
Q.
Quail-fighting, remarks on, 367
Queen of Sheba, an ancient sign, explained, 61
R.
Raoul le Fevre, account of his history of Troy, 354
Rapier, account of this weapon, 39
----, engraving of an old one, 279
Receipt to make men seem like horses, 484
Red, an emblem of courage, 156
Reels danced by witches, 370
Retainers, a sort of servants, 206
Reynard the fox, when this romance was composed, 526
Richard III., his deformity, 335
Riddles, their occasional introduction into ancient romances, 389
Riding the wild mare, a childish sport, 282
Rings interchanged on betrothing, 68
Ritson, Mr., a mistake by him corrected, 605
Rivets in armour, when closed up, 308
Robin Rush, the idiot fool of Lord Bussy Mansel, 504
Robinson, Richard, account of a work by him, 285
---- ----, prices of his dedications, 574
---- ----, some curious works by him specified, 573
Rome, pronunciation of this word in Shakspeare's time, 364
Romeo and Juliet, the original story of this play borrowed in part from a Greek romance, 436
Rosemary, a token of remembrance, 218
----, its use at funerals, 434
Roses of Provins, 467
Rowe, his edition of Shakspeare curious for the prints, 489
Ruffs, satirized in old prints, 220
Rushes, custom of strewing them in halls, &c., 294
Rush ring marriages, explained, 194
S.
Sack, remarks on it, 256
Sackvile's Complaynt of the duke of Bvckingham, a poem ridiculed by Shakspeare, 281
Saint Helen's fire, a meteor, 3
Satyr's dance, 222
Scoloker, Antony, his Daiphantu, 465, 478
Seldom comes the better, explanation of this phrase, 333
Seven wise masters, the Gesta Romanorum indebted to it, 544, 547
Setebos, 7
Senile odium, of Stubbes, quoted, 129
Sexten, a fool belonging to Wolsey, 158
Shakspeare, his grammatical errors, 181
----, his correct knowledge of the ceremonies belonging to the Romish Church, 325
----, his metaphors often careless and confused, 338
----, ridiculed by Fletcher, 451, 452
----, the quarto editions of his plays full of typographical errors, 463
Sheriff's fool, 198
Shields in heraldry, conjectures on their origin, 477
Ship of fools, by Brandt, cited, 510
---- ---- ----, English prose translation of it by Watson, 462
Shove-groat, an ancient game, 279
Shovel-board, an ancient game, _ib._
Shylock, what his stage dress should be, 155
Sidney, Sir Philip, reprobated the custom of introducing fools on the stage, 498
Sights, remarkable love for strange ones among the English, 9
Sir Isumbras, an incident in one of the stories in the Gesta Romanorum, borrowed from that romance, 543
Sleep, death's counterfeit, 232
Slide-groat, an ancient game, 279
Solomon's judgment, stories in imitation of it, 550
Somers, Will, portraits of him described, 336, 512
Somner, Mr., his erroneous opinion on wastel bread, 446
Songs, ancient, 385, 414, 433, 447, 474
Southern wind, destructive, 6
Spirits belonging to magicians, 5
Staff tipped with horn, explained, 109
Stag, his secretion of tears, 183
Stalking-horses, bulls, &c., 106
Stanihurst's Virgil, passages from it, 249
Stars on ancient medals, expressive of immortality, 397
Stone, a celebrated fool, 505
Stones, superstitions relating to them, 426, 453
Stothard, Mr., his painting of Chaucer's pilgrims, 490
Stowe, an error in his Annals pointed out, 290
----, engraving of an initial letter in his Survey of London, 81
Straparola, his novels quoted, 212
Strappado, a military torture explained, 263
Stumble at the threshold, explanation of this phrase, 331
Suicides how buried formerly, 476
Swan, the death-song of this bird mentioned in various authors, 161
Swan's Speculum mundi, cited for some lines in Shakspeare with variations, 428
Sword and buckler, remarks on their use, 259
Sword, used as a bridge by heroes of ancient chivalry, _ib._
----, swearing by it, 455
Swords, mottoes on them, 279
Symposii ænigmata, some account of the work so called, 399
T.
Table books, description of those used in Shakspeare's time, 454
Tabor, an instrument used by fools, 61
Tabourot, the earliest writer on dancing, 579
Taming of the shrew, stories resembling that of the induction to this play, 211
---- ---- ---- ----, outline of the play itself in a Spanish work, 212
Tempest, whence the construction of this play was suggested, 4
Theobald defended against Warburton, 218
Thor's hammers, stones so called that were supposed to control the manes of the dead, 453
Thunderbolt, superstitions relating to it, 369
Time's fool, 273
Timon of Athens, his epitaph, 358
Toad, remarks on the supposed stone or jewel in its head, 181
Tollett, Mr., remarks on his curious painting on glass of a morris dance, 584
Tom Piper, a character in the morris dance, 595
Torch bearers at masques, account of, 424
Touchstone, his real character, 181
Trencher-scraping, 11
Tristan de Leonnois, a riddle from that romance, 389
Trinculo, how he should be dressed on the stage, 12, 18
Troilus and Cressida, the origin of their story examined, 352
Troth-plighting, 24
Troy, the names of its gates borrowed by Shakspeare from Caxton's Recuyles or destruction of Troy, and not from Lydgate, 346
----, the siege of it a frequent subject on old tapestry, 346
Trump, an ancient game at cards explained, 374
Tyrants in the old mysteries, great swearers, 85
Tyrian tapestry, explained, 204
U.
Ucalegon, Dr. Bentley mistaken in his conception of that character, 277
Unities, neglected by the ancient theatrical writers, 296
Urchins' dance, 7
Urinals, the portraits of physicians anciently represented with them, 45
Usurers, some of their practices described, 459
Valentine, a palace so called at Turin, 472
Valentine and Orson, some editions of this romance specified, 462
Valentines, custom of choosing examined, 470
Vice of the old moralities, etymologically considered, 287
----, an ancient theatrical character, 500, 510
Virgil's gnat, some account of it, 548
Vow of the peacock, 290
W.
Wandering knight, the name of a spiritual romance, 255
Warton, Mr., character of his History of English poetry, 519
Warburton, his hyper-criticisms, 217, 294
Wassel, the origin and meaning of this word, 441
Wastel bread, explained, 444
Watson, translated Valentine and Orson, and The ship of fools, 462
Watts, Mr., his erroneous account of wastel bread, 445
Wax tablets, some account of, 455
We three, picture of, 54
Whale to virginity, meaning of this phrase, 199
Whitney's emblems, probably used by the author of Pericles, 393
Wicliffe's bible, an invaluable monument of the English language, 251
Will the taborer, a Welsh fool, 504
Williames, a fool belonging to Wolsey, 158
Willow-garlands, the custom of wearing them explained, 104, 164
Wind, an image relating to it, 482
Wine, formerly made in England, 449
Winter's tale, character of it, 224
Wise woman, 60, 63
Wits, fittes and fancies, account of a book so called, 210
---- ---- ---- ----, a story from that work, 468
Wolsey, Cardinal, account of his fools, 158
---- ----, articles against him, 341
---- ----, improperly censured for placing a cardinal's hat on his coins, 343
---- ----, Shakspeare's allusion to a strumpet kept by him, 341
X.
Xenophon of Ephesus, a romance written by him supposed to have been used by the author of the story of Romeo and Juliet, 436
----, Two of the incidents in his Ephesiacs occur in Cymbeline, 437
Y.
Yellow, an epithet applied to jealousy, 105
Yew, bows made of it, 245
----, connected with witchcraft, 244
----, why planted in church-yards, _ib._
Younger brothers, their servile degradation in former times, 208
Z.
Zimimar, monarch of the North, a Devil invoked by witches, 315
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
A. PAGE
Abstract, 372
Addrest, 121
Ajaxes, 151
Anon, 263
Apron, 316
Aqua-vitæ, 42
Argosies, 152
Aroint, 228
Aspect, 225
Assinego, 349
Aunt, 113
B.
Barnacles, 14
Bases, 391
Basilisk, 261
Bate, 269
Beadsman, 20
Beaver, 269
Become, 28
Bewray, 329
Blue-bottle, 293
Boggy-bo, 202
Boil, 411
Bombast, 151
Bo-peep, 404
Boots, 21
Bout, 143
Brake, 118
Brands, 377
Bras, 310
Breech'd, 232
Brown-paper commodities, 87
Bugs, 202
Bully-rook, 36
Burn'd, 412
Buss, 248
But, 205
Buz, 456
C.
Canary, 45
Candle-holder, 424
Canon, 439
Cantle, 266
Careires, 34
Carouse, 441
Carry coals, 423
Cast, 187
Cat-a-mountain, 41
Caviare, 460
Chace, 298
Charming, 383
Chopine, 457
Cheer, 119
Child of fancy, 130
Christom, 299
City-ward, 44
Clamour, 221
Cleft, 31
Cock and Pye, 290
Cockney, 407
Codpiece, 412
Complete, 450
Concent, 313
Conclusion, 389
Consented, 313
Constant, 162
Corinthian, 262
Corporal, 141
Corrosive, 324
Coted, 141
Countercheck, 248
Counterfeit, 162
Crack'd within the ring, 459
Cruzado, 481
Cry'd game, 105
Culverin, 261
Curry, 291
Curst and brief, 62
Curtail, 38
Curtal, 197
Cypress, 56
D.
Dark-room, 64, 67
Damn'd, 466
Daughters of the game, 351
Day-woman, 133
Dictynna, 140
Diet, 357
Discreet, 282
Dissembling, 333
Dog-apes, 184
Domineer, 205
Draw Dun from the mire, 425
Drawn fox, 267
Driveling, 429
Ducdamé, 184
Duff, 232
Dusty, 246
E.
Eager, 454
E'er, 1, 250
Eleven and twenty, 209
Elves, 15
Embowel'd, 274
Endenes, 217
Enemy, 62, 80
Erinnys, 254
Estridge, 373
Estridges, 268
Extravagant, 439
Eyas-musket, 46
F.
Fall, 77
Fast, 452
Fear, 202
Figo, 302
Filed, 143
Fine's a crown, 202
Flap-dragons, 281
Flaw, 411
Flourish, 86
Forfeits, 93
Forked, 415
Free, 56
Fret, 468
Fulsome, 155
G.
Gadding, 434
Gaze, 165
Geck, 74
Gentle, 214
Gib-cat, 256
Gilded tombs, 160
Gird, 315
Gis, 475
Gleek, 118, 435
Good b'ye, 385
God-dig-you-den, 139
Gongarian, 36
Good-den, 247
Grace, 319
Green-sour, 16
Griping, 435
Guerdon, 137
H.
Hallidom, 28
Handy-dandy, 417
Ha no nonny, 414
Have at you, 340
Hebenon, 453
Henchman, 116
Hiren, 278
Hoodman, 198
Horned, 121
Horse's health, 415
Hunt's up, 432
I.
Jack, 336
Idle, 480
Imbrocato, 144
Imp, 131
Impertinency, 418
Impeticos, 55
Inhibit, 234
Inhoop'd, 367
Intergatory, 166
Insculp, 159
John Drum's entertainment, 198
K.
Keeps, 76
Kirtle, 282
L.
Lavatch, 200
Lavolta, 300
Lead apes in hell, 203
Leman, 49
Lender's books, 413
Libya, 223
Light o'love, 108
Likes, 27
Lion-gait, 299
Lover, 77
Lozel, 215
Lubber the world, 66
Lullaby, 383
Lush, 8, 117
Lustyhood, 108
Lusty young men, 424
M.
Macduff, 232
Majesty, 319
Master of fence, 35
Mate, 201
Meiny, 407
Merely, 1
Milch, 461
Mince, 50
Mind of love, 160
Model, 252
Mome, 225
Momentany, 111
Monarcho, 140
Month's mind, 24
Morisco, 321
Mumbudget, 50
Mysteries, 339
N.
Naples, 363
Nice, 372
Night-rule, 119
Nott-pated, 263
Novum, 149
O.
'Od's pitikins, 381
Ostent, 372
Ourselves, 234
P.
Paddock, 227
Pandar, 350
Parlous, 334
Passes, 49
Passy-measure, 72
Patch, 158
Pavin, 72
Paucas palabris, 201
Peacock, 467
Perspective, 73
Picked, 477
Pick-thanks, 266
Pillicock, 413
Pipe-wine, 45
Pittie-ward, 44
Point-device, 57
Pompæ, 392
Possess'd, 86
Prattlings, 462
Preserved, 79
Prince of the world, 200
Prone, 76
'Proof, 210
Prouder, 251
Provincial roses, 467
Pur, 200
Purveyor, 230
Pygmalion's images, 85
Q.
Quail, 183
Quaint, 5
Quarrel, 112, 227
Quarry, 227, 245
Quart d'ecu, 199
Quests, 86
Quillets, 142
Quinquenove, 149
R.
Ragozine, 89, 153
Ranged, 367
Recorder, 31, 467
Red-lattice, 42
Reels, 370
Resolved, 85
Rest, 250
Roister, 441
Ropery, 429
Rope-tricks, 430
Rouse, 441
Rowel-head, 277
Ruddock, 380
Rule, 119
Runaway's eyes, 431
S.
Sadness, 330
Sack and sugar, 256
Saint George to borrow, 337
Saint George to thrive, 338
Sallet, 328
Sans, 185, 486
Scape, 249
Sere, 456
Silver-sweet, 428
Sirrah, 258
Skains-mates, 430
Sop o' the moonshine, 405
Sorts, 297
Square, 112
Stale, 201
Statue, 30
Sticking-place, 231
Stoccado, 144
Straight, 475
Strain, 37
Stronds, 254
Sufficiency, 75
Swelling heavens, 266
T.
Take the head, 253
Tawny Spain, 130
Tester, 23
Though, 437
Three-hoop'd, 327
Three-men songs, 218
Three-pil'd, 147
Throstle, 154
Tib, 397
Tib and Tom, 196
Timely-parted, 321
Tirra-lirra, 217
To borrow, 338
To boot, 337
Tongue, 266
Triumviry, 141
Troll, 12
Twangling Jack, 204
Turlygood, 406
U.
Unhack'd, 65
Unpitied, 87
Urchins, 6, 9
Usance, 156
Usher, 371
Vailing, 147
Venew, 143
Very, 27
Vice, 469
Vile, 51
Visor, 270
W.
Waxen, 297
Whiffler, 311
Wimpled, 137
Winchester goose, 352
Winter-ground, 380
Wooden pricks, 405
Woe-begone, 277
Wrest, 350
Y.
Yorick, 477
THE END.
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