scene 3., ii. 99.
_Wit-combats_ of Shakspeare and Jonson, and their associates, notice of, ii. 592, 593.
_Witchcraft_ made felony by Henry VIII., ii. 474. Supposed increase of witches in the time of Queen Elizabeth, ii. 474, 475. General prevalence of this infatuation, 475. Increased under the reign of James I., 476. Cruel act of parliament against witches, 477. Description of the wretched persons who were ordinarily supposed to be witches, 478-480. Exquisite description of a witch's abode by Spenser, 480. Enumeration of the feats witches were supposed to be capable of performing, 481-483. Nature of their supposed compact with the devil, 483-485. Application of this superstition by Shakspeare to dramatic purposes in his Macbeth, 487-489.
_Wither_ (George), biographical notice of, i. 666. Critical observations on his satires, 667. And on his "Juvenilia," 668, 669. List of his other pieces, with remarks, 669-671. Verses of, on Hock-Day, i. 151. _note_.
_Withold_ (St.), supposed influence of, against the nightmare, i. 347-349.
_Wives_, supposed appearance of future, on Midsummer-Eve, i. 332-334. And on All-Hallow-Eve, 344-347.
_Wives' Feast Day_, Candlemas Day, why so called, i. 138.
_Wolsey_'s (Cardinal) _Rudimenta Grammatices_, notice of, i. 26.
_Women_, employments and dress of the younger part of, in Shakspeare's time, i. 83, 84. Characters of women, personated by men and boys, 221.
_Wood_ (Nathaniel), a dramatic writer in the reign of Elizabeth, notice of, ii. 238.
_Wool-trade_, allusions to, i. 35. Promoted by Queen Elizabeth, 192. _note_.
"_World's Folly_," a collection of old ballads, notice of, i. 474-476.
_Wotton_ (Sir Henry), encomium of, on angling, i. 297. Character of his poetical productions, 672, 673.
_Wright_ (John), character of his "Passions of the Minde," a collection of essays, i. 511.
_Wright_ (Leonard), character of his "Display of Dutie," i. 512, 513.
_Wriothesly_ (Thomas), Earl of Southampton, biographical notice of, ii. 1, 2. A passionate lover of the drama, 2. Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis, and Rape of Lucrece, dedicated to him, 3. His liberality to the poet, 4. Joins the expedition to the Azores, 5. In disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, 6. Goes to Paris, and is introduced to King Henry IV., 7. Marries Elizabeth Vernon without consulting the Queen, 7, 8. Who imprisons them both, 8. Goes to Ireland with the Earl of Essex, who promotes him, _ibid._ Is recalled and disgraced, 8, 9. Quarrels with Lord Gray, 9, 10. Joins Essex in his conspiracy against the Queen, 10. And is sentenced to imprisonment, _ibid._ Released by James I., 11. Who promotes him, 12, 13. Birth of his son, 12. Embarks in a colonising speculation, 13. Patronises literature, 14. Opposes the court, 15. Dies in Holland, 16. Review of his character, _ibid._ Tributes to his memory by the poets and literary men of his time, 17-19. Shakspeare's sonnets principally addressed to him, 62-73.
_Wyat_ (Sir Thomas), character of his sonnets, ii. 53.
_Wyrley_ (William), notice of the biographical poems of, i. 707.
Y
_Yates_ (James), "Castle of Courtesie," i. 707.
_Yeomen_. See _Farmers_.
_Yong_ (Bartholomew), notice of his "Version of Montemayer's Romance of Diana," i. 707. and _note_ [707:C].
_Yule-clog_, or Christmas-block, i. 194.
Z
_Zouche_ (Richard), notice of his "Dove," a geographical poem, i. 707.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
The index was printed at the end of Vol. II. It has been included with this volume for reference purposes.
The following corrections have been made to the text:
Page xi: St. Valentine's Day—Midsummer-Eve— Michaelmas[original has "Michaelas"]
Page 30: into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans:"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 38: pleasure and mirth made it seem very short,'[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 39: and Sir Thomas[original has "Tnomas"] Tresham
Page 47: That these books were read by Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"]
Page 49: Haunted Hillbro',[original has "Hillbro,'"] Hungry
Page 56: which he has thus so wittily imitated."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 61: told me there was an["an" missing in original] old oak chair
Page 74: in his _Dietarie[original has "Dictarie"] of Health_
Page 82: but still an intimacy with heraldry[original has "heraldy"]
Page 106: coughing o'er a warmed pot of ale."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 106: whether it be newe or olde."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 113: that the huswife[original has "huswise"] herself was the carver
Page 119: Stood us in steede of glas."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 129: and on the other =drincheile=."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 130: And in their cups their cares are drown'd:"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 140: And let all sports with Christmas dye."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 144: day of extraordinary sport and feasting."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 157: locks pickt, yet[original has "ye"] w'are not a Maying
Page 189: But for to make it spring againe."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 255: Mr. Robert Dover's Olympic Games, upon Cotswold Hills,"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 276: Then comes the captaine _Cooke_"—[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 291: By J. D. Esquire. 8vo.[original has "8o."] Lond. 1613.
Page 356: and Tullock Gorms by _Maug-Moulach_[original has "Maug-Monlach"]
Page 367: "geven to the pacyent to drinke in warme wine."[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 384: the beginning[original has "begining"] of the seventeenth century
Page 396: Gower, in his Confessio[original has "Confesssio"] Amantis
Page 397: like a taper in some monument;"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 401: admonition, have successfully[original has "succesfully"] borne
Page 408: intellect far from contemptible[original has "contempible"]
Page 428: in their respective[original has "repective"] departments
Page 438: carried to a higher state of perfection.[original has a comma]
Page 444: works of Bishop Andrews afford the most[original has "mort"] flagrant
Page 445: _O Tempori, O Moribus!_"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 456: calls this, 'the first grammar for Englishe that ever waz, except my _grammar at large_.'"[original has double quotes instead of single quotes and missing double quote]
Page 459: [quotation mark missing in original]"Titiique vultus inter
Page 459: [quotation mark missing in original]"The mischiefe is, that by grave demeanour
Page 460: But[original has "Bu"] if besotted with foolish vain glory
Page 483: _Diodorus Siculus_, by Thomas Stocker[original has "Hocker"]
Page 501: _Anatomie of Abuses_:[original has extraneous quotation mark] contayning a discoverie
Page 522: Was physick'd from the new-found paradise!"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 523: chiefly to the consideration[original has "considertion"] of the _prose_ romance
Page 525: Guy of Warwicke, _Arthur of the Round Table_,"[quotation mark missing in original] &c.
Page 531: appellation of _Historia Septem Sapientum_.[original has extraneous quotation mark]
Page 537: Gower, or Occleve,[original has two commas] as the English Gesta
Page 541: Decameron of Boccacio was executed[original has "excuted"] before 1620
Page 546: his life is granted him.'"[single quote is missing in original]
Page 558: fayrz and woorshipfull menz houzez;"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 570: immortales hechos de CAVALLERO DEL FEBO,"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 580: Leave me not behinde thee,"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 589: "[quotation mark missing in original]He is dead and gone, lady
Page 590: "Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's day,"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 591: Do use to _chaunt_ it,"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 591: festivity of our ancestors by an evening fire;"[quotation mark missing in original]
Page 599: be found incapable of[original has "of of"] coalescing
Page 607: acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser;[original has extraneous quotation mark]
Page 609: years ago, is entitled to preservation[original has "preservarion"]
Page 626: in smoothness and harmony of versification{626:C}," [quotation mark missing in original]
Page 627: _Arcadia, or Menaphon_[original has "Menaphor"], 1589
Page 630: classed him among those "[quotation mark is missing in original]excellent poets
Page 631: "Epistles" and "[quotation mark missing in original]Miscellaneous Pieces," there
Page 632: in Cambridge, the author of Pigmalion's Image,"[quotation mark missing in original] &c.
Page 664: voluntary engagement, civil or military[original has "miltary"]
Page 665: his Preface from his chamber in Oxford;[original has extraneous quotation mark]
Page 665: "[quotation mark missing in original]That is, in effect, A loving wife that never violated
Page 666: makes a close approximation to modern usage[original has "usuage"]
Page 666: and verse, have been[original has "beeen"] enumerated
Page 668: first two quatorzains[original has "quartuorzains"] of the latter
Page 685: _Lucan's Pharsalia_:[original has a period] containing the Civill Warres
Page 689: HUNNIS, WILLIAM. _A Hyve full of Hunnye_[original has "Hunuye"]
Page 708: by Tottel "The Poems of Uncertaine[original has "Uucertaine"] Auctors," and
Page 727: Henry[original has "Heny"] Constable, Esq.
Page 729: London. 12mo."[original has a single quote]
[9:A] Reed's Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"], vol. iii. p. 197, 198.
[16:C] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iii. p.[original has "p. iii."] 198.
[22:A] Down David doth him bring."[quotation mark missing in original]
[25:A] pro tyrunculis, Ricardo Huloeto exscriptore[original has "Huloets excriptore"]
[46:B]
"Why should calamity be full of words? Windy _attorneys_ to their _client_ woes."
Quotation mark moved from end of first line to end of second line.
[68:A] Holinshed's Chronicles, edit. of 1807, in six vols.[original has "vol."]
[86:B] large casemented bow windows[original has "widows"]
[86:B] "Alas! these men and these houses are no more!"[quotation mark missing in original]
[144:C] varia contexta per Guil. Haukinuum[original has "Haukiuum"]
[151:B] Sure, very ill."[quotation mark missing in original]
[163:C] Fordun's Scotichronicon, 1759, folio, tom.[period missing in original] ii. p. 104.
[171:C] Act iii. sc. 1. Reed's Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"]
[172:B] The Metamorphosed[original has "Metamophosed"] Gipsies
[206:B] proverb, 'Merry in the hall when beards wag all.'"[double quote missing in original]
[269:A] These technical[original has "techical"] terms may admit of some explanation, from the following
[286:B] whom his Majestie honoured with Knighthood."[quotation mark missing in original]
[291:A] made by L. M. 4to.[original has "4o."] Lond. 1590
[291:A] Secrets belonging thereunto. 4to.[original has "4o."] Lond. 1614
[307:B] Reed's Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"], vol. v. p. 22.
[354:C] Third Part of King Henry["Henry" is missing in original] VI. act v. sc. 6.
[363:A] Discoverie[original has "Dicoverie"] of Witchcraft
[458:A] he terms it, is entitled[original has "entiled"]
[506:A] translated from the Latin of Conr. Heresbachius[original has "Conr Heresbachiso"]
[506:A] 16.[original has a comma] Country Contentments; or the Husbandman's Recreations, 4to. 1615.
[536:B] [original has extraneous quotation mark]MSS. Harl. 3861, and in many other libraries.
[584:A] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. ix. pp. 353-355. Act iv. sc. 3.[period missing in original]
On page 519, the text reads "_Adam Bel_, _Clim_ of the _Clough_ and _William_ of _Clondsley_". It should be "_William_ of _Cloudsley_". Because there is no way to know if the error was in the original quotation or was caused by the author or printer of this book, the correction has not been made to this text.
On page 527, quoted text reads "That whane they were hoole togyder, there was ever an C. and XI." The original source, Dibdin's "Typographical Antiquities," has "c. and xl." This text has been corrected to follow the original source document.
On page 571, quoted text reads "before he took his journey wherein no creature returneth agaie." The text should read "again" or "againe". Because there is no way to know if the error was in the original quotation or was caused by the author or printer of this book, no correction has been made to this text.
On page 663, quoted text reads "Ad Olandum de Eulogiis serenissimæ nostræ Elizabethæ post Anglorum prœlia cantatis, Decastichon". The text should read "Oclandum". Because there is no way to know if the error was in the original quotation or was caused by the author or printer of this book, no correction has been made to this text.
[494:D] has an incomplete reference. In other editions of this book, the "p." has been removed.
[547:A] has an incomplete reference. In other editions of this book, the footnote has been removed.