Illustrations of Shakspeare, and of Ancient Manners: / with Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakspeare; on a Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; and on the English Morris dance.

INDEX.

• A. PAGE
• Æsop's Fables, a ludicrous cut in some editions of them, 12
• Æsopian fables, account of a collection of them made during the middle ages, 361
• ——, moralized, 523
• Affiancing, some account of this ancient ceremony, 67, 248
• Ages of man, prints of them, 185
• Alexander the great, his good savour, 150
• ——, his arms as one of the nine worthies, 150
• Althea's firebrand, inaccurately alluded to by Shakspeare, 278
• Alligator, a conjecture on the derivation of this word, 436
• Alliterative and anapæstic lines, in Love's labour's lost, not Shakspeare's, 133
• Amaimon, the name of a Devil, 264
• Ambrose, Saint, a hymn by him against nocturnal illusions, 128
• Amulets against fascination, 303, 305
• ——, phallic, 304
• Anachronisms, those of Shakspeare pointed out, 488
• Angels, cracked, 460
• Anglo-Norman song, 447
• Apemantus, his character whence borrowed, 356
• Apollonius Tyaneus, account of this romance, 398
• April and May, to smell, 45
• Appeal for treason, the ceremony observed in the combats on that occasion, 317, 487
• Arbeau Thoinot, his Orchesographie, a curious treatise on dancing, 135, 301
• Archee or Archy Armstrong, the fool of James I. and Charles I., 502, 505, 513
• Armin, Robert, an imitator of Shakspeare in his play of The Valiant Welshman, 476
• Arthur's show, some account of it, 283
• Artillery, names given to it formerly, 261
• Ars moriendi, account of a print copied from it, 325
• Arvals, description of them, 439
• Asmodeus, the demon of nocturnal illusions, 129
• Ass, receipt to make a man resemble one, 119
• Autolycus, not a minstrel, 216
• ——, whence his character taken, 217
• B.
• Bacon, Lord, story from his apophthegms, 276
• Badge, account of this ancient mark of servitude, 205
• ——, representation of it, 209
• Bagpipe woollen, the true reading, 162
• Banks, some account of him and his horse, 131
• Banshee, an Irish fairy, 237
• Bardolph, his face, the subject of Falstaff's wit, 267
• Bartholomæus de proprietatibus rerum, account of this book, 487
• Basilisco oaths, 247
• Basilisk, its fabulous property, 321
• Batman upon Bartholome, its original price, 6
• Battles, the absurd way of representing them on the ancient stage, 296
• Bauble, the fool's, description of various sorts of it, 386, 509
• Bavian fool, 593
• Beadles, their ancient dress, 293
• Bear-licking, popular notions respecting it, 330
• Beaufort, Cardinal, strictures on a celebrated painting of his death, 325
• Beaumont and Fletcher, one edition of their plays curious for the prints, 489
• Bed, blessing of the bridal, 485
• Bellona's bridegroom, this expression defended, 228
• Bell-savage, sign of the, explained, 61
• Belly and the members, origin of this apologue investigated, 361
• Benzoria, a sort of witch or fairy, 236
• Bercheur or Berchorius, his Repertorium morale, 528
• ——, whether the author of the Gesta Romanorum, ib.
• Bermuda, island of, 3
• Betrothing, some account of this ancient ceremony, 67, 248
• Bestiarium, an old work on natural history, 522, 524
• Bills, the setting up of, 101
• Bird-bolts, explained, 102
• Blessing of beds, an ancient ceremony, 126
• —— of chambers, ib.
• Blue coats, 205
• Boccaccio's novels, a very ancient English translation of them pointed out, 103
• ——, account of the English translation of his Decameron, 382
• Bond story in the Merchant of Venice, remarks on it, 171
• Boot, torture of the, explained, 21
• Bow, the awkward use of it by crowkeepers, 417
• Bows, materials of which they were made in England, 244
• Bras, the ancient pronunciation of this French word ascertained, 310
• Brawl, account of this ancient dance, 134
• Brazen tombs, meaning of this expression, 130
• Breaking the little finger, a token of amorous dalliance, 262
• Breeches bible, particulars relating to it, 233
• Bridal-bed, ceremony of blessing it, 123
• Bromyard, John, an old English preacher, his Summa prædicantium described, 526
• Brothels, signs anciently belonging to them described, 397
• ——, jesters employed in them, 358, 378
• Budha, a deity of Ceylon, story of him and a hare, 10
• Bunyan, John, supposed to have been indebted to an old romance for the materials of his Pilgrim's progress, 256
• Burial service, particulars of it before the reformation, 222
• C.
• Cakes and ale, old custom relating to them, 55
• Canary dance, description of, 136
• Candlesticks, remarks on ancient ones, 308
• Cardanus's comforte, a book used by Shakspeare, 461
• Carol, an ancient one, 217
• Carpet-knights, account of, 66
• Casket story in the Merchant of Venice, remarks on it, 169, 486
• Cat, why the favourite of witches, 243
• Catullus, a remarkable coincidence between a passage in this author and one in Shakspeare, 461
• Cavendish's life of Wolsey, account of, 159
• Cavendish, some remarks on his life of Wolsey, 344
• Caxton's chronicle, some account of it, 260
• ——, his chess book not didactic, 522
• ——, not the author of a chronicle ascribed to him, 422, 512
• Ceremonies, popular, modern corruptions in them noticed, 586
• Chastellain, George, his account of the manner in which the duke of Gloucester was put to death, 322
• China dishes, when first brought into England, 78
• Chopine, description of it, 457
• Chrisome explained, 299
• Cilhart, the favourite hound of Prince Llewellyn, a story relating to him, 547
• Clarence, duke of, the manner of his death, 323
• Cleopatra, her trick upon Marc Antony, 369
• Clerk of Chatham, in King Henry the Sixth, an unreal character, 327
• Clown, various remarks on this character, 32, 74, 94, 151, 167, 191, 200, 224
• Clowns in old plays, classification of them, 499
• ——, various remarks on, 374, 387, 398, 483, 497
• ——. See Fool.
• Clocks, their antiquity in England, 138
• Coin with cracked edges, hoarded by usurers, 459
• Colevile of the dale, 289
• Combats, single, in cases of treason, ceremonies observed in them, 317, 487
• Comet, a medal stricken to commemorate that which appeared on the death of Julius Cæsar, 364
• Concert improperly used for consort, 314
• Conde Lucanor, a Spanish collection of novels, 212
• Conscience, its dispute with the flesh, the subject of an old Monkish fable, 157
• Contest devots, account of them, 521
• Copley, Antony, account of a work written by him, 210
• Cornelius's tub, uncertainty of the origin of this expression, 357
• Coroners, their conduct satirized by Shakspeare, 476
• Corporal of the field, his office explained, 138
• Coryat, a curious quotation from him, 330
• Cotgrave, the first edition of his valuable dictionary, 140
• Coventry pageants, remarks on, 217
• —— plays, an extract from one of them, 463
• Covercle, whence derived, 282
• Cressets, some account of them, 264
• Cressida, how punished for her falsehood to Troilus, 299
• Critic on Shakspeare, a female one censured, 379
• Cross-gartering, fashion of explained, 57
• Crotalum, account of this ancient instrument, 509
• Crowns of the sun, the coins so called described, 396
• Crying clubs, illustration of that custom, 344
• Cude Yeddy, an idiot so called, 416
• Cupid, his golden shaft, 53, 484
• ——, his blindness, 137
• ——, why called a hangman, 107, 146
• Curry favour, origin of this phrase, 291
• Curtain formerly placed before pictures, 53
• Cymbeline, remarks on the story of this play, 381
• D.
• Dagonet, the fool of King Arthur in the romances of the round table, some account of him, 283, 286
• Daiphantus, a work by Scoloker, in which Hamlet is alluded to, 465, 478
• Dame Habunde or Abunde, a fairy, 237
• Dance of death, account of a remarkable one, 81
• Dancing rapier, 193
• Danes, formerly remarkable for hard drinking, 449
• Death and the fool, a subject borrowed from the Dance of death, 80
• —— and the lady, old representations of, 478
• Dedications, prices of in the time of Elizabeth, 573
• Deer, killed by ladies in ancient times, 139
• Despenser, Hugh le, his arraignment in the original form, 274
• Devices, whence those of the knights in Pericles were borrowed, 392
• Devil, his roaring, 258
• ——'s ruff-shop, print of it, 220
• ——s invoked by witches, account of them, 315
• Diana, a name for Hecate in modern times, 235
• ——, patroness of witches, 236
• Dictionary, the first French and English, by Hollyband, afterwards amplified by Cotgrave, 140
• Dieu et mon droit, when this motto was originally used, 248
• Dragon on Chinese porcelain, 18
• ——, a character in the morris dance, 600
• Drinking horns, formerly carried by lunatics, &c., 415
• Drinking pots with hoops, explained, 327
• Duke, its ancient meaning, 111
• Dun is in the mire, an old proverbial phrase, 425
• E.
• Edward shovel-boards, 33
• Ego et rex meus, remarks on this expression, 341
• Elbow, rubbing the, a popular superstition, 273
• Elf-knots, 426
• Elf-locks, ib.
• Elf-stones, ib.
• Elizabeth, Queen, a compliment to her, 341
• Eloisa, some compositions by her noticed, 472
• Ephesiacs of Xenophon, a romance which is supposed to have furnished a material incident in the story of Romeo and Juliet, 436
• Essex, Earl of, a supposed allusion to his death, 250
• Euriphile, whence the name borrowed by Shakspeare, 378
• Evil spirits, how the Greeks expelled them from dying persons, 326
• Eyes, green, 30
• ——, grey, ib.
• F.
• Fair lady of Norwich, origin of a curious story so entitled, 545
• Fairies, delight in cleanliness, 122
• ——, miscellaneous remarks on them, 238
• ——, their blessing, 127
• ——, their immortality defended, 114
• ——, their rings, 111, 114
• ——, their song, 51
• Falling of the axe, this expression examined, 187
• Falstaff, the severity of his punishment censured, 294
• Farmer, Doctor, a mistake in a note by him pointed out, 571
• Fascination against the influence of evil eyes, remarks on it, 303
• Fashions in dress, the English always remarkable for their variation of them, 105
• Fate, used by Shakspeare for fortune, and not death according to Warburton, 146
• Father friar, this expression explained, 84
• Favel, the ancient name of a horse, 291
• Fica, 303
• Ficus, remarks on the disease so called, 304
• Fig, making the, explained, 302
• Fig of Spain, 307
• Finis coronat opus, remarks on this phrase, 199
• Florio's First fruits, some account of that book, 140
• Fool, death's, 80
• ——, fortune's, 146
• ——, time's, 273
• ——, various remarks on this character, 18, 55, 74, 94, 198, 200
• ——, Charles the First's, 502
• ——, city and corporation, 500
• ——, court, 502
• ——, domestic, 499, 501
• ——, Duke of Mantua's, story of him, 505
• ——, Earl of Suffolk's, 503
• ——, female, 500
• ——, fortune's, 431
• ——, in brothels, 358, 500
• ——, in dumb shows at fairs, 501
• ——, in the mysteries and moralities, 500
• ——, Lord Mansel's, 504
• ——, Louis the Thirteenth's, 505
• ——, morris, 501, 592
• ——, mountebank's, 501
• ——, Pope's, ib.
• ——, proverb relating to him explained, 506
• ——, Sir Thomas More's, 513
• ——, stage, his office, 507, 514
• ——, story of a Welsh one, 503
• ——, strumpet's, 358, 500
• ——, tavern, 500
• ——, various remarks on this character, 358, 412, 419, 483, 497
• ——, Whitson ale, 501
• ——, William the Conqueror's, ib.
• Fool's bauble, 509
• —— cockscomb, 508
• —— combat with death, 394
• —— dress, 507, 510
• —— general mode of behaviour, 504
• —— punishment, 505
• Fools, begged, 148
• ——, pre-eminence of those in Shakspeare's plays, 514
• ——, their decline, 503, 515
• ——. See Clowns.
• Fortunatus, origin of the story of this romance, 553
• Fox-tails, how worn by ladies in the reign of Edward I., 512
• French crown, 76
• —— songs and ballads, 446, 472, 474
• Friar and the boy, a popular story used by Shakspeare, 14
• Frier John and frier Richard, a curious story so entitled, 392, 545
• —— Tuck, origin of his name, 587
• Funeral feasts, borrowed from the ancients, 439
• G.
• Gascoine, justice, an anachronism concerning him, 293
• Gentlemen, what they formerly were, 214, 223
• ——, who were so formerly, 429, 476, 486
• Gesta Romanorum, 400, 401, 402, 403, 420
• —— ——, some account of it, 167, 170
• —— ——, a curious story from an ancient English MS. of it, 172
• —— ——, analysis of a work under this name composed in England, 537
• —— ——, inquiries concerning its authors, 527, 571
• —— ——, manuscripts of it, 531, 536, 574
• —— ——, printed editions of it, 532, 571, 575
• —— ——, question examined whether composed in England, 535
• —— ——, stories from it used in the pulpit, or otherwise to entertain the monks, 527
• —— ——, translations of it, 533, 571
• —— ——, two works under this name, 520
• Ghosts retire at the approach of day, 120
• ——, damned, 466
• ——, reasons for their appearing, 450
• ——, why exclusively addressed by scholars, 438
• ——, why said to fast, 451
• ——, why they disappeared at the dawn of day, 452
• Gilliflower, applied by Perdita to a painted woman, 219
• Gilt two-pences, 290
• Ginger, in great use formerly as a stomachic, 88
• Girdle, turning of the, explained, 109
• Gis, a corruption of Jesus, 475
• Gloucester, duke of, discordant accounts of his death, 322
• Giving hands, an old expression for bestowing applause, 129
• Glow-worm's fire, 118
• Goblin, what it signified in former times, 242
• Golden legend, a story from that work, 239
• Gowrie conspiracy, 213
• Gower, supposed to have translated the Gesta Romanorum into English, 572
• Grace, when this title was first used, 320
• Grammatical errors in Shakspeare, 181
• Gray, Mr., borrowed from Shakspeare, 343
• Green sleeves, an old ballad, 37
• —— eyes, less uncommon formerly than at present, 433
• —— sleeves, some account of an old time so called, 484
• Guido's painting of Bacchus and Ariadne, remarks on, 29
• Guido of Colonna, his Troy book not an original work as usually supposed, but borrowed from Benoit de Saint More a Norman French poet, 353
• Guillelmus Hilacensis, singular title bestowed on himself, 523
• Guy Faux, how treated by the modern populace, 586
• H.
• Halfpence, tearing pieces into, explained, 107
• Halifax gibbet, 188
• Hamlet, alluded to in Scoloker's Daiphantus, 478
• ——, enigmatical speech by him explained, 469
• Hamlet, his madness, 456
• Harlequin, the successor to the old vice of our theatres, 288
• Harry ten shillings, when first coined, 283
• Hay, an ancient dance, a sort of brawl, 146
• Heaping coals of fire on a person's head, explanation of this phrase, 423
• Heart, the seat of courage among the ancients, 365
• Hearts and hands, 482
• Hecate, how accented by Shakspeare, 122
• ——, her team, 121
• ——, miscellaneous remarks on, 235
• Helmet, some observations on this part of ancient armour, 269
• Henbane, 452
• ——, Shakspeare's insane root, 229
• Heraldry ridiculed by Shakspeare, 476
• Herb John, a proverbial expression relating to it, 481
• Hermit of Prague, 66
• Herne's oak, 51
• Herod, account of his character in the old mysteries, 463
• ——, his character in the old mysteries illustrated, 85
• Herodias, 236, 237
• Higa, mistake concerning its etymology, 306
• Hobby-horse, a character in the morris dance, 595
• Holinshed, an error in his chronicle, 297
• Hollyband, his real name Sainliens, 139
• Horn, romance of King, 2
• Horned head-dresses of the ladies, 125
• Horse, the dancing, account of, 131
• Horses, ancient names of, 291
• Hugo de Sancto Victore, some tales and fables ascribed to him, 524
• Hume, Mr., a singular remark by him, 323
• Hundred merry tales, discussion relating to them, 102
• Hyena, 189
• I.
• Idiots, begging of them, 148
• 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