FOOTNOTES:

[156] This will hereafter appear to be a mistake.

[157] Strutt's Sports and pastimes of the people of England, p. 171.

[158] Hist. of Musick, vol. iv. 388, by Sir John Hawkins, who was clearly of opinion that the morris dance was derived from the Moors.

[159] Etymologicum Anglicanum. In further corroboration of this deduction of the morris dance, the following words may be adduced; MORESQUE a kind of grotesque painting, sometimes called Arabesque, and used in embroidery and damasking. Moriscle, and MOURICLE, a gold coin used in Spain by the Moors, and called in the barbarous Latin of the fourteenth century morikinus. See Carpentier, Suppl. ad glossar. Ducangian. v. Morikinus. Morris wax, called likewise mores wax, in the Garbelling of spices, 1594, 4to. To these the morris-pike may perhaps be added. It is probable that the English terms morris and morice have been corrupted from mores, the older and more genuine orthography.

[160] Tabourot Orchesographie, 1589, 4to, p. 97, where the several postures of this dance are described and represented. The Pyrrhic dance appears to have travelled from Greece into the north. See Olaus Magnus, De gentibus septentrionalibus, lib. xv. c. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.

[161] It is remarkable that the same practice should be found in the island of Ceylon. Knox tells us that "A woman takes two naked swords, under each arm one, and another she holds in her mouth, then fetcheth a run and turns clean over, and never touches the ground till she lights on her feet again holding all her swords fast."—Hist. of Ceylon, p. 99.

[162] Wise's Enquiries concerning the first inhabitants, language, &c. of Europe, p. 51.

[163] Jean Tabourot, canon and official of the cathedral of Lengres, published his Orchesographie et traicté en forme de dialogue par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et practiquer l'honneste exercice des dances, 1589, 4to, under the anagrammatized name of Thoinot Arbeau. He died in 1595, at the age of 66. His work is equally curious and uncommon.

[164] But the French morris can be traced to a much earlier period. Among other instances of the prodigality of Messire Gilles de Raiz, in 1440, morris dancers are specified. Lobineau, Hist. de Bretagne, ii. 1069. In the accounts of Olivier le Roux, treasurer to Arthur III. duke of Bretagne in 1457, is this article: "à certains compaignons qui avoient fait plusieurs esbatemens de morisques et autres jeux devant le due à Tours, vi. escus."—Id. 1205. At a splendid feast given by Gaston de Foix at Vendôme in 1458, "foure yong laddes and a damosell attired like savages daunced (by good direction) an excellent Morisco, before the assembly."—Favines Theater of honour, p. 345; and see Carpentier, Suppl. ad glossar. Ducangian. v. Morikinus. Coquillart, a French poet, who wrote about 1470, says that the Swiss danced the Morisco to the beat of the drum. Œuvres, p. 127.

[165] Peck's Memoirs of Milton, 135. What this writer has added on the subject of the morris dance is not very interesting; but he is certainly mistaken in his explanation of five, seven, or nine men's morris.

[166] Ritson's Robin Hood, I. cii.

[167] See particularly Stubbes's Anatomie of abuses, p. 109, edit. 1595, 4to.

[168] In Laneham's Letter from Kenilworth or Killingworth castle, a bride-ale is described, in which mention is made of "a lively Moris dauns, according too the auncient manner: six dauncerz, Mawdmarion, and the fool."

[169] See Stowe's Survay of London, 1618, 4to, p. 161.

[170] Stubbes's Anatomie of abuses, p. 107.

[171] Fetherston's Dialogue agaynst light, lewde, and lascivious dauncing, 1582, 12mo, sign. D. 7. See a passage to the same purpose in Northbrooke's Treatise against dicing, dancing, &c. 1597, 4to, fo. 68 b.

[172] Albion's England, 1612, p. 121.

[173] Steevens's Shakspeare, at the end of the play of King Henry IV. part I.

[174] There is a remarkable instance of the corruption that has been gradually introduced into popular ceremonies, in the celebration of the gunpowder-plot; in which, formerly, Guy Faux was ignominiously carted, in company with the Pope and the Devil, all of whom were afterwards consigned to the flames: whereas at present we have only the image of a fellow, or sometimes a real boy bedizened with gilded rags, ruffles, and powdered periwig, under the appellation of Poor Guy, for whom the attendants seem to crave charity. The Pope had been long dismissed by proclamation or act of parliament; and the Devil is probably forgotten by some, or become an object of too much terror with others to be sported with.

[175] Churchwardens' accounts at Kingston, in Lysons's Environs of London, vol. i. p. 227. The learned author of this interesting work has remarked that he had found no entries at Kingston relating to the May games, after the 29 Hen. VIII.; but they certainly continued, as parochial ceremonies, in other places to a much later period. In the churchwardens' accounts of Great Marlow it appears that dresses for the morris dance were lent to neighbouring parishes so late as 1629. See Langley's Antiquities of Desborough, 4to, 1797.

[176] Fordun's Scotichronicon, 1759, folio, tom. ii. p. 104.

[177] Polyolbion, song xxvi.

[178] Ben Jonson's Works, 1756, vol. vi. p. 93.

[179] Marian, or as it is more frequently written Marion, is not formed, as some French writers have supposed, from Mary and Ann, but more probably from Mariamne the wife of Herod, whose name seems borrowed from that of Miriam מרים the prophetess, the sister of Aaron. Miriam is said to come from a Syrian word signifying mistress, or from מרר marar, bitterness. The name of Mary, evidently contracted from Miriam or Mariamne, does not occur till the time of the daughter of Joachim and Anne, the mother of Christ, at which period we find other Maries in the New Testament. It is remarkable that Maria, from Marius, should not occur among the Roman names of women, in like manner as we have Julia, Cornelia, Fulvia, Proba, Valeria, &c., from Julius, Cornelius, Fulvius, Probus, and Valerius. The facetious and eccentric Edmund Gayton, in the dedication to his Festivous notes on Don Quixote, speaks of Mayd Myriam. He perhaps imagined that the morris dance had been suggested by the prophetess and her dancing women with their timbrels.

[180] Steevens's Shaksp. viii. 530.

[181] Waldron's History of the Isle of Man, 12mo, p. 95, where he has described the mock battle between the queens.

[182] Strype's Eccl. memorials, iii. 376.

[183] The honestie of this age, 1615, 4to, p. 35.

[184] What these ladies exactly were is not easy to comprehend. Whitepot in old cookery was a kind of custard, made in a crust or dish with cream, eggs, pulse of apples, sugar, spices, and sippets of white or manchet bread. It is possible therefore that Maid Marian, being occasionally personated by a kitchen malkin or cook wench, obtained the title of a white-pot queen.

[185] Golden books of the leaden Goddes, 1577, 4to, fo. 30.

[186] Greene's Quip for an upstart courtier, sig. D. 3.

[187] Bavon or bavette, is from bave, spittle. Hence the middle age Latin term for a fool, bavosus. See Ducange Gloss. This is a very plausible etymology, and might stand well enough by itself; but it must not be concealed that in some of the Northern languages Bavian signifies a monkey or baboon. Whether Fletcher, who seems the only writer that has made use of this word, applied it to the fool in question on account of the monkey tricks that he played, remains to be ascertained. If we could discover the names of the characters in a French, Dutch, or German morris of this time, some light might be thrown on the subject.

[188] See Carter's Specimens of ancient sculpture and painting, vol. ii. pl. xiii. Nos. 5 and 13, and pl. xxxvi.

[189] Edit. 1585, 12mo, p. 299. See likewise the article chironomus in p. [521].

[190] Coryat's Crudities, 1611, 4to, p. 9.

[191] Yet, in the reign of Charles the Second, Thomas Hall, another puritanical writer, published his Funebria Floræ, the Downfall of May-games, 1661, 4to, in which, amidst a great deal of silly declamation against these innocent amusements, he maintains that "Papists are forward to give the people May-poles, and the Pope's holiness with might and main keeps up his superstitious festivals as a prime prop of his tottering kingdome." That "by these sensual sports and carnal-flesh-pleasing wayes of wine, women, dancing, revelling, &c., he hath gained more souls, than by all the tortures and cruel persecutions that he could invent." He adds, "What a sad account will these libertines have to make, when the Lord shall demand of them, where wast thou such a night? why, my Lord, I was with the prophane rabble, stealing May-poles; and where wast thou such a day? why, my Lord, I was drinking, dancing, dallying, ranting, whoring, carousing, &c."

[192] Every man out of his humour, Act II. Scene 1.

[193] Spanish dictionary.

[194] See the plate of ancient cards, xxxi. in Strutt's Sports and pastimes, where a knave or attendant is dressed in this manner.

[195] Churchwardens' accounts at Kingston, in Lysons's Environs of London, i. p. 227, 228.

[196] Stubbes's Anatomie of abuses, ubi supra.

[197] See Rowley's Witch of Edmonton, 1658, Act I. Scene 2.

[198] Stubbes, ubi supra. Knight of the burning pestle, Act IV.

[199] Stubbes, ubi supra. Jonson's Masque of gipsies. Holme's Academy of armory, book iii. p. 169, whence the following cut has been borrowed, which, rude as it is, may serve to convey some idea of the manner in which the handkerchiefs were used.

[200] Knight of the burning pestle, Act IV.

[201] Vox graculi, 1623, p. 49.

[202] Fletcher's Women pleased, Act IV.

[203] Greene's Quip for an upstart courtier, sign. B. 2.

[204] This tract is mentioned by Sir William Temple, in his Essay on health and long life, from the communication of Lord Leicester. Howel, in his Parly of beasts, 1660, has recorded that "of late years ther were call'd out within three miles compasse ten men that were a thousand years between them, one supplying what the other wanted of a hundred years apiece, and they danc'd the morris divers hours together in the market place with a taborer before them 103 years old, and a maid Mariam 105."—p. 122. This seems to allude to the same event.

[205] Compare No. 1, with the left hand figure at bottom in the print; No. 4, with the left hand figure at top; No. 6, with the right hand figure at bottom; and No. 7, with the right hand figure at top. This last character in the Flemish print has a flower in his hat as well as No. 4. Query if that ornament have been accidentally omitted by the English engraver?

[206] This gentleman's death is recorded to have happened Oct. 22nd, 1779. Gough's Brit. topogr. ii. 239.

[207] See his continuation to Ben Jonson's sad shepherd, 1782, 8vo, p. 255, a work of very considerable merit, and which will materially diminish the regret of all readers of taste that the original was left unfinished.

[208] Robin Hood, I. cviii.

[INDEX.]

"Commoditas homines studiosos invitavit librorum Indices comparare, quibus minimo labore ad id quod quisque quæreret, tanquam manu duceretur."—Cicero ad Atticum.

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]

[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.

PRINTED BY RICHARD KINDER,
GREEN ARBOUR COURT, OLD BAILEY.

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