Silli, ancient parodies, ii. 455.
Skelton, his satire on Wolsey, iii. [187].
Sneezing, the custom of saluting after, i. 126; attributed to St. Gregory, ib.; Rabbinical account of, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 127.
Snuff-boxes, the rage, in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 229; the Jesuits’, reported to be poisoned, ii. 442.
Solitude, treatise on, by Sir George Mackenzie, ii. 50; necessary for the pursuits of genius, 52; discomforts of 53, 54.
Solomon, accounted an adept in necromancy, i. 122; story of him and the Queen of Sheba, 202.
Songs among the Grecians, ii. 142; sayings of Fletcher of Saltoun, and Dr. Clerk on, ib.; Greek songs of the trades, 143; of the weavers among the English, ib.; harvest and oar-songs in the Highlands, ib.; of the gondoliers, ib.; Dibdin’s, 144; old English, 145; Swiss, 146; Italian, composed at Florence, under the Medici, ib.; French “Chansons de’ Vendange,” 147; parodied, by Puritans, 148; slang or flash, known to the Greeks, and specimens from Athenæus, 149; ancient practices in, connected with old English customs, 150; political, iii. [179], [180].
Sonnah, the, i. 113.
Sotades travestied the Iliad, ii. 455.
Sotties, more farcical than farce, i. 358; specimen of one, 359-360.