See Troilus and

That turn'd your wit the feamy fide without.] i. e. Made a fool of you. Creffida, act ii. fc. i. where 'tis more fully explained from other paffages, and the English proverb, He has no guts in his brains.

Sc. xii. p. 381.

Iago. He fups to-night with a barlot.]

"With a barlotry." Folios 1623, and 1632 Harlot, from Harlotha, concubine to William the Conqueror. See Minfhieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 353.

Act v. fc. i. p. 385.

Iago. Here ftand behind this bulk, ftraight will be come.]

"Behind this barke." Folios 1623, and 1632. Act v. fc. vi. p. 391. Othello of Desdemona. Oth.

I know not where is that Promethean beat,
That can thy light re-lumine-]

See this explained, Horatii Carmin. lib. 1,

16. 13.

Id. ib.

Defd, Alas! why gnaw you so your nether lip.] See this explained, Life and Death of Richard III. act iv. fc. ii. p. 296.

Sc. vii. p. 396.

Othel.

-Had he been true,

If heav'n would make me fuch another world,

Of one entire and perfect chryfolite,

I'd not have fold it for it.]

Chryfolite, a precious ftone of a dusky, green colour, with a cast of yellow.

Sc. x. p. 4c4.

Lod. The Spartan dog!

More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea.] The Spartan dogs were, according to Virgil, famed for their swiftness and fierceness.

Veloces Spartæ catulos, acremque Moloffum, Pafce fero pingui. 3. Georgic. 405.

INDEX.

A.

A Colafus, his wifh, vol. ii. p. 196.

Aconitum, 361.

Action of battery, i. 235.
Action upon the cafe, i. 242.
Agincourt, battle of, i. 391.

Ajax killed fome fheep, miftaking them for the Grecian chiefs,
who had awarded Achilles's armour to Ulyffes, ii. 31.
Air fometimes of use in stopping of wounds from bleeding.
See two remarkable inftances, ii. 42.

Alcides, an account of his destroying a fea-monfter, i. 136, 137.
Alfred, King, an account of the ftrict juftice done in his
reign, with its good effects, ii. 224.

Alliterations, ii. 104, &c.

Almanack, its etymology, i. 58.

Alps, the effects of the fnow-water flowing from thence upon
human bodies, i. 29.

Althea's dream, i. 352.

Ambs-ace, i. 214.

Amphion, his story, i. 15.

Andromache, her dream, ii. 246.

Angels, the English fo called by Gregory the Great, then Arch-
deacon of Rome, afterwards Pope, with his reason for fo
doing, ii. 81, 82.

Angel, a coin, whence fo called, id. ib.

Ant, laborious in fummer, ii. 108.

Antony, Mark, his generous behaviour upon finding the dead
body of Brutus, ii. 189. An account of his riots, 193.
Patience, 194. Luxury, 196. Of the kingdoms bestowed
by him upon Cleopatra, and the children he had by her,
206. His remarkable generofity to Enobarbus and others,
210, 211. Defcended by tradition from Hercules, 214.
Ape and Fox, their tale, i. 92.

Arblafter, a cross bow-man, i. 279.

Archee, King James's jefter, an account of him, ii. 106.
Arcite killed in combat by his friend Palamon, with an ac-
count of the folemnity of his funeral, ii. 179.

Ariel described, i. 1. His fpeech to Profpero, 12. 15.
Arion. i. 223.

Armourer,

Armourer, William Cater, an account of his being appealed
of treafon by his fervant John David, his defeat, and death,

ii. 21.

Aroint explained, ii. 140.

Arthur's chace, i. 34.

Arthur Plantagenet, Duke of Bretagne, an account of him,
i. 274. 279. 290. 293, 294.

Affes made juftices, i. 74. Patient of blows, 238.

Afyages, his cruelty to his favourite Harpagus, in ordering
his fon to be killed, and ferved up to him at an entertain-
ment, ii. 21.

Atalanta, an account of her swiftness, i. 182.

Athens. See Plague of.

Avaunt, giving it, what, ii. 78.

Avives. Sec Fives.

Aurum potabile. See Gold potable.

B

Bacon, the ftory of Sir Nicholas, and a criminal, whofe name

was Hog, i. 110.

Bajazet. See Mule.

Banks. See Horse-dancing.

Bafilifk defcribed, i. 249. ii. 62.

Battery. See Action of.

Bay. See Portugal

Bear. See Seckerfon.

Beard, the ftroking of it preparatory to favour, ii. 232.
Pulling it off a mark of difgrace, 291. In high efteem
with the Portugueze, 292.

Beards, the whimsical fashion of wearing them in Shakespeare's
time, i. 70. Swearing by the beard, 163.

Bears, the manner of taking them, ii. 176.

Beaufort, Card. Bp of Winchester, an account of him, ii. 5.
Bedford, Duke of, buried in the great church of Roan in
Normandy, ii. 14. 35. The King of France refused to de-
molish his monument, on account of his bravery, though
requested to do it by his courtiers, id. ib.

Beldame, anciently a term of refpect, ii. 74.

Bellovefus, Prince of the Celta, enlarged and improved the
city of Milan, i. 17, 18.

Bells, their firft ufe in England, i. 288.

Bevy explained, ii. 74.

Bidding the bafe, i. 80.

Bishops, their ancient habit, i. 358. The order of their pre-

cedence, ii. 94.

Black Monday explained, i. 134, 135.

Blanch,

Blanch, niece to King John, her dowry upon her marriage
with the Dauphin, i. 283.

Blood, the circulation of it discovered by Dr. Harvey, i. 288.
Blood-bound. See Hound.

Bolinbroke, Roger, a celebrated conjurer, ii. 17.

Bond, Dennis, the ftory of him and Oliver Cromwel, i. 116,
Boiling to death formerly the punishment for poisoning. See
two remarkable inftances, i. 229.

Brain. See Glandula pinealis.

Brandon, Gregory, a celebrated executioner in London, ii. 163.
Brawl, French dance, i. 142.

Britain imagined by the Romans to be a new world, ii. 219.
Britons formerly fought in chariots, ii. 223.

Brize, what, ii. 231.

Brooch explained, i. 153.

Brown, Francis, had a charter from King Henry VIII. to
keep his hat on in the King's prefence, i. 232.
Brown, Baftard, what, i. 337.

Brownift explained, i. 232.

Brutus and Caffius, their characters, by Julius Cæfar, ii. 173.
Buckingham, Stafford, Duke of, a paffage in his fpeech be-
fore execution explained, ii. 76. The laft hereditary Lord
High Conftable in England, 77. A character of him, 78.
Building upon another man's ground, the confequence of it,
i. 105, 106.

Burying alive, practifed in fome cafes in the Mogul's country,
i. 109.

Buttons, batchelors, i. 107.

Buxom valour explained, i. 386.

Cæfar, Julius, his gallant behaviour in a ftorm, i. 2, 3.
The prodigies preceding his death, ii. 173. Loft his life
by neglecting to read Artemidorus's account of the confpi-
racy against him, 184. His legacies to the citizens of
Rome, 186. The appearance of his ghoft to Brutus, 188.
His generofity to Labienus, 210. Twice beaten from the
British coafts by Cafibelan, 220.

Caliban, a monfter, i. zz. Profpero's defcription of him, and
Sycorax the witch, his mother, 38.

Callat explained, i. 41.

Calpburnia, her dream before the affaffination of Julius
Cafar her husband, ii. 182.

Gambaya, Prince of, put to death his nobles, by having them
ftripped naked, and fpitting upon them, ii. 58.

Camelion,