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28@50228-h@50228-h-11.htm.html#Page_111" class="pginternal">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, 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him, 337 —— —— —— ——, reasons why the whole of the plays on his reign were not written by Shakspeare, 332 King Lear, an unpublished story of him and his daughters, 420 Kirke, Colonel, his conduct misrepresented by Mr.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, 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
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