INDEX.

Abuses stript and whipt, by George Wither

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ii. 22

Specimens.. ii. 27, 28, 30, 41, 42, 43

Actors Remonstrance, the, 1643
Actresses, when first allowed, proved from Jordan's

66

Rosary of Rarities"

Eneid of Virgil, translated by Vicars, quoted

Affanie, 1601, by C. Fitzgeffrey, the authors mentioned

in

Alarum against Usurers, by T. Lodge

described..

Alcilia, Philoparthen's Loving Folly, 1619

quotations from

ii. 323

ii. 319

i. 112

........

i. 17

ii. 110

....

..........

Allot, Robert, his claim to the compilation of "] Englands

Parnassus," 1600..

Amos and Laura, the Loves of, 1619, dedicated to Iz.

ii. 111, 113, 114

Ant and the Nightingale of Father Hubberd's Tales

i. 100

i. 125

quoted ..... ii. 288, 290, 291, 293, 299
Refutation of the, by J. G. 1615

quoted in reference to Spenser.....
Apology for Actors, by T. Heywood, referred to

ii. 301

Apology of Poetry, by Sir P. Sidney, Constable's Son-

nets before

ii. 104

Edw. Wootton mentioned in
by Sir J. Harington alluded to

Apolonius and Silla, a novel, by B. Rich, on which

Shakespeare founded his Twelfth Night, examined.. ii. 146

ii. 107

ii. 288

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Arcadia, Sir P. Sidney's, mentioned

Sonnet omitted in

Arraignment of Paris, by G. Peele, song from

i. 65, 67

i. 66

i. 123

As you Like it, compared with T. Lodge's "Rosalynde" ii. 170

Ascham, Roger, cited on the taste for Italian Poetry

i. 81

against rhyme in English

i. 92

Aske, James, quotation in blank verse from his Eliza-

betha Triumphans, 1588

i. 126

Ass, The Nobleness of the, 1595, examined

i. 168

Bankes' horse, curious tract relating to, called "Ma-

roccus Extaticus," 1595...

quotations from it

fate of Bankes and his horse.

Barkstead, Will. his "Myrrha the Mother of Adonis"..

Barnes, Barnabe, his "Parthenophil and Parthenophe,"
dedicated to Will. Percy, referred to

i. 163

i. 164, 165

i. 166

his "
Four Books of Offices," 1606,
noticed, and a question regarding two editions of it
Madrigal, by W. Percy..

Barry, Lod. his "Ram Alley" quoted

Bastard, Thos. Epigrams from his Chrestoleros, 1598.. i. 199

Belvedere, the Garden of the Muses, by Bodenham

Blank ver Peele's "Farewell to Norris and Drake,"

a specimen of

....

i. 228

i. 57

Blank verse, inquiry into the origin of undramatic ....

early specimens of
i. 94 to 144,
Blenerhasset, Tho. a writer of blank verse in "the
Mirror for Magistrates"

Kernes

his recommendation to hunt down the Irish

Blessed Birth-day, by Fitzgeffrey, specimen of...
Boccacio, his novel of Titus and Gisippus

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i. 70

ii. 54

ii. 54, 55, 57

early English translations of his Decameron..
Bodenham, John, mention of his "Belvedere," 1600
Bramins, etymology of

their plays

Brathwayte, R. his "Strappado for the Devil," 1615,
quoted

his "Time's Curtain drawn," &c. 1621, and

imitations

quotations from it

his "Health from Helicon," with a specimen ii. 59
Breton, N. said to have written blank verse

Cornu-copiæ, Pasquil's Night-cap," assigned

to him

his

his "Pasquil's Pass and Passeth not" quoted
""Tis merry when Gossips meet," 1602, perhaps

i. 118

i. 329

i. ib.

i. 330

his "Mad World my Masters," account of and
extracts from
i. 331, 332, 333, 335

poem by him in Hind's "Eliosto Libidinoso".
MS. poem by him in praise of Virtue, Wisdom,
& c.

Bright burning Beacon, &c. 1580, by Abr. Fleming
Broughton, Rowland, his poem on the Marq. of Win-

Brysket, Lod. his claim to the poem of the " Mourning
Muse of Thestylis" considered.......

his "Discourse of civil Life" 1606....

Bucke, Paul, his "Three Lords and three Ladies of

London," 1590

.......

Burgh, Sir John, R. Markham's poem on the death of.. ii. 100
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" quoted..

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i. 242

Campion, Tho. "Obs. in the Art of English Poesy" cited i. 118
Castilio's Courtier, translated by Sir T. Hobby..,.
Chalmers, Mr. G. Life of Thomas Churchyard, and

........

point in his Supplemental Apology corrected..
Chamberlain, Robert, Epitaph on C. Fitzgeffrey from
his Nocturnal Lucubrations," 1638....
Chapman, George, his attack in his xxvxlos upon
hypercritical readers...

his dislike of commendatory verses

his" Epicede on the Death of Prince Henry,"
1612, observed upon

his praise of the long verse, monosyllables and
English, in the address before his translation of
Homer

his inconsistency; his "Seven Books of Ho-
mer," 1598, and in his "Achilles Shield".
his success in compound epithets

supposed envy of his contemporaries

"Merchant's Tale"

....

i. ib.

1588

the argument of one

ii. 202

ii. 203

.......

Chaucer, Geoffry, his "Man of Law's Tale" quoted

Chinese, plays of the, from Parke's History of China,

Chrestoleros, by T. Bastard, quoted i. 199, ii. 108, 120, 254, 255
Christ's Tears over Jerusalem, by Tho. Nash

........

ii. 269

....

ii. 207

Church of evil Men, &c. 1509, printed by Pynson

Churchill, Charles, his "Rosciad" quoted

Churchyard, Thomas, his praise of the English tongue.. i. 37
account of him by G. Chalmers
his " Misery of Flanders, Calamity of

Churchyard, Tho. lines by regarding Scotland
on "the Blessed State of England"
his "True Discourse historical," relating

to the Netherlands

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ii. 85

......

ii. 86

ii. 88

quoted regarding the death of Sir P. Sidney ii. 142
recognition of Spenser's allusion
his praise of poetry, 1596

City Madam, by Massinger, referred to

Commendatory poems censured by G. Chapman
Compound epithets of Fitzgeffrey, on the

of Chapman

Constable, Henry, his four Sonnets to the Soul of Sir P.
Sidney before "the Apology of Poetry," 1595
Cookery Book, old, called "Epulario”.
Cornu-copiæ, Pasquil's night-cap, assigned to N. Breton
Country-life praised in "The Return of the Knight of

ii. 89

ii. 103.

ii. 269

i.

i. 33

i. 39

Courtship, the art of, from N. Breton's "Mad World
my Masters"

i. 333

Cowley, Abr. his Naufragium Joculare, perhaps founded
on a passage in R. Junius's "Drunkard's Cha-
racter"

i. 27

his "Guardian," afterwards called "Cutter of
Colman-street," referred to
Curan and Argentile, 1617, by William Webster

......

Daniel, Sam. applauded by Fitzgeffrey in his "Drake"
Drayton, Jonson, Chapman, Sylvester, &c. ....

Dante, on the word Tragedy.

Decker and Middleton's "Roaring Girl" quoted
Deer-stealing a crime committed by players, &c.

......

Dibdin, the Rev. T. F. his edition of Ames, mistake in it ii. 85
his account of Walter's "Titus

Dolarney's Primrose, 1606, plagiarism from Hamlet in. ii. 16

i. 20

ii. 257

quotation from it

ii. 17