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few days ago; an investigation of the state of the stage before the date when Shakespeare began to write for it.

ELLIOT. A very interesting topic, upon which I confess myself almost wholly ignorant.

Thus terminated the first ten days' conversations between the three friends: the discussions were continued to the end of the fortnight, to which the visit of Morton and Elliot was originally intended to be limited, but when the period fixed for departure arrived, the weather continued so beautiful, the river and the country near it so delightful, and the occupation in the library so agreeable, that the guests were easily prevailed upon to prolong their stay, and to continue their inquiries.

INDEX.

Abuses stript and whipt, by George Wither

Vol. Page
ii. 22

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

Actors Remonstrance, the, 1643

Actresses, when first allowed, proved from Jordan's

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Eneid of Virgil, translated by Vicars, quoted

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

in

Alarum against Usurers, by T. Lodge.

described..

Alcilia, Philoparthen's Loving Folly, 1619

quotations from

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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.

Walton

Quotations from

ii. 111, 113, 114

i. 100

Ant and the Nightingale of Father Hubberd's Tales
quoted in reference to Spenser......
Apology for Actors, by T. Heywood, referred to...” i. 125

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quoted
Refutation of the, by J. G. 1615 ii. 301

ii. 288, 290, 291, 293, 299

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

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Apolonius and Silla, a novel, by B. Rich, on which
Shakespeare founded his Twelfth Night, examined. ii. 146

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Arcadia, Sir P. Sidney's, mentioned.

Sonnet omitted in

Arraignment of Paris, by G. Peele, song from

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As you Like it, compared with T. Lodge's "Rosalynde" ii. 170
Ascham, Roger, cited on the taste for Italian Poetry

against rhyme in English

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

betha Triumphans, 1588

Ass, The Nobleness of the, 1595, examined

the admirable properties of the animal

its most melodious voice......

Authors, self-delusion of, as to their fame

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

i. 81

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i. 92

i. 126

i. 168

i. 169

i. 170

i. 46

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

i. 237

Barnes, Barnabe, his "Parthenophil and Parthenophe,"

dedicated to Will. Percy, referred to

i. 13

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

i. 14

i. 15

Barry, Lod. his "Ram Alley" quoted

ii. 27, 284

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

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Belvedere, the Garden of the Muses, by Bodenham
Blank verse, Peele's "Farewell to Norris and Drake,"

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

Vol. Page

i. 88

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

ii, 231

i. 102

his recommendation to hunt down the Irish

Kernes

i. 105

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

i. 71

ii. 79

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

ii. 196

i. 228

ii. 204

their plays

ii. 205

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

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

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

to him

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

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his
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-

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chester

ii. 125

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

i. 98

his "Discourse of civil Life" 1606 ...

i. 99

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

London," 1590-

....

ii. 294

Burgh, Sir John, R. Markham's poem on the death of.. ii. 100
Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" quoted....
ii. 317

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