Basilius, Sidney's, ii. 532

Baskevile, Sir T., ii. 233
Basle, cathedral of, ii. 15
Basse, W., iii. 467
Bastide, Ch., iii. 397

Batchelars Banquet, Dekker's, ii. 549
Bateson, miss, ii. 64

Bathurst, Theodore, ii. 460

Battell of Alcazar, Peele's, iii. 58, 99,
110, 119, 126 ff., 137

Baudoin, J., ii. 537; iii. 492
Baugé, de, iii. 168

Bavaria, remains catholic, ii. 220
Baynes, P., iii. 171

Bear baiting. ii. 303. 307; iii. 44, 52,
described, 91 ff.

Bear Garden, iii.. 45. 52, 91, 245
Beaton, cardinal, ii. 122, 248, 331
Beatrice, Dante's, ii. 395

Beatrice, Shakespeare's, iii. 170, 200,

218, 221. 331, character of, 334; 461
Beaucaire, iii. 292

Beaumarchais, ii. 181; on coats of arms,

111. 212

Beaumont Francis) and Fletcher (John),
iii. 76, 88, 162, 180, 302, 1st folio of,
352; 354, 355, outshine Shakespeare.
356: 374, 412, 415, 416, life and
works, 431 ff.; 441, 446, 458, 459
Beaumont, Francis, ii. 389. 411, 412,
513; on Jonson, iii. 105; 431 ff.
Beaumont, sir John, iii. 483
Beaumont Joseph, iii. 483
Beauty, Michel-Ange on, ii. 9, of the
nude, 15, literary and other, 22 ff.;
46. search for, 70, sir T. More on,
90. Dame, 117; 128, frailty of, 143;
worship of. 377, in the abstract, 385;
physical, 415 ff.; Spenser on. 449 ft., |

494 ff.; how decked, iii. 48, Shake-
speare and physical, iii. 237
Becket, St. Thomas, ii. 206
Becon, T., ii. 214

Bede, ii. 245

Bedford, Lucy, countess of, ii. 335, 337
Bédier, Joseph, iii. 292

Bedingford, T., ii. 376
Beelzebub, ii. 264, 270, 404

Beeston, iii. 243

Behn, Mrs., iii. 454

Béhourt, iii. 25

Belianis, ii. 515

Belin's Gate, ii. 305

Bellarmine, cardinal, iii. 552

Bellay, du, ii. 20, 25. 26, 105, on “vers
libres," 146; 375, 438, 439, 445
Belleau, Kemi, ii. 458, 472

Belleforest, iii. 169, 197, 218, 219, 247,

Bel-Savage playhouse, iii. 142
Belus, iii. 521

Belvoir Castle, iii. 270

Benedick, Shakespeare's, iii. 218, 221,

331, 333, 461

Benefices, ii. 256, 263

Benevolences, ii. 45, 158, iii. 559
Benson, John, iii. 233

Bercheur, Pierre, ii. 370

Bereblock, J., iii. 23
Bergamo, ii. 512
Berlioz, iii. 365

Bermudas, the iii. 112, 267

Berners, John Bourchier, lord, ii. 110,
375, 520; iii. 193, 385
Beroalde, F., ii. 282
Beroaldo, ii. 105, 513
Berowne, ii. 63

Berthelet, T., ii. 161

Bertram, Shakespeare's, iii. 282, 307,
312

Bessarion, cardinal, ii. 11 ff., his letter
to the Doge, 13; 48
Bestiaries, ii. 519

Betraying of Christ, Rowlands's, ii. 432
Betterton, iii. 269 356
Beverley, P., iii. 218

Bevis of Hampton, ii. 342, 408, 435,
515

Beyle (Stendhal', iii. 150

Beza (Theodore de Bèze), ii. 23, 24,
417, 428; iii. 98
Bibbiena, ii. 23

66

Bible, the, ii. 8, 16, Mazarine, 29; 52,
109, 115, in France, 166, in Ger-
many, 168, Wyclif's, 169, longing for
an English, 174; Cranmer and, 179;
Cromwell, 186; in English, 191,
201 ff.; "Breeches," 207, English
Catholic, 208, authorised version
of, 208, Bishops," 208; forbidden,
209, open, 219; and the Puritans,
248; 262; Great, 207, 208; 269;
discussed, 517; and Shakespeare, iii.
170, 352, 366; "authorised " version,
iii. 465, 550; and Quarles, 474;
epics from, 476 ff; 501, idols men-
tioned in, 512; 553, 556
Bibliothèque of A. du Verdier, ii. 64
Bibliothèque Françoise, Sorel's, iii.

Bishop Blougram, ii. 465
Bishop Hall's hard measure, iii. 552
Bishops, worldly, ii. 200 ff.; Eliza
bethan, 247, 252, 259; attacked, iii.
562

Bishops' Book," ii. 212
Bishopsgate, iii. 50

Blacke Booke, Middleton's, ii. 297, 300,
301. 305, 547 ff.; iii. 142
Blackfriars Theatre, the, ii. 536; iii.
47 ff., 60, 69, children players at,
77; 95, Shakespeare and, 211, 248,
269, 349, 370, 371, 395, 418, 420,
"an academy," 435; 436, 443, 444,
450, 452, 453, destroyed, 563
Black Prince, ii. III
Blades, W., ii. 27

Boiardo, ii. 373

Boileau, ii. 329, 349, 415, rules of,
iii. 277 ff., 295 ff., 300, 383
Boissier, Gaston, ii. 145

Boleyn, sir Thomas, ii. 150
Bolingbroke, Shakespeare's, iii. 290,
307 ft., 345

Bolton, Edm., on English writers, iii.
267, 353 354; 515, 516
Bonaparte, Lucien, iii. 210

Bond, R. W., ii. 518, 520, 521; iii. 18,
467

Bonduca, Fletcher's, iii. 439
Bonet-Maury, ii. 165

Bonn, ii. 107

Bonnefons, Jean, ii. 399

Bonner, bishop, ii. 60, 137, 138, 186,

218

Book of Airs, ii. 403

Book of Merry Riddles, iii. 169, 170
Booksellers, London, ii. 315 ff., 317 ff.
Booth, L.. iii. 149

Pora, Catherine, ii. 192, 193

Borde, Andrew, ii. 47, 309
Borgia, Cæsar, iii. 511

Borne (or Birde), W., iii. 67, 74, 139
Bornwell, Shirley's Lady, iii. 461 ff.
Borromeo, St. Charles, ii. 220
Bossert, A., ii. 319

Boston (Lincolnshire), ii. 181; (Mass.),
284

Boswell, James the elder, iii. 375
Boswell, James the younger, iii. 359
Boswell-Stone, iii. 150, 191
Bosworth, battle of, iii. 189, 277
Bothwell, iii. 294

Botticelli, iii. 358

Bouillet, iii. 537

Bourget, Paul, iii. 240

Bourgogne, Hotel de, ii. 530

Bouvines, iii. 133

Bowes, Mrs., ii. 259

Bowes, Robert, ii. 485
Bowes, Th., ii. 479, 526

Bowge of Courte, Skelton's, ii. 128
Boyle, Jas., ii. 450

Boyle, Rich., earl of Cork, ii. 450

Boys, as women in plays, iii. 75 ff. (see
Children)

Bradley, H., iii. 24
Brandes, G., iii. 150
Brandesby, ii. 75

Brandl, Al., iii. 5. 10, 150, 151, 169
Brandon, S., iii. 29
Branhowlte, iii. 75
Brant, Seb., ii. 114

Brantome, ii. 20, 76, 173, 202, 240,
289; iii. 15

Brasenose college, iii. 129

Brathwaite, Rich., ii. 336, 436, 472;
iii. 486, 489. 495
Brazen Age, iii. 174, 205
Brazil, ii. 83, 277, 279, 283
Breton, Nicholas, ii. 382, 383, 398, 431,

des Odes de

470, 530, 531; iii. 466, 495
Brive exposition
Ronsard. ii. 464

Brewen, J., iii. 128

Breyman, H., iii. 134
Bri onnet, ii. 166

Bride, Nabbes's, iii. 458
Bridges, Bess, iii. 429
Bridges, John, ii. 252

Briscus, ii. 433

Bristol, ii. 233

Britannia, Camden's, ii. 322, iii. 509,
513

Britanniarum Ecclesia Antiquitates,
Ussher's, iii. 510

Britannia's Pastorals, Browne's, ii. 410,
506, 507 ff.; iii. 353
Britannicus, iii. 108, 279

British Church, Herbert's, iii. 475
Britomart, Spenser's, ii. 447, 481, 493,
494, 495 ff., 500, 505

Britons, ii. 69, 162, 174, 276, 338, 339,
in Faerie Queene, 487; in Shake-
speare, iii. 165, 289, 291, 311
Brittain's Ida, ii. 412

Brittany, ii. 174

Brizard, iii. 365

Brodmeier, C., iii. 51

Broken Heart, Ford's, iii. 412, 423
Brome, Rich., iii. 447, 458 ff.
Brooke, Arthur, iii. 197, 198
Brooke, Christopher, ii. 472

Brooke, Fulke Greville, lord, ii. 398,
418, 508, 532; iii. 29, 30, 353, 467,
529

Brooke, Ralph, iii. 212
Brooke, Tucker, iii. 269
Brothers, the, iii. 63
Browne, Rob., ii. 250

Browne, sir T., on plagiarism, iii. 175;

491, character and works, 499 ff., 502
Browne, W., ii. 410, 467, 471, 472,
506, 507 ff.; iii. 353, 511

Browning, Rob., ii. 336, 465, iii. 234
Brownists, ii. 250; iii. 552
Bruce, sir G., iii. 489
Bruges, ii. 26

Bruin (Braun), G., ii. 301, 303, 304;

iii. 44
Bruised Reed, iii. 563

Brundyche, master, iii. 402
Brunelleschi, ii. 289

Brunhalt, Beaumont and Fletcher's, iii.
436, 438, 439

Bruno, Giordano, ii. 394
Brunschwicg, iii. 491

Brushfield, iii. 518

Brut, Layamon's, ii. 128

Brutus, the Trojan, ii. 333, 338, 361,
482; iii. 131, 132

Brutus, Shakespeare's, iii. 256 ff., 291,
306, 308, 312

Bryan, sir T., ii. 136, 139, 141, 143
Bryskett, Lodowick, ii. 439, 474 ff., 479

Brystow, James, iii. 75

Buchanan, G., on the university of
Paris, ii. 19; 49, on Knox, 249, 326;
iii. 27, Sidney on, 32; 558
Buchell, Arend van, iii. 50, 51
Buckingham, G. Villiers, duke of, iii.
81, 536

Bucolikes, ii. 369

Budée, ii. 48, 68, 91, 92, 93

Bull," the, iii. 42

Bull baiting, iii. 44, 52

Bull. Roger, ii. 551

Bullein, W., ii. 304, 361, 516 ff.

Bullen, A. H., ii. 383, 403, 418, 516;
on Peele, iii. 123; 149, 227, 375,
411, 431, 503
Bunyan, iii 553

Burbage, Jas., iii. 42 ff., 52, 81
Burbage, Richard, iii. 45, 81, 82, 209,
225, 226, 266, and "imprese," 270;
272, as Hamlet, 288; 332, 348, 351,
390, 439, 452

Burbages, the, iii. 71, 72, 77, 201
Burbon, Spenser's sir, ii. 486
Burby, Thos., ii. 546

Burcot, Dr., ii. 517
Burgess, W., iii. 366

Burghley castle, ii. 311, see Cecil
Burgundy, Duke Philip of, iii. 214
Burke, Edmund, ii. 515
Burnet, G, ii. 91

Burning Babe, Southwell's, ii. 417
Burns. Robert, ii. 400, 506

Burton, Robert, iii. 214, life and work,
502 ff., style of, 505

Busiris, iii. 175

Caius, Shakespeare's Dr., iii. 171, 218
Caius Marius, Otway's, iii. 356
Calabria, Peter of, ii. 11

Calahorra, Ortuñez de, ii. 496, 498;
iii. 396

Calais, ii. 110, taken, 231, 232; 274
Calandra, la, ii. 23

Calchas, Greene's, iii. 126
Calendarium Pastorale, ii. 460
Calepino, Ambrogio, ii. 428
Caliban, iii. 244, 267, 282, 338
Calisto, la, iii. 178

Callot, J., ii. 548; iii. 334
Calvin, ii. 165, on grace and free will,
170 ff., and Somerset, 214; 216, 247,
249. 263, 369; Nash and, iii. 98
Calvinism, Donne on, ii. 430
"Camber-Brytans," ii. 341
Cambises, iii. 6, 93, 118, 170
Cambridge, printing at, ii. 39, 257; 51,
teaching at, 74; 63, studies at, 104,
and the Reformation, 169; 315, 347,
355, Spenser and, 439, 486; 521;
plays at, iii. 5, 27, 33, 70, 82; 134,
164. 179. 399
Cambyses, iii. 500

Camden, William, ii. 252, 322 ff., 325,

326, 327, 341, 348, on the English
language, 351; 352, on Spenser, 508;
on Stratford, iii. 148 ff.; 369, 374,
509, 511, 513
Campanella, iii. 504
Campaspe, ii. 520, 521
Campaspe, Lyly's, iii. 17 ff.
Campion, Edmund, ii. 254

Campion, Thos., ii. 338, 355, 358,
402 ff.; iii. 22
Canada, iii. 477

Candide, Voltaire's, ii. 512

Cannibals, use rime, ii. 358; cooks
sent to, iii. 394

Canterbury, Elizabeth's archbishops of,
ii. 260 ff., 265

Canterbury Tales, ii. 34 ff, 37, 530;
iii. 221

Canzoniere, Petrarch's, ii. 25

Capell, Edward, iii. 358

Capello, Bianca, iii. 454
Capgrave, John, ii. 96
Capra family, ii. 18

Capulets, ii. 414; iii. 197 ff., 246, 294,
342, 343

Caractères of La Bruyère, iii. 491

Caractères de Vertus et de Vices, iii. 497
Cardinal, Shirley's, iii. 460

534,535, 555

Carteromachos, Scipio, ii. 11

Carthage, iii. 520

Cartwright, Thomas, ii. 248

Cartwright, William, iii. 179, 459
Casale, supper at, iii. 397
Casaubon, ii. 268

Case is altered, the, Jonson's, iii. 85
Cassandra, Barnfield's, ii. 411, 412
Cassandre, Ronsard's, ii. 386, 477; iii.
230, 236

Cassius, Shakespeare's, iii. 257

Castara, Habington's, iii. 475, 509
Castelain, Maurice, iii. 370
Castel of Helth, Elyot's, ii. 66, 105
Castell of Laboure, ii. 114

Castelvines y Monteses, Lope de Vega's,
iii. 198

Castiglione, Baldassare, ii. 21, 60, 63,
66, 229, 376

Castillon, Louis Perreau de, ii. 44, 136,
138, 153

Castle of Perseverance, iii. 7
Castles, ii. 321. 482

Catalogus Herborum, Gerarde's, ii. 310
Catechism, ii. 210, 212, Nowell's, 266,
267: 317

Catherine the Great, and Shakespeare,

iii. 364, 365

Catherine of Aragon, ii. 40, 71, 129,
157, 176, trial of, 177; iii. 308
Catherine Howard, ii. 154, trial of, 155;
157, Cranmer and, 178, 186
Catherine de Medici, iii. 144
Catherine Parr, ii. 72, 227, 234
Catholics, and Protestants, Bk. iv. ch. ii.,
vol. ii. 150 ff., under Mary, 217 ff.,
under Elizabeth, 244 ff.; persecuted,
253, derided, 434; 465, in the Faerie
Queene, 483 ff., 486; Munday on,
539, 540; and the stage, iii. 9 ff,
Marlowe and, 142, Shakespeare and,
308; play against, 442; Bacon and,
530, 531; under James I., 549 ff.;
Chillingworth and, 554, surround
Henrietta Maria, 561

Cavino, I., ii. 218

Cawarden, Thomas, iii. 19
Cawood, ii. 318

Caxton, William, ii. 27, works and
views of, 30 ff.; 48, 53, 55, 57, 62,
99, 105, 109, on Skelton, 125, Gavin
Douglas on, 131; 347, 369, 512; iii.
169
Cayenne, iii. 519
Cayet, iii. 443
Cayley, ii. 91

Cecil, Robert, earl of Salisbury, ii. 229,
308, 374; as lord Cranborne, iii. 332
Cecil, William, lord Burghley, ii. 52,
108, 228, role of, 235; 236, 237, 248,
250, 251, 258, 261, and Whitgift,
264; 267, 268, 278, 309, 310, 312,
322, 324, 325, 476, 478, 534; iii.
19, 70, 247

Cecil, lady, iii. 527

Cecropia, Sidney's, ii. 534
Celand, Browne's, ii. 507

Celibacy of the clergy, ii. 258 ft.
Cellini, B., iii. 368

Celts, the, facund of, revived, ii. 275;
character of, iii. 107, 298
Censure of printing, ii. 257 ff.
Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, ii. 512
Cerberus, ii. 404, 411

Certain devises and shewes, iii. 28
Certain discourses
of Archers,

Smith's, ii. 108

Certain notes of Instruction concerning
rime, Gascoigne's, ii. 353, 357,

364
Certain Sermons or Homilies, ii. 213
Certain Sonnets, Barnfield's, ii. 398
Cervantes, iii. 334

Cespedes, G. de, iii. 434

Chabot, Admiral of France, iii. 443
Chalcocondylas, ii. 11, 48
Chaloner, sir T., ii. 81, 331, 337
Chamberlain, players' appeal to the
lord, iii. 71