Faery Queen, Spenser's, 11, 80, 101,

128, 181, 182.

Fair Virtue the Mistress of Philarete,
Wither's, 119.

Faithful Shepherdess, Fletcher's, 58,

61.

Falkland, Lord, 47; Cowley's lines to,

III.

Farquhar, George, 170.
Ferrar, Nicholas, 107..
Field, Richard, 11.
Fleckno, Richard, 205.
Fletcher, John, 43, 45, 57, 58.
Fletcher, Giles, 80.
Fletcher, Phineas, 80.
Fletcher's Nice Valour, 139.
Ford, John, 44, 47, 57, 64, 69.
Forest, Jonson's, 55.
Forman, Dr., 24.

Fox, Francis Beaumont's, 58.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 177.
Froude's Bunyan, 184.
Fuller, Thomas, 192.

Galileo, 185; met by Milton, 130.
Garrick, David, 43, 51.

Gaunt, John of, eulogy of England, 11.
Gaveston, Drayton's, 76.
Gazette, London, 202.

Gifford, Mr., influence on Bunyan,
176.

Globe edition of Shakespeare, 43;
Milton, 166; Dryden, 220.
Globe Theatre, Shakespeare a share-
holder, 17, 18.

Golden Age Restored, Jonson's, 53.
Golden Grove, The, Jeremy Taylor's,
183.

Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics,

125.

Golding's translation of Ovid, 14.
Gondibert, Davenant's, 204.
Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inven-
tions, 71.

Grace Abounding, 174, 177, 179.
Gray, 84; on Dryden, 217.
Greene, 13; offensive remarks on
Shakespeare, 13; Pandosto, 26.
Greville, Fulke, 83.

Groatsworth of Wit bought with a
Million of Repentance, 13.

Halifax, Earl of. See Montagu,
Charles.

Hall, Chronicles of, 26.
Hall, Dr., 21.

Hallam, 49, 75; on Bacon's Essays,
100; on Milton, 142, 146-147; Liter-
ature of Europe, 26.
Hamlet, 23, 25, 35, 40, 60, 101.
Hampden, John, 119-120.

Handful of Pleasant Delights, A, 71.

Harmonie of the Church, Drayton's,

75.

Harrison, description of England, 12.
Hatfield House, Bacon's advice con-
cerning, 98.

Hathaway, Anne, 10.

Hazlitt, 42, 43, 70, 82; on Otway, 169.
Henry IV., 17, 24, 25, 30, 31.
Henry V., 24, 25, 30, 31, 32.
Henry VI., 16, 25.

Henry VIII., 25, 30, 59.
Herbert family, 105.

Herbert, George, 106, 109; Walton's
life of, 125.

Herbert, Lord, of Cherbury, 200.
Herbert, Philip, 105.

Herbert, William, Earl of Pembroke,
21, 41, 73, 87, 105.

Hero and Leander, Marlowe's, 25.
Heroical Epistles, Ovid's, 77.

Heroic Stanzas to the memory of
Oliver Cromwell, Dryden's, 204..
Herrick, Robert, 46, 111; selections
from, 125.

Hervey, William, Cowley's elegy on
the death of, III.

Hesperides, Herrick's, 112.
Heywood, Thomas, 68.

Hind and Panther, Dryden's, 206,

212.

Hind and Panther transversed, The,
213.

History of England from the Conquest

to the Reign of Edward III., A, 75.
History of English Dramatic Litera-
ture, 70.

History of Henry VII., Bacon's, 91,
95, 96.

History of Scotland under the Five
Fameses, 82.

History of the Great Rebellion, Claren-
don's, 194,

History of the Turks, Knolles', 86.
History of the World, Raleigh's, 86.
Hobbes, Thomas, 184, 185.
Holinshed, Chronicles of, 26.
Holy Dying, Jeremy Taylor's, 183.
Holy War, Bunyan's, 177, 179.
Holy War, Fuller's, 192.
Homer's Iliad, 126, 148.

Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, 11.
Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Re-
turn from Ireland, Marvell's, 125.
Howell, James, 201.

Hudibras, Butler's, 122.

Hyde, Edward. See Clarendon, Earl
of

Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, 198.
Hymen's Triumph, Daniel's, 74.
Hymn to Diana, Jonson's, 53.

Ideas Mirror, Drayton's, 76.

Il Penseroso, 62, 130, 138, 139, 158.

Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kem-
pis's, 181.

Indian Queen, Dryden's, 204.
In Memorian, Tennyson's, 55, 143.
Inner Temple Masque, Browne's, 87.
Instauratio Magna, Bacon's, 90, 94.
Jack the Giant-Killer, 180.
James I., accession, II.
Jameson, Mrs., 43.
Jansen, Cornelius, 127.
Jerusalem Delivered, 130.
Few and Ptolome, The, 27.
Joan of Arc, 16.

Johnson, Dr., 38, 42, 86; Life of Cow-
ley, 103; on Waller, 121; Lives of
the Poets, 125; on Milton, 144; on
Otway, 168; on Sir William Temple,
196; on L'Estrange, 202; on the wits
of Charles II.'s court, 215; on Dry-
den, 218, 219; Life of Dryden, 220.
Jones, Inigo, 52.

Jonson, Ben, 9, 18, 24, 39, 41, 58, 68,
69, 80, 81, 82, 87, 100; his life, 44;
imprisonment, 45; poet-laureate, 46;
death and epitaph, 47; literary pro-
ductions, 48; masques, 52; character-
istics of his plays, 54; lyrical poems,
55; epitaphs, 55; prose, 56; his in-
fluence, 102; on John Donne, 105.
Julius Cæsar, 23, 24, 25, 33.
Justice Shallow, 11.

Kean, Charles, 43.
Kean, Edmund, 43.

Kind Harts Dream, Chettle's, 13.
King, Edward, 142.
King John, 17, 25, 30.

Knight of the Burning Pestle, 58, 60.
Knight's Tale, Dryden's, 214.
Knolles' History of the Turks, 86.

L'Adamo, Andreino's, 156.
L'Allegro, 130, 138, 139, 158.
Lamb, Charles, 42, 205; on Ford, 67;
on Webster, 68; on Wither, 118, 119;
on Thomas Fuller, 192; on Robert
Burton, 196; Specimens of English
Dramatic Poets, 70.

Lawrence, Mr., Milton's sonnet to, 147.
Lear, 19, 22, 25, 26, 35, 36, 37, 40.
Lectures on the English Humourists,
Thackeray's, 173.

Lessing, 43.

L'Estrange, Roger, 202,

Letter on Toleration, Locke's, 187.
Letters, Dorothy Osborne's, 111, 201.
Letters, Howell's, 201.

Letter to Ben Jonson, Beaumont's, 45.
Leviathan, Hobbes's, 185.

Liberty of Prophesying, The, Jeremy
Taylor's, 183, 187.

Literature of Europe, Hallam's, 26.

25.

Marston, John, 45, 68.

Martin, Lady, 43.

Marvell, Andrew, 124, 137.

Mary Queen of Scots, execution of, 11.

Masque of Beauty, Jonson's, 53.
Masque of Queens, Jonson's, 53-
Masque of the Inner Temple, 58.
"Masques", Ben Jonson's, 52.

Massacre in Piedmont, Milton's, 147.
Massinger, Philip, 44, 57, 63, 68.
Masson, Prof., on Milton, 144, 156, 158,
160, 166.

Matilda, Drayton's, 76.

Measure for Measure, 19, 25.
Medal, Dryden's, 205.

Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew,
The, Dryden's, 213.

Merchant of Venice, 17, 23, 25, 26;
whence derived, 26.

Meres' Palladis Tamia, 17; Wit's

Treasury, 14, 17, 73.
Mermaid Series, 70.

Merry Wives of Windsor, 11, 23-24,

25, 31.

Message of the Rose, Waller's, 120.
Microcosmography, John Earle's, 200.
Middleton, Thomas, 57, 68.

Midsummer Night's Dream, 8, 10,
16, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 37.
Mill, J. S., 91.

Milton, John, 41, 61, 62, 87; compared
with Chaucer, Spenser, and Shake-
speare, 126; his life, 126; early
poems, 127; travels, 130; settles in
London, 131; deserts poetry, 132;
marriage, 133; first volume of poems,
133; Latin secretary, 134; the
Restoration, 135; his blindness, 136;
third marriage, 137; Paradise Lost,
137; his last poems, 137; his death,
138; his works, 138.

Milton, Life and Times of Mark
Pattison's, 166.

Minshull, Elizabeth, Milton's third
wife, 137.

Mirror for Martyrs, Weever's, 24.
Mirror for Magistrates, 74.
Miscellany, Tottel's, 71.
Mistress, Cowley's, 110.

Mock Astrologer, Dryden's, 220.
Molière, 168.

Montagu, Charles, reply to Dryden's
Hind and Panther, 213.

Montaigne, Michel de, the first essay-
ist, 96, 97, 99.

Montesquieu, indebted to Locke, 189.
Montgomery, Earl of, 41.

More, Sir Thomas, 191; Utopia, 95,
187.

Mortimeriados: the Lamentable Civil
Warsof Edward II. and the Barons,
76.
Mourning Bride, Congreve's, 172.
Much Ado about Nothing, 25, 27, 28,

On his Blindness, Milton's, 136.
On his Deceased Wife, Milton's, 135.
On the Death of a Fair Infant,
Milton's, 127.

Orchestra, or a Poem on Dancing, 83.
Orphan, The, Otway's, 168.

Osborne, Dorothy, 196, 201; Letters,

III.

Othello, 19, 23, 25, 36, 40.

Otway, Thomas, 168: Johnson on, 173.
Overbury, Sir Thomas, 199.

Ovid translated by Golding, 14;
Heroical Epistles, 77-

Palace of Pleasure, Paynter's, 15.
Palladis Tamia, Meres', 17, 24, 73.
Pandosto, Greene's, 26.

Paradise Lost, 136, 137, 138, 148, 158,
159, 160, 161, 163, 179.

Paradise Regained, 127, 137, 138, 161.
Passionate Pilgrim, 19.

Pattison, Mark, on Milton, 144, 166.
Paynter's Palace of Pleasure, 15.
Peele, 13, 71.

Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of,
21, 41, 73, 87.

Penshurst, Ben Jonson's poem on, 55.
Pepys, Samuel, 201, 206-207.
Pericles, 25, 41.

Perkin Warbeck, Ford's, 65.
Philaster, or Love Lies A-bleeding,
58, 59.

Philotas, Daniel's, 74.

Philips, Katherine, 183.

Philips's memoir of Milton, 136.
Philosophy a branch of literature, 184.
Phoenix Nest, The, 71.
Pilgrimage, Raleigh's, 85.

Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's, 174,
177, 178, 179, 180.

Pindaric Odes, Cowley's, 111.
Plain Dealer, The, Wycherley's, 170.
Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven,

Quarles, Francis, 80, 109.
Quiney, Thomas, 21.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 84, 191.
Rape of Lucrece, The, 15.
Relapse, Vanbrugh's, 171.
Religio Laici, Dryden's, 206, 211-212.
Religio Medici, Browne's, 198, 211.
Restoration, Milton's view of, 166.
Restoration, The drama of, 167.
Restoration Dramatists, Macaulay on,
173.

Retreat, Vaughan's, 108.

Richard II., 11, 17, 25, 30.
Richard III., 16, 25, 30.
Robinson, Clement, 71.

Romeo and Juliet, 17, 25, 35, 40.
Rosalind, Lodge's, 26.
Rowe, Nicholas, 10, 42.
Rowley, 57, 65, 68, 69.
Roydon, Matthew, 71.

Rules of Holy Living, Jeremy Tay-
lor's, 183.

on, 55.

Salmasius, controversy with Milton,
135.

Samson Agonistes, 137, 138, 163.
Satiromastix, Dekker's, 69.
Scott on Dryden, 203, 211-212, 216, 220.
Shadwell, Thomas, poet-laureate, 205.
Shaftesbury, Earl of, 187.

Shakespeare, John, father of the poet, 8.
Shakespeare, William, 7, 45, 57, 76;
difficulties of constructing his bio-
graphy, 7; parentage, 8; marriage,
10: goes to London, 10; Spenser's
Aëtion, 12; companions in London,
13; success of his plays, 17; becomes
a shareholder in the Globe Theatre,
17; earnings, 18; sonnets, 19; death,
21; his work, 22; time at which his
plays were written, 24; plots of the
plays, 26; history plays, 29; Roman
plays, 33; tragedies, 34; romantic
plays, 37; songs, 38; scope of his
work, 38; humour, 40; editions of his
plays, 40; editors and critics, 42; ac-
tors, 43; Ben Jonson's criticism and
elegy on, 57; compared with Milton,

126.

Shelton, Thomas, 60.

Shepherds Hunting, Wither's, 118.
Shepherd's Pipe, Browne's. 87.
Sheridan, 171.

Shirley, James, 57, 69.

Shoemaker's Holiday, Dekker's, 69.
Short View of the Profaneness and
Immorality of the English Stage,
Collier's, 173.
Siddons, Mrs., 43.
Sidney, death of, 11.

Sidney, Lady Dorothy, 120.
Silent Woman, Jonson's, 219.
Silex Scintillans, Vaughan's, 108.
Skelton, poet-laureate, 46.

Skinner, Cyriack, Milton's sonnet to,
147.

Song for St. Cecilia's Day, A, Dry-
den's, 213.

Sonnets, Milton's, 147.

Sonnets of Shakespeare, 19.

Sonnet on the Sonnet, Wordsworth's,

147.

Soul's Errand, Raleigh's, 85.
Southampton, Henry Wriothesley,
Earl of, 13.

Spanish Friar, Dryden's, 217.
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets,

70.

Spedding, Mr., on Bacon, 95, 101.
Spenser, 75; Faery Queen, 11, 80, 101,

181; Colin Clout's come home again,
12; poet-laureate, 46; compared with
Milton, 126.

Stephen, Leslie, on Cowley, 196; on
Izaak Walton, 198, 199; on Milton,

139.

Steps to the Temple, Crashaw's, 109.
Stirling, Earl of, 83.

Stratford-on-Avon, 8, 9.

Suckling, Sir John, 46, 115, 116, 117.
Swinburne, Mr., on Herrick, 113; on
Lord Herbert, 200.

Taming of the Shrew, 17, 22, 25.
Tate, Nahum, poet-laureate, 206.
Taylor, Jeremy, 140, 174, 182, 187.
Tears of the Muses, Spenser's, 139.
Tears on the Death of Meliades, 81.
Tempest, The, 14, 21, 23, 25, 26, 37, 38.
Tempest, The, or the Enchanted
Island, by Dryden and Davenant,

219.

Temple, Sir William, 196, 201, 203.
Temple, The, Sacred Poems and Pri-
vate Ejaculations, 107.

Tennyson, 55; In Memoriam, 143; on
Milton, 158.

Tenure of Kings and Magistrates,
The, Milton's, 134.

Thackeray's Lectures on the English
Humourists, 173.

Thanksgiving to God, A, Herrick's, 114.
The Flower and the Leaf, 214.
The Mad Maid's Song, Herrick's, 114.
Theobald, 42.

Thierry and Theodoret, 59.

Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of
Christ, 181.

Thorpe, Thomas, 21.

Thoughts on Education, Locke's, 187,
189.

Timber, Jonson's, 56.
Timon of Athens, 25, 26.
Titus Andronicus, 16, 25.

To Althea, from Prison, Lovelace's,
116.

Tobacco, mentioned by Ben Jonson,
49, 51, 52; not mentioned by Shake-
speare, 49.

Tonson, Jacob, 160.
Tottel, 71.

Traitor, The, Shirley's, 69.

Treatise on Civil Government,
Locke's, 187, 188.

Trench, Archbishop, on Baxter's writ-
ings, 184.

Troilus and Cressida, 19, 25.

Twelfth Night, or What you will, 24,
25, 27, 28, 29, 38, 60.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, 16, 25, 28.

Underwoods, Jonson's, 55.
Unwin, William, 206.

Urn Burial, Sir Thomas Browne's,
198.

Utopia, More's, 95, 187.

Vacation Exercise, Milton's, 127.
Valentinian, 62.

Vanbrugh, Sir John, 167, 171.
Vaughan, Henry, 108.

Venice Preserved, Otway's, 168.

Venus and Adonis, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16.
Verses found in his Bible in the Gate-
house at Westminster, Raleigh's,
85.

Virgil, Dryden's translation of, 206,

214.

Virgin Martyr, The, 64.

Virtue, Herbert's, 107.

Vision of Delight, Jonson's, 53.
Vittoria Corombona, Webster's, 67.
Volpone, or the Fox, Jonson's, 47, 49.
Vondel's Lucifer, 156.

Vulgar Errors, Sir Thomas Browne's,
198.

Waller, Edmund, 47, 119; Jonson's
life of, 125.

Walton, Izaak, 198; on George Herbert,
106; lives of Donne and Herbert, 125.
Warner, William, 73.

Way of the World, Congreve's, 171.
Webster, John, 44, 57, 67, 68.
Weekly News from Foreign Parts,

202.

Weever's Mirror for Martyrs, 24.
Wesley, John, 203.

Wesley, Samuel, 203.

Westward Ho!, Webster's, 67.

When the Assault was intended on
the City, Milton's, 132.

Wife of Bath's Tale, 214.

Wild Gallant, Dryden's, 204.
Winter's Tale, 8, 23, 24, 25, 37..

Witch of Edmonton, The, Ford's, 65,
69.

Witch, The, Middleton's, 68.

Wither, George, 118; commendatory
verses on William Browne, 87.
Wit's Treasury, Meres', 14, 17, 73.
Woodcocke, Katherine, Milton's second
wife, 135.

Wordsworth, 75, 108; on Shakespeare's
Sonnets, 19; on Milton, 138; Sonnet
on the Sonnet, 147.

Worthies of England, History of the,
Fuller's, 192.

Wotton, Sir Henry, on Milton, 142.
Wriothesley, Henry, Earl of South-