Chapter IV (9)

_Whipping-tops_ anciently kept for public use, i. 312.

_Whitney_ (George), a minor poet of the age of Shakspeare, i. 706.

_Whitsuntide_, festival of, how celebrated, i. 175-180.
Morris-dance, its accompaniment, _ibid._
With Maid Marian, 179.
Whitsun plays, 181.

_Wieland_'s "Oberon," character of, i. 564. _note_.

_Wild-goose-chace_, a kind of horse race, notice of, i. 304, 305.

_Wilkinson_ (Edward), a minor poet of the age of Shakspeare, i. 706.

_Will_ of John Shakspeare, account of the discovery of, i. 8, 9.
Copy of it, 9-14.
First published by Mr. Malone, _ibid._
Its authenticity subsequently doubted by him, 15.
Confirmed by Mr. Chalmers, _ibid._
Additional reasons for its authenticity, 16.
Its probable date, _ibid._

_Will_ of William Shakspeare, ii. 627-632.
Observations on it, 612-614.

_Willet_ (Andrew), "Emblems" of, i. 706.

_Willobie_ (Henry), a poet of the Elizabethan age, critical notice of,
i. 663, 664.
Origin of his "Avisa," 665.
Character of that work, 665, 666.
Commendatory verses in, on Shakspeare's Rape of Lucrece, ii. 40.

_Will-o'-wisp_, superstitious notions concerning, i. 399, 400.

_Willymat_'s (William) "Prince's Looking Glass," i. 706.

_Wilmot_ (Robert), a dramatic poet in the reign of Elizabeth,
character of, ii. 234, 235.

_Wilson_ (Thomas), observations of, on the corruptions of the
English language, in the time of James I., i. 440, 441.
Proofs that his "Rhetoricke" had been studied by Shakspeare,
472-474.

_Wincot_ ale celebrated for its strength, i. 48.
Epigram on, 48, 49.
Allusions to this place in Shakspeare's plays, 50.

_Wine_, enormous consumption of, in the age of Shakspeare, ii. 129.
Foreign wines then drunk, 130-132.
Presents of, usually sent from one room in a tavern to another, 134.

_Winter evening's conversations_ of the sixteenth century,
superstitious subjects of, i. 316-322.

_Winter's Tale_, probable date of, ii. 495-497.
Its general character, 497-500.
And probable source, 498.

_Passages of this drama illustrated in the present work._

Act i. scene 2., i. 223. ii. 171. 495.
Act ii. scene 1., i. 107. 316.
Act iv. scene 2., i. 35. 183. 582.
scene 3., i. 165. 181. 184. 212. 213. 582-584. ii. 499,
500.
Act v. scene 2., i. 584. ii. 499.
scene 3., ii. 99.

_Wit-combats_ of Shakspeare and Jonson, and their associates, notice
of, ii. 592, 593.

_Witchcraft_ made felony by Henry VIII., ii. 474.
Supposed increase of witches in the time of Queen Elizabeth, ii.
474, 475.
General prevalence of this infatuation, 475.
Increased under the reign of James I., 476.
Cruel act of parliament against witches, 477.
Description of the wretched persons who were ordinarily supposed to
be witches, 478-480.
Exquisite description of a witch's abode by Spenser, 480.
Enumeration of the feats witches were supposed to be capable of
performing, 481-483.
Nature of their supposed compact with the devil, 483-485.
Application of this superstition by Shakspeare to dramatic purposes
in his Macbeth, 487-489.

_Wither_ (George), biographical notice of, i. 666.
Critical observations on his satires, 667.
And on his "Juvenilia," 668, 669.
List of his other pieces, with remarks, 669-671.
Verses of, on Hock-Day, i. 151. _note_.

_Withold_ (St.), supposed influence of, against the nightmare, i.
347-349.

_Wives_, supposed appearance of future, on Midsummer-Eve, i. 332-334.
And on All-Hallow-Eve, 344-347.

_Wives' Feast Day_, Candlemas Day, why so called, i. 138.

_Wolsey_'s (Cardinal) _Rudimenta Grammatices_, notice of, i. 26.

_Women_, employments and dress of the younger part of, in Shakspeare's
time, i. 83, 84.
Characters of women, personated by men and boys, 221.

_Wood_ (Nathaniel), a dramatic writer in the reign of Elizabeth,
notice of, ii. 238.

_Wool-trade_, allusions to, i. 35.
Promoted by Queen Elizabeth, 192. _note_.

"_World's Folly_," a collection of old ballads, notice of, i. 474-476.

_Wotton_ (Sir Henry), encomium of, on angling, i. 297.
Character of his poetical productions, 672, 673.

_Wright_ (John), character of his "Passions of the Minde," a
collection of essays, i. 511.

_Wright_ (Leonard), character of his "Display of Dutie," i. 512, 513.

_Wriothesly_ (Thomas), Earl of Southampton, biographical notice of,
ii. 1, 2.
A passionate lover of the drama, 2.
Shakspeare's Venus and Adonis, and Rape of Lucrece, dedicated to
him, 3.
His liberality to the poet, 4.
Joins the expedition to the Azores, 5.
In disgrace with Queen Elizabeth, 6.
Goes to Paris, and is introduced to King Henry IV., 7.
Marries Elizabeth Vernon without consulting the Queen, 7, 8.
Who imprisons them both, 8.
Goes to Ireland with the Earl of Essex, who promotes him, _ibid._
Is recalled and disgraced, 8, 9.
Quarrels with Lord Gray, 9, 10.
Joins Essex in his conspiracy against the Queen, 10.
And is sentenced to imprisonment, _ibid._
Released by James I., 11.
Who promotes him, 12, 13.
Birth of his son, 12.
Embarks in a colonising speculation, 13.
Patronises literature, 14.
Opposes the court, 15.
Dies in Holland, 16.
Review of his character, _ibid._
Tributes to his memory by the poets and literary men of his time,
17-19.
Shakspeare's sonnets principally addressed to him, 62-73.

_Wyat_ (Sir Thomas), character of his sonnets, ii. 53.

_Wyrley_ (William), notice of the biographical poems of, i. 707.

Y

_Yates_ (James), "Castle of Courtesie," i. 707.

_Yeomen_. See _Farmers_.

_Yong_ (Bartholomew), notice of his "Version of Montemayer's Romance
of Diana," i. 707. and _note_ [707:C].

_Yule-clog_, or Christmas-block, i. 194.

Z

_Zouche_ (Richard), notice of his "Dove," a geographical poem, i. 707.

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:

The index was printed at the end of Vol. II. It has been included with this volume for reference purposes.

The following corrections have been made to the text:

Page xi: St. Valentine's Day—Midsummer-Eve—
Michaelmas[original has "Michaelas"]

Page 30: into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans:"[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 38: pleasure and mirth made it seem very short,'[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 39: and Sir Thomas[original has "Tnomas"] Tresham

Page 47: That these books were read by Shakspeare[original has
"Shakespeare"]

Page 49: Haunted Hillbro',[original has "Hillbro,'"] Hungry

Page 56: which he has thus so wittily imitated."[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 61: told me there was an["an" missing in original] old oak
chair

Page 74: in his _Dietarie[original has "Dictarie"] of Health_

Page 82: but still an intimacy with heraldry[original has
"heraldy"]

Page 106: coughing o'er a warmed pot of ale."[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 106: whether it be newe or olde."[quotation mark missing
in original]

Page 113: that the huswife[original has "huswise"] herself was
the carver

Page 119: Stood us in steede of glas."[quotation mark missing
in original]

Page 129: and on the other =drincheile=."[quotation mark missing
in original]

Page 130: And in their cups their cares are drown'd:"[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 140: And let all sports with Christmas dye."[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 144: day of extraordinary sport and feasting."[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 157: locks pickt, yet[original has "ye"] w'are not a Maying

Page 189: But for to make it spring againe."[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 255: Mr. Robert Dover's Olympic Games, upon Cotswold
Hills,"[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 276: Then comes the captaine _Cooke_"—[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 291: By J. D. Esquire. 8vo.[original has "8o."] Lond. 1613.

Page 356: and Tullock Gorms by _Maug-Moulach_[original has
"Maug-Monlach"]

Page 367: "geven to the pacyent to drinke in warme
wine."[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 384: the beginning[original has "begining"] of the
seventeenth century

Page 396: Gower, in his Confessio[original has "Confesssio"]
Amantis

Page 397: like a taper in some monument;"[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 401: admonition, have successfully[original has
"succesfully"] borne

Page 408: intellect far from contemptible[original has
"contempible"]

Page 428: in their respective[original has "repective"]
departments

Page 438: carried to a higher state of perfection.[original has
a comma]

Page 444: works of Bishop Andrews afford the most[original has
"mort"] flagrant

Page 445: _O Tempori, O Moribus!_"[quotation mark missing in
original]

Page 456: calls this, 'the first grammar for Englishe that ever
waz, except my _grammar at large_.'"[original has double quotes
instead of single quotes and missing double quote]

Page 459: [quotation mark missing in original]"Titiique vultus
inter

Page 459: [quotation mark missing in original]"The mischiefe
is, that by grave demeanour

Page 460: But[original has "Bu"] if besotted with foolish vain
glory

Page 483: _Diodorus Siculus_, by Thomas Stocker[original has
"Hocker"]

Page 501: _Anatomie of Abuses_:[original has extraneous
quotation mark] contayning a discoverie

Page 522: Was physick'd from the new-found paradise!"[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 523: chiefly to the consideration[original has
"considertion"] of the _prose_ romance

Page 525: Guy of Warwicke, _Arthur of the Round Table_,"[quotation
mark missing in original] &c.

Page 531: appellation of _Historia Septem Sapientum_.[original
has extraneous quotation mark]

Page 537: Gower, or Occleve,[original has two commas] as the
English Gesta

Page 541: Decameron of Boccacio was executed[original has
"excuted"] before 1620

Page 546: his life is granted him.'"[single quote is missing in
original]

Page 558: fayrz and woorshipfull menz houzez;"[quotation mark
missing in original]

Page 570: immortales hechos de CAVALLERO DEL FEBO,"[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 580: Leave me not behinde thee,"[quotation mark missing in
original]

Page 589: "[quotation mark missing in original]He is dead and
gone, lady

Page 590: "Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's day,"[quotation
mark missing in original]

Page 591: Do use to _chaunt_ it,"[quotation mark missing in
original]

Page 591: festivity of our ancestors by an evening
fire;"[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 599: be found incapable of[original has "of of"] coalescing

Page 607: acquaintant and friend of Edmund Spenser;[original
has extraneous quotation mark]

Page 609: years ago, is entitled to preservation[original has
"preservarion"]

Page 626: in smoothness and harmony of versification{626:C},"
[quotation mark missing in original]

Page 627: _Arcadia, or Menaphon_[original has "Menaphor"], 1589

Page 630: classed him among those "[quotation mark is missing
in original]excellent poets

Page 631: "Epistles" and "[quotation mark missing in
original]Miscellaneous Pieces," there

Page 632: in Cambridge, the author of Pigmalion's
Image,"[quotation mark missing in original] &c.

Page 664: voluntary engagement, civil or military[original has
"miltary"]

Page 665: his Preface from his chamber in Oxford;[original has
extraneous quotation mark]

Page 665: "[quotation mark missing in original]That is, in
effect, A loving wife that never violated

Page 666: makes a close approximation to modern usage[original
has "usuage"]

Page 666: and verse, have been[original has "beeen"] enumerated

Page 668: first two quatorzains[original has "quartuorzains"]
of the latter

Page 685: _Lucan's Pharsalia_:[original has a period]
containing the Civill Warres

Page 689: HUNNIS, WILLIAM. _A Hyve full of Hunnye_[original has
"Hunuye"]

Page 708: by Tottel "The Poems of Uncertaine[original has
"Uucertaine"] Auctors," and

Page 727: Henry[original has "Heny"] Constable, Esq.

Page 729: London. 12mo."[original has a single quote]

[9:A] Reed's Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"], vol. iii. p.
197, 198.

[16:C] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. iii. p.[original has "p. iii."]
198.

[22:A] Down David doth him bring."[quotation mark missing in
original]

[25:A] pro tyrunculis, Ricardo Huloeto exscriptore[original has
"Huloets excriptore"]

[46:B]

"Why should calamity be full of words?
Windy _attorneys_ to their _client_ woes."

Quotation mark moved from end of first line to end of second
line.

[68:A] Holinshed's Chronicles, edit. of 1807, in six vols.[original
has "vol."]

[86:B] large casemented bow windows[original has "widows"]

[86:B] "Alas! these men and these houses are no
more!"[quotation mark missing in original]

[144:C] varia contexta per Guil. Haukinuum[original has
"Haukiuum"]

[151:B] Sure, very ill."[quotation mark missing in original]

[163:C] Fordun's Scotichronicon, 1759, folio, tom.[period
missing in original] ii. p. 104.

[171:C] Act iii. sc. 1. Reed's Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"]

[172:B] The Metamorphosed[original has "Metamophosed"] Gipsies

[206:B] proverb, 'Merry in the hall when beards wag
all.'"[double quote missing in original]

[269:A] These technical[original has "techical"] terms may
admit of some explanation, from the following

[286:B] whom his Majestie honoured with Knighthood."[quotation
mark missing in original]

[291:A] made by L. M. 4to.[original has "4o."] Lond. 1590

[291:A] Secrets belonging thereunto. 4to.[original has "4o."]
Lond. 1614

[307:B] Reed's Shakspeare[original has "Shakespeare"], vol. v. p.
22.

[354:C] Third Part of King Henry["Henry" is missing in original]
VI. act v. sc. 6.

[363:A] Discoverie[original has "Dicoverie"] of Witchcraft

[458:A] he terms it, is entitled[original has "entiled"]

[506:A] translated from the Latin of Conr. Heresbachius[original
has "Conr Heresbachiso"]

[506:A] 16.[original has a comma] Country Contentments; or the
Husbandman's Recreations, 4to. 1615.

[536:B] [original has extraneous quotation mark]MSS. Harl.
3861, and in many other libraries.

[584:A] Reed's Shakspeare, vol. ix. pp. 353-355. Act iv. sc.
3.[period missing in original]

On page 519, the text reads "_Adam Bel_, _Clim_ of the _Clough_ and _William_ of _Clondsley_". It should be "_William_ of _Cloudsley_". Because there is no way to know if the error was in the original quotation or was caused by the author or printer of this book, the correction has not been made to this text.

On page 527, quoted text reads "That whane they were hoole togyder, there was ever an C. and XI." The original source, Dibdin's "Typographical Antiquities," has "c. and xl." This text has been corrected to follow the original source document.

On page 571, quoted text reads "before he took his journey wherein no creature returneth agaie." The text should read "again" or "againe". Because there is no way to know if the error was in the original quotation or was caused by the author or printer of this book, no correction has been made to this text.

On page 663, quoted text reads "Ad Olandum de Eulogiis serenissimæ nostræ Elizabethæ post Anglorum prœlia cantatis, Decastichon". The text should read "Oclandum". Because there is no way to know if the error was in the original quotation or was caused by the author or printer of this book, no correction has been made to this text.

[494:D] has an incomplete reference. In other editions of this book, the "p." has been removed.

[547:A] has an incomplete reference. In other editions of this book, the footnote has been removed.