fairies in Endymion pinch, 113; refer-
ence by Ben Jonson, 119; influence
of his plays, 131 seq.; s. v. Peele, 136
n 1; a statue brought to life, 151;
s. v. Corrigenda, 265; the pun Stoic
and stock, 288.

M., R., 166 and n 4.
Maas, Dr., 119 n.

Macaulay, G. C., ed. of Gower, 81 n 1.
'Macbeth', interpolation in, xvi, 113 n 4;
based on Holinshed, 1; Ovid, 28 and
n; 29; Seneca, 35; Plutarch, 41; s. v.
'Sententiae Pueriles', 48; Daemonolo-
gica, 112 f.; ghost, 113; allusion to
King James, 118 n; s. v. Marlowe, 120;
no Pre-Macbeth, 150; Psalm, 214;
Russia, 231; Aleppo and 'the Tiger',
233; "the shipman's card", 260; ed.
by Liddell, 264; More borrowed ideas,
280, 281, 284, 288.

MacCallum, of Sydney, reg. Kyd, 128 n 1.
MacMillan's Magazine, 271.
MacMillan, Michael, 151.

Maçon, Anton le, transl. of 'Decameron',
60 n 2.

'Mad Tom', 24, 25, 177.
Magellan, 223 ff.
Maginn, Dr., 7.

'Maid's Complaint for Want of a Dil
doul, The', 190.

'Maid's Metamorphosis, The', 173.
Maine, Duc du, and Love's L. L., 118 n.
Malone and his Variorum Edition, xv,

4, 21, 22 and n, 26, 32, 36, 37, 39, 43,
47, 64 n, 66 n 1, 78, 81 and n, 84, 92 n,
101, 103, 117, 127, 131, 137 n, 138 n 5,
140 n 3, 147 n 2, 148, 166 and n 5,
168, 169, 172, 175, 179, 195, 224, 226
n 3, 231 n 1, 235, 237 n 2, 262 n 3, 266,
285, 287, 290.

Malory, Le Morte Darthur, 158, 159.
'Man shall have his mare again, The', a
proverb, 187, cf. 270.

Mandeville, headless men, 229 n.
Manners, Books on Good, 116, [S. R(ob-
son) wrote a Court of civill Courtesie,
1591].

Manningham, John, refers to 'Gl' In-
ganni', 71.

Mantuanus, 2, 11, 20.
Maps, 257 seq.

Marianus, and Sh.'s last two sonnets, 44.
Marlowe, Christopher, 2, his translation

of Ovid's 'Amores', 22; alludes to the
Venus and Adonis story, 26; trans-
lation of the first book of the 'Phar-

salia', 37 and n; Benvolio compared
with Malvolio, 71 n 3; influence of
Hero and Leander, 90 seq.; 'Edward II.'
and 'Richard II.', 92; the name Mena-
phon, 107 n3; Daemonologica, 112-3;
s. v. Contemporary Personages, 118 n;
referred to by Jonson, 119; influence
of his dramatic works, 120 seq., cf.
132 n; reg. 'Caesar and Pompey', 148;
'Come live with me', 179; the undis-
covered country, etc., 282; "sea of
tears", 284; reg. Fastaff's argumen-
tation on honour, 288.
Marocco, the dancing horse, 118 n.
Mar-Prelate Controversy, the, 118 n.
Mars, the planet, 243.

Marston, quotes ballad of Arthur, 159;
s. v. borrowed ideas, 280.
Martorell, s. v. Bandello, 65.
Martyr, Peter, 223, 226 n 1.
Masks, 62, 153-4.

Masson, Dr., ed. of Milton, 6, 238.
Masuccio, s. v. Brooke, 84.
Matkowsky, 267.

Mauntz, von, 117 n 4.

'Measure for Measure', its source a play
by Whetstone, 1, 136; s. v. Ovid, 30;
names of the source altered, 64; s. v.
Cinthio, 66; s. v. Brooke, 83; 'Hero
and Leander', 93, 96, 101; the duke
in the play probably modelled after
King James, 118 n; a motif perhaps
taken from 'Cambyses', 137; s. V.
Moralities, 153; "Take, O, take those
lips away', 187; the decalogue, 206;
Paternoster, 207; Graces, 220; Bible
reminiscence, 221; Russia, 231;
Zodiac, 244; death sleep, 275;
"tooth of time", 285; "Go to your
bosom", etc., 287; punishments of the
soul, 289.

Meissner, Programme on Twelfth Night,

69 n.
Melanchthon, 17.

Mendoza, Diego Hurtado de, 74.
Mendoza, Lopez de, 29 n.
Mercator, 237, 257 and n, 258-261.
'Merchant of Venice', based on an old
play, 1, 144, cf. 255; s. v. Ovid, 28,
30; s. v. Plutarch, 41; s. v. Boccaccio,
65; allusion to Troilus story, 79;
ducats, 84; s. v. Lyly's Euphues, 104
124;
and n; Marlowe, 120, 123 and
Kyd, 131; the name Stephano, 138;
s. v. Masks, 153; 'Gernutus', 167;
Geneva Bible, 200; s. v. Apocrypha,
202, 203; the decalogue, 206; s. v.
Graces, 220; Mexico, 233; harmony

n,

of spheres, 241; Maps, 260; metem-
psychosis, 279; the weeping philo-
sopher, 279; the world a stage, 279.
Mercury, The Planet, 243.

Meres, Palladis Tamia by, 25 n, 131 n,
149.

Mermaid Tavern, witcombats at, 105.
Merry Wives of Windsor, its plot drawn
from Italian tales, 2, 67; Lily's Gram-
mar, 14; Ovid and 'Mad Tom', 24-5;
Giovanni Fiorentino and Straparola,
67 and n; fairies, etc., 113, 132, cf.
113 n; s. v. Contemporary personages,
118 n; Dr. Faustus, 126; possible in-
fluence of Jonson, 138; hypothesis of
an old play, 145, 146; s. v. Mysteries
and Moralities, 152; s. v. 'Robin
Hood', 163; s. v. 'Constancy of Su-
sanna', 166; "Songs and sonnets",
168 n 1; 'Fortune my foe', 172; 'Green-
sleeves', 174; Have I caught my hea-
venly jewel?' 174; 'Come live with
me', 179; 'Peer out, peer out', 183;
'And down, down, adown-a', 189;
'Gillian of Brainford', 192; "The Book
of Riddles', 192, 193; 137th metrical
Psalm, 218; the 'Old Hundredth', 219;
Guiana, 228; the Indies, 233; the
spelling 'Etna', 264; cf. n 2; 'Cotsall',
265; the word baille, 268.
Merseburger Zaubersprüche, 185.
Metellus, his Atlas, 259.
Meteors, 248.

Mexico, 233.

Middle Temple, Twelfth Night played
in the hall of, in 1602, 251.
Middleton, Thomas, his 'Witch' and 'Mac-
beth', 113 n 4, cf. 114; s. v. More
borrowed ideas, 286.
'Midsummer Night's Dream', apparently
not founded on any plot-source, 2;
Ovid, 22, 23, 27, 30; Plutarch, 41;
resemblance with the Diana and Gl'In-
tricati, 73; Chaucer and, 77, 78, 80;
Spenser's "Tears of the Muses', 90;
s. v. Marlowe's 'Hero', etc., 93, 101 n 2;
fairies, 113; "the imperial votaress",
118 n; Southampton's mother, 118 n;
'Spanish Tragedy', 129; Puck's fore-
runner is Lyly's Cupido, 132; Puck's
apology in the epilogue of, 134; s. v.
Mysteries and Moralities, 152; s. v.
Masks, 153; Huon of Bordeaux, 162;
"The man shall have his mare again'
(a proverb) 187, 270; Robin Good-
fellow, 191; s. v. Sphere, 241; the
planet moon, 242; 'watery moon', 242;
the planet Venus, 243; the lode-star,

247; 'lanthorn', 265; Puck is a fairy,
267; the poet's "fine frenzy", 281;
ivy and the elm, 283; reg. the "rose
distill'd", 287.

Milton, John, on Sh.'s lack of learning
and art, 6.

Mirabeau, xvII, XVIII.

Miracle de Oton, s. v. Boccaccio, 60.
Mirror for Magistrates, 85, 141, 285.
Misogonus, 175, 190 n 1.

Mitchell, A. F., 49.

Modern Language Association of America,
63 n 4, 128 n 2, 149 n 3, 266.
Moestlinus, Mich., 238.

Moltke, see Gericke.

Molyneux, 257 n, 258, 261, 262 n 1.
Mömpelgard, Count, alluded to by Sh.,
118 n.

Monarcho (Love's L. L.) 118 n.
'Monsieur Mingo', 177.

Montaigne, influence of, 2, 51 seq.; reg.

the pedant of the Italian comedy, 71
n 1; s. v. Cannibals, 228; Miss Hooker's
article and Mr. Hazlitt's view, 266;
Socrates's thoughts on death, 275, 54.
Montemayor, Jorge de, 2, 70, 72-73,
145, 156.

Moon, the planet, 242.
Moralities, 2, 152.

More, Sir Thomas, and Lily's Grammar, 13.
Morley, Henry, 52 n.

Morley, Lord, translation of Petrarch,
72 n 2.

Morley Thomas, First Booke of Balletts,
172; Consort Lessons, 178.

Mornay, Ph. de, 275.

Morsbach, Professor, 119.

Moryson, Fynes, Itinerary, 256 n.
Mosse and his mare, 187, 270 (nothing
more is known of the ballad).
Mothe, La, in Love's L. L., 118 n.
Moulton, 291 n.

'Much Ado about Nothing', its source, 2,
65, 72; Lily's grammar, 15; s. v. Ovid,
30; alleged allusion to Mendoza's 'Laza-
rillo', 74; allusion to Troilus story,
79; Hero and Leander', 93; 'Spanish
Trag.', 129 and n 2; Lyly's watchmen,
132; reg. a Pre-Much-Ado, 145, 146;
s. v. Masks, 153; reg. Huon of Bor-
deaux, 163; reg. Adam Bell, 164;
Percy's 'Friar of Orders Gray' and,
168; The god of love', 173-4; 'Heigh
ho! for a husband!' 175; 'Light o'
Love', 177; 'Sick, sick', 180; 'hey
nonny, nonny', 190; ‘A Hundred Merry
Tales', 191; "it is not so", etc., 194;
Bel and the Dragon, 202; s. v. Eccle-

siasticus, 203; Marriage Service, 207 f.;
reg. Prester John, the Great Cham,
and the Pigmies, 236; s. v. Astrology,
239; "born under Saturn", 244; "the
north star", 247; "bears will not bite
one another", 284.
Mulliner, Thomas, 180.

Münchener Beiträge, 102 n 2.
Münster, his Cosmography, 226, 227 n.
Murray, Dr. J. A. H., see New English
Dictionary.

'Musselburgh Field', 187, 270.

'My heart is full of woe', a quotation,
175, 180.

'My Mind to me a Kingdom is', 177.
'My Robin is to the Greenwood gone',
163, 178.

Mysteries, 2, 152.

Mythology, Shakespeare's Knowledge of,
29, 30, 40.

Nares, Glossary, 245 n.

Nash, Thomas, his mention of the Pre-
Hamlet, 36, 127; joint author with
Marlowe of 'Dido', 127; refers to 'King
of Fairies', 163 n 1; quotes ‘Monsieur
Mingo', 177; mentions 'Green Sleeves'
and 'Peg-a Ramsey', 179; 'Gillian
of Brainford' referred to by, 192;
quotes 'Fe, fa, fum', etc., 193; poss-
ible allusion to Child Rowland story,
by, 194 n 1; Tibault, 195; 'Corn, wine,
and oil', 217 n 2; on the puzzling
motions of Mars, 243; astrological
notions, 246, cf. n 1 and n 2; notice
of The Garland of Goodwill, 270 n 1;
s. v. Borrowed Ideas, 289.

Natal, 249.

'Nation The', a forgery (?), 286.
Navarre, Novels of the Queen of, 8 n 1.
Navarre, Henry, alluded to in Love's L.
L., 118 n.

Naylor, E. W., 'Shakespeare and Music',

157 n 2 and n 3; 174, 183, 190, 291.
Nevill, A., translated Livy, 36.
'New Courtly Sonet, of the Lady Green-
sleeves, A', 174.

'Newe Ballad, A', 166 n 4, 167 n.
Newington Butts, 127 n 3, 143.
'News from Scotland', 115.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 238.

Nichols, John, 'Progresses', 22n, 78, 153 n.
Six Old Plays', published by, 3.
Nicholson, Dr., ed. Scott's 'Discovery',
44 n 1; 113 n 2 and n 4.
"Nineteenth Century', s. v. Harsnett, 109.
Noble Acts of Arthur, The', 158.

Noctes Shaksperianae, 4 n.
Nordenskiöld, 231, 258 n.
North, see Plutarch.

Notes and Queries, 13 n 1, 38, 151 n 2,
194 n 2, 267, 279, 280, 290 n 2.
Nowell, his Small Catechism, 48 n.

'O death, rock me asleep', 178.
'O dere Lady Elysabeth', 166 n 4.
'O mistress mine', 178.
'O sweet Oliver', 179.

'O the twelfth day of December', 187, 270.
Oeftering, 44 n 1.

Oesterley, his reprint of the C Merry
Tales, 191.

'Oh doe me no harme', 181.
'Oh! oh! for a husband', 175.
Ohle, his work on 'Cymbeline', xiv, 60 ff.
'Old Ballads, The' (1723), 66.
'Old Simon the King', 190.
Olivetan, 203.

'On the twelfth day of December, 187,270.
Ordish, T. F., 'Shakespeare's London',
219 f., 250, 264.

Ortelius, his maps, 259, 261.
'Othello', XIV, the plot derived from
Cinthio, 2, 66; 'counters', 10 n 1;
Ovid, 30; Pliny, 37; 'anthropophagi',
40, 227. 229; Rabelais, 57; s. v. Mar-
lowe, 120; Kyd, 131; supposition of
an old play, 145, 146, 255; quotation
from "Take thy old cloak about thee',
169; 'Willow, willow', 181; Pater-
noster, 207; Psalms, 212; s. v. Canni-
bals, 227; Ewaipanoma, 229; s. v.
Indies, 232; Aleppo, 233; abiogenesis,
236; the bear and the guards of the
pole, 246-7; the pole-star, 247; Hart's
edition of, 265; s. v. More borrowed
ideas, 276, 286, 289.

Ovid, 'Venus and Adonis' and, 2; 'Lu-
crece' and, ib., cf. 7; read at school,
11 and n; a favourite author with Sh,
21, cf. p. xx; many traces of 21 seq.;
s. v. Virgil, 31; Fama drawn by, 79;
s. v. Chaucer, 80; s. v. earthquakes,
262; on sleep, 280; immortality of
verse, 281; reg. ivy and elm, 283;
s. v. 'tooth of time', 285; reg. Hecuba
and Ajax, 285, 286; Mr. Collins on, 286.
Oviedo, 223.

Owl, the baker's daughter, 194.

'Paedantius', a Latin play, 267.
Painter, William, and source of 'All's
Well', 2, 65; and Lucrece, 7; not

used for 'Timon', 41, 143; and the
Romeo story, 83-5; and Titus An-
dronicus, 66 n, 266.

Palaestra, 135 n, 268, (Eckhardt) 152 n.
'Palamon and Arsett', mentioned by
Henslowe, 78.

Pallas, 244 n 2.
'Pandosto', see Greene.

'Panges of Love' 166, 167 n.
Paracelsus, 291.

'Paradise of Dainty Devises, The', 180.
Parker Society, 219, 262 n 3.
Pasqualigo, 73.

'Passionate Pilgrim, The', 2; the Venus
and Adonis sonnets in, 26; Ovid, 27;
Dowland and Spenser, 118 n; s. v.
'Come live with me', 179.
Paston, Edward, translates a few leaves
of Montemayor, 72 n 3.
Patagonia, cf. 224, 271.

Paul's, School of St., 13; (Powles) 32 n;
its fine organ, 219, 264.
Peckham, Sir George, 109 ff.
'Peer out, peer out', 183.

Peele, George, 2, a probable lapsus of,
48; traces in Sh. of, 135 f.; "Three
merry men', 183; s. v. Child Rowland,
193.

Peg-a Ramsey, 179.

Pembroke, Mary, Countess of, her 'An-
tonie' had no influence on Sh., 89,
148; translated Ph. de Mornay's Dis-
course of Life and Death, 275.
Pembroke, Lord, his Players 143.
Pepysian Collection 175, 182.
Percy, Bishop, his Reliques, 25, 159,

165, 167, 170, 172, 177, 180, 182,
186; his Friar of Orders Gray', 168,
270; his Folio MS., 159, 160, 161 n 3;
169, 186.

'Percy and Douglas, Song of', 156.
Percy Society, 64 n 1; 159, 186, 270;
165; 166; 190 n 1.

'Pericles', Sh. wrote part of, XVI; its
source Gower and Twine, 2, 81; Sid-
ney's Arcadia, 103; s. v. Daemonolo-
gica, 115; emblems in, 117; s v. Flet-
cher and Beaumont, 139; whether
there was a Pre-Pericles, 146:
Bible reminiscence, 221; harmony of
spheres, 241.

Perrett, W., 143 n 1.

Persius, read in highest class, 10, n 4,
11; violets springing from the grave,
284.
Peru, 225.

Petrarca, indirect influence of, 72 cf.
n 2, 102.

Piers the Plowman, 150.
Pigafetta, 225, 226 and n 3.
Pigmies, 236, 237.

Pilate, Pontius, 284.

'Pills to purge Melancholy', 175, 179,
187.

'Pillycock', etc., 183.

'Pimlyco', its date is not 1596, 81 n 2.
Pinkie, Battle of, 187.

Pitcairn, R., Criminal Trials, 115 n 1
and n 3.

Plancius, Petrus, 257 and n, 259, 260.
Plato, cf. 44; 'Alcibiades', 44 n 3, 277;
harmony of spheres, 241 and n 2;
parallels from, 274 seq.; cf. Socrates.
Plautus, cf. 1, 2; read in highest class,

11; influence of, 32-34; fountain
head of mistaken identities, 70; his
'Amphitruo' the basis of Jack the
Juggler, 265; the braggart and the
pedant, 266.

Playford, s. v. Three Merry Men, 183.
'Pleasant New Ballad of Two Lovers, A',
175 n, 180.

'Pleasant Song made by a Souldier, A',
170.

'Please one and please all', 171.
Pliny, 2; influence of, 36, 37; cf. 265;
reg. headless men, 229 n1; his 'Morals',
275.

Plummer, Elizabethan Oxford, 78.
Plutarch, source of Caesar, Coriolanus,
Antony, Timon, 1; influence generally
on Sh., 40, 41; the word 'misanthro-
pos', 40; Mids. N. Dream and, 77, 78;
s. v. Camden, 108; s. v. Pre-Timon,
143; supplied basis of 'Caesar', 148;
and of Antony', ib.; reg. his geography,
256; Socrates's thoughts on death, 275.
Poggio, wrote 'Facetiae', 56 n.
Pole-star, the, 247.

Prayer Book, The, see Common Prayer.
Premierfait, Laurens du, transl. of De-
cameron, 60 n 2.

Prester John, 163, 236.
Preston, Thomas, 2, 137.

Prichard, H. H., on Setebos, 271.
Proclus, 279.

Proescholdt, cf. Warnke.
Proverbs, reg. 2, 272, 290.

Psalms, taken from the Great Bible, 197;
echoes from, 211, etc.

Psalms, Metrical, 2, 217f.; Evans sings
first line of the 137th Psalm, 166;
the Old Hundredth, 174; still sung
in Scotland, 271.
Pseudo-Shakespearean Plays, 151.
Ptolemy, 260 n, 'Ptolemaic system', 237.
Pueriles Confabulatiunculae, 10.
Purchas, His Pilgrims, 226 n 3;

227

n 2; 229 n 1;, 234 n 5; 235 n and
n 1; 249 n 2; His Pilgrimage, 232,
234 n 1.

Puritans 118 n; 219.
Puttenham, refers to Southern, 58 n 2;

a pseudo-Chaucerian 'Prophecy' and,
80 and n 3; on ballad-singers, 155;
refers to "Topas', 156, 162; s. v. 'I
cannot come every day to woo', 176;
s. v. More Borrowed Ideas, 287.
Pynson prints books on destruction of
Jerusalem, 43.

Pythagoras, harmony of spheres, 241;
metempsychosis 279.

Quarterly Review, 77 n; 103, 104, 105
n 1.

Queen's Men, 140 and n 3; 141; 142.
'Quellen des weltlichen Dramas', cf.
Brandl, 190 n 1.

Quiney, Richard, and sons, their know-
ledge of Latin, 39; the elder Q. wrote
a letter to Sh., 39 n.

Quintilian, reg. 'geld the commonwealth',
38; Jupiter spitting on the Alps, 39.

Rabelais, xIv; 2; 55 seq.; cf. 266, 288.
Racine knew Heliodorus, 44 n.
Ralegh, Sir W., 2, 222; Guiana and co-
lonial enterprizes, 228–230; the seven
ages of man's life, 279.
'Ralph Roister Doister', 188.
Ramusio, 223, 225.

Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune, 151.
Ravenscroft, Edward, his 'Pamelia', 182,
183; his 'Deuteromelia', 182. Tho
mas R., on Titus Andronicus, 149.
Ray's Proverbs, 290.

-

Reclam, ed. of 'Lazarillo de Tormes',
74 n.

Reed, Edwin, 273, 282, 286, 290.
Reed, Isaac, 4, 235.

Registers of the Stationers' Company,
7, 36, 47, 48, 49, 55, 56 and n, 64 n 1,
66, 74, 81, 82 n 1, 84 n 1, 91, 140, 142,
148, 150 and n 2, 161 and n 4, 164,
166, 167, 169, 170 n, 171, 173, 176,
178, 179, 181, 188, 191, 192, 232, 269,
270 (cf. also Arber).

Rhodes, Hugh, Boke of Nurture, 116.
Rhymes, Popular, 2, 183 f.
'Richard II.', founded on Holinshed, 1;
Esop, 17, 19; s. v. Ovid, 29; the word
'geld', 38; reg. Sh.'s French pronun-
ciation, 51 n; compared with 'Edward
II.', 92; s. v. Marlowe, 120, 124; no
Pre-Richard II., 150; reference to King
Cophetua, 165; s. v. Bible used in the
Church, 201; The Catechism, 205;
Lord's Prayer, 206; "eye of heaven",
243; Lyly's Euphues, 105, 106; Psalm,
213; fixed stars, 247; 'shooting star',
249; reg. Anaxarchus, 279; the flower
and the serpent, 281.

'Richard III.', based on Holinshed and

Hall, 1; "cross-row", 12; Caesar's
'Commentaries', 20; Seneca, 35; the
word cacodemon, 40; ghost, 113; Mar-
lowe, 120, 121, 123; 'Spanish Tragedy',
129; a probable reminiscence of Lyly,
133; The True Tragedie of Richard
the Third, 142; s. v. Elizabethan Bibles,
199; watery moon, 242.

Riche, Barnabe, and the source of Twelfth
Night, 1, 68-70.

Riddles, The Book of, 192, 290.
Rimbault, Musical Illustrations of Percy's
Reliques, 168, 172, 177, 180 n; Songs
and Ballads, 176; s. v. 'A Song to the
Lute', 180.

Rio de Janeiro, 228.

Ritson, Collection of nursery rhymes,

183.

Ritter, Dr., 187.

Robert of Brunne, 141 n 1.
Robert of Gloucester, 141 n 1.
Robertson, J. M., 34 n 2, 53 and n, 54,
72 n 2.

Robertson, T., and Lily's Grammar, 13.
Robin, see Hood, and Goodfellow.
Robinson, Clement, A Handefull of plea-
sant delites, 166 n 4, 169, 173, 174,
181, 190 n 1, 269.

Roche, Walter, teacher at Stratford, 11.
Rochford, Viscount, 178.

Rohde, der Griechische Roman, 44 n 1.