A! Robyn, Joly Robyn, 170.
ABC-book with the Catechism, 2; a first
reading book, 9; Sh. and, 12; a note
on, 48; s. v. Graces, 220.
Abel, legends about, 194.
Abyssinia, 236.

Academy, The, reg. Cain's jawbone, 194.
Account of the Revels, 43 and n.
Account of Magalhaens' Voyage, An, 226.
'Adam Bell', etc, Puttenham refers to,
156; a note on, 164.
Admiral's Men, 142-3.
Adrian IV.,=Breakespeare, 108 n 3, 267.
Æsop, 2, his fables read at schools, 10,

11 n; the poet's knowledge of, 17 seq. Africa, 237 and n.

'Agamemnon', 42 and n 2.

'Aged Lover renounceth Love, The', 168. Akeroyde, 175.

'Alcibiades', 277.

Aldus, ed. of Ovid, 21 n, 23 n.
Alençon, Duke, allusion in Love's L. L.
to, 118 n.
Aleppo, 233, 234.

Alexander, Sir Wm., 2; a possible echo
from his 'Darius' in The Tempest, 139;
his 'Julius Caesar', 140, 148.
Alleyn papers, a forgery in, 81 n 2.
Allnutt, W. H., s. v. ABC-book, 48, 49.
All's Well that Ends Well, its source
Boccaccio, 2, 65; Esop, 19; s. v.
Ovid, 30; allusion to Troilus story,
79; s. v. Brooke, 83; Hero and Lean-
der, 96; an older play? 146 n 3; s. v.
King Cophetua, 166; 'Your marriage
comes by destiny', 184; 'Was this
fair face, 188; s. v. Geneva Bible,
199; s. v. Hist. of Susanna, 202;
'Defiles the pitchy night', 203; s. v.
Indies, 233; the planet Mars, 243;
blazing star', 249; reg. travels, 254.

S. V. =

Alps, the goitre in the, 230 n 1.
Amazons, 226.

America, 226 f.; cf. 232; cf. Brazil, Indies, Mexico.

Amyot, his French transln. of Heliodorus, 44 n 1; cf. 40 n.

Anacreon, 44; s. v. Ronsard, 58, 59 and n 1; cf. 282. Anaxarchus, 279.

Ancient Ballads and Broadsides, Lilly, 166 n 4, 171 n 2, 187, 190 n 1, 191. Anglia, 29, 77 n, 85 n, 91 n, 170, 190 n 2.

Anne, Queen, stormy voyage in 1589, 114f.; patron of masks, 153. Anne Baleyn, Queen, 178. Antidote against Melancholy, 181 and n; 187; 269.

Antony and Cleopatra, its source Plu

tarch, 1, 40; s. v. Ovid, 29, 30, s. v. Pliny, 37; Sh. not indebted to Daniel's or Garnier's plays, 89; cf. 147-8; s. v. Mysteries and Moralities, 152; Psalms, 211; The Nile, with a note on abiogenesis, 235; Sphere, 241; harmony of spheres, ib.; the planet moon, 242; the planet sun, 243. Apocrypha, 2, 197, 201.

Arber, Edward, Transcript of the Statio

ners' Registers, 5, 8 n 3, 36, 47, 48, 49, 66, 74, 81, 82 n 1, 117 n 1, 150, 166, 169, 170, 173, 176, 178, 179, 181, 188, 191, 226, 228, 270 (cf. also Registers of the Stationers); his Reprints (Sidney's Apology) 44 n 1; (Puttenham) 58 n 2, 80, 156, 176; 287; (Watson's Hekatompathia) 102 n 1; (Lyly's Euphues) 104, 105, 106; (Gosson's Abuse) 144 n 1; (Tottel's Miscellany) 168; A Handefull of pleasant delites (in Engl. Scholar's Library)

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regarding;

166 n 4, 169, 174, 181, 190 n 1; The
first Three English books on America,
223, 225 n 3, 227 n 1, 229 n, 237
n 2; An English Garner, 234 and n 3,
4; 235 n; 279; Anthologies, 172, 177,
186.

Archiv für das Studium der neueren
Sprachen, 51, 112 n, 118 n, 151 n 1,
154, 231 n 1.

Arctic Voyages, 231.

Arden Shakespeare edition, The, s. v.
Cinthio, 66 n 2; Cymbeline 73 n 2;
267; Caesar, 151 n 3; Othello, 265.
ef. Hart, Dowden, etc.
Aries, the Ram, 244.

Ariosto, s. v. Bandello, 65, 66; and The
Shrew, 170, cf. 70; A. and Sh., 72.
Ariston of Chios, 276.
Aristotle, and 'moral' philosophy, 108;
on Pigmies, 237; on sphere of fire,
239 n 1; substance of stars, 247; on
earthquakes, 262; name mentioned by
Sh., 279.

Arthur, Romances of, 2; read by school-

boy, 8 n 1; referred to by Sh., 158 f.
'As I walk'd forth one May morning', 189.
'As I went to Walsingham', 270.
'As you came from the holy-land', 186,
270.

As You Like It, the plot drawn from
Lodge's Rosalynde, 2, 107: counters,
10 n 1; Ovid, 25; s. v. Ovid, 29, 30;
Pliny, 36; Rabelais, 56; names of
source altered, 64; s. v. Chaucer, 79;
allusion to Troilus story, 79; allusion
to Marlowe, 90, 118 n; Hero and Le-
ander, 93; s. v. Euphues, 104 n;
Hymen, apparently later addition,
xvi; books for good manners and on
duelling, 116, 117; s. v. Campaspe;
134; Furness hypothetizes an earlier
play, 150; Robin Hood ballads, 163;
O Sweet Oliver', 179; 'hey nonny,
nonny, 190: s. v. Beast Fables, 195;
s. v. Geneva Bible, 200; s. v. Catechism,
206; Marriage Service, 208, 209;
Psalms, 212, 215; 'a South-sea of dis-
covery' 225; the Indies, 233; harmony
of spheres, 241; on travels, 254; a
Socratic idea, 274; metempsychosis,
279; the world a stage, ib.; the seven
ages, ib.

Ashby-de-la-Zouche, school at, 11.
Ashley, Robert, the books he read as
a boy, 8 n 1.

Asia, cf. 232.

Augustine, St., 278, 287, 290.
Ayrer, Jacob, Schoene Phaenicia, 65;
Schoene Sidea, 150.

'Bacchus' Bountie', 174.

'Bacon, Famous History of Friar', 181.
Bacon, Sir Francis, the term 'comedy
of errors', 32 n; Sh. and B., 108; s.
v. Books on Duels, 116; on the goitre,
230 n 1; believes in abiogenesis, 236;
believes in astrology, 239; substance
of stars, 247; comets 248 n 2; not in
advance of his time in natural science,
291.

Bagford Ballads, see Ballad Society.
Bährholtz, s. v. Bandello, 65 n.

Bailey, Sir Wm., pamphlet on Sh. and
Montaigne, 54 n.

Ballads, 2: 155 ff.; Folk-Ballads, 163;
Art-Ballads, 165.

Ballad Society, Roxburghe Ballads: 5;
(Mad Tom) 25; 93 n
(Cophetua)

165 n 1; (Susanna) 166 and n 2);
(Jephthah) 167; (Calino) 170; (I
cannot come every day to woo)
176; (My heart is full of woe) 180
(Willow, Willow) 182 and n; (reg.
Mosse and the mare) 187, 270; (Rob.
Hood Bds.) 268; (Faustus, and Titus)
269. s. v. Bagford Ballads: (Fortune
my Foe) 173; (dildo) 190.

Ballet, William, his Lute Book, 178.
Ballmann, on Sh. and Chaucer, 77 n.
Bandello, source of Much Ado, 2, 65;
influence on Sh. of, 65-66; Gl' In-
gannati and Twelfth Night. 67 f., 70:
and the Romeo story, 84, 85; and
Titus Andronicus, 146 n 1.

Barendsz, Willem, s. v. Arctic Voyages,
231.

Barnes, Barnabe, Sonnets, 102.
Bartlett, Concordance, 227.
Batmann, uppon Bartholome De Proprie-
tatibus Rerum, 238 n 1, 240 n 3, 241
n 1, 243, 248 n 2.

Baynes, T. S., What Sh. learnt at school,
7, 8n; 10 seq.; on Titania, 22; dis-

cussed 'Venus and Adonis' and 'Lu-
crece', 29 n 1, 31; reg. Talaeus, 38

and n.
Bear, the Great,
246-7.

and the Lesser,

Beaumont, and Sh., 138f., 154 n; his
Masque (1613) 154 and n 2; ballad
of Arthur, 159; 'write in water', 282.
Bedlam, New Mad Tom of, see Mad Tom.

Beethoven, xx.

Beggar and a King, A Song of a, 165.
'Bell my Wife', 169.

Belleforest, retells Saxo's story of Hamlet,

36; s. v. Bandello, 65; s. v. Gl'In-
gannati, etc., 68, 70; s. v. Pre-Hamlet,
128; his edition of Münster's Cosmo-
graphy, 226.

Bermuda Islands, 230.
Berners, Lord, 162.

Besant, Anne, s. v. Daemonologica, 115
n 3.

Bestrafte Brudermord, Der, 128 n 2.
Beverley, s. v. Bandello, 65.
Bevis of Hamptoun, 2; read by a school-
boy, 8 n 1; alluded to by Puttenham,
156; allusion by Sh. to, 160.
Bible, The, one of the poet's chief
sources, xx, 2, 11; s. v. Daemonologica,
116 n; s. v. Alexander, 139; Eliza-
bethan Bibles, 196 seq.; the Geneva,
the Bishops', the Great, the Authorised,
the Geneva-Tomson, 196 f. passim; the
French, 203; the Latin, 204; a note
reg. the Bishops', 271; (cf. p. 19).
Bibliography, note on, xiv.

Birch, William, a ballad by, 173, 269.
Biron, allusion to, in Love's L. L, 118 n.
Bismarck, 287 n.

Blackstone, Sir Wm., 172.

Blades, William, Sh. and Typography,

291.

Blaeu, his Atlas, 259; globes by, 262.
Blakeway, 194.

Blind, Karl, his uncritical review of
Feis, 54 n.

Blundevile, his Exercises, 238, 239, 247
and n 1, 248 and n 2, 257 and n.
Boaistuau, Romeo story, 84, 85.
Boas, F. S., ed. of Kyd, 91 n 2, 127 f.;
reg. Sh.'s predecessors, 119.
Boccaccio, read by Ashley, 8 n 1; in-
fluence on Sh., 60f., cf. pp. 1, 2.
Bodleian Library, xm; Aldus's ed. of
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reprint of an early ABC, 49 n; s. v.
Corrigenda, 266.

Bolle, Dr. Thomas Morley', etc., 172 n 1.
Bond, R. W., ed. of Lyly, 73 n 2, 135;

essay on Lyly, 103 n 2: Sh. and 'Eu-
phues', 104, 107.

'Bonny Sweet Robin', 178.

Boodle, Mr. R. W. on the 'Rare Triumphs',
etc., 151.

Borghini, Raffaello, author of La Donna
Constante, 83 n.

Borrowed Ideas, 44 n 3, 54, 272 f.

Boswell, variorum editor, reg. Romeo,
85; reg. Rowley, 138.
Boswell-Stone, 'Sh.'s Holinshed', 64, 117;
s. v. Lodge, 107 n 1; s. v. King Iohn,
142 and n 1; s. v. Arthurian Legends,
158 and n 1; reg. When Adam delved',
184; Non nobis, 216; cf. 265.
'Boy and the Mantle, The', 159.
Bradshaw, H., on the ABC-book, 49.
Brahe, Tycho de, 248 n 2.
Brandes, G., 291 n.

Brandl, Prof., XIII, XV; on influence of
Seneca, 34, 35; s. v. Montaigne, 53 n;
s. v. Boccaccio, 60 n 3; s. v. Mendoza's
Lazarillo de Tormes, 75; on English
drama, 119; on Sh. and Marlowe 120n;
his work on 'Shakspere', 132 n; dis-
cusses the relation between Sh. and
an old Timon play, 143; on Richard III.,
143 1; his reprint of The Longer
thou livest', 171 n1; ed. of 'Misogonus',
190 ʼn 1; on Sh.'s predecessors, 272.
Brandon, Samuel, 'Virtuous Octavia', 148.
Brazil, 227-229.

Breakespeare, see Adrian.

Brinsley, school-books, 10 n 4: translates
'Sententiae Pueriles', 47.

British Museum, the, x; Lily's Grammar
in, 13 f., 47 n; editions of Æsop printed
in England, 20; Googe's Proverbes,
in, 29 n; reg. Allnutt's work, 49 n;
'Volpone' with Jonson's autograph,
55 n; Florio, ib; copy of Frederyke of
Jennen, 63 and n 2: copy of Robert
Jones's Book of Songs, 171 n 3; copy
of Jack the Giant Killer, 193 n 2;
copies of Bibles, 198.
Britwell Library, The, 269.
Brome, The Jovial Crew, 181.
Brooke, Arthur, his poem on Romeus

and Juliet familiar to Sh., 2, 82 seq.;
cf. 31 n, 105 n 2: reg. an older play,
147; beauty and virtue, 276 n 3; the
flower and the serpent, 281.
Browne, Sir Thomas, 298.

Brownists, referred to by Sh., 118 n.
Brunet, Bibliography, 66 n 2, 75.
Bruno, Giordano, no traces in Sh. of,
72 n 2.

Bullein, his Dialogue, 245 n.

Bullen, A. H., edition of Marlowe, 37 n,

120 n, 127 n 1; More Lyrics from
Elizabethan Song-books, 172; 'Old
Plays', 173 n 1; will publish Hens-
lowe's Diary, 268; Lyrics from Eliz.
song-books, 281 n 1.

Burdens, 189.

Burns, Robert, s. v. Peg-a Ramsey, 179.

Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 33 n,
175.

Byrd, 'Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs', 281.

C., R., 267.

Caesar, De Bello Gallico, 2, 20; read
at Ipswich school (1528), 11 n.
'Caesar, Julius', plot drawn from Plu-
tarch, 1, 40, cf. 41; counters, 10 n 1;
Spenser, 90; ghost in, 113; older plays
on Caesar, 147 f.; and 'A Warning
for Fair Women', 151; the pole-star,
247; s. v. Borrowed Ideas, 278 n 1.
'Caesar and Pompey', 147-8.
Cain, legends about, 194.
Calahorra, Diego Ortuñez de, and "Phoe-
bus, he, that wandering knight so
fair", 75.

'Calen o Custure me', 169; what the
words mean, 268.
Calvin, 203.

Cambridge Antiquarian Communications,
s. v. ABC book, 49.

Camden, and the apologue of the Belly
and the Members, 108; and Cordelia's
answer, 141; s. v. Guiana, 228; his
maps, 261; reg. Proverbs, 290.
Campbell, Lord, on Sh.'s legal acquire-
ments, 291.

Cathay, 237.

Cato, his Maxims used at school, 10;
curious statement of Peele, 48.
Catullus, "no traveller returns", 282;
to write in water, 282; ulmo conjuncta
marito, 283; the ocean washing off
the guilt, 284; viam vorabit, 284.
'Cauld is the e'enin blast' by R. Burns, 179.
Caxton, William, supplied materials for
"Troilus and Cressida', 2, 81; reg.
mollis aer, ib., his Chronicle, 142 and
n 2; Reynard the Fox, 195.
Centlivre, Mrs., comedy of the Platonic
Lady, 189.

Century of Praise, 108 n 1.

Cham, the Great, 163, 236.
Chamberlain's Servants, The Lord, pro-
duce 'Historie of Ferrar', 33 n; very

Chariton, 65, 266.

Charlemagne Romances, 22 n; 162.
Charles II., 9.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, the plot of Troil. and
Cress. drawn from, 2; Pyramus and
Thisbe, 28; Lucrece, 29; his influence
on Sh. 77f.; Chanticleer and Pertelot,
195; astrological notions, 245-6; the
flower and the serpent, 281; the wood-
bine entwists the tree, 283; make
virtue of necessity, 284; Dantesque
idea, 289.

Chettle, Henry, (see Dekker), 79 n 2,

148; Greene's invective caused Sh.'s
displeasure, 107; 'Old Grissil', 190.
Child, Popular Ballads, 163 and n 3,
164 and n 2, 168, 187, 190 n, 268.
Child, C. G., on Euphuism, 103 f.
Child Rowland, 193.
China, xvII, 237.

Choyce Drollery, 269, 270.
Churchill, Dr., 'Richard III. up to Sh.',
135 n 1, 143 n 1.

Churchyard, Thomas translation of part
of Ovid's De Tristibus, 22; S. V.
Daniel, 85.

Cicero, read in schools, 11 and n; allusion
to De Officiis and De Oratore, 21;
reg. geld the commonwealth', 38;
Socrates on death, 275; government
likened to music, 278.
Cinthio, Giraldi, source of Othello, xiv,
2, 66; s. v. Bandello, 65; translated
into French, 66 n 2; s. v. Kyd, Soliman
and Perseda, 131; s. v. Whetstone,
136; s. v. Pre-Othello, 146.
Clarendon Press edition of Sh, remarks
on Josephus, 43; Wright and Cala-
horra, 75; s. v. Harsnett, 111; (Greene's
plays will be issued by the Clar. Press,
136 n 3); reg. 'Caesar and Pompey',
148 n 1; reg. 'Calen o Custure me',