Hudibras/Index
Abracadabra, a charm, 223, n, 2.
Aches, 192, n. 3; 293 and n. 1; 344.
Achievements, military, 55, n. 1.
Achitophel, 345 and n. 2.
Action on the case, 134 and n. 2.
Adam, picture of, 11, n. 3; his first green breeches, 25 and n. 2; Eve carved from his side, 296 and n. 1.
Addison, his censure of Butler, preface, 23.
Administerings, 312 and n. 5.
AEneas, his descent into hell, 23, n. 1.
AEolus, an attendant on fame, 138, n. 5.
Affidavit-hand, 285 and n. 2.
Affidavit-makers, 337 and n. 4.
Agamemnon, dagger of, 19, n. 3.
Aganda, story of, 53, n. 2.
Agrippa, Henry Cornelius, renowned for solid lying, 25; particulars respecting, 25 and n. 5: his dog suspected to be a spirit, 238 and n. 1, 2.
Ajax, slays a flock of sheep, 54, n. 2; the shield of, 59, n. 2.
Albert, archduke of Austria, 91, n. 1.
Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, 152 and n. 3.
Alborach, the ass of Mahomet, 14, n. 1.
Alchymists, or hermetic philosophers, 2S0, n. 1, 3.
Alcoran, 371 and n. 2.
Alimony, 309 and n. 5; or death, 432 and n. 1.
Allay and Alloy, 346 and n. 7.
Alligators, hung up, 370 and n. 3.
Almanacks, licenser of, 218, n. 5.
Amazons, the, 298 and n. 1.
America, supposed to have been discovered by the Britons, 44, n. 2.
Ammianus Marcellinus, fact related by, 53, n. 1.
Anabaptists, or Dippers, 24, n. 2; insist on immersion in baptism, 90, n. 3; 103 and n. 2; enemies to learning, 131, n. 2.
Anagram, 296 and n. 2.
Anaxagoras, the Ionic philosopher, 242 and n. 3; 243, n. 1, 2; opinion of, 248, n. 2.
Animalia, 129 and n. 3.
Animals, slaughtered by priests, 126 and n. 1.
Anothergates adventure, 101 and n. 1.
Anthroposophus, nickname of Dr Vaughan, 26, n. 1.
Antinomian principle, 182, n. 4.
Ants' eggs, 97 and n. 2.
Antwerp Cathedral, 216 and n. 5.
Apollo, oracle of, 156 and n. 3; petitions to, 49 and n. 3.
Appropinque, 105 and n. 4.
Aprons, blue, 362 and n. 1.
Aqua-vitæ, 406 and n. 2.
Aquinas, Thomas, 10, n. 4.
Arctophylax, 51 and n. 1.
Argyle, Earl of, sneer at, 206 and n. 1.
Arms, the law of. 111, n. 2; 112, 113, 115 and n. 1. Arsie-Versie, 112 and n. 2.
Aruspicy «iik1 Augury, 211 and n. 6.
Assembly of Divines, 35, n. 7; The great gorbellied idol, 125, n. 2.
Astrologers, impostures of, 257 and n. 1.
Astyagps, King of Media, his dream, 241 and n. 1.
Atoms, theories respecting, 44, n. 1; on the brains of animals, 259 and n. 1.
Attorney, confession of one, 312.
Augurs, determinations of the, 242, n. 1.
Augustus, tale respecting, 241 and n.3.
Averrhoes, 240; some account of, 210, n. 3.
Averruncate, meaning to eradicate, 34 and n. 1.
Ay, me! what perils do environ, &c., 86,
Babel, labourers of, 8.
Backgammon, 369 and n. 7.
Bacon, Roger, his brazen head, 155, n.3; 277, n. 2; some account of, 220, n. 2.
Bacrack, Hoccamore, and Mum, 406 and n. 3.
Baker, malignant, 387 and n. 3.
Baptism, 340 and n. 2.
Barber, John, monument erected by, to the memory of Butler, preface, 14.
Barclay, Dr, on shaving the beard, 141, n. 2.
Bardashing, 278 and n. 3.
Barebones, the leather-seller, 232 and n. 2.
Barnacles, turn soland geese, 351 and n. 2.
Barratry, 419 and n. 5.
Bassa, the illustrious, 168, n. 3.
Bassas, 406 and n. 5.
Bastile, 83.
Battery, action of, 419 and n. 1.
Bear, cubs of the, 130 and n. 1; shortness of its tail, 250 and n. 1.
Bear-baiting, 31 and n. 1; custom of, 117, n. 1.
Beards, custom of wearing, 14, n. 3; 15, n. 2,3; vow respecting, 15, n. 5; respect paid to, 141 and n. 1, 2; 142, n. 3; importance of, 430.
Beast, a game at cards, 304 and n. 3; number of the, 361 and n. 4.
Beaumont and Fletcher, quoted, 95, n. 1.
Becanns, Goropius, Teutonic spoken in Paradise, 11, n. 2.
Bed of Honour, 119 and n. 3.
Bees, generation of, 326 and n. 2.
Behmen, Jacob, 26, n. 1; 238 and n. 4.
Bell and the Dragon's chaplains, 125, n. 2.
Berenice's periwig, 247 and n. 1.
Biancafiore, love of Florio for, 168, n. 5.
Bibles, corrupted texts of, 326, 371 and n. 1.
Bilks, 227; meaning of the word, 227, n. 3.
Bill-running, custom of, 47, n. 4.
Birds, the speech of, 26 and n. 4; the mute of, 228 and n. 5; caught in nets, 237 and n. 1.
Birtha, supplants the Princess Rhodalind, 58, n.3.
Bishops, outcry against, compared to a dog with a black and white face, 63 and n. 5.
Blood, transfusion of the, 264 and n. 1.
Blows that bruise, 17 and n. 1.
Board, a two-inch one, 442 and n. 1.
Board her, 274 and n. 3.
Boccalini's Advertisement from Parnassus, used by Butler, 49, n. 3.
Bodin, John, an eminent geographer, 249 and n. 3.
Bolter, 128; a coarse sieve, 128, n. 1.
Bombastus, kept a devil's bird, 237 and n. 3.
Bond, Mr, strange sermon of, 33, n. 2.
Bongey, a Franciscan, 421 and n.3. Boniface VIII., Pope, 127; his ambition and insolence, 127, n. 1.
Bonner, Bishop, 193 and n. 5.
Book of Sports, 32, n. 1.
Booker, John, the astrologer, 226, n. 4; 257 and n. 3.
Boot, on the stocks, 173 and n. 5.
Boots, dissertation upon, 59, n. 4.
Borgia, Alexander, 149, n.3.
Borgia, Lucretia, 151, n. 3.
Bosworth-field, 107, n. 3.
Boutè-feus, 365 and n. 2.
Braggadocio hutfer, 255 and n. 3.
Brand's Antiquities, 223, n. 3; 234, n. 2; 385, n. 1.
Brayed in a mortar, 263 and n. 6.
Brazilians, hardness of their heads, 155, n. 4.
Breeches, large, of Henry VIII., 17, n. 1.
Brentford Fair, 254.
Bretheren, 333 and n. 3.
Bricklayers, 254 and n. 4.
Bridewell, and Houses of Correction, 175 and n. 2.
Bright, Henry, epitaph on, preface, 2.
Broking-trade in love, 281 and n. 3.
Brotherhood, holy, 315 and n. 1.
Brothers and Sisters, marriages between, 151 and n. 2.
Brown-bills, 349 and n. 1.
Bruin, the bear, his birth, parentage, and education, 52; overwhelmed by Hudibras, 75; breaks loose and routs the rabble, 76; is pursued by the dogs, 87; his valiant resistance, 88; rescued by Trulla and Cerdon, 89; laid up in ordinary, 91.
Brutus and Cassius, contest between, 195, n. 3.
Bucephalus, feared his own shadow, 145, n. 3.
Buckingham, Duke of, his patronage of Butler, preface, 11; his character drawn by the poet, 12.
Bull-feasts, at Madrid, 272 and n. 2.
Bulwer's Artificial Changeling, 155, n. 4; 158, n. 6; 162, n. 2; 163, n. 3; 278, n. 3.
Bum-bailiffs, custom of, 19, n. 2.
Burgess, Daniel, and the Cheshire cheese, 126, n. 4.
Burial-office, 440, n. 4.
Burton, Prynne, and Bastwick, severe sentence upon, 361, n. 2; honours paid to, 366, n. 3.
Butcher, his dress described, 72 and n. 2, 3.
Butler, Samuel, some account of his father. Life, i; his birth, i; his education, ii; his school-fellows, ii; becomes clerk to Mr Jefferies, iii: studies painting, iii; his situation with the Countess of Kent, iv; ground-work of his Hudibras, iv; lives in the service of Sir Samuel Luke, v; popularity of his poem, v; various editions of it, vi; injunction forbidding any one to peruse it, i; its high estimation at Court, vii; patronized by Hyde and Dorset, vii; sensation produced by the publication of his poem of Hudibras, viii; appointed Secretary to the Earl of Carberry, viii; his supposed poverty, ix; his residence in France, X; his observations while in that country, x; marries Mrs Herbert, xi; the Duke of Buckingham's high opinion of his merits, xi; his character of the Duke, xii; his death and funeral, xiii; monument to his memory in St Paul's, Covent Garden, xiii; inscription on it, xiv; his monument in Westminster Abbey, xiv; proposition to erect one in Covent Garden Church, xv; marble tablet to, in Strensham Church, xv; work published as his Remains, xvi; his knowledge of law-terms, xvi; Dr Johnson's high sense of his merits, xvii; character of his great poem, xviii; translated into French, xix; his imitators, xix; the Satyre Menippée, xx; great object of his satire, xxi; characters introduced into his poem, xxi; criticisms on it, xxiii.
Butler's Remains quoted, 255 and n. 1; 260, n. 3; 265 and n. 1; 289, n. 2; 366, n. 3.
Butter, refuses to come, 215 and n. 1.
By-bets, 370 and n. 1.
Byfield, Adoniram, 353 and n. 3.
Cabal, or Cabbala, 25 and n. 1.
Cabals, Committees of, 365 and n. 3.
Cacus, the robber, 152, n. 1.
Cadmus, the fable of, 65, n. 1.
Cæsar, had a horse with corns on his toes, 21 and n. 2; stirrups not in use in his time, 21, n. 3; alluded to, 55, n. 2; death of, 241 and n. 2.
Calamy (the Presbyterian preacher), exhortations of, 65, n. 2; 353 and n. 1. Caldesed, 254 and n. 3.
Caliban, 278.
Caligula, Emperor, 409 and n. 1; boasted of embracing; the moon, 269, n. 2.
Callêches, 362 and n. 2.
Cambay, the Prince of, his offensive breath, 164.
Camilla of Virgil's Æneid, alluded to, 89, n. 3.
Camisado, 387, n. 4.
Cannon-ball, 230 and n. 2.
Cant, derivation of the word, 358 and n. 3.
Capel, Lord, 43, n. 2.
Caperdewsie, 166 and n. 3.
Capoched, 194; means hood-winked, 194, n. 2.
Caps, black, lined with white, 124 and n. 3.
Carazan, a province of Tartary, curious custom in, 43, n. 1.
Carberry, the Earl of, Butler appointed Secretary to, preface, 8.
Cardan, belief of, 249; particulars respecting, 249, n. 5.
Carneades, the Academic, 6, n. 4.
Carriers' packs and bells, 341 and n. 4.
Carroches, 210, 402 and n. 2.
Carte's Life of Ormonde, 422, n. 4.
Carvajal, Peter and John, 276, n. 1,
Case, the Presbyterian minister, sermons of, 61, n. 1; 326, n. 4; 353 and n. 1.
Cassiopeia's Chair, 217 and n. 3.
Catasta, 145; a cage or prison, 145, n. 5.
Cats, worshipped by the Egyptians, 34, n. 7.
Catterwauling tricks, 292.
Cautery, the use of, 309 and n. 1.
Centaurs, the, 315 and n. 2.
Cerberus, wears three heads, 355.
Cerdon, the one-eyed cobbler, 58 and n. 6; 89, 95, 104, 108.
Ceruse, 158 and n. 5.
Cervantes, dignity of, preface, 23.
Chærephon, 224 and n. 5.
Chair, the stercorary, 128, n. 2.
Chaldean Conjurors, 250 and n. 6.
Chameleons, said to live on air, 137, n. 3,
Chancery-practice, the common forms of, 187 and n. 6.
Charlatan, a quack doctor, 366 and n. 2.
Charles I., war between, and the Parliament, 31, n. 2; his political and natural person, 62, n. 5; 68, n. 4; Members ordered to be prosecuted by, 63, n. 4; his treaties with the rebel army, 177, n. 2; sale of his estates, 328, n. 5.
Charles II., speech of, 30, n. 4; treatment of, 123.
Charms, maladies cured by, 223 and n. 3.
Cheats and Impostors, artifices of, 210 and n. 1; defeated of their aim, 332 and n. 4.
Cheek by joul, 140 and n. 2.
Cheese, where to cut it, 126 and n. 4.
Cheshire, remonstrance of the gentlemen of, to Parliament, 126, n. 5.
Chevy Chase, song of, quoted, 89, n. 1.
Chickens, counting them before they are hatched, 251 and n. 2.
Children, frightening of, 372 and n. 3.
Chillingworth, 440, n. 4.
Chimæra, 130; fable of, 130, n. 2.
Chineses, lie in, in their ladies' stead, 293 and n. 2.
Chiron, the Centaur, 47, n. 2.
Choused, origin of the word, 214, n. 6; used, 254, n. 3.
Christ, his attestation to the piety of woman, 203 and n. 2. Christmas-day, a fast and feast, 13, n. 3.
Church militant, explained, 12, n. 4.
Church, plunder of the, 380 and n. 3, 4.
Church dignitaries, 399, n. 2.
Church livings, 312 and n. 4.
Clapper-clawing, 175 and n. 1.
Clap-up souls, 321 and n. 2.
Clarendon, Lord, remarks of, 3, n. 2; 62, n. 5; 81, n. 1.
Clarges, Anne, mistress of General Monk, 430, n. 2.
Cleveland, his letter to the Protector, 114, n. 3.
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the three destinies, 16, n. 1.
Coachman, the, 247 and n. 2
Coals, extracted from wood, 151 and n. 7; exorbitant price of, 340 and n. 4.
Cobler and Vicar of Bray, a poem, 15, n. 5.
Cock-a-hoop, 86 and n. 4.
Cock-crow, superstition respecting it, 322 and n.4.
Colon, the hostler, his character, 60 and n. 1; alluded to, 74, 103.
Columbus, discoveries of, 242.
Comet, supposed to portend some calamity, 14, n. 4; 45, n. 6
Commissions, thrown up, 76.
Committee-men, 7.
Committee of Safety, sneer at the, 336 and n. 2; 337 and n. 3.
Committees, grievances of, 70 and n. 4.
Complexion, man judged by the. 124. n. 2.
Conclave and Conventicle, 382 and n. 4.
Confession-free, 309 and n. 2.
Conscience, liberty of, 34; the wear and tear of, 309 and n. 4; 313 and n. 3; 356 and n. 1.
Conscience-stretchers, 421 and n. 2.
Consciences, kept in cases, 172 and n. 2.
Constellations, called houses, 230 and n. 1.
Constollidation, 125, n. 2.
Consults, 332 and n. 3.
Cook, solicitor, employed against the king, hanged at Tyburn, 387, n. 4.
Cooper, Sir Anthony Ashley, 341, n. 6; 342, n. 1.
Copernicus, 249 and n. 1.
Cordeliere, order of, 15.
Corona Civica, 404 and n. 3.
Coscinomancy, explained, 234, n. 2.
Cossacks of the Don, 52, n. 3.
Coughing and hemming, 7, n. 4.
Coursing, a University-term, 377 and n. 3.
Covenant, taking of the, 218 and n. 7; 260 and n. 4; 363 and n. 1.
Covenanters, declaration of the, 177, n. 3.
Covenanting Trustees, 321 and n. 3.
Covert-Baron, 200 and n. 6.
Covin, a term in law, 443 and n. 1.
Cow, print of, the emblem of the Commonwealth, 39, n. 4.
Cow-itch, 279 and n. 4.
Coy, 301 and n. 2.
Cranfield, his panegyric on Tom Coriate, 6, n. 1.
Crincum-Crancum, 293.
Crisis, 146 and n. 5.
Croft, Herbert, Bishop of Hereford, 400.
Cromwell, Colonel, anecdote of, 33, n. 5.
Cromwell, Oliver, joke upon, 19, n. 7; his conduct to Lord Capel, 81, n. 1; prudence of, 103, n. 3; anecdote of, 177, n. 1; declaration of, 179, n, 1; turns out the Parliament, 179 and n. 6; filthy conduct of, 207, n.4; hurricane at the time of his death, 334 and n. 3.
Cromwell, Richard, 40, n. 1; 335, n. 5.
Crook and Hutton, 364 and n. 5.
Cross and Pile, 258 and n. 1; 292.
Crowdero, the fiddler, character of, 46; alluded to, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 117.
Crowds and bases, 172 and n. 3.
Crows, belief respecting, 105 and n. 2; birds of ill-omen, 241, n. 4.
Croysado, General, 375 and n. 2.
Crup, 323 and n. 1.
Cucking-stool, 202 and n. 1.
Cuckolds, legal, 289 and n. 3; their names invoked in carving, 186 and n. 1.
Cudgels, crossing of the, 328 and n. 3.
Cully-sex, 429 and n. 2.
Culprits, held up their hand at their trial, 260 and n. 5.
Curmudgin, 193 and n. 1.
Curule, 32 and n. 2; 202.
Cut-purse, 70; meaning of the term, 70 and n. 3.
Cutpurse, Moll, 57.
Dalilahs, 372 and n. 4.
Damosels, distressed, 165 and n. 1.
Dancing jigs, 432 and n. 2.
Darius, the horse of, 47, n. 5.
Darkness, the Secular Prince of, 258 and n. 3.
Datura, properties of, 280.
Davenant, Sir William, 2, n. 2; 58, n. 4; 46, n. 1; 56, n. 4.
Death, from fear, 143. n. 1; sudden, 252 and n. 2; would not depart, 290 and n. 2.
Dee, Dr John, the reputed magician, 220; some account of, 220, n. 4; 221; his angelical stone, 237, n. 4.
Democritus, the laughing philosopher, 139 and n. 2.
Dennis, Mr, inscription written by, preface, 15.
Deodand, meaning of the term, 440 and n. 1.
Dependences, doctrine of, 355 and n. 5.
Desborough, 337 and n. 2.
Destinies, the three. 16, n. 1.
Devil, the, pulling his beard, 95 and n. 5; beat a drum, 140 and n. 3; ledger sent to, 215 and n. 3; appeared to Luther, 216 and n. 4; charms for raising, 235 and n. 5; his oracles, 316 and n. 3; temptations of the, 320 and n. 2; his mother, 327 and n. 4.
Dewtry, 279 and n. 5.
Dial, true to the sun, 333 and n. 2.
Dialecticos, 129 and n. 1.
Dido, story of, 22, n. 4.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 4, n. 4; 146, n. 4; his book on bodies, 162, n. 3; sneered at, 351, n 1.
Diodorus Siculus, curious people described by, 8, n. 2; alluded to, 380, n. 2.
Diomedes, King of Thrace, his horses, 60, n. 2.
Directory, the, 194 and n. 4.
Dirty Lane, 149 and n. 5.
Disciplinarians, doctrine of the, 36, n. 1; 122, n. 4.
Disparata, 133 and n. 1.
Dispensations, out-goings, &c., 79, n. 5.
Dissenters, left each other in the lurch, 260 and n. 1; their affected sanctity, 285 and n. 1; doctrine of the, 370, n. 4.
Distrain on soul and body, 321 and n. 6.
Diurnals, or daily papers, 87 and n. 2; 138 and n. 1.
Divorces, judges of, 290 and n. 1.
Doctor, epidemic, 54 and n. 5.
Dog, draws his chain after him, 213 and n. 1; a cunning one, 219 and n. 2, 3.
Dog-bolt, 136 and n. 5.
Doggerel, 227, n. 1.
Dole, a common saying, 107 and n. 2.
Doll, Common, 316 and n. 6.
Don Quixote, routs a flock of sheep, 54 and n. 2; remark of, 17, n. 3; penance of, 168 and n. 2; to Sancho, 195, n. 2.
Donship, 398 and n. Don Tenise, a romance, 438, n. 4.
Donzel, 234; meaning of the term, 234, n. 3.
Dorset, Lord, his admiration of Hudibras, preface, 7.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great, of being cheated, &c., 210.
Douce in water, 154 and n. 1.
Dover, 284.
Downing, Dr, absolves the Puritans taken at Brentford from their oaths, 185, n. 1.
Drazels, 303; meaning of the word, 303, n. 2.
Dress, French fashion of, 116, n. 1.
Drudging, or drudgery, 19.
Druids, money borrowed by the, 253 and n. 1.
Drum-heads, 263 and n. 4.
Dryden, his censure of Butler, preface, 23.
Duck and drake, 224 and n. 2.
Ducking-stool, account of, 202, n. 1.
Dudgeon, civil, 3; a short sword or dagger, 19, n. 4.
Dun, the hangman, 386 and n. 1.
Duns Scotus, 10, n. 4.
Dysart, Lady, 430, n. 2.
Ears, pricking up of, 3, n. 6; to see with, 395 and n. 3.
Earth-worms, their impotence, 344 and n. 1.
Echo, dialogue with, 93.
Efficace, 351 and n. 3.
Eggs, mystical import of, 200 and n. 4; on trying sound from, 264, n. 3.
Egyptians, their worship of dogs and cats, 34 and n. 7.
Elenchi. 128 and n. 3.
Elephants, said to be in the moon, 229, n. 3.
Elfs and Goblins derived from Guelphs and Ghibellines, 355, n. 7.
Empedocles, a Pythagorean philosopher and poet, 42, n. 1; 248; some account of, 248, n. 3; declaration of, 291.
Engagement, the, 178 and n. 5.
England, successful in war, 448 and n. 1.
English Moll, 56 and n. 6.
Enucleate, 213 and n. 4.
Ephesians, 384 and n. 1.
Erased, 402 and n. 3.
Essex, Earl of, 179 and n. 1, 2; forced to resign his command, 375 and n. 2.
Evelyn, thinks Adam and Eve had no navels, 11, n. 3.
Excommunication, 321 and n. 5.
Executions and exigents, 305 and n. 2.
Exempts of saints, 351 and n. 2.
Exigent, or writ, 19, n. 1.
Expedient, 180; a term used by the Sectaries, 180, n. 2; 348, n. 2.
Eye, white of the, 285 and n. 1.
Facet doublet, 158 and n. 3.
Facetiæ Facetiarum, 47, n. 1.
Fadged, 327 and n. 6.
Faggots, 381 and n. 3.
Fairies, belief respecting, 302, n. 3.
Faith, not due to the wicked, 183 and n. 3.
Fame, humorous description of, 137, n. 2, 4; 138 and n. 5.
Fanshawe, his translation of Horace, 251 and n. 1.
Farthingale, 18 and n. 1.
Fast and loose, game of, 343 and n. 4.
Fear, groundless, 396 and n. 2.
Felony, compounding of, a penal offence, 226, n. 3.
Ferdinand IV. of Spain, his singular death, 276, n. 1.
Fermentation of liquors, old notion respecting, 146, n. 4.
Field, Mr, charge against, 327.
Fifth-Monarchy men, 337, n. 1 383 and n. 1.
Fighting and running away, 106 and n. 1; 403 n. 1.
Fines, on faith and love, 301 and n. 3; 303; signification of, 303, n. 1.
Fingle-fangle, 411.
Fire-fork, 256, n. 2.
Fish, speculations about, 182, n. 3.
Fisher, Jasper, 363; some account of, 363, n. 2.
Fisk, the astrologer, 228; particulars respecting; 228, n. 4.
Fit, playing a, 173 and n. 4.
Fitters, 272; moaning of the word, 272, n. 1.
Flagellants, amatorial, of Spain, 166, n. 2.
Flea, its long jump, 224, n. 5.
Fleetwood, the son-in-law of Cromwell, 337 and n. 2.
Flesh is grass, 60 and n. 3.
Flies, wasps, and hornets, 54, n. 3.
Florio, and Biancafiore, 168 and n. 5.
Fludd, Robert, 26, n. 1.
Foot, the right to be put foremost, 241, n. 3.
Fop-doodle, 254 and n. 1
Ford, Mr, sermons of, 61, n. 1.
Foulis, Mr, story told by, 183, n. 5.
Fowl-catching, 210 and n. 4.
Fox, cunning of the, 258 and n. 4; weighs geese, 291, n. 5.
Franc-pledge, view of, 185 and n. 4.
Freedom, conferred by a blow, 144 and n. 1.
French goods, 294 and n. 1.
Fulham's, 160; a cant word, 160, n. 1.
Gabardine, 104; a coarse robe, or mantle, J04, n. 1.
Galen and Paracelsus, 412 and n. 3.
Galileo, observations of, 242, n. 2.
Gallows, fear of the, 357 and n. 1.
Ganzas, or geese, 245 and n. 1.
Garters, new, 304 and n. 6.
Gascoign, Sir Bernard, respited, 84, n. 3.
Gath, men of, 334.
Gazettes, 405 and n. 1.
Generation on Faith, 289 and n. 1.
Genethliacks, or Chaldeans, 240 and n. 4.
Gentee, 163 and n. 4.
Geoffrey of Monmouth, 2, n. 1.
Geomancy, 308 and n. 1.
George-à-Green, 193 and n. 4.
Gill, or girl, 201 and n. 2.
Gizards, spiritual, 355 and n. 2.
Glass, the multiplying. 280 and n. 5.
Gleaves, or swords, 349 and n. 2.
Glory and shame, 145 and n. 2.
Glow-worm, its luminous tail, 230 and n. 4.
God, a child of, 312 and n. 1.
Godwin, afterwards Bishop of Hereford, his astronomical romance, 245, n. 1.
Godwyn, Dr Thomas, 199, n. 2.
Gold and silver, marked by the sun and moon in chemistry, 153, n. 1.
Gondibert, preferred a country lass, 58 and n. 3.
Goodwin, Thomas, a Calvinistic Independent, 199 and n. 2.
Gossip, tattling, 139 and n. 1, 3.
Government, not to be upheld without the aid of poetry, 58, n. 4.
Grace, introduced by sin, 375 and n. 1.
Grandier, the curate of Loudun, 217, n. 3.
Gratiæ Ludentes, an old book, 22, n. 1.
Great cry and little wool, 37, n. 1.
Green-hastings, 263 and n. 3.
Green-men, 293 and n. 3.
Gregory VII., Pope, his insolence and ambition, 127 and n. 1.
Gresham-carts, 323 and n. 2.
Grey, Dr, suppositions of, 98, n. 4; 164, n. 2; anecdote related by, 115, n. 2; stories told by, 190, n. 1; 192, n. 2; 316, n. 5; alluded to, 195, n. 1, 3; 202, n. 5.
Grey mare the better horse, 200 and n. 5.
Grizel, patient, 72 and n. 4.
Grosted, Bob, 220 and n. 2.
Groves, cutting down of, 338 and n. 4.
Guelphs and Gibellines, 355 and n. 7.
Gunpowder plot, 382, n. 2.
Guts in 's brains, 121 and n. 2.
Guy, Earl of Warwick, 54 and n. 1.
Gymnosophists, 219; a sect of Indian philosophers, 219, n. 1.
Habergeon, 104; its signification, 104, n. 2.
Hab-nab, 253 and n. 3.
Hales, Alexander, 10, n. 4.
Halfpenny, dropped in shoes, 317 and n. 1.
Hall, Thomas, preface, 2.
Halter-proof, 273 and n. 1.
Handbook of Proverbs, 9, n. 3; 193, n. 2, 3; 200, n. 5: 207. n. 2; 241, n. 3; 251, n. 2; 259, n. 4.
Handmaids, a puritan expression, 205 and n. 1.
Hangman's wages, 358 and n. 1.
Hans-Towns, 336 and n. 5.
Hard words ridiculed, 7, n. 5.
Hardiknute, 306 and n. 5.
Hares, sexes of, 201 and n. 1.
Harrington, Sir John, quoted, 93, n. 4.
Harrison, the regicide, 81, n. 3.
Hatto, Bishop, eaten by rats and mice, 143 and n. 3.
Haut-gouts, douillies, or ragouts, 158 and n. 1.
Have and to hold, 288 and n. 4.
Hawkers and interlopers, 417, n. 1.
Hazard noses, 167 and n. 4.
Hazel-bavin, 387 and n. 2.
Hazlerig, Sir Arthur, particulars respecting, 386, n. 1; 387, n. 1, 2; his lobsters, 409, n. 2.
He that fighis and runs away, 106, n. 1; 403, n 1.
Heaven, the Saints' employment there, 427, n. 1.
Head, the brazen, 55; device of the, 55, n. 5.
Heart-breakers, or curls, 15, n. 2.
Hebrew roots, 6.
Hector, stunned by Ajax, 78, n. 1.
Hemp, on wooden anvils, 281 and n. 1.
Hemp-plot, 328 and n. 4.
Henderson, 377; his death, 377, n. 1.
Henry VIII., his siege of Boulogne, 17, n. 2; anecdote of his parrot, 26, n. 5.
Herbert, Mrs, married to Butler, preface, 11, 15.
Hercules, cleansed the stables of Augeas, 60 and n. 4; bewails the loss of Hylas, 92 and n. 4; the kill-cow, 148 and n. 3.
Hermaphrodite, 292.
Hermes Trismegistus, 51, n. 2.
Hermetic-men, 280 and n. 1.
Herring, as dead as a, 259 and n. 4.
Hertfordshire petition, 66, n. 3.
Hewson, Colonel, 26, n. 6; 56, n. 4; 377, n. 4.
Heylin, Dr, 43, n. 1.
Hiccius doctius, 415 and n. 4; 420.
High Court of Justice, instituted, 186 and n. 2.
Highwayman's advice, 154. n. 3.
Hockley, 118, n. 2.
Hocus-pocus, 420 and n. 2.
Hoghan Moghan, 190; 318 and n. 2.
Holborn, cavalcade of, 345 and n. 3.
Holding-forth, 226; meaning of the term, 226, n. 2.
Hollis, 341, n. 6.
Honour, like a glassy bubble, 188 and n. 3; the seat of, 256 and n. 3.
Hopkins, cruelty of, 215, n. 5; trial of, 216, n. 3.
Horoscope, 222, n. 3; 253 and n. 2.
Horses, afflicted with sciatica, 98, n. 1; custom of tolling at fairs, 161 and n. 6.
Horse-shoes on stable-doors, 223 and n. 4.
Hotham, Sir John, his condemnation, 187, n. 1.
Hour-glass, used in preaching, 120 and n. 1.
House of Lords, declared useless, 179, n. 5.
Howel's Life of Louis XIII., 150, n. 1.
Huckle, 76, meaning of the word, 76, n. 3.
Hudibras, poem of, its publication, Life, v; injunction forbidding any one to print it, vi; its reception at Court, vii; admired by Lord Dorset, vii; its vast popularity, vii; publication of the third part of, xiii; variety of knowledge displayed in it, xvii; characters in it, xviii, xxi; its host of imitators, xix; compared to the Satyre Menippèe, xx; its wonderful influence, xxi; probable derivation of the name, 2, n. 1.
Hudibras, Sir, his character, 4; rides out a-colonelling, 4; his learning, 6; his language, 8; his religion, 12; his beard, 14; his person, 16; his dress, 17; his arms, 18; his steed, 21; his speech on bear-baiting, 31; his defence of Synods, 36; advances to disperse the rabble, 46; his speech, 61; encounters Talgol, 72; is dismounted, and falls on the bear, 75; assailed by Crowdero, 76; rescued by Ralpho, 77; his triumphal procession, 82; commits Crowdero to the stocks, 84; retires to rest, 96; his love-adventure recounted, 97; his amorous soliloquy, 99; sets out to visit the widow, 100; intercepted by the rabble, 101; his harangue, 101; his method of attack, 102; struck down by Colon with a stone, 103; wounds Magnano, 104; his desponding speech, 105; rallies, 106; attacked by Orsin and Cerdon, 108; exults in his supposed victory, 109; encourages Ralpho, 110; dismounted by Trulla, 1 11; attempts to bully Trulla, 112; combats with, and is defeated by her, 113; submits to her mercy, 115; led captive in procession, 117; committed to the stocks, 118; his philosophy, 119; defends Synods from the aspersions of Ralpho, 121, 129, 130; visited by the widow, 139; his confusion on seeing her. 140; his conference with her, 141; his philosophical contempt of pain, 142; his defence of beating, 145; his arguments in favour of mutual love, 147; asserts the irresistibility of love, 148; his eulogium on riches, 153; his high-flown professions of love, 156; engages to submit to flagellation, 169;:s set at liberty, 169; retires to rest, 170; rises to perform his penance, 174; his scruples of conscience, 174; desires Ralpho's advice, 175; his arguments in favour of perjury, 184; suggests whipping by proxy, 191; appoints Ralpho his substitute, 191; threatens him, on his refusal to officiate, 192; draws to chastise him, 195; alarmed by the approach of the Skimmington, 196; his observations on the procession, 199; resolves to oppose it, 202; his speech to the multitude, 203; attacked with missiles, 205; takes to flight, 206; his consolatory speech, 206; sets out for the widow's house, 212; his doubts of success, 212; resolves to consult a conjuror, 219; visits Sidrophel, 232; his conference with him, 233; ridicules astrology, 234; his arguments respecting astronomy, 248; his altercation with Sidrophel, 253; vanquishes Sidrophel and Whachum, 256; cross-examines their pockets, 257; is deceived and scared by Sidrophel, 259; resolves to leave Ralpho in the lurch, 260; flies, 261; proceeds to visit the widow, 271; arrives at her house, 274; his address to her, 275; relates his exploits and sufferings, 277; is interrupted and contradicted by the widow, 276; protests his veracity, 285; defends the institution of marriage, 297; alarmed by the supposed approach of Sidrophel, 306; entrenches himself beneath a table, 307; is discovered and dragged out of his hiding-place by the devils, 308; is cudgelled and catechised, 309; confesses his treachery, 309; expounds his principles, 310; left to his meditations in the dark, 314; is jeered by an unseen spirit, 315; his controversy with the spirit, 317; escapes by the spirit's assistance, 323; his flight, 324; discovers his champion to be Ralpho, 397; finds he has been out-witted, 400; re-assumes his courage, 401; harangues on the art of war, 407; ridicules, but adopts, Ralpho's advice, 413; repairs to counsel learned in the law, 415; his conference with the lawyer, 417; resolves to address a letter to the widow, 423; his epistle, 424; despatches it by his Squire, 435; the lady's answer to the Knight, 436.
Hue and cry, 161 and n. 3.
Huffer, meaning of the word, 255 and n. 3.
Hugger-mugger, 95 and n. 4; 156; 399 and n. 1.
Hugo, scout-master to Gondibert, 46, n. 1.
Human species, its original formation, 296 and n. 3.
Hums and hahs, 374 and n. 2.
Hutchinson, Dr, his Essay on Witchcraft, 215, n. 5; 216, n. 3.
Hypocrisy, the sin of, 310.
Ibrahim, the illustrious Bassa, 168, n. 3.
Ichneumon, or water-rat of the Nile, 34, n. 8.
Ideas, not in the soul, 25, n. 3.
Idus and Calendæ, 251 and n. 1.
Ignorance, asserted to be the mother of devotion, 98, n. 3.
Imps and Teats, 395 and n. 2.
Independents, sneer at the, 111, n. 1; alluded to, 120, n. 2; 121, n. 1; enemies to learning, 131, n. 2; their mental reservations, 174, n. 4; 175, n. 1; their dexterity in intrigue, 193, n. 6; treachery of the, 273, n. 3; doings of the, 319; have no power, 320 and n. 1; their enthusiasm, 321 and n. 1; charged with altering a text of Scripture, 326, n. 5; a kind of church dragoons. 331 and n. 2; their charges against the Presbyterians, 376, n. 3.
Indian lake, 158 and n. 5.
Indians, 362 and n. 5; sacrifice to their idols, 175 and n. 3: their actions, 362 and n. 5; their dames, 438 and n. 3.
Infants, exchange of, 302 and n. 2.
Insane, influenced at the change and full of the moon, 314 and n. 3.
Insect weed, 395 and n. 1.
Inward ears, 274 and n. 2.
Inward light, 285; 306.
Ion, his address to his mother Creusa, 50, n. 3.
Irish Soldiers, with Tails, 163, n. 3.
Iron, 86 and n. 1; burns with cold, 291 and n. 2.
Ironside, 306 and n. 2.
Island, with four seas, 289 and n. 2.
Isle of Wight, Treaty of, 377.
Issachar, the tribe of, 263, n. 1.
Jackson, a milliner, 46, n. 3.
Jacob's Staff, 245 and n. 2.
Jail, perpetual, 391 and n. 2.
James, King, his Dæmonology, 154, n. 2.
Jarre, Chevalier, died from fear, 143, n. 1.
Jealousies and Fears, use of the words, 3, n. 4.
Jefferies, Thomas, Esq., Life, iii.
Jefferys, Judge, anecdote of, 313, n. 4.
Jesuits, their equivocations, 171 and n. 4; evasions, 183 and n. 5.
Jesus Christ, his expected appearance, 337 and n. 1.
Jewish Tribes, 382 and n. 1.
Jezebel, .399, 410.
Jiggumbobs, 272 and n. 4.
Jimmers, Sarah, 257 and n. 3.
Joan of Arc, 56 and n. 6; 445; particulars respecting, 415, n. 2.
Joan, Pope, 198, n. 5; 128, n. 2. Jobbernoles, 360 and n. 2; 367 and n. 5; 370 and n. 2.
Jockeys, endanger their necks, 324 and n. 1.
John of Leyden, 336; some account of, 336, n. 6.
Johns of Stiles to Joans of Nokes, 289 and n. 6.
Jonson, Ben, his "Silent Woman," 18, n. 2.
Joseph's divining-cap, 24, n. 4.
Joyce, Cornet, 12, n. 5.
Jump, punctual, 286 and n. 1.
Juno, the sacred geese of, 245 and n. 4.
Justices of the Peace, 7; duty of, 9, n. 1; 69, n. 2.
Juvare, 100 and n. 1.
Kelly, the devil appears to, 217 and n.2; particulars respecting, 220 and n. 5; feats of, 237.
Kingston, Maypole-idol at, 253 and n. 4.
Knightsbridge, 372 and n. 2.
Knights, errant, not accustomed to eating and drinking, 17; of the post, 28 and n. 1; 213 and n. 3; 422 and n. 2; degraded, 437 and n. 1.
Kircher. Athanasius, 388, n. 6.
Kyrle, the man of Ross, 186 and n. 1.
Ladies, ride astride, 58 and n. 1; conversant with the healing art, 136, n. 2; the Parliament of, 205, n.2; of the Lakes, 299 and n. 2; of the post, 439 and n. 2.
Lambert, 337 and n. 2.
Lamps, perpetual, of the ancients, 147 and n. 2.
Lance, an iron one. 256 and n. 1.
Land and Water Saints, 70 and n. 1.
Landered, 170 and n. 2.
Laocoon, at the siege of Troy, 39, n. 3.
Lapland magi, 308 and n. 2.
Larks, catching them at night, 210 and n. 3.
Laski, Albertus, particulars respecting, 221.
Law, purpose of the, 180 and n. 5.
Laws and hate, 332 and n. 1.
Lawyers, compared with the bearward, 48 and n. 6; sentenced to lose their ears, 91, n. 3; practices of, 211 and n. 2; wisdom of, 412 and n. 1; quarrels of, 413 and n. 1; severe strictures upon, 414 and n. 1.
Lay-elder, 127 and n. 4.
Leaders, victorious style of, 101, n. 3.
League and Covenant. See Solemn League and Covenant.
Leaguer-lion's skin, 148 and n. 4.
Learned, that is. taught, 352 and n. 3
Learning, ancient and modern, 45, n. 1; cried down, 131, n. 2.
Lechers, 433 and n. 2.
Lectures, morning and evening, 210. n. 3.
Leech, skilful, 52.
Leg, wooden, oath taken by the, 82, n. 2.
Lenthall, the bulls of, 364 and n. 2.
Lescus, 220. See Laski.
L'Estrange, Sir Roger, 1; his key to Hudibras, 127, n. 6; alluded to, 178, n. 3; 180, n. 1; 181, n. 2; 187, n. 6.
Levellers, or root and branch men, 340 and n. 6.
Levet, 197 and n. 3.
Lewkner's Lane, 299 and n. 1.
Liars, the founder of, 431 and n. 1.
Light, new, and Prophecy, 244 and n. 3.
Like hermit poor, a song, quoted 84, n. 2.
Lilburn, Colonel John, some account of, 344, n. 3; 345, n. 1; arraigned for treason, 346 and n. 1.
Lilly, William, the famous astrologer, 8, n. 4; 56, n. 1; 214, n. 2, 6; 218, n. 1, 2, and 3; 219, n. 4; 221, n.2; 223, n. 1; 226, n. 4; 228. n. 3; 232, n. 1; 255, n. 2: 257 and n. 3; 262; 282 and n. 1
Lincoln's Inn, 422 and n. 3.
Linsey-Woolsey, 127 and n. 7; 340 and n. 1.
Linstock, or Linden-stock, 205 and n. 4.
Little Sodom, 149 and n. 5.
Liturgy-indenture, 300 and n. 3.
Lob's pound, 115; a cant term for the jail or the stocks, 115, n. 2.
Lobsters, 409; a regiment so nicknamed, 409, n. 2.
London, energy of the ladies of, 204 and n. 4; the great Plague in, 312 and n. 3.
Longees, 274 and n. 4.
Longueville, William, the friend of Butler, Life, xiii, xvi.
Loudun, the Nun of, 217 and n. 3.
Louis XIV., remarks on, by Butler, Life, x.
Love, a felon, 151 and n. 6; free as air, 287 and n. 5; the power of, 427 and n. 1.
Love, Christopher, a Presbyterian, 378, n. 2.
Love-powder, 291.
Lovers' quarrels, 301 and n. 1.
Loyalists, succession of, 334, n. 1.
Loyola, Ignatius, 351, n. 6; 388, n. 1.
Lucan, lines of, 61, n. 2.
Luez, 389 and n. 3.
Luke, Sir Samuel, 2, n. 1; 4, n. 2; some account of, Life, v; 39, n. 1; alluded to, 278, n. 4
Lunsford, 372 and n. 2.
Lurch, 331 and n. 5.
Luther, Martin, and the devil, 216 and n. 4.
Lydian and Phrygian dubs, 167 and n. 3.
Macbeth quoted, 90, n. 2.
Machiavelli, Nicholas, 314; some account of, 314, n. 1.
Madame and a Don, 198 and n. 4.
Magellan, discovery of, 242.
Maggots in meat, 222 and n. 4; in cheese, 225; convinced to flies, 370 and n. 6.
Magi, the ancient, 25, n. 2; Persian, 327 and n. 1.
Magician, Indian, 236 and n. 2.
Magnano, the Tinker, his character and accomplishments, 55, 56; dismounts Ralpho by stratagem, 74; wounded in imagination, 104.
Mahomet, his kindred ill-favoured, 52, n. 2; the body of, 230 and n. 3; 351 and n. 5; the Turk's patriot, 371, n. 2.
Main-prized lover, 213 and n. 2.
Maintenance, 419 and n. 4.
Malignants, 67 and n. 3.
Mall Cutpurse, 57.
Mamalukes, particulars respecting the, 39, n. 1.
Mammon and the Cause, 373 and n. 2.
Man, wise, said to govern the stars, 29, n. 1; in the moon, 221 and n. 3; 244; character of an impudent one, 267, n. 1; sometimes called the Lord of the world, 433 and n. 1.
Mandrake, and its wife, 295 and n. 4.
Mandrill, their abduction of women, 150, n. 4.
Manicon, or strychnon, 280 and n. 1.
Manorial Rights, 440, n. 1.
Mantos, yellow, worn by brides, 292 and n. 3.
Marcly Hill, 373 and n. 1.
Margaret's fast, 348 and n. 2.
Marriage, a dragon. 160; alluded to, 287 and n. 2; form of, in the Common Prayer Book, 302 and n. 4.
Marriage-contract, 410, n. 2.
Marry-guep, 93 and n. 2.
Mars and Saturn, 218 and n. 6.
Marshall, Mr, 185, n. 1.
Marshall, Stephen, 396, n. 1.
Martlet, 229 and n. 1.
Mascon, saints at, 217 and n. 1.
Matrimony and hanging, 166 and n. 4; words used in the service of, 346 and n. 4; go by destiny, 419 and n. 2.
May-pole idol, at Kingston, 253 and n. 4.
Mazzard, 70; meaning the face or head, 70, n. 2.
Meeting-houses, letting of, 311 and n. 1.
Men, with four legs, 162, n. 3; love disputing, 172 and n. 1; turned to ten-horned cattle, 372 and n. 5.
Meuckenius, his anecdote of a quack, 225, n. 4.
Mercuries and Diurnals, 138, n. 1.
Mercury, the God of thieves, 28.
Meroz, 372 and n. 6.
Metals, applied to the flesh in cold climates, occasion pain, 291 and n. 2.
Metaphysicians, notions of the, 9, n. 5.
Metempsychosis, doctrine of the, 290 and n. 5.
Metonymy, 235; a figure of speech, 235, n. 3.
Mice, attack the frogs, 408 and n. 1. Michaelmas and Lady-day, 305 and n. 1.
Ministers, called masters, 377 and n. 1.
Minstrel Charter and ceremonies, 47, n. 3.
Miscreants, 335 and n. 1.
Mittimus, or anathema, 321 and n. 2.
Mompesson, Mr, his house haunted, 140, n. 3.
Monardes, Nicholas, 294, n. 1.
Monboddo's, Lord, theory about tails, 103, n. 1.
Money, the mythologic sense, 152 and n. 4; the power of, 380 and n. 2; preferable to beauty, 438, n. 4.
Monkey's teeth, worship of, 35, n. 1.
Monk, General George, 54, n. 4; 381, n. 1.
Monstrous births alluded to, 136, n. 3.
Montaigne, playing with his cat, 5; alluded to, 172 and n. 4.
Moon, full of the, 10; suppositions respecting it, 28, n. 2; 214 and n. 3; man in the, 221 and n. 3; her diameter, 222 and n. 1; supposed seas in the, 222 and n. 2; to detach from her sphere, 236 and n. 1; shooting at the, 230, n. 2; a new world in the, 242 and n. 2; embracing the, 270, n. 2; its influence, 314 and n. 2.
Moralities and mysteries, 27, n. 4.
Morality, a crime, 313 and n. 2.
More, Sir Thomas, anecdote of his barber, 23, n. 4.
Morpion, 284 and n. 1.
Mother-wits, 429 and n. 1.
Mountains, thrashing them, 341 and n. 3.
Muggletonians, 183, n. 1.
Mum and silence, 385 and n. 1; 406, n. 3.
Mum-budget, 93, n. 3.
Munson, Lady, whips her husband, 168 and n. 7.
Muscovite women, their obsequiousness, 449 and n. 1.
Music, invention of, according to Pythagoras, 11, n. 4; its power said to cure diseases, 92, n. 1; of the spheres, 159 and n. 1.
Mysteries and Revelations, 183 and n. 4.
Napier's bones, 257 and n. 5; 344 and n. 2.
Nash, Dr, his remarks relative to Butler, Life, xvi, xxiv.
Nativity, casting a, 28, n. 5.
Neal, Sir Paul, 214, n. 2; 262, n. 1; particulars respecting, 265, n. 3. Nebuchadnezzar, 424 and n. 1. Necromantic art. 213 and n. 5. Negus, king of Abyssinia, 144 and n. 3.
Nero and Sporus, 198 and n. 5.
New England, brethren of, 190 and n. 1.
Newport, Treaty of, 184, n. 1; 377.
Nicked, or hedged in, 379 and n. 1
Nimmers, 257 and n. 4.
Nine-pence, proverb respecting, 23, n. 3.
Nock, date of, 16; signification of the word, 16, n. 3.
Noel, Sir Martin. 385, n. 2
Noses, to hear with, 395 and n. 3.
Numbers, said to exist by themselves, 27, n. 1; supposed mystical charms in, 27, n. 2; ridicule of the poetical way of expressing, 77, n. 2.
Nuncheon, or luncheon, 18 and n. 3.
Nye, Philip, an Independent preacher, 353 and n. 2; particulars respecting, 429 and n. 5.
Oaths, on the use of, by the Romans, 57, n. 2; required to be taken by the clergy, 68, n. 1; are but words, 176 and n. 1; on the breaking of, 177 and n. 3; 178, n. 1; 188 and n. 2; 214 and n. 1; ex-officio, 185 and n. 3.
Obs and Sollers, 377 and n. 2.
Ockham, William, 10, n. 4.
Œstrum, 62; signification of the word, 62, n. 1.
Ombre, a game at cards, 304 and n. 3.
Omens, 241, n. 4.
One of us, 312 and n. 2.
Outgoings, a cant term, 347 and n. 3.
Out loiter and out sit, 363 and n. 3.
Opera, anti-christian, 203 and n 1.
Oppugne, 99 and n. 2.
Orange-tawny beard, 205 and n. 3.
Orcades, the, 354 and n. 2.
Ordeal, trial by, 270 and n. 3.
Ordinance, the Self-denying, 78, n. 3; 87, n. 5; 357 and n. 3.
Orpheus, 227, 373.
Orsin, the bearward, character of, 48 and n. 2; 53; alluded to, 92, 94, 95, 107, 109.
Otway, his Tragedy of Constantine the Great, Life, ix.
Outgoings and workings-out, cant terms, 317, n. 3.
Ovation, 201 and n. 4.
Ovid's Metamorphoses, alluded to, 130, n. 1, 2.
Owen, Dr, letter of, 123, n. 3; an eminent Presbyterian divine, 353 and n. 2.
Owl, a bird of ill omen, 241 and n. 5; the emblem of wisdom, 245 and n. 5.
Padder's face, 365, 386 and n. 1.
Pages, chastisement of, 189, n. 3.
Palmistry, skill in, 260 and n. 6.
Papacy and Presbytery, 126 and n. 3.
Paper-lanthorn, penance in a, 168 and n. 1.
Papists, report respecting the, 347, n. 4.
Paracelsus, 224; doctrines of, 224 and n. 1; his small devil, 237, n. 3; 238, n. 1.
Paradise, the seat of, 11 and n. 1; birds of, 229 and n. 1.
Paris Gardens, Southwark, 49 and n. 2.
Parliament, drew up petitions to itself, 66; satire upon the, 80 and n. 2; its arbitrary proceeding, 81, n. 4; public thanksgivings offered by the, 87, n. 1; charges against the, 186, n. 4; taxes levied by, 360 and n. 4.
Parricide, punishment of, 33, n. 4.
Parthians, 429 and n. 4.
Pasiphaë, her amour with a bull, 150, n. 3.
Patches, black, custom of wearing, 158, n. 6.
Patrick, Dr, afterwards Bishop of Ely, Life, xiii.
Peas, called green bastings, 263, n. 3.
Peccadillos, wooden, 319 and n. 2.
Peers, obligations of, 181 and n. 1; honour of, 189, n. 1.
Pendulum, its vibration, 255 and n. 1.
Pennington, Alderman, 7, n. 1.
Penny for your thoughts, 212 and n. 2.
Penthesile, the Amazonian dame, 57 and n. 1.
Pepys' Diary, extracts from, 304 and n. 3; 392, n. 2
Perkin Warbeck, his interview with Lady Catherine Gordon, 152, n. 5.
Pernicion, 123; meaning of the word, 123, n. 1.
Perreaud, tricks of the devil in his house, 217 and n. 1.
Perry, Ned, an hostler, 60, n. 1.
Petard, conjugal, 295, n. 1.
Peter the Great, tax imposed by, 142, n. 3.
Peters, Hugh, character of, 434.
Petronel, 72 and n. 6.
Pharos, a celebrated light-house, 32.
Pharsalian Plain, 44.
Philip and Mary, shillings of, 292 and n. 2.
Philip, Sir Richard, drawn through a window by the ears, 308 and n. 3.
Philistines, 378 and n. 4.
Philosopher's Stone, 280, n. 2.
Philter-love, 440 and n. 3.
Physician, his prescription literally taken, 28, n. 4.
Picqueer, 345 and n. 4.
Pie-powder, 185 and n. 2.
Pigeons of Aleppo, 137, n. 6.
Pigs, squeaking of, 6; sucking ones chowsed, 214 and n. 6; said to see the wind, 372 and n. 1.
Pigsney, 156; a term of endearment, 156, n. 4.
Pilgrims' kisses, 367 and n. 1.
Pinder, the, of Wakefield, 193, n. 4.
Pique, or Pica, 360 and n. 1.
Plague-sore, 312 and n. 3.
Planets, aspects of the, 251, n. 3.
Plants, with signatures, 280 and n. 4; 297 and n. 2.
Plato, his fondness for geometry, 247 and n. 4; his belief in regard to the planets, 248 and n. 4; the symposium of, 296, n. 3; his year, 364 and n. 1.
Plot, Dr, his History of Worcester, 217 and n. 4.
Pocock, Dr, his acquittal, 123, n. 3.
Poetry, a necessary aid in good government, 58, n. 4.
Poets and Enthusiasts, 24, n. 3.
Poets succeed best in fiction, 159, n. 3.
Poisons, expelled by themselves, 331 and n. 1.
Pokes and Fobs, 273 and n. 3.
Pomerium, ceremony of enlarging the, 196 and n. 4.
Pope of Rome, 95 and n. 3; his bull baited, 122 and n. 3; his chair, 128, n. 2; alluded to, 249 and n. 4; his power, 355 and n. 1.
Pope, Mr, quoted 299, n. 3.
Postulate illation, 164, n. 1.
Potosi, 280 and n. 2.
Poundage, paying of, 338 and n. 3.
Powder, the famous sympathetic, 51, n. 3, 6; alluded to, 306 and n. 1.
Powdering-tubs, 366 and n. 4; 402 and n. 1.
Preach, fight, pray, and murder, 331 and n. 4.
Preachers, described by Echard, 204 and n. 2; Itinerant, 330 and n. 4.
Preaching, encouragement of, 59, n. 5.
Presbyterians, jargon and cant words of the, 3, n. 3; effect of their preaching, 3, n. 5; custom of the, 4, n. 3; great fatalists, 38, n. 1; profane familiarity of their prayers, 65, n. 4; historical tendency of their discourses, 66, n. 1; reformation desired by the, 67, n. 5; their plea for success, 79, n. 3; persecutions of the, 122, n. 1; their doctrines, 125, n. 1; 133, n. 2; complaint of the, 145, n. 4; their selfishness, 273, n. 3; their differences with the Independents, 324, n. 2; 348 and n. 3; plea of the, 326, n. 1; their plots to restore the king, 359 and n. 1, 2; intentions of the, 369, n. 1; their practices, 369, n. 3, 4, and 5.
Prester, John, 445 and n. 1.
Pricking at the garter, 343, n. 4.
Pride and Hughson, 377 and n. 4.
Prideaux, Ed., Advocate, 415, n. 2.
Prior, compared to Butler, Life, xix.
Priscian's head, 181 and n. 5; 182, n. 1.
Prisoners, Roman, chained to their gaolers, 288 and n. 2; sham examinations of, 365, n. 4.
Profligate, 109 and n. 2.
Proletarii, or low class of Roman people, 32, n. 4.
Promethean powder, 107 and n. 1.
Prophecies, fulfilling of the, 338 and n. 2.
Proserpine, 283.
Protestation, the, or solemn vow, 34; 63 and n. 1; 178 and n. 2
Providence, revolts of, 383 and n. 2.
Prynne. alluded to, 30. n. 1; 263, n. 2; 325, n. 2; 329, n. 1; his Histrio-mastix, 35, n. 6; sentenced to lose his ears, 91, n. 3; 366, n. 3.
Psalms, reading a verse from the, 271 and n. 1; alluded to, 341 and n. 1, 2.
Public Faith, 180 and n. 3, 4.
Pug-Robin, 317 and n. 2.
Puisne Judge, 415, n. 3.
Pull a crow, 193 and n. 2.
Pullen, 214 and n. 5.
Pulpit, news told in the, 405 and n. 2.
Punese, 284 and n. 1.
Puppet-shows, subjects of, 27 n. 4.
Puppies, remarkable, 138 and n. 4.
Purchas's Pilgrims, 48, n. 3, 4.
Puritans, custom of the, 3, n. 6; their doctrines, 79, n. 6.
Purses, mode of wearing, 70, n. 3.
Purtenance, 97 and n. 1.
Pygmalion, cut his mistress out of stone, 97 and n. 3.
Pym, John, 63, n. 4; 422, n. 4.
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, cured his courtiers with a kick, 144 and n. 2.
Pythagoras, the Greek philosopher, music said to be invented by, 11, n. 4; philosophy of, 27, n. 2; on the music of the spheres, 159, n. 1; alluded to, 239 and n. 1; the soul of, 291.
Quack story from Menckenius, 228, n. 4.
Quacks of Government, 341 and n. 6.
Quakers, will not swear, 181 and n. 4.
Quatenus oath, 184.
Querpo, 401; meaning of the word, n. 2.
Questions and commands, game of, 304 and n. 4, 6.
Quiblet or Quillet, 421, n. 4.
Quint, 387; meaning of the word, 387, n. 1.
Quirks and quillets, 421 and n. 4.
Rabbins, their writings, 184 and n. 2; of the Synod, 194, n. 3.
Rabelais, alluded to, 10, n. 2.
Races, in Italy, 393, n. 1.
Raise, a favourite expression, 191 and n. 2.
Ralpho, his profession, 22; his gifts, 23; his learning, 25; condemns bear-baiting, 35; compares them to Synods, 36; reconnoitres the rabble, 46; encounters Colon, 74; is dismounted by Magnano, 74; takes Crowdero prisoner, 77; his speech on giving quarter, 80; his second expedition with Hudibras, 101; is assailed by Orsin, 102; encounters Cerdon, 104: encourages Hudibras, 104; assists him to remount, 106; is thrown from his horse, 107; demands assistance of Hudibras, 110; is made captive along with Hudibras, 117; is placed in the stocks, 118; blames the Knight's rashness, 120; reviles Synods, 121; his abuse of human learning, 131; proves perjury a less sin than flagellation, 175; maintains that saints are privileged to commit perjury, 176; proves that saints may be punished by proxy, 189; refuses to suffer as the Knight's proxy, 192; defies the Knight, 193; prepares to combat him, 193; is alarmed by the approach of the Skimmington, 196; explains the nature of the procession, 200; is assaulted by the rabble, 205; flies. 206; advises the Knight to consult Sidrophel, 214; proves that saints may employ conjurors, 215; his dialogue with Whachum, 232; is despatched to fetch a constable, 255; is abandoned by Hudibras, 261; resolves to retaliate, 273; discovers the Knight's treachery to the widow, 273; jeers the Knight, in the character of a spirit, 314; carries him off, 323; is recognised by Hudibras, 398; reveals the trick played on the Knight, 399; his reasons for flight, 402; defends the practice of running away, 404; advises the Knight to take the law of the widow, 410.
Ranters, a vile sect, 131, n. 1.
Rap and rend, 204 and n. 1.
Rationalia, 129.
Ravens and crows, birds of ill omen, 241, n. 4.
Ray's Handbook of Proverbs, 138, n. 2.
Recant, 173 and n. 3.
Records, felony to raze, 287 and n. 1.
Recruits, 333 and n. 4.
Red-coat seculars, 338 and n. 5.
Red-coat sentinel, 374 and n. 3.
Reformado Saint, 176 and n. 2; 330 and n. 3.
Reformado soldier, 198 and n. 2.
Reformation, 67.
Rem in re, 290.
Remonstrance, carried, 363 and n. 3.
Replevin. 436 and n. 1.
Reprobation, Presbyterian doctrine of, 322, n. 2.
Revie, meaning of the word, 134, n. 3.
Rhetoric, use of, 7 and n. 5.
Rhodoginus, Ludovicus Cælius, 199 and n. 2.
Ribbons, bits of, swallowed, 167 and n. 4.
Richard III., indignities offered to his corpse, 107, n. 3.
Rimmon, 358; a Syrian idol, 358, n. 4.
Rinaldo, 409 and n. 3.
Ring, a tool of matrimony, 339 and n. 2.
Rockets and white sleeves, 349 and n. 3.
Rogues, beat hemp, 227 and n. 2.
Rowland, William, Life, ii.
Rolf, a shoemaker, indicted for a design to kill the king, 368, n. 1.
Rolls, Colonel, a Devonshire gentleman, 2, n. 1.
Romance-writers, satire on, 91, n. 4.
Rome, the Church of, compared to the Whore of Babylon, 127, n. 2.
Romulus, the first Roman king, 335 and n. 4.
Ronsard's "Franciade," 2, n. 2.
Rooks, application of the term, 7, n. 3.
Root and branch men, 340 and n. 6.
Rope-ladders, use of, 343 and n. 3.
Rope of sand, 10.
Rose, under the, 385, n. 1; the, planted, 443 and n. 2.
Rosemary, virtues of, 167 and n. 2.
Rosewell, Sir Henry, 2, n. 1.
Rosicrucians, a sect of hermetical philosophers, 26, n. 2; 236 and n. 3; 238.
Ross, Alexander, 42 and n. 2; 199 and n. 2.
Rota club, 258 and n. 2.
Roundway Down, battle of, 62, n. 2: 405, n. 4; 406, n. 5.
Rovers, love-arrows shot at, 302 and n. 2.
Royalists, encomium on, 333 and n. 1; plots of the, 376 and n. 2.
Royal Society, their transactions ridiculed, 224, n. 3.
Rules, how derived, 132
Rump Parliament, patents granted by, 50, n. 1; alluded to, 337 and n. 3; proceedings of the, 380 and n. 1; some account of the, 390. n. 2.
Rumps, burning of the, 392, n. 2.
Rupert, Prince, 105, n. 1; his drop described, 188, n. 3.
Russel, Sir William, Life, i.
Rye, 284.
Ryves, Dr Bruno, 14, n. 2.
Sabines, rape of the, 431 and n. 3; 432, n. 2, 3.
Sacrilege, 353 and n. 1.
Sacrum, 390 and n. 1.
St Dunstan, 236; particulars respecting, 236, n. 4.
St Francis, his stoicism under female temptation, 149, n. 7.
St George and the Dragon, 54, n. 4.
St Ignatius, 351 and n. 6.
St Martin's beads, 438 and n. 2.
St Paul's, Covent Garden, Butler buried at. Life, xiii; monument to his memory in, xiv.
Saints, 62 and n. 4; privilege of, 176, 177; scandals of the, 319 and n. 4; if named from blood, 322 and n. 3; surnames of, 340 and n. 3; precious and secret, 356 and n. 2; their houses and employments in heaven, 427, n. 1.
Saints' bell, 310, n. 1.
Salique law, 448 and n. 2.
Salt, cast on a woman's tail, 146 and n. 3.
Saltinbancho, 254 and n. 2.
Samson, his heart-breakers, 15.
Sancho-Panza, tossed in a blanket, 75 and n. 2.
Sand-bags, fight with, 329 and n. 2.
Sandys, remark of, 52, n. 2.
Sapiens dominabitur astris, explained, 29, n. 1.
Saturn, the god of time, 233 and n. 4.
Satyre Menipinée, Life, xx.
Scaliger, 219 and n. 1.
Sceptics, theory of the, 191 and n. 1.
School divines, satire upon, 10, n. 4.
Schweidnitz, the siege of, 52, n. 4.
Scire facias, 305 and n. 2; 328.
Sconce, enchanted, 275 and n. 4.
Scorpion's oil, 368 and n. 2.
Scots, declaration of the, 64, n. 1; to be treated like witches, 136, n. 1; their expeditions. 378 and n. 3, 4.
Scout, 278 and n. 4.
Screen-fans, 243 and n. 3.
Scrimansky. 52.
Scripture, interpretation of. 181 and n. 3.
Secrecy, obligation of, 152 and n. 2.
Sedgwick, a fanatical preacher, 231 and n. 3.
Seekers and Muggletonians, 183, n. 1.
Selden, his Marmora Arundelliana, Life, iv; his opinion regarding America, 44, n. 2.
Semiramis, the first maker of eunuchs, 162 and n. 2.
Set, 290; meaning of the word, 290, n. 4.
Setter, 441; definition of the term, 441. n. 3.
Shaftesbury, A. A. Cooper, Earl of, 342. n. 2; particulars respecting, 342, n. 3; his duplicity, 342, n. 4.
Shakspeare, allusions to his Plays, 19, n. 4; 78, n. 2; 90, n. 2; 95, n. 4; 131, n. 2; 135, n. 2; 136, n. 1, 2; 1.38, n. 2; 147, n. 3; 153, n. 2; 159 and n. 1; 160, n. 1; 195, n. 3; 205. n. 3; 2 16, n. 2; 248, n. 3; 252; 259, n. 2, 4; 274 and n. 3; 280, n. 1; 293, n. 3; 301 and n. 2; 317, n. 3; 343 and n. 4; 349 and n. 1; 366, n. 4; 399, n. 1; 419 and n. 1, 2.
Sherfield, Mr, mortgages his estate, 321 and n. 4.
Shooting at the moon, Des Cartes' notion about, 230, n. 2.
Shoe-tie, 275 and n. 1.
Shrews, female, custom of ducking, 202, n. 1.
Sidney, Sir Philip, 19, n. 4; 93, n. I.
Sidrophel, his character, 218; mistakes a paper-kite for a star, 229; is visited by Hudibras, 231; discovers the object of his visit, 233, 234: defends the science of astrology, 238, 240, 245; his altercation with Hudibras, 254; attacks the Knight, 254; is defeated and plundered, 256; counterfeits death. 259; Hudibras's epistle to, 262; 421, n. 3.
Sieve and Sheers, the oracle of, 234 and n. 2.
Silk-worms, belief respecting, 295, n. 2.
Simeon to Levi, 127 and n. 4.
Sisters, the fatal, 16.
Skimmington, some account of the, 196 and n. 3; 316, n. 1.
Skipper, 318; the master of a sloop, 318, n. 3.
Skull, trepanning of the, 262 and n. 2.
Sleeves and hose, slashed. 8, n. 1; 313 and n. 1.
Slubberdegullion, 114; a drivelling fool, 114, n. 4.
Smeck, canonical cravat of, 124 and n. 5.
Smectymnus, 194 and n. 1.
Snippets, 246 and n. 2.
Snuff, enlightened, 23 and n. 5.
Snuff-mundungus, 367 and n. 3.
Socrates, 129 and n. 5; 224, n. 5.
Soldier, paid 6d. per day, 154 and n. 5; curious privilege of the, 197, n. 1; carried off by the devil, 217 and n. 5.
Solemn League and Covenant, 33, n. 1; 62, 67. n. 2, 4; 68, n. 2; 178, n. 4; 318 and n. 4; 348 and n. 1.
Somerset, Protector, 42, n. 4.
Sooterkin, 332, and n. 2.
Soothsayers, mistakes of, 250 and n. 5.
Sophy, 318 and n. 1.
Sorbonist. 10, n. 5.
Souse and Chitterlings, 46 and n. 7.
South, Dr, sermon of, 124, n. 1.
Sow, wrong, by the ear, 235 and n. 2; suckled by a bitch, 264 and n. 2.
Sow-geldering, 162, 352.
Sowning, 153 and n. 3.
Spaniard, whipped, 21 and n. 1.
Spanish dignity, 21, n. 1.
Specieses, 225.
Speed and Stowe, 199 and n. 4.
Spenser, his "Fairy Queen," 2, n. 1; 86, n. 1; 231, n. 1; 248, n. 1; example of, 85, n. 1.
Spick and span, derivation of the words, 100, n. 3.
Spinning-wheels, 201 and n. 3.
Spirit Po, 316 and n. 4.
Sports, on Sundays, 32, n. 1.
Sprat's history of the Royal Society, 245, n. 3.
Spurs, badges of Knighthood, 165, n. 2.
Squirt-fire, 374 and n. 4.
Staffiers, 198 and n. 3.
Stars, new, appearance of, 229 and n. 2; falling, notion respecting, 231 and n. 2; office of the, 246 and n. 1.
State-camelion, 343 and n. 1.
Statute, 439 and n. 1.
Staving and tailing, 90 and n. 1.
Steal me from myself, 316 and n. 2.
Stennet, the wife of a broom-man, 149 and n. 6.
Stentrophonic voice, 277 and n. 5.
Stercorary chair, 128, n. 2.
Stery, one of Cromwell's chaplains, 335 and n. 2; his dream, 335, n. 3.
Stiller, pun upon the word, 316 and n. 2.
Stiles and Nokes, 120 and n. 1.
Stirrups, not in use in Cæsar's time, 21, n. 3.
Stocks, humorously described, 83 and n. 1; a wooden jail, 139 and n. 4.
Stoics, doctrines of the, 173, n. 1 2; 298, n. 2.
Stone, angelical, 237, n. 4.
Stools of repentance, 320. Strafford, Lord, 63, n. 3; 69. n. 1; 228, n. 2; 422, n. 4.
Stray cattle, 161 and n. 7.
Strike my luck, 156 and n. 1.
Strugglings, a cant term for efforts, 202 and n. 4.
Stum, 157; an unfermented liquor, 157, n. 1.
Stygian sophister, 255 and n. 4.
Succussation, meaning of the word, 43, n. 5.
Suggilled, 119 and n. 2.
Sui Juris, 118 and n. 3.
Summer-sault, 419 and n. 6.
Sun, put down by ladies' eyes, 169; voids a stone, 243, n. 2; shifted his course, 248 and n. 1.
Surplices, Camisade of, 338 and n. 7.
Swaddle, 4; meaning of the word, 4, n. 6.
Swanswick, barrister of, 329 and n. 1.
Swearing, trade of, 420 and n. 4.
Sweating-lanterns, 243 and n. 3.
Swedes, 197; famous soldiers, 197; n. 4.
Swiss mercenaries, 412, n. 2.
Swift, Dean, his Tale of a Tub, 211; n. 2; 226, n. 2.
Tailors, their mode of sitting at work, 22 and n. 5.
Tails, 163; theory about, 163, n. 1.
Tales, 421 and n. 1.
Talgol, the butcher, his prowess, 53 and n. 4; defies Hudibras, 69; engages in single combat with him, 72; dismounts him, 75.
Taliacotius, his supplemental noses, 16 and n. 2.
Talisman, magic, 25; described, 2.5, n. 1.
Talismanique louse, 283 and n. 2. Tallies, 358 and n. 2.
Tarsel, 228 and n. 6
Tartar, catching a, 114 and n. 1.
Tassoni, Alessandro, his Secchia Rapita, Life, xix.
Taurus, once the Ram, 250.
Tawe, 168 and n. 4.
Taylor, John, his marble tablet to the memory of Butler, Life, xv.
Teach down, 330 and n. 5.
Te Deum, 405 and n. 3.
Tell-clock, the nickname of a puisne judge, 415, n. 3.
Tellus, Dame, 60 and n. 5.
Templars, poverty of the, 331, n. 3.
Temple, Sir Wm. observation of, 45, n. 1.
Termagant, 57; origin of the word, 57, n. 3.
Testes, the, furnish a medicinal drug, 43, n. 3.
Teutonic, said to be the most ancient language, 11, n. 2.
Thanksgivings, public, sometimes mere pretences, 405, n. 5.
That you're a beast, and turned to grass, 436.
There was an ancient sage philosopher, 42.
Thetis, the lap of, 173 and n. 3.
Things, the nature of, 9, n. 4; animate and inanimate, difference between, 129 and n. 4.
Thirteener, a coin, 358, n. 1.
Thompson, Mrs, a widow, 96, n. 1.
Thoth, the Egyptian Deity, 238, n. 5.
Thumb-ring, 339 and n. 3.
Thunder, opinion respecting, 350 and n. 1.
Thyer, Mr, the editor of Butler's Remains, Life, v, xvi.
Time, picture of, 15, n. 1; of day, 232 and n. 3.
Time is, Time was, 278 and n. 2.
'Tis strange how some men's tempers suit, 172.
Titus Andronicus, Play of, 150 n. 5.
Tobacco-stopper, 230 and n. 5.
Toe, quality in the, 144, n. 2.
Toledo-blades, 18 and n. 4.
Tollutation, meaning of the word, 43, n. 4.
Tomlinson, Judge, his speech to the sheriffs, 26, n. 6.
Tom Po, a name for a spectre, 316. n. 4.
Tooth-ache, charms for the, 223 and n. 3.
Tottipottimoy, 190 and n. 3.
Toy, John, Life, ii.
Treason, punishments for, 391, n. 1.
Trees, diseases of, 261.
Trepanners, 303.
Triers, 123; office of the, 123, n. 3; called Cromwell's Inquisition, 124, n. 1.
Trigons, the, 250 and n. 4.
Trismegistus, 238 and n. 5; 239.
Trojan mare, 346 and n. 5.
Trout, caught with a single hair, 211 and n. 1.
Trover, action of, 418 and n. 2.
Truckle-bed, 119 and n. 4; 174 and n. 1
Trulla, beloved by Magnano, 56 and n. 5; her valour, 57; rescues the bear, 90; attacks Hudibras, 111; takes him prisoner, 113; grants him quarter, 115; protects him from the rabble, 116; her triumphal procession, 117; commits Ralpho and Hudibras to the stocks, 118.
Trustees, unsanctified, 330 and n. 1.
Truth, revealed to the perfect, 82, n. 1; Time's daughter, 239 and n.4; 210, n. 1.
Tully, 172 and n. 4.
Turks, their personal appearance, 52, n. 2.
Tutbury, custom of bull-running at, 47, n. 4.
Tyburn, executions at, 63, n. 6.
Tyrian petticoat, 200, n. 3.
Urine, a medium of detecting diseases, 225. n. 4.
Uses, in sermons, 330 and n. 6.
Usher, 139; meaning of the term, 139, n. 5.
Utlegation, 321 and n. 5.
Uxbridge, treaty of, 378 and n. 2.
Vagrants, ordered to be whipped, 166, n. 1.
Van and rear, 142, n. 4.
Van Helmont, 172 and n. 4.
Varlets-des-chambres, 151 and n. 4.
Vaughan, Dr, his discourse on the condition of man, 26, n. 1.
Vehicles, heavenly, 446 and n. 1.
Veils et remis, omnibus nervis, 67 and n. 1.
Venables and Pen, their expedition against the Spaniards, 408, n. 4.
Venice, Dukes of, marry the sea, 202 and n. 2.
Veni, vidi, vici, 110 and n. 1.
Venus, the goddess of love, 233 and n. 2.
Verè adeptus, 26.
Vermin, 326 and n. 3.
Vertagus, a dog so called, 98, n. 5.
Vespasian, daubed with dirt, 207 and n. 4.
Vessel, 285 and n. 3.
Vickars, John, 30 and n. 1.
Victories, pretended thanksgivings for, 405 and n. 4.
Victuallers and vintners, fines imposed on, 416 and n. 5.
Vies, the proud, 62 and n. 2.
Villains, 289 and n. 3.
Vinegar, eels in, 225 and n. 1.
Virgins, buried alive, 151, n. 1.
Virtue, said to be a body, 173 and n. 1, 2; and Honour, the temple of, 165 and n. 3.
Vis. franc, pledge, 185 and n. 4.
Vitilitigation, 128 and n. 4.
Vizard-bead, 304 and n. 5.
Vizard-masks, 294 and n. 3.
Vultures, opinion respecting, 211 and n. 5.
Wait, Simon, a tinker, 55, n. 3; his skill, 56 and n. 2.
Walker's History of Independency, 62, n. 4; 70, n. 4; 96, n. 1. Waller, his poem of Saccharissa, 159, n. 3.
Waller, Sir William, defeat of, 62, n. 2; 405, n. 1.
Walnut-shell, tire spit out of a, 223 and n. 5.
Walton, Izaak, poem quoted, 84, n. 2.
War, civil, subverts the order of things, 240, n. 2; creating and making of, 360 and n. 3; the modern way of, 407 and n. 1.
Warburton, Bishop, 132, n. 2.
Warmestry, afterwards Dean of Worcester, Life, ii.
Warts, charmed away, 223 and n. 2.
Watches, pendulums to, 284 and n. 2.
Water, objects reflected in, 270 and n. 1.
Water-rat, 408 and n. 2.
Wedlock, without love, 147 and n. 3.
Welkin, 137 and n. 5.
Wesley, Samuel, lines by, Life, xv.
Westminster Abbey, monument to the memory of Butler in. Life, xiv.
Whachum, Sidrophel's zany, character of, 225 and n. 2; 227, 231, 232, 233, 253, n. 4; 254, 256, 258, 259.
Whale, 230; with legs, 230, n. 6.
Whetstones, 138; meaning of the term, 138, n. 2.
Whifflers, 198 and n. 3.
Whimsied chariots, 264, n. 4.
Whinyard, signifies a sword, 102, n. 3; 103.
Whipping, virtue's governess, 165 and n. 5.
Whipping-post, described, 83 and n. 2.
Whitehall, cabal at, 347, n. 2.
White-pot, 16.
White, Thomas, 172 and n. 4.
Whittington, legend of, 352 and n. 2.
Whore of Babylon, 127 and n. 2; 355 and n. 4.
Widgeon, or Pigeon, 14, n. 1.
Widow, the, beloved by Hudibras, 96; conjectures respecting, 96; is informed of the Knight's captivity, 139; sets out to visit him, 139; her conference with him, 142; recommends hanging, or drowning. 153; ridicules love-compliments, 157; eulogizes whipping, 165; releases Hudibras on terms, 169; is visited by Hudibras, 274; her interview with him, 275; exposes his falsehood, 283; ridicules matrimony, 287, 302; treats him with a masquerade of devils, 306; receives an epistle from the Knight, 424; her answer, 436.
Widows, Indian, burnt on the funeral piles of their husbands, 290 and n. 3.
Wight, Isle of, negotiation in the, 377, n. 5.
Wind, in hypocondres pent, 244 and n. 2.
Windore, or window, 50; 151 and n. 6; 188.
Wines, working of, 146 and n. 4.
Witches, said to ride upon broomsticks, 89, n. 4; 283 and n. 1; their prayers said backwards, 98 and n. 2; drawing blood of, 136 and n. 1; thrown in water, 154, n. 2; make pictures to destroy, 186, n. 3: of Lapland, sell bottled air, 187 and n. 3; persecution of, 215 and n. 5; execution of, 216 and n. 2; ghost of one, 282 and n. 1; crony, 309 and n. 3.
Wither, George, a party writer, 30, n. 1.
Withers, a puritanical officer, 217, n. 5.
Witnesses, winding up of, 188 and n. 1; hireling, 422, n. 2.
Wives, a dose of, 252 and n. 1.
Wizards, on consulting, 211 and n. 3.
Woman, piety and energy of, 203, n. 3.
Women, old, juries of, 286 and n. 2; assertion respecting, 298 and n. 2; will of, 339 and n. 4; influence of, 446 and n. 2.
Woodstock, treaty with the Devil at, 217 and n. 4.
Worcester's Century of Inventions bantered, 395, n. 3.
Words of second-hand intention, 235 and n. 4.
World's end, 231 and n. 1.
Wounds, honourable ones, 90 and n. 2.
Wright's Glossary, 137.
Wycherley, Mr, Life, ii.
Xerxes, whipped the sea, 167 and n. 1.
Young;, Dr James, his Sidrophel Vapulans, 210, n. 1.
Zany, 225; a buffoon, 225, n. 2.
Zodiac-constellations, 250 and n. 2.
Zoroaster, 239, and n. 1; doctrine of, 327 and n. 2.
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