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BBE DU Bos, his cenfure of Ariofto's Orlando Furiofo, I. 14. Condemns thofe painters who introduce their own allegories into facred fubjects, II. 97. Academicians, della Crufca, prefer Ariofto to Taffo, I. 3. Action, allegorical, why faulty, II. 113.

ADONIS, his gardens, Spenfer founds his fiction concerning them on ancient mythology, I. 89.

Adore and Aborn, II. 201.

AGAVE, her ftory, I. 101.

AGDISTES, a GENIUS, I. 82.

Alexandrine verses, rules concerning them, II. 154. Allegories, Spenfer's manner of forming them accounted for, II. 89. Publickly fhewn in Queen Elizabeth's time, 90. Capital faults in Spenfer's, 95. Some of them examined, 95, 98. Spenser's manner of allegorifing different from Ariofto's, and why, 91.

Alliteration, practifed by the Saxon poets, II. 215.
Amber-grease, a seasoning in cookery, I. 121.

Ambiguous expreffion, inftances of, in Spenser, II. 34.
In Milton, 35.

Anachronism, inftances of, in Spenfer, II. 21..
Antients, imitate every thing, I. 228.

ANTONINUS Liberalis, a valuable compiler, I. 94.

APOLLONIUS, Rhodius, illuftrated, I. 105. Copied by Milton, 105, 111. Illuftrated, II. 151.

ARCHIMAGO, inftance of, his hypocrify, copied from Ariofto, I. 198. Of his illufion, 199.

Architecture, antient, in England, its gradations, II. 184. ARIOSTO, imitates Boyardo, I. 2. Account of the plan of his poem, 12. His genius comic, I. 225. Defended, 226. Ardenne, water of, Ariofto's mention of it alluded to by Spenser, I. 211.

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Arte of English poefie, author of, condemns Spenfer's obfolete ftile in his Paflorals, I. 118. Commends his Paftorals, 122. His account of finging to the harp in Queen Elizabeth's time, 52. Cenjures Skelton, 52.

ARTHUR, Prince, cannot properly be called the hero of the FAERIE QUEENE, 1. 6.

ARTHUR, King, his round table, I. 43, 65. 186.

pularity of his flory, 41.

ASTREUS, a fea-god, account of him, I. 102.

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Aftronomy, a favourite fcience in the dark ages, II. 240.
AVARICE, Ariofto's, why fo reprefented, I. 222.

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Bards, introduced with propriety by Spenfer, II. 164.

Bale, II. 122.

Band, II. 161.

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, illuftrated, I. 41. II. 94.
Explained, 201.

BELLONA, Spenfer misrepresents her birth, I. 112.
BENI, compares Ariofto with Homer, I. 1.

BEVIS, Sir, of Southampton, imitated by Spenfer, I. 46.
Bite, I. 168.

BLANDAMOUR, a name, drawn from Chaucer, or from a romance fo called, I. 189.

BLATANT BEAST, the hint of it taken from Morte Arthur, a romance, I. 22. Partly occafioned by Ariofto's defcription of Jealousy and Avarice, 222.

Bloud-guiltinette, and Bloud-thirtie, II. 139.

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BRAND, II. 259.

BRITAINE'S IDA, not written by Spenfer, I. 123. Criticifm and conjectures concerning it, 124.

Bridge, remarkable one, copied from Ariofto, or from Morte Arthur, I. 213.

BRIGADORE, name of a horse, drawn from Ariofto, I. 213. BRITOMART, how properly filed the patronefs of chastity,

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