Kent, settled, 6.
Kepler, laws of, 438.
King Horn, 107, 115.
King Lear, 120.
King Lear, 378, 383.
King's Evil, 128.
Koran, the, 327.

Labor and Capital, 169.
Lackpenny, quoted, 246.
L'Allegro, quoted and criticised, 477.
Land of Cockaigne, 115.

Langland, William, quoted and criti-
cised, 177.

Language, fossil history in, 11; mys-
tery of, 39; origin, 40; legends
concerning, 40, 41; principles of
development, 41; diversities, 43;
dialects, 46; idioms, 48; classifica-
tion, 49.

Langue D'Oc, 110.
Langue D'Oyl, 110.

Latimer, Bishop, quoted, 271, 273,
275, 277, 292, 326.

Latin race, 46; language, 47, 52, 100,
137, 175; versification of, 108. See
Learning and Renaissance.
Layamon, quoted, 112.

Lawyer, the, popular hatred of, in
fourteenth century, 178; Chaucer's
portrait of, 220, 227.

Learning, state of, during Formative
Period, 82; in the fourteenth cen-
tury, 173; in the fifteenth, 242; in
the sixteenth, 284.
Legends, 40, 41; formation of, 105.
Liberty of Prophesying, 436.
Life, Saxon conception of, 29, 37; a
dream, 385, 391; true mode of
estimating, 431, 469; on the con-
duct of, 437.

Life of Richard III, 335.
Lily, John, quoted, 321.
Literature, how affected during For-
mative Period, 193; and life, 272;
eras of, how discriminated, 444.
Lollards, 172. See Religion.
Lombard, Peter, 129, 137.
Long Parliament, the, 402.
Lord's Prayer, versions of, in succes-

sive centuries, 55, 56, 175, 244.
Love, idealized by the worship of the
Virgin, 106; in romance poetry,
105, 110, 181; woes of, 212; power
of, 213; apostrophe to, 344; Bacon
concerning, 464; Jonson, 453.
Love-Courts, the, 182.

Luther, Martin, 272, 273, 324.

Lydgate, John, quoted and criticised,
245.

Macaulay, Thomas B., 462 (note),
492 (note).

Macbeth, quoted, 380; and criticised,
384.

Mad Lover, quoted and criticised,

419.

Magna Charta, 63.

Maid of Orleans, 290.

Maisters of Oxford's Catechism, 127.
Malory, Sir Thomas, quoted and
criticised, 253.

Mammon, palace of, 363.

Man, creation of, in Norse mythology,
24.

Mandeville, Sir John, biography and
criticism, 194–199.

Manning, Robert, quoted and criti-
cised, 180.
Map, Walter, 79.

Marlowe, Christopher, quoted and
criticised, 313.

Marriage, in the age of chivalry, 107;
song of, 367; reflections on, 399,
429, 432, 464.

Marston, John, quoted, 426.
Mary, Bloody, 266.

Maryland, statute of, 406.
Mass, ceremonial of the, 240.
Massinger, Philip, quoted and criti-
cised, 420.

Mathematics in thirteenth century,
127.

Matter and spirit, unity of, 492.
May-day, 237, 272.

Medicine, theory and practice of,
128, 189, 257.

Meditations, quoted, 428.
Melancholy, the inspiration of genius,
430.

Mercia, settled, 7.

Merlin, legend of, 7; prophecy of, 120.
Metaphor, discussed and illustrated,

41; the language of excitement,
396.

Metre, in Chaucer, 206.

Middleton, Thomas, quoted, 426.
Midland dialect, 54.

Midsummer Night's Dream, quoted
and criticised, 389.

Milton, John, 141, 199, 372, 404, 415,
436; biography and criticism, 472-
495.

Mirror for Magistrates, 310.
Monasteries, the, 76, 174, 241. See
Religion.

Napier, 439.

Nash, Thomas, 321.

Nature, love of, 116, 238; in Chau-
cer, 208, 226, 229, 230.

New Atlantis, 459.

New Hampshire, statute of, 406.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 438.
Niflheim, 24.

Nominalism, 131, 188.
Normans, invade Britain, 8; effects
of invasion, 9; culture and influ-
ence of, 19; language of, 52.
Northmen, the, 8, 33.
Northumberland, settled, 7.
Nut-brown Maid, 117, 245.

Occam, 188, 191, 327.

Occleve, Thomas, 245.
Odin, 24, 25, 104.
Onomatopoeia, 41.

Opus Majus, 157.

Original English, 53.
Originality, 395.
Orm, 113.

Ormulum, quoted, 114, 137.
Orosius' Universal History, 149.
Orpheus and his harp, legend of, 151.
Othello, quoted, 378; and criticised,
382.

Owl and Nightingale, 116, 137.
Oxford, university of, 87, 174, 242,
289.

Paris, influence of university of, 87.
Parliament, rise and development of,
62, 165, 234, 265, 401.

Parson, Chaucer's portrait of the, 223.
Pascal, quoted, 158.

Passionate Pilgrim, 375.

Passionate Shepherd, quoted, 318.
Paston Letters, 252.

Pathway of Knowledge, 330.
Pecock, Reynold, 245, 255.
Pelagius, theological tenets of, 125.
Perfection, the desire of, 191.
Persecution, 242, 328.

Persian language, 50; mythology, 104.
Personification, 102.

Petrarch, concerning the Church,
171; debt of the Renaissance to,
174; quoted, 330.

Philaster, quoted and criticised, 416.
Philosophy, characterization of, from

Proclus to Bacon, 129; the Scho-
lastic, 130; Realistic and Nominal-
istic schools of, 131; state of, in
the fourteenth century, 188; in the
fifteenth, 257; in the sixteenth,
331; in the seventeenth, 440.
Phonix, quoted, 93.

Physician, Chaucer's portrait of the,
227.
Picts, the, 5.

Piers the Ploughman, 172.

Piety, essential to character, 154.
Plantagenet, 233.

Plato, his doctrine of Ideas, 131;
spirit and influence of his philoso-
phy, 284.

Plowman's Creed, 180.

Poetry, earliest form of literature,

89; Saxon, 91; religious tone of,
in England, 99; romantic, 108;
characterization of, in fourteenth
century, 176; low state of English,
in fifteenth century, 245; revival
of, 298; sentimentalism of, 409.
Politics. See England.
Prayer, power of, 431.
Predestination, defined, 324.
Presbyterians, 436.

Printing, origin of, 244 (note).
Prose, order of production, 117;
parentage of English, 117; general
view of, in the fourteenth century,
187; in the fifteenth, 252; in the
sixteenth, 321; in the seventeenth,
427. See History, Theology, Eth-
ics, Science, Philosophy.
Proverbs, of Alfred, 152.
Pulci, quoted, 288.

Puritans, and the theatre, 311; reli-
gious bias of, 325; origin and
character, 404; emigration of, to
America, 406; intolerance, 407;
superstition, 408; poet of, 415.
Purple Island, 413.

Puttenham, George, 298, 321.

Quadrivium, the, 87.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 158, 323; biog-
raphy and criticism, 351–356.
Raven, the, quoted, 109.
Realism, 131, 188.
Record, William, 330.
Reformation, premonitions of, 36, 80,
172, 242; accomplishment of, 272;
beneficent results of, 280; evil
effects, 281.

Religion, the sentiment of, funda-
menial to the English mind, 36;
influence of, upon poetry and lit-
erature, 80, 99; necessity of, 272;
the Puritan, 404. See Church.
Renaissance, the, nature and charac-
teristics of, 284; in Italy, 287; in
England, 289; results of, 333. See
Learning.
Resolves, 437.

Restoration, the, 402.

Résumé, 135, 192, 258, 322, 442.
Retribution, 394, 472.

Rhythm, universal, 87; in Chaucer,
207.

Richard II, 165.

Richard III, 233, 240.

Ridley, martyrdom of, 277.

Rip Van Winkle, 195.

Ritson, Joseph, 247.

Ritter, quoted, 1.

Robert of Gloucester, 113, 115.
Robin Hood, 117, 249.

Romance, nations and languages, 46;
fiction, 102, 105;

poetry, 108;
poets, 110; prose, 245, 253.
Romans, conquest of Britain by, and
its influence, 4, 5, 15.

Romaunt of the Rose, quoted and
criticised, 208.

Romeo and Juliet, quoted, 376, 379.
Roscelin, 131.

Roundheads, the, 402.
Rowena, legend of, 7.
Runes, the, 23.

Ruin, the, 101.

Sackville, Thomas, quoted and criti-
cised, 309.

Sad Shepherd, quoted and criticised,
451.

Samson Agonistes, characterized, 487.
Santre, William, first English mar-
tyr, 242.

Satan, 72, 240, 488. See Witchcraft.
Satirists, Anglo-Saxon, 115.

Saxon laws, 34; Chronicle, 117, 121;
poetry, 91.

Scandinavian people, 8 (note); lan-
guage, 50.

Scepticism, services of, 351.
Scholasticism, 130, 257, 332.
Schoolmen, 130, 257.

School of Abuse, quoted and criti-
cised, 322.

School of Skill, 330.

Science, inception of, 126; astrology
and alchemy the principal part of,
189; also, 256; dawn of, on the
Continent, 329; in England, 439.
Scotland, geography of, 1, 2; politi-
cal and social condition, 164, 403.
Scott, Walter, quoted, 11.
Scotts, the, 6.

Scotus, Duns, on moral good, 126;
on reason and faith, 133, 191.
Scriptorium, the, 84.
Selden's Table Talk, 434, 437.
Seven Deadly Sins, the, 170.
Seven Joys of the Virgin, 254.
Seven Sleepers, legend of, 195.
Shakespeare, William, quoted, 44,
108, 128, 237, 283, 294, 296, 347,
488; biography and criticism, 373-
400.

Shirley, James, 427.

Sidney, Sir Philip, on the merits of
English, 294; position of, 301; on
the equipments of the theatre, 312;
biography and criticism, 341-347.
Siege of Thebes, 245.

Sigurd, 27.

Silent Woman, quoted and criticised,
448.

Silures, the, 5.

Sixteenth Century, expansive force
of, 334.

Skelton, John, quoted and criticised,
297.

Skrymer, Norse giant, 31.

Slavery, and the Saxons, 63; and the
Normans, 64; in Ireland, 68; and
the Church, 81.

Sleep, invocation to, 344; the god of,
and his dwelling, 361.

Society, English, aspects of, from
the ninth to the thirteenth century,

63; in the fourteenth, 165; in the
fifteenth, 234; in the sixteenth,
267; in the seventeenth, 403.
Socrates, quoted, 157.

Solomon and Saturn, quoted, 126.
Song of Aldhelm, quoted, 109.
Sonnet, the, 299.

Soul, the, purgatory of, 100; immor-
tality of, 133; Plato's figure of,
286.

Soul's Complaint, quoted, 101.
Soul's Errand, quoted, 354.
Southern dialect, 54.

Speech, Chaucer's definition of, 210.
Spenser, Edmund, biography and
criticism, 358-373.

Staël, Madame de, quoted, 430 (note).
Stanihurst, quoted, 322.
Sternhold, quoted, 302.
Stonehenge, 14.

Story, W. W., quoted, 296.
Stubbes, quoted, 271.

Suckling, Sir John, quoted and criti-
cised, 411.

Superstitions, 71, 122, 127.

Surgery, in the fourteenth century,
190.

Surrey, Earl of, quoted and criti-
cised, 298.

Sussex settled, 6.

Syllogism, defined and illustrated,
134.

Symonds, J. A., quoted, 265.

Table-Talk, 437.

Tacitus, quoted, 13, 33, 105.
Taine, H. A., 463 (note), 489 (note).
Tamburlaine the Great, quoted and
criticised, 313, 314, 319.
Tasso, 287.

Taylor, Jeremy, quoted and criti-
cised, 430.

Tempest, the, quoted, 377, 388.
Tennyson, Alfred, quoted, 204.
Teutons, the, a generic race, 21, 46;
language of, 50.
Thanatopsis, the, 100.
Theatre, the early, 311.

Theodore, founds the English Church,
68.

Theodosius, Roman general, 6.
Thomson, James, quoted, 334, 358.
Thor, Norse god, 26, 31.

Thought, English, limitary tone of,
372.

Tolerance, a late virtue, 336.
Tory, the, 402.

Town, rise of the English, 65.

Valhalla, Norse paradise, 28, 33.
Valkyries, the, 28 (note).

Van Lennep, quoted, 395.

Velleda, German prophetess, 105.
Venus and Adonis, 375.
Vergil, 120.

Virgil, quoted, 101.

Virgin Mary, worship of, and its in-
fluence, 106.

Virtue, 126, 397, 479, 490.
Volpone, quoted and criticised, 449.
Vortigern, King of the Britons, 7.

Wales, geography of, 1, 2; a refuge
for Christianity, 7; literature of,
17; language, 49; annexation of,
135; princes of, 233.

Waller, Edmund, quoted, 487.
War of the Roses, 233.

Warton, Thomas, quoted, 233.
Webster, John, quoted and criticised,
422.

Week, nomenclature of days of, 25.
Wessex settled, 6; supremacy of, 7.
Whetstone of Wit, 330.

Whig, the, 402.

Whipple, Edwin P., quoted, 455.
White Devil, quoted and criticised,
422.

Wife of Bath, quoted and criticised,
219.

William the Conqueror, 9, 79.

Wilson, Arthur, quoted, 295.
Witan, the, 23, 62.

Witch, Sabbath of the, 283; method
of trying the, 408.
Witchcraft, 240, 281, 408.
Wither, George, quoted and criti-
cised, 409.

Wodin. See Odin.

Woman, position of, among the Sax-

ons, 35; in romance poetry, 105;
how affected by Christianity, 106
(and note); types of, 219, 222; in
Shakespeare, 376; Milton's ideal
of, 493.

Wordsworth, William, quoted, 14, 225.
Wotton, Rev. William, 413.

Wycliffe, John, 172, 190; biography
and criticism, 199–203.