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INDEX. 



Problem solved during sleep, 22. 

 " Promus and Condus," explained, 224. 

 Pronessos'on Fisher family, 162. 

 Prophecies, ambiguous proper names in, 94. 

 Prophecies, prohibition of, 50. 



Proverbs and Phrases : 



A propos de bottes, 14. 



Buff: " To stand buff," 5. 



Chloe: as drunk as Chloe, 462. 



Cocking an eye, 289. 



Comparisons are odorous, 244. 310. 



Cutting one's stick, 53. 207. 



Durance vile, 223. 



Fly in the air, 28. 



Good name better than a golden girdle, 402. 



Hatter: "as mad as a hatter," 462. 



Holding a candle to the Devil, 29. 



Knock under, 225. 



Let's sing old Rose, and burn the bellows, 72. 



Married by the hangman, 487. 



Money the sinews of war, 103. 228. 374. 



My eye and Betty Martin, 72. 171. 230. 355. 375. 



392. 

 Ne gry quidem, 485. 504. 

 Not leaving the Devil a drop, 29. 

 Put a sneck in the kettle crook, 446. 

 Sending Jack after Yes, 34. 

 Ship-shapen, 65. 



This day eight days, 90. 153. 353. 

 Upper crust, 183. 

 Upper ten thousand, 183. 355. 

 Virtue is its own reward, 499. 

 Vocative : To be found in the vocative, 445. 

 Walk your chalks, 63. 112. 152. 289. 

 Whipping the cat, 325. 



Provincialis on a Gloucestershire story, 93. 



Prugit, in the law of the Alamanni, 4. 55. 200. 



Prussian iron medal, 33. 91. 130. 207. 



Prynne (William), his character, 419. 



P. (S.) on Anglo-Saxon literature, 29. 



Psalm xxx. 5., passage in, 144. 



Psalms, metrical version in Welsh, 26. 



Psalter in MS. presented to Pope Adrian I., 505. 



P. (S. E.) on etymology of Prideaux, 428. 



P. (S. T.) on Stockdales the publishers, 447. 



P. (T. S.) on the Stuart papers, 23. 



Public disputation, 447. 



Puck on Union Jack flag, 435. 



Punishments, ancient and modern, 342. 



Punning and pocket-picking, origin of the phrase, 222. 



Purkis (Samuel) on provincialisms, 261. 



Purvis (Sir A.), his portrait, 484. 



Puzzle, a Latin, 443. 



P. (W.) on Chronicle of London, 144. 



Fish called sprot, 78. 



Lambarde (VVm.) and portrait of Richard II., 11. 



Memorandum book on Art, 294. 



Mince -pies and the Puritans, 90. 



Mob-cap, origin of the name, 79. 



Steel, origin of the word, 223. 



Supervisor, temp. Queen Elizabeth, 13. 

 P. (W. F.) on dinner etiquette, 130. 

 Pye-Wype, its meaning, 65. 133 352.' 



Q. 



Q. on Anthony de Solemne, 308. 



Archer (Edward) of Berks, 387. 



Bamfius : Bladwell, 502. 



Shirley family, 388. 



Tyrwhitt's Opuscula, 198. 

 Q. (P.) on Campbell's "Battle of the Baltic," 462. 



Who is the Brigand, 503. 

 Q. (R. S.) on " Cock an eye," 289. 



Cockney, origin of, 454. 



Gumption, its derivation, 189. 



" Round about our Coal Fire," 132. 



" Yea and Nay Academy of Compliments," 110. 

 Quakers described, 403. 474. 

 Quarter, as a local termination, 143. 287. 

 Querist on Gowrie's mother, 461. 



Seals of Lord Hastings, 305. 

 Quist, an affix, its derivation, 364. 

 " Quiz," edited by Dr. Dibdin, 243. 

 Quorum Pars on Thos. Swift of Goodrich, 471. 



Quotations : — 



As a small acorn to a forest grows, 462. 



Cajsar regnabit ubique, etc., 502. 



Can he who games have feeling ? 26. 415. 



Cleanliness next to godliness, 446. 



Could we with ink the ocean fill, 78. 



Dogs fighting, 200. 



Dominus regnavit a ligno, 127. 273. 329. 



He who runs may read, 146. 



I'll make assurance doubly sure, 446. 



Man to the plough, 344. 



Mors mortis morti mortem, etc., 445. 513. 



My blessings on your head, 446. 



Nunquam periclum sine periclo vincitur, 446. 



Politeness is benevolence in trifles, 446. 516. 



Quando puer sedehit in sede lilia, 502. 



See where the startled wild fowl, 44. 



She took the cup of life to sip, 446. 



The Lord our God is full of might, 446. 



There was turning of keys, &c, 66. 



They came, they went. Of pleasures past away, 



446. 

 Trust not in Reason, Epicurus cries, 4-16. 

 We wept not, though we knew that 'twas the last, 



446. 

 Words are fools' pence, 446. 516. 



R. 



R. on Taylor club, 289. 



Rp in prescriptions, origin of the symbol, 179. 



R. (A. A.) on King Pepin and the cordwainer, 243. 



Oily hero, 345. 

 R. (A. B.) on the land of Beheest, 101. 



Epigram corner, 61. 



Graveyards in Ireland, 151. 



Neck verse, 233. 



Nouveau Testament, 391. 

 Races of running footmen, 341. 

 Radicals in European languages, 63. 113. 254. 

 Ragman's Roll, on Scottish records, 14. 

 Raleigh (Sir Walter), house at Brixton, 243. 331. 410. 



