INDEX. 



405 



Drowned mineral works, speech for 

 the recoveries of, vii. 215. 



Drowning of metals, vii. 192. 



Droughts, great ones in summer, iv. 

 428. 



Drums, sound in, iv. 88. 



Drunkenness, pleasures of, iv. 361 ; 

 causes and effects of, iv. 382 ; expe 

 riments in, iv. 382. 



Druse in Normandy, valour of the 

 English at, v. 276. 



Drury house, consultation and resolu 

 tions taken at, vi. 324. 



Dye of scarlet, iv. 479. 



Dyer, Mr., his opinion of customs, vi. 

 49. 



Dyonysius the tyrant, answer of his, i. 

 369. 



Dyonysius the elder s answer to his 

 son, i. 378. 



Dudley and Empson, the people s curses 

 rather than any law brought their 

 overthrow, v. 363 ; wicked instru 

 ments of Henry, iii. 380. 



Dudley made speaker of the House of 

 Commons, iii. 386. 



Duels, French law of, vi. 115; causes 

 of, vi. Ill ; Turkish emperor s cen 

 sure of, vi. 117; despised even by 

 barbarous nations, vi. 118; nature 

 and greatness of the offence of, 

 vi. 110; decree of star chamber 

 against, vi. 125 ; edict against by 

 Charles IX. of France, vi. 113 ; ac 

 cessaries before, punishable, vi. 122 ; 

 charge against, vi. 108 ; the practice 

 not among Greeks or Romans, vi. 

 117 ; remedies for, vi. 113 ; English 

 law of, vi. 115. 



Duelling, a presumptuous offence, vi. 

 126 ; weakness and conscience of 

 small value, vi. 134 ; a breaking of 

 the law, vi. 134. 



Dulcorating of fruit by ancients, iv. 222. 



Dust, how it helpeth the growth of 

 plants, iv. 346. 



Dutch, the perpetual duellist of Spain 

 v. 279 ; the increase of their power 

 since 1588, v. 279. 



Duty, ii. 233 ; of a king, iii. 235. 



EARTH, differences between sand and, 

 iv. 2 ; increase of weight in, iv. 392 ; 

 mode of strengthening, vii. 221 ; not 

 necessary to the sprouting of plants, 

 iv.298; veins of medicinal, iv. 370 ; 

 the cosmographers who first disco 

 vered the roundness of the earth 

 censured by the church, i. 315; how 

 turned, vii. 213. 



Earthquakes bury all things in obli 

 vion, i. 187. 



Earths, differences of, iv. 345. 



Ecbatana, the summer parlour of the 

 kings of Persia, v. 335. 



Ecclesiastical reform, vii. 62 ; estate, 

 Lord Coke an enemy to, vii. 350. 



Echo, concerning the nature of, iv. 88. 

 the representative of vain paradox, 

 iii. 21. 



Echoes, different sorts of, iv. 125 ; su- 

 perreflection of, iv. 420. 



Economy, political, vi. 437. 



Edgar, King, collected the laws, v. 

 345, 358. 



Edible, flesh not, iv. 465. 



Edict, of Julianus against Christians, 

 ii. 59. 



Editor s notes, ii. 392. 



Education, of youth, considerations 

 on, i. 337 ; essay on custom and, i. 

 133 ; is custom in young years, i. 

 135 ; of priests, vii. 50 ; for preaching, 

 vii. 86 ; advantages of, ii. 26 ; of 

 Alexander, ii. 71. 



Edward 1., the first lawgiver amongst 

 us, v. 115 ; crossed the pope s juris 

 diction, vi. 457. 



Edward II., cruel conduct to him, and 

 his saying thereon, i. 376. 



Edward III., his reign visited with 

 three mortalities, v. 396. 



Edward IV., of high spirit yet beauti 

 ful, i. 145, 



Egerton, cause in which the chancellor 

 accepted a bribe, vii. 432. 



Egg, white of, its use, iv. 526 ; with 

 spirits of wine, vii. 224 ; turned into 

 stone, vii. 214. 



Eggs, yolk of very nourishing, iv. 33. 

 their clarifying quality, iv. 4. 



Egypt, its excellent situation, v. 333 ; 

 the most ancient monarchy, v. 333 ; 

 two mighty returns of fortune therein. 

 v,333. 



Egyptians, idols, ii. 178 ; ii. 197. 



Elenches, ii. 188. 



Elephants, gestation of, iv. 400. 



Elizabeth, Queen, her learning without 

 a parallel, ii. 69 ; iii. 44 ; an in 

 stance of advantage of learned 

 princes, ii. 23, 69 ; beauty of, vii. 

 165 ; alters the religion, vii. 149 ; 

 her clemency, vii. 153 ; her learn 

 ing, vii. 166 ; her tranquillity, vii. 

 151 ; her beneficence, vii. 153 ; her 

 expenses, vii. 155 ; her piety, iii. 

 469 ; prayers composed by, iii. 469 ; 

 her fondness for the works of St. 

 Augustine, in. 469 ; her daily search 



