INDEX. 



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vorce between, ii. 97 ; history relates 

 to the, ii. 100. 



Men, their dispositions, ii. 243 ; savage 

 desires of, ii. 63 ; sweats of, iv. 4 ; 

 union between all, vii. 144 5 the 

 best books, vii. 298. 



Men s natures and ends, ii. 275. 



Men s minds, logical and mathemati 

 cal, ii. 286. 



Men s spirits, the general sympathy of, 

 iv. 534. 



Menander of vain love, ii. 253. 



Mercenaries not to be relied on, i. 

 100. 



Merchandises, king s right of imposi 

 tions on, vi. 44 ; argument concern 

 ing impositions on, vi. 44. 



Merchandise, foreign, vi. 437 ; ever 

 despised by the kings of this realm as 

 ignoble, v. 333 j flourishes in the 

 decline of a state, i. 193. 



Merchants, speeches on their petition 

 respecting the Spanish grievances, v. 

 205 ; grants of, vi. 48. 



Mercier, his description of death by 

 torture, v. [xxiii.J 



Mercury, mixture of metals with, vii. 

 200. 



Mercury and sulphur, experiments on, 

 iv. 175. 



Mercy, of dispatch, vii. 304 ; its works 

 are the distinction to find out hypo 

 crites, i. 213 ; examples of, for com 

 fort, vi. 419 ; the white robe of, vi. 

 193 ; to what extent honourable, vi. 

 433 ; in a king when cruelty, vi. 433 ; 

 its variation, vii. 154. 



Merick, Sir Gilly, left guard at Essex 

 House, vi. 336 ; pays forty shillings 

 to the players to act Richard the Se 

 cond, vi. 364 ; evidence against, v. 

 363. 



Messages, speech on receiving the 

 king s, vi. 39. 



Metal trumpet, vii. 191. 



Metal, weight of, in water, vii. 218 ; 

 drowning of the base in the more 

 precious, iv. 422 ; statues, vii. 191 ; 

 string, vii. 191 ; bell, vii. 191. 



Metals and vegetables, mixture of, vii. 

 158. 



Metals and minerals, as to the union 

 of, vii. 200 ; separation of, vii. 202. 



Metals, variation of into different shapes 

 bodies and natures, vii. 206 ; touch 

 ing the finer sort of base, iv. 457 ; 

 incorporation uses of, vii. 190 ; 

 drowning of, vii. 192 ; which melt 

 easiest, vii. 205 ; adulteration of, vii. 

 198 ; versions of, vii. 198 ; quench 



ing of, in water, iv. 99 ; which con 

 tain different metals, vii. 205 ; ma 

 turation of, iv. 160 ; orient colour in 

 dissolution of, iv. 142. 



Metaphysique handleth that which 

 supposeth in nature a reason and un 

 derstanding, ii. 135. 



Metellus, Caesar s noble answer to, 

 ii. 78. 



Methodical delivery, ii. 203. 



Methusalem water, use of, vii. 229. 



Methods and arts, error of over early 

 reduction of knowledge into, ii. 48. 



Metis, or counsel, iii. 93, 94. 



Meverel, Dr., his answer to questions 

 on variation of metals, vii. 209 ; his 

 answers touching restitutions of me 

 tals and minerals, vii. 213 ; his an 

 swer to questions on separation of 

 metals and minerals, vii. 204 ; his 

 answers to questions concerning mi 

 nerals and metals, vii. 200 ; his 

 questions, vii. 196. 



Mezentius, his torment quoted, iv. 37. 



Microcosmus, ancient opinion that man 

 was, ii. 158. 



Midas, judge between Apollo and Pan, 

 ii. 88. 



Middleton, his opinion on the best em 

 ployment of life, v. 27. 



Military commanders, vainglory an 

 essential point in, i. 175. 



Military puissance, its three main parts, 

 men, money, and confederates, v. 

 281. 



Military disposition, greatness too often 

 ascribed to, v. 213. 



Military power, conjunction between 

 learning and, ii. 71 75 ; learning 

 promotes, ii. 70. 



Military virtues promoted, ii. 79. 



Military arts, flourish most while virtue 

 grows, ii. 169. 



Military greatness and excellence in 

 learning united, ii. 15, 17. 



Milk, increasing of, in milch beasts, 

 iv. 411 ; warm from the cow what 

 good for, iv. 32 ; spirits of wine com 

 mixed with, vii. 224. 



Mincing meat, when useful, iv. 33. 



Mind what it turns to, vii. 214 ; a set 

 tled state of, in doubt, one of the 

 principal supporters of man s life, i. 

 211 ; made light by dwelling upon 

 the imagination of the thing to come, 

 i. 211 ; passions of, affect the body, 

 iv. 376 ; state of, in controversy, vii. 

 59 ; idols of the, make men churl 

 ish and mutinous, ii. 21 ; the, en 

 dued with tender sense by learning, 



