INDEX. 



427 



Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, his 

 character and death, iii. 369 ; trusted 

 by Henry VII. i. 70. 



Mortress, how to be made, iv. 31. 



Moses, God s first pen, ii. 56 ; wisdom 

 of the ceremonial law of, ii. 56 ; was 

 seen in all Egyptian learning, i. 260, 

 317 ; fitter to be named for honour s 

 sake to other lawgivers than to be 

 numbered among them, v. 355. 



Moss, what it is and where it grows, 

 iv. 253. 



Moth, how bred, iv. 364. 



Motion, of liberty, what, iv. 6 ; of 

 sounds, iv. 109; after the instant of 

 death, iv. 197 ; upon tensure, iv. 6 ; 

 of pressure upon bells, iv. 6 ; quick 

 ness of, in birds, iv. 354 ; of bodies, 

 experiments touching the, iv. 4. 



Motions which make no noise, iv. 74 ; 

 by imitation, iv. 145. 



Motives, erroneous, for the acquisition 

 of knowledge, ii. 51. 



Mountains, why inhabited by Pan, iii. 

 18. 



Mountjoye, Lord, dedication of the co 

 lours of good and evil to, i. 223 ; 

 the colours of good and evil dedi 

 cated to, i. xxiv. 



Mountjoy, Lord, Spaniards defeated in 

 Ireland by, v. 253, 274. 



Mucianus, a disclosure of his own ac 

 tions, i. 176 ; undid Vitellius by a 

 false fame, i. 195. 



Muck, different sorts, vii. 221. 



Mummies of Egypt, iv. 406. 



Mummy, force of in staunching of 

 blood, iv. 524. 



Murder and manslaughter, laws against, 

 amended, iii. 226. 



Murder of princes more than simple 

 murder, vi. 462. 



Murray, letter to Mr. John, from Lord 

 Bacon, vii. 392, 393, 394. 



Muses, why the companions of Bacchus, 

 iii. 64. 



Mushrooms, what properties they con 

 tain, iv. 256. 



Music, its effects, ii. 63 ; a quaver in, 

 like light on water, ii. 127 ; in 

 churches, vii. 83 ; quarter notes in, 

 iv. 71 ; experiments touching, iv. 67 ; 

 voluntary in voice only, iv. 99 ; effect 

 of different sorts, iv. 73; on the 

 water, iv. 89. 



Music and medicine conjoined in 

 Apollo, ii. 159. 



Musical glasses, iv. 4. 



Musicians, their precept to fall from 

 discords to accords, ii. 127. 



Mysteries, danger of prying into, iii. 

 30 ; their origin, i. 215 ; of God not 

 to be drawn down to man s reason, 

 but man raised to divine things, ii. 

 129. 



NAME of nations, though seemingly 

 superficial, carries much impression, 

 v. 11 ; one of the external points of 

 separation with Scotland, v. 26. 



Names, vii. 183. 



Naphtha, a bituminous mortar, vii. 213. 



Naples, disease of, its origin, iv. 14 ; 

 the Spaniards in competition with 

 the see of Rome for Naples, v. 235, 

 284. 



Narcissus, his manner of relating to 

 Claudius the marriage of Messalina 

 and Silius, i. 76. 



Narcissus, the flower of, representing 

 unprofitable self-love, iii. 8. 



Narrations, nurseries for history, ii. 

 113. 



Natural divination, two sorts, ii. 171. 



Natural history, division of, ii. 102 ; 

 often fabulous, ii. 43. 



Natural magic, defective, ii. 146 ; 

 Paracelsus school of, ii. 172 ; its 

 true sense, ii. 131. 



Natural philosophy, book of Job preg 

 nant with, ii. 57 ; analogy between, 

 and speculative philosophy, ii. 145 ; 

 divided into three parts, ii. 145 ; 

 concerning principles of, ii. 125 ; 

 assisted by registry of doubts, ii. 149 ; 

 concerning the soul or spirit, ii. 125. 

 principally assisted by mechanical 

 history, ii. 105 ; the least followed 

 of all knowledge, i. 314 ; received 

 great opposition from superstition, i. 

 315; gives an excellent defence 

 against superstition and infidelity, i. 

 318. 



Natural philosophy in Orpheus s Fable, 

 iii. 33. 



Natural prudence, experimental, phi 

 losophical, and magical, ii. 145 ; 

 operative part of natural philosophy, 

 ii. 145. 



Natural theology, the contemplation of 

 God in his creatures, ii. 128. 



Natural reason, Sarah s laughter an 

 image of, ii. 299. 



Natural science and natural prudence, 

 ii. 131. 



Nature, its quantum eternal, ii. 126 ; 

 her truth said to be hid in mines 

 and caves, ii, 131 ; experiment on 

 the secret processes of, iv. 61 ; an 

 order in the government of the world, 



