y, alluding to Wolsey, says:

"If we live thus tamely,
To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,
Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward,
And dare us with his cap like larks."

The verb _dare_ here used is quite a distinct word from _dare_ = to
venture to do. It means to daze or render helpless with the sight of
something. To dare larks is to fascinate or daze them in order to
catch them. The "dare" is made of small bits of looking-glass fastened
on scarlet cloth. Shakespeare's use of the word in the passage quoted
is evidently an allusion to the scarlet biretta of the cardinal. In
Hogarth's "Distressed Poet" a "dare" is suspended above the
chimney-piece.]

INDEX

"AKERMAST," 197.
.
Albinism, 255.

"Alcoholiday," 177.

Aldington, 1;
band, 122;
chapel, 5;
concerts, 123;
constable, 8;
derivation, 1;
farm, 3;
hosiery factory, 7;
manor, 2;
prepares to resist Jacobites, 7;
variants, 5, 8, 298, 299;
village, 3.

Allsebrook, Rev. W.C., 5.

Alresford fair, 49.

Antona, 294, 297, 298.

Apples, 103, 169, 170, 171.

Archdeacon's visitations, 101, 102.

Arch, Joseph, 59.

Asparagus, 85, 86, 87.

Avebury, Lord, 214.

Avon, meaning of, 297.

Bad debts, farmers', 215.

Badsey, 1;
church innovations, 102, 110;
church restoration, 89, 90;
churchyard, 97, 98, 101;
"Feld," 207;
market gardeners, 85.

Barley, 216, 217.

Barnard, Mr. E.A.B., 5.

Barnard, parish clerk, 65, 92, 93, 95.

Bateman, Miss Isabel, 92.

Beech, 195, 196, 197;
"groaning tree," 197;
stage effect, 198, 199;
Waterloo beeches, 197, 198.

Beef, American, 72, 155.

Bees, 17, 18.

Bell, William,
farm bailiff, 12;
bee-master, 17;
brewer, 18;
courage, 14, 15;
generosity, 13;
honesty, 20;
limited outlook, 18;
memory, 16;
peace-maker, 15;
quoted, 11, 14;
repartee and wit, 13, 24;
salesman, 17.

Bell, Mrs. William, 21.

Bellows, antique, 285.

Bell-ringers, 94.

Bewick, 258.

Bible, cunning use of, 40.

Blackbanks, 294.

Blackbirds, 265.

Blackminster, 294, 299.

Blackmore quoted, 182, 196, 225.

Blacksmith, 151, 152.

Blue distance, 237, 238.

Boer War, 66.

Boys at farm work, 39, 69.

Brandram, Mr., 92.

Bredon Hill, 237.

"Breese," 156.

Brigg, 241.

Brooks,
changing course, 239, 241;
diagram of, 252.

Buckle Street, 166, 296.

Buggilde Street, 157.

Bull, 54.