ry
perseverance, ib.; title of the catalogue of his writings, 535; copy
of his works bequeathed to Sion College, ib.; the pretended
retractation of his Histriomastix, iii. 315, note.

PSALM-SINGING, remarks on, ii. 472; first introduction of, ib.; T.
Warton's criticism of, 473; history of, 473-478; practised at lord
mayor's feasts, 479.

PSALMANAZAR, his extraordinary literary forgery, i. 137, note; iii.
311; some account of, 312-314.

PUCK, the Commentator.--See STEEVENS.

PULTENEY, Earl of Bath, MS. Memoirs of, suppressed, ii. 447.

PUNCH, his ancient origin, ii. 122, and note; origin of his name,
ib., note.

PUNCHINELLO.--See PUNCH.

PUNNING, in a dictionary, i. 305.

PUNS, Cicero's, i. 69.

PUPPET-SHOWS in England, iii. 238.

PURGATORY, Cardinal Bellarmin's treatise on, i. 204.

PURITANS, turn bacchanalian songs into spiritual ones, ii. 148.

PURITANS and Precisians, party nicknames at the Reformation, iii.
84, 85.

PYROTECHNICS.--See FIREWORKS.

QUADRIO, his Universal History of Poetry, iii. 233; his ignorance of
English poetry, 234-236; his opinion of English comedy, 236; praises
our puppet-shows, 238.

QUEEN MARY the First, her marriage with Philip of Spain, i. 469; her
letter of instructions, ib.

QUEEN ELIZABETH, letter of, to her brother, Edward VI., i. 461; her
exhibition of youthfulness to the ambassador of the Scottish king,
463; remarkable period in her annals, ii. 179; her maiden state,
ib.; real cause of her repugnance to change it, ib., and note; her
artifices to conceal her resolution, 180; debates of the Commons on
the succession to, 181; address to, by the Duke of Norfolk, and her
answer, ib.; despatch of the French ambassador on this occasion,
181-186; her judicious conduct, ib.; her conduct towards printers
and authors, 221, 222; her dislike to the appointment of a
successor, iii. 331; account of her death-bed, 331, 332.

QUEEN ANNE BULLEN, anecdote relative to her execution, i. 462.

QUERNO, made laureat for the joke's sake, i. 455.

QUEVEDO, his love for Don Quixote, iii. 339.

QUINCE, origin of, ii. 157, note.

QUODLIBETS, or Scholastic Disquisitions, i. 60.

QUOTATION, remarks on the use of, ii. 416; Selden's precept for,
violated by himself, 417; Bayle's remarks on the use of, 418; when
used by an eminent author often appropriated by