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Women's men, or beaux, how to be em-
ployed, iv. 61.

Wonder, produces reflection, iv. 189.
Wood, Mr., v. 337; letters to, 345.
Woodstock Park, a famous echo in, i. 57.
Woollen cloths, British trade in the Ne-
therlands improved, v. 571.

Woollen manufacture, the strength of
Britain, iv. 344.

Words, well chosen, their force on the
imagination, iii. 413; finely chosen, to
introduce a happy quotation from Solo-
mon, v. 37, note.

Words of command in the fan exercise, ii.
428.

Words ending in ed and eth how altered

in our language, ii. 497.

"Work if I had it," a strange cry for a
corn-cutter, iii. 152.

Wormwood, Will., his character, iv. 335.
World, the present, a nursery for the
next, ii. 445.

Worship, a title given to magistrates, iii.
99; evening, in Paradise, 230; reli-
gious, the first origin of the drama, 384.
Worsley, Mr., letter to, v. 522.
Wortley, Mr., his invitations to Addison,
v. 401-404; letters to, 401, 403.
Wotton, Sir Henry, his remark on one
who lied for the good of his country, iv.
461.

Would be, Lady Betty, accuses Ursula
Goodenough in the Court of Honour,
ii. 212.

Would, used instead of should, iii. 451,
note.

Wren, Bp., his peripatetic operations
while a prisoner in the Tower, v. 735.
Wrestlers, the Two, a piece of sculpture
at Florence, i. 500.

Writer, how he should perfect his imagin-
ation, iii. 416.

Writers, immoral, of great talents, ene-
mies of mankind, iii. 17; Romish notion
of their punishment in purgatory, ib.;
some of them stars of light, others of
darkness, iv. 133; it is but justice to
great writers to distinguish between
their hasty and deliberate composi-
tions, 396, note; good and bad, receive
great satisfaction from the prospects of
futurity, v. 45; those who would live
should treat on subjects of general con-
cern, 101, note.

Writing, in concert, an absurd practice
in men of wit, ii. 10, note; of every
kind, has a style of its own, iii. 392,
note; of two kinds, in the Spectator,
497; a provocation to the envious and
an affront to the ignorant, v. 45, a
benefit to mankind, 47.

Wyche, Mr., v. 339; letters to, 339, 345.
Wycherley, pamphlet respecting, v. 700,
and note.

Wyndham, Sir William, chancellor of the
exchequer, his proposal to reduce the
queen's expenses, v. 647, 648; his sen-
timents on the Secret Committee's Re-
port, 659.

X, a cabalistical signature to the Specta-
tor, iii. 103, 104; the signature of Eus-
tace Budgell in the Spectator, v. 679.
Xantippe, a modern one, her treatment of
her husband, iii. 506.

Xenophanes, his reply on being reproach-
ed as timorous, iii. 471.

Xenophon, his station in the temple of
Fame, ii. 14; celebrates good-nature in
the life of his imaginary prince, iii. 19.
Xerxes, why he wept over his army, ii. 27.

Y, preceding a vowel, often cut off in
Milton's verse, iii. 194.

Yalden, Rev. Dr. Thomas, v. 320; notices
of, ib., note.

Yaratilda and Marraton, a visionary tale,
ii. 330; their meeting, 338.
Yawning-match, described, iii. 41.
Yeoman, character of one, ii. 465.
York and Lancaster, many examples of
severity during the disputes of those
houses, v. 90.

Yorke, Philip, Earl of Hardwicke, his
praise of Addison's "Remarks on Italy,"
v. 733.

Young, Dr., his verses to the author of
Cato, i. 163; his remarks on Tickell's
Translation of Homer, v. 702; his cri-
ticism on Cato, 721.

Young, Dr. Margery, alias John, some ac-
count of, ii. 169.

Young, R., translator of Major Pack's
Essay on the Roman Elegiac Poets, v.
599, note.

Young gentleman, account of one, spoiled
by maternal indulgence, ii. 467.
Young men of fortune and quality, prone
to dissipation, iv. 210; examples pro-
posed to them, 211.

Young woman, judged by Rhadamanthus,
iv. 299, 300.

Younger brothers in great families, modes
of disposing of them, ii. 429.
Youth, cautioned to preserve their noses,
ii. 217.

Yvoire, a port on the lake of Geneva for
the duke of Savoy's galleys, i. 510.

Zamolxes, a servant of Pythagoras, emi-
nent in the list of his disciples, iv. 321.
Zeal, party, in females to be avoided, ii.
341; in a public cause, injurious to
virtue, 447; renders honest minds un-
charitable, ib.; men apt to deceive
themselves in it, iii. 51; distinction be-
tween true and false, 51, 52; in athe-
ists and infidels, 53; intemperate, its
evil tendency, 378; how represented in
the Highlander's Vision, iv. 497; in fe-

males, often dangerous to society and
to religion, v. 21.

Zealots, furious, how to be extirpated, ii.
479; false ones, in religion, treated on,
iii. 51, 52.

Zelinda, a rich widow, pays to Silvio his bill
of costs during his courtship of her,iv.171.
Zell, dukedom of, an accession of domi-
nion to the Elector of Hanover and
King of Great Britain, iv. 402.
Zemath-David, his testimony of the mi
racle which frustrated the design of re-
building the Temple, v. 135.

Zenobia, the figure of, how recognised on
medals, i. 264.

Zephon, his rebuke of Satan, graceful and
moral, iii. 226.

Zetus, how represented in a group of
figures, i. 465.

Zimri, a character admirably finished by
Dryden, iii. 3.

Zodiac, signs of, allusion to, i. 319.
Zoilus, his ridicule of Homer. iii. 188.
Zurich, the handsomest town in Switzer-
land, described, i. 521.

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Vol. v. p. 324, note, for Nicholl's read Nichol's.

330, line 6 from bottom, add accent to Abbé.

331, add accents to Châteaudun and Vendôme.

335, note1. Dr. Chartlett's letters are not published in Aubrey's
Bodleian Collection.

365, note, for 1797 read 1707.

374, note 4, read Universelle.

418, note, for Lambertz read Lamberty.

Vol. vi. p. 537, in line 18 of Poem, for thirsty read thirst.
681, line 13 from bottom, for and read but.

observed that these Whiston and Ditton' lines are not pu
It should also be
lished in the name of Gay, but are merely assigned to him
in an old MS. note found in the volume whence they are
taken, and which consists chiefly of Swift's pieces.
726, line 10 from top, for 1701 read 1710.

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