ii. 408; illustrative anecdotes, 409-413.

DIVINITY, scholastic, i. 60, 61; curious accounts and specimens of,
63-65.

DODD'S Church History of England, iii. 239.

DRAGONS, origin of the old stories of, ii. 311.

DRAMA, anecdotes of the early, ii. 40-43; Mexican, ib.; account of a
curious drama, entitled Technotamia, or the Marriage of the Arts,
43-46; account of one written by a madman, 48.

DRAMATIC works made the vehicle of political feeling, ii. 277; by
the Catholics at the Reformation, ib.; such conduct caused a
proclamation by Edward VI. against English interludes, &c., ib.;
those on the side of the Reformation allowed, and specimens of one,
279-281; proceedings against in the Star Chamber, ib.

DRAMATIC Annals.--See DRAMATIC WORKS. Suppression of the drama
during the civil wars of Charles I., ii. 281; opposite conduct of
actors at that time, and at the period of the French revolution,
282; writers against the stage, 283; custom of boys personating
females, 284; introduction of actresses, 285; Histriomastix, ib.;
all theatres suppressed in 1642, ib.; ordinance against theatres,
286; plays enacted secretly during their suppression, ib.; Cox's
"drolleries," 287; petitions against the drama, 289; the player's
petition in favour of, ib.; secretly acted at Holland House, 291;
the suppression of the drama caused the publication of many MS.
plays, ib.

DRESS, costliness of, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and
Charles I., iii. 405-408.

DRINKING, hard, a borrowed custom among the English, ii. 293; learnt
by them in the Netherlands, ib.; statutes against, ib., note; terms
of, 294, note, 295-298; anecdotes of, 300.

DRUNKARDS, their different characteristics, ii. 299; "A Delicate
Diet for," ib., note; toasts of, 300, and note.

DU CLOS, origin of his fairy tale of Acajou and Zirphile, and
account of his satirical preface to it, ii. 308-310.

DUTCH literature, remarks and strictures on, i. 403-405; satirical
medals, iii. 156-160.

ECHO verses, specimen of, ii. 236.

ECLECTIC School of Art founded by the Caracci, ii. 401, note.

EDWARD the Fourth, to what he owed his crown, i. 261.

EGLISHAW, Dr., his political libels, ii. 357, note; is murdered in
Holland, ib.

ELIZABETH, queen, i. 264; her amours, 265; wished to be thought
beautiful by all the world, ib.; her habits