English stage, iii. 4, and note.

SCENARIE, the plots of extemporal comedies, ii. 130; description of,
note; some discovered at Dulwich College, 139, 140, and note.

SCRIBLERAID, the, a poetical jest on pseudo-science, by R. O.
Cambridge, i. 295, and note.

SCRIPTURE story treated like mediaeval romance, i. 163, and note.

SCUDERY, Mademoiselle, composed ninety romances, i. 106; panegyrics
on, ib.; her "Great Cyrus and Map of Tenderness," 107.

SCUDERY, George, famous for composing romances, i. 107; a votary of
vanity, ib.; author of sixteen plays, 108.

SECRET HISTORY, of authors who have ruined their booksellers, ii.
532-546; of an elective monarchy, iii. 346-363; the supplement of
history itself, iii. 380; reply to an attack on the writers of, 382;
two species of, positive and relative, ib.; the true sources of to
be found in MS collections, 383; neglect of by historians, 384; its
utility, 385; of the Restoration, 386; of Mary, the Queen of William
III., 389-393.

SEDAN chairs, introduced into England by the Duke of Buckingham, ii.
36.

SEGNI, Bernardo, his History of Florence, iii. 182.

SENTIMENTAL biography, iii. 414-424.

SERASSI, writes the life of Tasso, ii. 444; finds Galileo's MS.
annotations, copies them, and suppresses the original, ib.

SERMONS, printed, Bayle's saying on, i. 345.

SEYMOUR, William, his family and character, ii. 508; enters into a
treaty of marriage with the Lady Arabella Stuart, ib.; summoned
before the Privy Council, ib.; his marriage, 509; imprisoned in the
Tower, ib.; his wife's letter to him, 510; his escape, 515; is
permitted to return, 519.

SHAKESPEARE, Fuller's character of, i. 380; orthography of his name,
ii. 238, and note; introduces a masque in his "Tempest," and
burlesques the characters in court masques, iii. 5, and note;
bequest to his wife, 302.

SHENSTONE, the object of his poem of the Schoolmistress misunderstood,
ii. 496; his ludicrous index to, 499; his character, his life, and
his works, iii. 90-102.

SHOEING-HORNS, ii. 297, note.

SILHOUETTE, a term not to be found in any dictionary, iii. 84;
originated in a political nickname, ib.

SILK stockings, pair of, presented to Queen Elizabeth, i. 226.

SILLI, ancient parodies, ii. 455.

SKELTON, his satire on Wolsey, iii. 187.

SNEEZING, the custom of saluting after, i. 12