tion, 293.-AUSTERITY of James king of
Naples and Sicily, 503; of life affected by
some churchmen, 504.-AUTHORITY of
the counsels of kings ought to be preserved,
and how, 547; paternal in old age, 244.-
AUTHORS love their works, 253; modern,
simply pleasant, 256.

BACCHUS'S name, 594.-BARBARIANS
believing the immortality of the soul, 135;
country of, their buildings, beds, etc., 134:
kings, power of, 140; language of, 139; love
of, towards their wives, and valour towards
their enemies, 134; love song of, 139; noble
war of, 136; obstinacy of, in their battels,
135; priests and prophets of, ibid.; weapons
of, ibid.-BARBARITY against men's lives,
136.-BARGAINING hated by Montaigne,
172.-BASHFULNESS an ornament to
young people, 703.-BATHS inviting by
their fair amænity, 383; of cool water, 469;
used by the ancients before dinner, 194.
BATHING generally wholesome, 472; in
hot waters, 472, 473.-BATTLE at sea
gain'd against the Turks, 141; fought on foot
by cavalry, 188; of Auroy, 148.-BAYARD,
Captain, of great courage, 24.-BEASTS
alter their natural affection, 252; free choice
and inclination to work, 286; inclined to
avarice, 294; inclinations have an analogy
with those of men, ibid.; justice in serving
their benefactors, ibid.; knowledge and pru-
dence in curing their diseases, 293; naturally
solicitous of their preservation, 627; revered
as Gods, 271.-BEAUTIES of several sorts,
630.-BEAUTIFUL persons are fit to com-
mand, 629.-BEAUTY a thing of a great
recommendation, 398; amongst the Mexi-
cans, 300; and stature regarded in the
person of princes and magistrates, 399; of
stature the only beauty of men, 399; of the
body, what it is, 300; of the Indians, ibid.;
preference of, ibid.; sought after by women
to the contempt of pain, 168; what it is, and
how much ought to be esteemed, 630.-
BEDS made use of to lie on at meals, 195;
soft, despised, 646.-BEES' policy, 283.-
BEING dear to everything, 333.—BELIEF,
favourable, requir'd from patients, 116.-
BION an atheist, 277.-BLIND men love
exercises, 370.-BLOOD of beasts interdicted
by Moses, why, 340.-BODIES capable of
eternal rewards, 398; perfumed, 194; when
young ought to be bent, 107.-BODÍNUS a
good author, 441.-BOETIUS' voluntary
servitude. 100.-BOLDNESS and courage
of the Indians, 531.-BOOK employment
painful, 154.-BOOKS immortal children,
253; have charming qualities and great in-
conveniences, 503; of a singular esteem
amongst great leaders, 445; proper to trans-
late, 273; that Diomedes did write upon
grammar, six thousand in number, 555;
useful and good, and yet shameful to their
authors, 551; without learning, walls with-
out stone or brick, 490.-BORN blind, why
desirous to see, 370.-BOUNTY, rare, the
most beautiful and attractive, 572; and
benefits preferred before valour, 571; and
humanity married, 488.-BOWS carrying
long arrows, 191.-BREACH of faith has
mischievous consequences, 404; of promise
when lawful, 488.-BREVITY agreeable to

men of understanding, 100.-BROTHER'S
name, 120.- BROTHERLY love neglected,
ibid.-BUCHANAN the Scotch poet, 113.
-BUFFOONS jesting at the very moment
of death, 164; to make sport at meals, 195.-
BURGERSHIP of Corinth offered to Alex-
ander, 594.-BURIAL much recommended,
26.-BUSINESS, mark of understanding in
some men, 593; of most part of men is a
farce, 598.

CÆSAR, commentaries commended, 261;
horse, 189; and Pompey good horsemen,
189.-CÆSTIUS whipt for despising Cicero's
eloquence, 250.-CALISTHENES, how he
lost the favour of Alexander, 107.-CAME-
LEON, 293.-CANOPY of state allow'd but
in palaces and taverns, 201.-CAPACITY
greater in adverse than in prosperous for-
tune, 596; unfit for the management of pub-
lick affairs, 585-CARE and foresight of the
future, 22.-CARRIAGE, ridiculous, of a
gentleman in his own house, 560; and be-
haviour proceeding from natural inclinations,
394.-CATO, a great drunkard, 216; a true
pattern of human vertue, 147; age of, when
he kill'd himself, 210; the younger, his
death, 147.-CATULLUS, 256.-CAUSES
fortuitous and voluntary, 434; of events in
the prescience of God, ibid.-CAUTION of
ants, 292.-CENSURE of Cicero, 258; of
Guicciardin's writings, 262; of Plato, 259; of
Virgil, 256.-CEREMONIES, troublesome,
502.-CEREMONY follow'd by most part
of men, 393; used at the interview of princes,
44.-CHABRIAS lost the fruits of a victory,
to take care of the dead bodies of his friends,
27.-CHACES within the theatre at Rome,
529.-CHANCE, great dominion of, over
men, 215.-CHANGE dangerous to govern-
ments, 408; gives form to injustice and
tyranny, 562; to be fear'd, 182.-CHARAC-
TER of Montaigne's father, 217; of Plutarch
and Seneca, 258; of the emperor Julian the
apostate, 416.-CHASE of cuttle-fish, 288.-
CHASTISEMENT instead of physick to
children, 436; ought to be deferr'd till anger
be over, 437; ought to be perform'd with
judgment, 436, 437, 596.-CHASTITY, a
true vertue, 69; of the age wherein Mon-
taigne's father lived, 217.-CHEARFUL
NESS, sign of wisdom, 103.-CHESS idle
and childish game, 197.-CHILDREN
abandon'd to the care and government of
their fathers, 436: grown up, ought not to be
kept from the familiarity of their fathers,
246; how ought to be provided for by their
fathers, 243; instruments wherewith to grow
rich, 244; not much to be coveted, why,
590; of the Lacedæmonians whipt before the
altar of Diana, 326; ought not to be suddenly
awak'd from their sleep, 113; spoil'd with
delicacy, 106; whipt to death, 169.-CHI-
RURGEON his end, 563; of Greece, 606.-
CHIVALRY amongst the Lacedæmonians,
108.-CHOICE of heirs, 251; of the manner
of dying left to the will of the criminals by
tyrants, 580.-CHRYSIPPUS drunk in his
legs, 661; writings of, 91.-CHURCH
afflicted with troubles, why, 383.-CICERO,
eloquence of, 109, 158, 260, 312; very am-
bitious of glory, 386.-CIRCUMCISION,
351.-CLEMENCY of a tyger towards a

kid, 299.-CLOATHS unknown to many
nations, 143.-CLOSET of the king of
Mexico, 630.-COACHES made use of by
the Hungarians against the Turks, 525; of
the emperors drawn by several animals, ibid.;
of what use in the service of war, ibid.-
COIN unknown in the Indies, 534.-COLLA-
TION betwixt meals, 195.-COLLEGE of
Guienne, where Montaigne was sent at six
years of age, 113.-COMBATS of troop
against troop, 426.-COMEDIES written in
Montaigne's time, 257.-COMFORT in old
age, 431.-COMMAND difficult and trouble-
some employment, 537.-COMMERCE of
books, 503.-COMMOTIONS, how are to
be appeas'd, 79.-COMMUNICATION of
ants, 292; of beasts among themselves, 282;
of men with beasts, ibid.; of some eminent
wit, why lookt after, 544.-COMPANY,
accidental, upon the road troublesome, 582.
-COMPARISON betwixt Catullus and
Martial, 257.-SENECA, and the late Car-
dinal of Lorrain, 441; of Cato the censor
with the younger Cato, 430; of Plutarch's
vices, what, 44; of the Eneid with Or-
lando Furioso, 258.-COMPORTMENT
disdainful and indifferent in the toleration
of infirmities meerly ceremonial, 461.-
COMPOSITIONS that smell of oil and
lamp, 38-CONCORDANCE of the new
world with the old, 361.-CONDEMNA-
TION of Socrates, 266.-CONDEMNA-
TIONS to what end, 539.-CONDITIONS
of ourselves, principal charge of every one,
594.-CONFERENCE of greater advantage
than reading of books, 540.-CONFESSION
auricular, 516; free and bold, 515; and
generous enervates reproach, 578.-CONFI-
DENCE gains the heart, 79; in fortune,
445; of another man's vertue, 175.- CON-
FUSION at the tower of Babel, 347; of
other states pleasing to the eyes, 620.-
CONJUNCTION of stars, 535.-CON-
SCIENCE fills men with confidence, 230;
quiet, begot of God, 601; ties up the tongue
and stops the mouth, 565; wonderful power
of, 229.-CONSIDERATION of nature, a
diet for the mind, 319.-CONSIDERA-
TIONS at approaching death, 507.-CON-
SOLATION in the loss of friends, 249; how
ought to be practised, 505; prescribed by
philosophy, 505.-CONSPIRACY against
Augustus, 75.-CONSTANCY end and per-
fection of vertue, 212; in affliction, 152; of
some old men, women, and children, 130.-
CONSTITUTIONS of several sorts, 108.-
CONSULTATIONS of physicians, 465.
CONTEMPT of riches. 174.-CONTENT-
MENTS of the life to come, 323.-CON-
TEXTURE of lawyers' debates, 408.-CON-
TRADICTION of judgment acceptable in
conference, 539; of philosophers, 318.-
CONVERSATION, 100; of beautiful and
well-bred women, 502; with men, 98, 499.-
CORNELIUS Tacitus abolished, 416.-
CORRECTION of the male children de-
sign'd to the fathers, and to the mothers that
of the females, 67.-CORRUPTION is
made up upon the particular contribution of
every man, 555.-COSMOGRAPHY, 360.-
COUNSEL, strength of, consists in time,
496; ought not to be judg'd of by events,

547.-COUNTENANCE of Montaigne,
then prisoner, procures him his liberty, 632;
moderate in the fits of the stone, 460.-
COUNTRY abandoned for the enjoyment
of another air, 575; women wanting suck of
their own, call goats to their assistance, 252.
-COURAGE, 482; reputation and glory as
magnificent in a closet as a camp, 79.—
COURSER accustom'd to the war, 300.-
COURTESIE and manners, 43.-COUR-
TIERS mix with none but men of their own
sort, 582.-COVETOUSNESS, 150.-from
whence proceeds, 169; ungrateful, 528.-
COWARD naturally cruel and bloody, 428.-
COWARDIZE evades the blow of fortune,
222; how to be punish'd in a soldier, 44; of
Seigneur Franget, how punish'd, 45; punish'd
by shame and disgrace, ibid; the mother
of cruelty, 424-CREATION of the world,
341.-CREATURES esteem'd by their
proper qualities, 176.-CRIMINALS con-
demned to execute themselves, 486; cut up
alive by physicians, 422.-CROSS of St.
Andrew, 361; ador'd for the God of rain,
ibid.-CRUCIFIXES, 321.-CRUELTY
exercis'd in civil wars, 270; horrid examples
of, 130; of Fulvius, 227; of Nero towards
his mother, 149; of Tamberlain exercis'd
upon lepers, 460; of the Portuguese, 136.—
CRUELTIES of tyrants, 428.-CRYING
common with men, and the greatest part of
other animals, 285.-CUNNING of a dog
to get the oil out of a jar, 290.- CURIOSITY,
increased by philosophical inquisitions na-
tural and original evil in a man, 309; of
knowing, a scourge to men, 395.-CUR-
TAINS of the amphitheatres of purple and
needlework, 529.-CUSTOM, benums our
senses to the sufferance of evils, 571; of
several nations in marriages, 66; of wearing
cloathes, 143; power of, 68; powerful over
men's life, 644; stupefies our senses, 64; the
fundamental reason for many things, 69;
veils the true aspect of things, ibid.; and
manners of the French, 194.-CYRUS great
master of horse service, 192.
DANCING practised by Epaminondas, 663.-
DANGERS, common, fright but low hearts,
361.-DAY of judgment, 655; of the bissex-
tile, 607.-DEAD men spoken of, 579;
bodies boil'd, pounded and drunk with wine,
66; men dealt with as being alive, 24.-
DEATH a receipt for all evils, 221; accom-
panied with delicacy of preparations, 580;
a thing to be desired, why, 625; a harsh
word to the Romans, 51; bravely affronted
by Cato, 382; braved to the last by Seneca,
616, cannot concern us either living or dead,
60; chearful of Epaminondas, 508; con-
tagious is not the worst, 622; constantly
lookt in the face, or voluntarily sought after,
165; contempt of, certain foundation of
religion, 58; depends upon the will, 221;
denounced by officers to persons of quality,
condemned by the Roman Emperors, 453;
desir'd out of hope of a greater good, 228;
discharges men of all obligations, 31; easiest,
625; end of our race, 51; for a reward, 363;
frightful to some people, 165; generally and
particularly lookt upon, 510; has many ways
to surprise men, 52; how felt, 165, 380; it
may be tryed, 232: image of, less dreadful in

war than at home, 62; of, presented by the
Egyptians to the company after their feasts,
56; in time of need, 299; is more glorious in
a battel than in a bed, 655; is not to be
feared according to nature, 627; lookt upon
by Socrates with indifference, 507; noble of
Cato, accompanied with pleasure, 265; of
Arius and his pope Leo, 141; a woman, of a
great courage, 228; an Indian lord, 225;
Constable de Montmorency, 412; of Ful-
vius' wife, 227; Heliogabalus, 141; Julian
the Apostate parallel'd with that of Epami-
nondas, 416; of many ancients, 380; of
Marcellinus, to be rid of a disease, 381; a
very great thing, 379; Midas, 511; Otho
the emperour, 182; ought not to be pre-
meditated, 625; to hold proportion with the
life before it, 266; of Seneca and Paulina his
wife, 453; several forms and qualities of,
580; Socrates, 381; three most execrable
persons, 49; part of the order of the universe,
58; to banishment, 573; prevented or hastned,
163; proceeding from meekness and stupid-
ity, 580; quiet and solitary, 576; remarkable
of the emperor Julian the Apostate, 417;
remembrance of, profitable to men, 54;
shameful, endur'd with great courage, 163;
sought after in extremity, 225; the day of,
judges of all the foregoing years, 49; the
last remedy for trouble, 308; the most happy,
625; unavoidable, 50; violent, 580; for-
bidden, 223; punish'd in the world to come,
ibid.; regulated by governments, 228;
voluntary, 380; and effeminate, what it is,
ibid.; several opinions concerning the same,
162; wished for, 381.-DECEIT ought to
be corrected in the greenest years, 64; hated
by the Achaians, 29.-DECII, both the
father and the son, 326-DECREPITUDE,
a solitary quality, 579; of the world, 630.-
DEFEAT of Leonidas, 137.-DEFENCE
concerns but the rich, 384; of shield's rang'd
by one another, 525.-DEFORMITY, 300;
clothing a very beautiful soul, 629.-DÉIFI-
CATION and adoration of the king of
Mexico, 549.-DEIFICATIONS, and their
jugling, 331.-DELIBERATION very
troublesome, 401.-DELICACY to be
avoided in wine, 217.-DELOS fix'd for the
service of Latona lying in, 299.-DEMO-
CRACY, 68.-DEMOCRITUS his face,
197.-DÉMONSTRATIONS of geometry,
359.-DEPENDANCE upon princes, 99.-
DESIRE of forgetting, and its effects, 308.
-DESIRES grow young again, 431; of
gathering riches has no limits, 174.-DES-
TINY, 331.-DEVOTION easie to counter-
feit, 495; full of passions, 276; mix'd with
an execrable life, 205; of the heathen, 207;
without conscience don't satisfie the gods,
630.-DIALOGUE of Plato's legislator,
and his citizens, 251.-DIFFERENCE and
variety in this world, 328; betwixt man and
man, 176; of language in animals of the
same kind, 285.-DIFFICULTY affected
by the philosophers, 317; gives all things
their estimation, 383.-DIGNITIES
often distributed by fortune, 547.-DINNER
despised among the antients, 660; is more
wholesome than supper, ibid.-DIOCLE-
SIAN retir'd to a private life 182.-
DIOGENES his opinion concerning men,

are

198; patient of cold, 600.-DION, his
origine, 578.-DIONYSIUS, his flatterers,
538; his way of discovering conspiracies
made against him, 80.-DIOSCORIDES
island, the inhabitants thereof Christians,
207.-DISCIPLINE of the Lacedæmonians,
89.-DISCOURSE pleasant and witty, 126.
-DISCOURSES of great men, clouded with
gravity, 548; with authority discover their
own weakness, 611.-DISCOVERY of a
parricide in a strange manner, 230.-
DISEASE of the mind, 151.-DISEASES
all mortal and dangerous, 951; caused by
imagination, 305; by the agitation of the
soul, 306; have their courses and limits,
649; medicinal and wholesome, 651; more
grievous in their issue than in their effect,
652; of the mind and body, cur'd with pain
and grief, 130.-DISLOYALTY of the
Ottomans, 404.-DISPUTES of this time
rouse heresies, 207; should be punish'd
as verbal crimes, 542.-DISSIMULATION
mortally hated, 403.-DISSUADERS from
rich wives, 250.-DISTRIBUTION of
goods, ibid.-DIVERSION, a good receipt
for the diseases of the mind, 507; allow'd
to youth, 107; from common rumours, 509;
from love, ibid.; from revenge, 508; made
use of to comfort, 505; military, 506.—
DIVERSITY of language, 347.—DIVINA-
TION of things from dreams, 656.-
DIVINERS punish'd, when found false,
135.-DIVINITY assimilated to men by the
antients, 325; attributed to vertues and vices,
323; imprinted on the outward fabrick of
the world, 278; queen and regent of, 207; and
philosophy have a saying to everything, 129.
-DIVISIONS in France, 586.-DOG lead-
ing blind men, 289; leaping and playing,
288; motions of, in finding out the ways,
ibid.; revenging the death of its master, 296:
serving a player, 289.-DOGMATISTS,
316.-DOING and saying should go together,
437.-DOUBLE-dealing men, what good
for, 482.-DOUBTS whether man has al
his senses, 369; and difficulties in the law,
from whence proceed, 635.-DREAM of
Cambyses, 511.-DREAMS, 511; full of agi-
tations, 656; true interpreters of inclinations,
ibid.-DRINKING, a debauch in use
amongst the best govern'd nations, 217.
after the French fashion, ibid.; the German.
ibid.; beyond thirst, 218; great glasses
towards the end of a meal, ibid.; how far
allowed, ibid.; abstinence from, 645-DRUG,
an assistant not to be trusted, 463.-DRUGS,
mysterious in their choice and application,
467; and poisons the worst sort of homicides
612.-DRUNKENNESS, a great and
brutish vice, 215; of the Helotes, 421; vice
less malicious and hurtful than the others.
217.-DURATION of life to threescore and
ten years, 658.-DUTY of man, to know hi
self, 22.-DWARFS at the table of princes,
361.-DYING of old age, very rare, 212;
resolution of, how ought to be digested,
57; voluntary resolution of, 164.
EARS, dangerous instruments, 373; hairy, of
some animals, 375; passage stopped,
EATING natural and without instruction,
285; physick against hunger, 465; schools
at Rome, 661.-EDICT of January famous

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493.

by the civil wars, 119.-EDUCATION, end
of, 411; of children, the greatest difficulty of
human science, 93.-EDWARD, the Black
Prince, 17.-ELECTION of two indifferent
things, from whence proceeds, 518; referr'd
to fortune and chance, 408.- ELEPHANT
discovering the cheat of his keeper, 291;
participate in religion, 292; subtlety to dis-
engage one another, 290; taught to dance,
ibid.; teeth of, 285; the greatest force of the
armies in the Levant, 291; wearing cymbals,
290.-EMOTIONS animate preachers to-
wards belief, 356.-EMPLOIMENT the
most pleasant to every one, 561.-EMPE-
ROR obnoxious to passions, 171.-EMPIRE
of Constantinople, 142.-EMPLOYMENTS
for a retir'd life, 156; a sedentary life, 157.-
ENEMIES honour'd by the Persians for
their vertues, 411.-ENGINES invented by
Archimedes, 83; by Dionysius, 191.-
ENTELECHIA, or the motion of the body
by the soul, 340.-ENTERPRIZES, mili-
tary, 77.-ENTERTAINMENT of beasts,
287.-EPAMINONDAS' custom of sacrifi-
cing to the Muses when he went to war,
488; grandeur of, 489; great vertues of,
488; humanity of, ibid.; placed in the first
rank of excellent men, ibid.; valour and
resolution of, 264.-EPICURUS, atomes of,
319; dying of intolerable pains of cholick,
253: Gods of, 322; insensibility of, 307.-
EPISTLES, familiar, 422; of Cicero and
Athium, 348.-EQUALITY of manners,
212.-ERASMUS, apothegm of,
ERROR and superstition, daughters of
pride, 310.-ERROURS of opinions, 201.-
ESSAYS of language, 159.-ESSENCE of
things relative to man only, 375.-—ESTEEM
of the people not to be despised, 392; vulgar
and common seldom hits right, 387.-ESTI-
MATION not due to little performances,
606.-ETERNAL, what it is, 378.-ETER-
NITY of God, ibid.-EVENTS of particular
assignation attributed to God, 331; often
effects of good fortune, 548; poor testimony
of men's worth and parts, ibid.; succeeding
contrary to opinions, 496.-EVIL the oldest,
the most supportable, 564; what it is, how
enters men, 162.-EVILS, how ought to be
endured, 649.-EXAMPLES, strange and
scholastick, 645.-EXCUSES and satisfac-
tions scandalous, 603.-EXCESS in vertue
hurtful, 128.-EXECUTIONS exceeding
simple death perfect cruelty, 269; whet the
edge of vices, 383.-EXERCISES fit for
persons of quality, 218; for youth, 107.-
EXPENCE, excessive, of monarchs, a tes-
timony of pusillanimity, 526.-EXPENCES,
how ought to be managed, 527; of kings,
how might be profitably laid out, 526.-EX-
PERIENCE, rules reason in the art of
physick, 643.-EYE, lower part of, clos'd,
375; press'd down, ibid.-EYES beautiful,
menacing, of a dangerous and malignant
nature, 631; of animals of divers colours,
and their effects, 375; of dying persons
closed by their nearest relations, 576.
FACES of men like or unlike, 637; some
happy, some unhappy, 630.-FACULTIES
of beasts more perfect than man's, 374; of
the soul suffer according to the alterations
of the body, 354.-FAINTING, 382; not

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dreadful, 655. FAIR but sour, 630.-
FAITH may be accommodated with human
utensils, without prejudice to religion, 274;
of military men very uncertain, 30; pure
gift of God, 312.-FAME bought at a great
rate, 606.-FAMILY of obscure extraction,
the most proper for falsification, 187.
FANCY, frivolous and extravagant, suitable
to human wit, 540.-FASHION, inconstancy
of, 194; of the French court rules the whole
kingdom, 183.-FASHIONS of strangers
abominated, 581.-FASTING of Epicurus,
to what end, 659.-FATHERS ought to
maintain and advance their children, 444;
ought to make themselves familiar with their
children when they are capable of it, 249.-
FAVOUR of princes despised, 601.-FEAR
is more insupportable than death itself, 47:
in its trouble exceeds all other accidents,
ibid.; nails and fetters men, 46; of a fall,
more insupportable than the fall itself, 402;
of an ensign, 46; of a gentleman, ibid.; the
strongest of all passions, 45; throws men
upon valiant despair, 46; upon the waters
from whence it proceeds, 524.-FEET per-
forming the service of hands, 64.-FELICI-
TY of men's lives depends upon the tranquil-
ity of their spirits, 48.-FENCERS, 422.-
FENCING, art useful to its end, 427; con-
trary to the manner of fighting in battel,
ibid.; injurious to valour, ibid.-FIDELITY
of a dog in pursuing a sacrilegious person,
296.-FIGHTING with rapier and cloak,
194.-FIGURE of a man most beautiful,
333.-FIRE made on the outside and at the
foot of houses among the Romans, 644; sent
for a new year's gift, 66.-FISH delicious
and easie of digestion, 659; kept in lower
rooms, 195; pre-eminence of, over flesh,
ibid.; anecdotes of, 297.-FLATTERERS
corrupt the king, 442.-FLIGHT in war
granted by several nations, 42; necessary
from the evils that men cannot endure, 601;
of Socrates, 524.-FLOODS, strange alter-
ations caused by, 132.-FONDNESS and
pernicious education of mothers, 97. -
FOLLY not to be cured by admonition, 550;
of Ctesiphon, 650; to venture what we have,
in hope to encrease it, 402; what it is, 220.-
FORCE can't effect what reason and pru-
dence can do, 444.-FORESIGHT of good
and ill, 524.-FORM of man's being depends
upon the climate and soil, 362.-FORMU-
L'ARIES of faith establish'd by the ancients,
207.-FORTITUDE, 311; what is, 41-
FORTUNE, benefits of, how to be relish'd,
177; corrects the counsels of men, 142; doth
what art can't do, ibid.; favours the execu-
tions of the most simple men, 547; has a
great share in many arts, 77; inconstancy
of, 141; often meets with reason, ibid.;
playing the physician, 142; sometimes seems
to play upon men, ibid.; surpasses the rules
of prudence, 143.-FOXES judging of the
thickness of the ice by hearing, 287.-
FRANCE, Antartick, where Velegaignon
landed,
FRANCISCO Taverna
131. -
pump'd by king Francis, 36.-FRANKS,
from whence came, 421.-FRENCH wisdom
early, but of no continuance, 105.
FRENCHMEN compar'd to monkeys, 402.
-FRIEND, how useful and necessary, 578.

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-FRIENDS taking leave one of another,
576.-FRIENDSHIP allows community of
goods, 125; beast of company, but not of
the herd, 500; begot by voluntary liberty,
120 civiliz'd and artificial, common and
ordinary, 125; disunites all obligations, ibid.;
is scarce, ibid.; its true idea, 123; of several
kinds, 120; perfect, admits no divisions, 125;
purely of our own acquiring ought to be pre-
ferred before all others, 573; rare examples
of, 124; singular effect of, 642; sound and
regular, 595; that flatters itself, 541; true
and false, 595; true and perfect, 123.-
FROISSARD, 261.-FRUGALITY of the
kings of France, 526.-FRUITS eaten after
dinner, 198.-FURY and sleep, two ways to
enter into the cabinet of gods, 357-
GAMES of divers sorts in the New World,
361; of hazard, why left off, 600.-GAR-
DEN, magnificent of the king of Mexico,
630.-GASCONS generally addicted
stealing, 243.-GAULS had missible arms in
abomination, 191; never permitted their sons
to present themselves before them till they
came to bear arms, 249; slenderly clad, 284.

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GENERATION of the soul, 344.
GENTLEMEN'S duty towards those that
come to visit them, 43.-GEOGRAPHERS
of this time, 360.-GEOMETRY, how far
useful, 335.-GERMANS drunk, perform-
ing their duty, 216; thick skulled, 267.
-GIANTS in the Indies, 534.-GIFTS
interdicted betwixt man and wife, 124;
of kings, how ought to be bestowed,
528.-GLADIATORS, 422.-GLORY con-
temn'd by philosophers, 385; desir'd for the
commodities it brings along with it, ibid.;
due to God alone, ibid. ; judged by men's
own conscience, 388; not sought after by
Epicurus, ibid.; recorded in history, 393;
to be desir'd for itself, 285; what it is, ibid.;
and curiosity scourges of the soul, 118; and
repose inconsistent, 157.-GLOSSES upon
books augment doubts, 635.-GOATS train'd
up, to give suck to children, 252.-GOD
assists our faith, not our passions, 275; un-
known, ador'd at Athens, 321; grace of,
forms our discourses, 279; has made foolish
the wisdom of this world, 311; mortal, 334;
name of, how it may be increas'd, 385.-
GODS of mean power, 334; of men's con-
dition, 523; obnoxious to passions, 539; ought
to be loved above all things, 276; partaker
of men's troubles, 334; power of, limited
according to men's necessity, ibid.; terrestrial,
ibid.-GOLD hoarded together for ornament
and shew, 534.- GOLDEN age, 133.
GOOD and evil, 35; men free from all
injuries, 152; one of a thousand, 150; sove-
raign of the Academicks and Peripateticks,
667.-GOODNESS, 458; in necessity, 586.
-GOODS and evils are never sent absolutely
pure to men, 419; imaginary of men, 301;
of fortune despised, 152; of the mind seem
fruitless to men, if not produced to the view
of others, 561; of this world, 333; of beasts,
GOVERNMENT, civil, a mighty
thing, and hard to be dissolved, 563; of a
family more troublesome than hard 556; of
the world, 333; what is the best for every
nation, 562.-GOVERNMENTS fabulous
originals, 392; diseases of, 420.-GOVERN-

301.-

OUR of a beseiged place may go out to
parley, 30; of a place, how ought to behave
himself in the time of a seige, ibid.—GRAN-
DEUR of the soul, in what consists, 664;
of a lyon towards a slave, 296; towards
the dead, 589.-GREAT men ought to
hide faults, 178.-GREATNESS despised,
535; easily avoided, 536; inconveniency of,
537; of the king of Mexico, 130; of the
Romans, 422.-GREEDY eating reproved
by Diogenes, 661.-GREEK and Latine
may be bought cheaper than 'tis commonly,
112; learn'd in old age, 430; taught by
tricks, 113.-GRIEF and pleasure coupl'd
together, 419: imprinted by counterfeited
forms, 510.-GUESTS, how ought to be
chosen according to Varro, 661; ought to be
chosen, 659.-GYMNOSOPHISTS volun-
tarily burnt, 433.

HALCYON, marvels of the, 299.-HAIRS
pincht off, 194; pull'd off in great sorrow,
28; suffer'd to grow on one side, and shav'd
on the other, 67.-HAPPINESS of men,
not to be counted before they are dead, 47.-
HARANGUES can't make men valiant on
a sudden, 550; of Cæsar to his army, 445.-
HARE, tutor for valour, 434.-HEAD un-
cover'd, 144.-HEADS naked in all seasons,
ibid.- HEALTH a precious thing, 461;
alter'd by use of physick, 471; alter'd and
corrupted by physicians, 463; more pleasant
after sickness, 652; of Cato and his family,
465; the best and richest good of nature,
301; too vigorous must be abated by art,
421; what is, 644.-HEAT coming from the
fire makes the head heavy, ibid.-HEAVEN
God's palace, 333.-HEGESIAS'S disciples
pin'd themselves to death, 507.-HELIOGA-
BALUS'S design of dying, 380.-HERA-
CLITUS his face, 197.-HIERO, remark
of, 457. - HISTORIANS excellent, 261;
pleasant and easie, 260; of middle sort, 261;
of this age, 263; sincere, 261.-HISTO-
RIES, the only good ones, 262.-HISTORY
of Guicciardin, ibid.; of Livy, 125; of
Philip de Comines, 263.-HOGS sacrificed
to the divine justice by the Egyptians, 270.
-HOMER, foundator of all sects, 317;
glory of, above all other glory, 436; good
master of the discipline of war, ibid.; guide
and teacher to Virgil, ibid.; perfect instruct-
or in the knowledge of all things, ibid.; the
general leader of all sorts of people, 368.-
HONEST, to be preferr'd to the utile, 242.
-HONEY, 369.-HONOUR, 239; obtain'd
by valour, 388; what it is, 389.-HOPE,
end of, 223; of future glory, 346.-HORSE-
MANSHIP, 193.-HORŠEMEN, fighting,
187; when ought to alight, ibid.-HORSES
and arms taken from conquer'd nations, 188;
feeding upon serpents, 193; fetter'd in the
stable, 192; led in triumph, 193; of Mame-
lukes, 187; of Massians, 192; of Scythia,
ibid.; of service, call'd destriers, 186; of
Sweden, 191; of the Gascons, 191; train'd
up to help their riders, 187; unbridled in a
battle, 193; valued as much as men, 192
HOSPITALS for beasts, 272.-HOUSES
garrison'd, plunder'd sooner than others, 384:
where all things lay open. 67.—HUMAN-
ITY towards beasts, 272.-HUMILITY and
submission, the parents of vertue, 303.-