Boniface VIII., Pope, 127; his ambition and insolence, 127, n. 1.
Bonner, Bishop, 193 and n. 5.
Book of Sports, 32, n. 1.
Booker, John, the astrologer, 226, n. 4; 257 and n. 3.
Boot, on the stocks, 173 and n. 5.
Boots, dissertation upon, 59, n. 4.
Borgia, Alexander, 149, n.3.
Borgia, Lucretia, 151, n. 3.
Bosworth-field, 107, n. 3.
Boutè-feus, 365 and n. 2.
Braggadocio hutfer, 255 and n. 3.
Brand's Antiquities, 223, n. 3; 234, n. 2; 385, n. 1.
Brayed in a mortar, 263 and n. 6.
Brazilians, hardness of their heads, 155, n. 4.
Breeches, large, of Henry VIII., 17, n. 1.
Brentford Fair, 254.
Bretheren, 333 and n. 3.
Bricklayers, 254 and n. 4.
Bridewell, and Houses of Correction, 175 and n. 2.
Bright, Henry, epitaph on, preface, 2.
Broking-trade in love, 281 and n. 3.
Brotherhood, holy, 315 and n. 1.
Brothers and Sisters, marriages between, 151 and n. 2.
Brown-bills, 349 and n. 1.
Bruin, the bear, his birth, parentage, and education, 52; overwhelmed by Hudibras, 75; breaks loose and routs the rabble, 76; is pursued by the dogs, 87; his valiant resistance, 88; rescued by Trulla and Cerdon, 89; laid up in ordinary, 91.
Brutus and Cassius, contest between, 195, n. 3.
Bucephalus, feared his own shadow, 145, n. 3.
Buckingham, Duke of, his patronage of Butler, preface, 11; his character drawn by the poet, 12.
Bull-feasts, at Madrid, 272 and n. 2.
Bulwer's Artificial Changeling, 155, n. 4; 158, n. 6; 162, n. 2; 163, n. 3; 278, n. 3.
Bum-bailiffs, custom of, 19, n. 2.
Burgess, Daniel, and the Cheshire cheese, 126, n. 4.
Burial-office, 440, n. 4.
Burton, Prynne, and Bastwick, severe sentence upon, 361, n. 2; honours paid to, 366, n. 3.
Butcher, his dress described, 72 and n. 2, 3.
Butler, Samuel, some account of his father. Life, i; his birth, i; his education, ii; his school-fellows, ii; becomes clerk to Mr Jefferies, iii: studies painting, iii; his situation with the Countess of Kent, iv; ground-work of his Hudibras, iv; lives in the service of Sir Samuel Luke, v; popularity of his poem, v; various editions of it, vi; injunction forbidding any one to peruse it, i; its high estimation at Court, vii; patronized by Hyde and Dorset, vii; sensation produced by the publication of his poem of Hudibras, viii; appointed Secretary to the Earl of Carberry, viii; his supposed poverty, ix; his residence in France, X; his observations while in that country, x; marries Mrs Herbert, xi; the Duke of Buckingham's high opinion of his merits, xi; his character of the Duke, xii; his death and funeral, xiii; monument to his memory in St Paul's, Covent Garden, xiii; inscription on it, xiv; his monument in Westminster Abbey, xiv; proposition to erect one in Covent Garden Church, xv; marble tablet to, in Strensham Church, xv; work published as his Remains, xvi; his knowledge of law-terms, xvi; Dr Johnson's high sense of his merits, xvii; character of his great poem, xviii; translated into French, xix; his imitators, xix; the Satyre Menippée, xx; great object of his satire, xxi; characters introduced into his poem, xxi; criticisms on it, xxiii.
Butler's Remains quoted, 255 and
