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Curll, E., 421

Curtius Rufus, Quintus, his History of Alexander the Great, 358

Custom, the basis of manners, 7

Cyrene, 348

Cyrus, 201, 393, 400

Damasco, play upon the word, 150

Dances: see Basset, Brawl, Morris-dance, Moresca, Roegarze

Dancing: affectation in, 36; how to be practised, 86-7

Dante, 323, 330, 339, 340, 363, 381

Dante’s Divina Commedia, 323 Inferno, 360 Paradiso, 416 Purgatorio, 376 Vita Nuova, 348

Danzare and ballare compared, 352-3, 382

D’Arco, MS. bibliographical notes by the late Count, at Mantua, 417

Darius III of Persia, 103, 207, 212, 358, 401

Dauson, Thomas, 420

Day, John, 420

Death from excessive joy, an instance of, 195-7

Deceased friends, the author’s eulogy of his, 2-3, 243-4

Deceptions and tricks practised by lovers, 217-8

Defects and foibles, limits to be observed in ridiculing, 128

Defender of the Faith, origin of the title, 412

Deianeira, 415

Demarata, 390

Demetrius I of Macedon, 69, 351, 392

Demetrius II of Macedon, 200, 392

Democritus, 124, 337, 361

Demosthenes, 344

Denham, Henry, 420

Dennistoun, James, 317, 322, 334

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