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Shakspere, 403

Sibyls, the, 197, 390

Sicily, 195

Sidney, Sir Philip, his “Arcadia,” 359

Siena: retort made to a townsman of, 136; story about the Emperor and, 143; the Cardinal of, 351

Silius Italicus, Caius, 52, 53, 346

Silva, Diego de, Count of Portalegre, 317 Miguel de, Bishop of Viseu, 1, 317

Silvestri, Giovanni, 421

Simbeni, 420

Similes and metaphors in pleasantry, 142

Simone, a character in Boccaccio, 161

Simoni, Ludovico Buonarroti, 343

Simpleton, retort made by Lorenzo de’ Medici to a, 145

Sinning against light, 255-6

Si non caste, tamen caute, 189, 388

Sinoris, 194, 195

Sismondi, 328

Sixtus IV, 318, 326, 328, 359, 396, 404

Slater, H., 421

Slavonia, jest about a comedy so elaborate as to need for its setting all the wood in, 152

Social inferiors, consorting with, 85-6

Socrates, 56, 57, 63, 78, 90, 181, 308, 344, 348, 356, 391, 402, 408

Solomon, 220, 405

Solon of Athens, 391, 408

Sonzogno, Edoardo, 324, 422

Sophocles, 402

Sorbon, Robert, 346-7

Sorbonne, the, 57, 346-7

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