_Lower_ discipline defined, 21. Is adopted by Capuchin Friars and the whole Tribe of Nuns, 21, 404. Were not unknown to the Greeks and Romans, 287. Are known in France, 288. In Italy, _ibid._ Among the Persians, 289. The Turks, _ibid._ The Chinese, _ibid._ The Arabs, 290. In Denmark, 291. Among the Dutch, 292. In Poland, 179, 292. In England, _ibid._ In Spain, 293. A few remarks on their propriety, 400, & _seq._ _Loyola_ (Ignatius of), gets himself whipt at School, 98. _Lucian_, quoted, 24, 81, 82, 96, 319. _Lupercalia_, account of that festival, 90, & _seq._ It is continued to very late times, 93. Is greatly improved, 94. An attempt to revive it, 241. A farther description of it, 396, & _seq._ Had vastly the advantage of all the festivals of the like kind, contrived by other nations, _ibid._ M. _Margaret_, Queen of Navarre, attempts to make herself Mistress of the Town of Agen, 269. Is forced to fly on horseback with the utmost hurry and expedition, _ibid._ The consequences of it, _ibid._ _Masters_ in Rome; the great power they possessed over their slaves, 57. To what degree they abused it, 57, & _seq._ Instances of this abuse, 61, 66, & _seq._ Provisions made by the Emperors to restrain them, 69, 70; and by the Church, 61, 70. _Marlborough_ (the great Duke of), to what he owed his first advancement, 286. _Mathew_ (Brother), the godly personage he was, 262. The lecture he bestows upon a young Lady who pays a visit to him in his bed, 263. Ought not to be imitated, except by persons who possess as much sanctity as him, 294, 297. _Menagiana_ quoted, 233. _Menas_, a Spanish Friar, does not keep his word to his female penitents, 246. _Middleton_, his Letter from Rome quoted, 87, 318, 381. _Milo_, how serves Sallust the Historian, who had meddled with his Wife, 65. _Milton_ quoted, 338. _Mind_ (the human), how variable and fantastick in her opinions, 281. Singular instance of it, 281, & _seq._ 287, & _seq._ _Miserere_, or 51st Psalm, the singing of it particularly used to enliven as well as regulate the time of religious flagellation among Christians, 32, 371. _Mistresses_ in Rome; the abuse they made of their power over their female slaves. See _Masters_. _Molesworth_ (Lord), his description of a hunting-match at the Court of Denmark, 291. _Molly_ Mog, the song made to her honour by Gay, 77. _Molière_ quoted, 20, 99, 206. _Monastic_ Orders; by whom first instituted, 118. _Monasteries_: voluntary disciplines were not in use in them, in the times of their first foundation, 118, & _seq._