Banishment of Ovid, causes of, xii, 5-7 Bathurst, Ralph, account of, x, 330 Character of Latin compositions of, x, 332 Battle, a poem, extract from, ix, 398 of four days, ix, 168-174 of Landen, behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at, xi, 202 of Senneph, ib. 233 Baucis and Philemon, xii, 109 Beaufort, Duke of, account of, ix, 390 noble house-keeping of, ib. 391 Beaumont and Fletcher, character of, xv, 352 Beautiful in painting, xvii, 343 Behaviour of the Duke of Ormond at the battle of Landen, xi, 202 Belief of Dryden in judicial astrology, xviii, 207 Bellarmine, Robert, account of, xvii, 160 Bellino, George, character of, xvii, 492 Beneficence of Polybius the historian, xviii, 33 Benefit of Dryden, the Pilgrim brought forward for, i, 434 Bennet, Sir Henry, vide Arlington, Earl of Bethel, Slingsby, account of, ix, 280 Bevil, Sir Robert, imprisoned, xi, 82 Bible, what occasioned by Tyndal’s translation of, x, 23 Biography, what, xvii, 58 Birth of Charles II. star visible at, ix, 51 children, custom at, xiii, 389 Dryden, i, 26 St Francis Xavier, xvi, 15 the Prince, poem on, x, 283 the son of James II. said to be spurious, x, 286 believed by the Papists miraculous, ib. 285-302 account of by Smollet, ib. 305 Bishop of Munster’s irruption into the United States, ix, 165 Compton, account of, ib. 302 Dolben, ib. 303 Blackmore, Sir Richard, Dryden’s dispute with, i, 420 extract of preface to Prince Arthur by, ib. 421 ridiculed, viii, 442 Blackmore and Collier, Dryden’s attack upon, in the Prologue and Epilogue to the Pilgrim, i, 436 Blount, Charles, account of, xviii, 77 Blount, Charles, Religio Laici of, x, 8 Boccace and Chaucer, parallel between, xi, 233 translations from, ib. 401 Bologna, singular event at the siege of, ix, 18 Booksellers, niggardliness of, xv, 194 Bower’s medal of Earl of Shaftesbury, ix, 412 Boyle, Lord Broghill, vide Orrery, Earl of, Brachmans, account of the, xvi, 91 Brady’s character of Shadwell, x, 445 Bravery of the Duke of York, ix, 161 Brawny Bishop’s complaint, a ballad, x, 270 Brazen age, from Ovid, xii, 68 Britannia Rediviva, x, 283 remarks on, ib. 285 notes on, ib. 302 British Worthy, or King Arthur, viii, 107 Brouncker, Henry, account of, xviii, 92 Brown, (Tom,) uncommon Alexandrine of, ix, 415 extract from works of, x, 51 letter on Hind and Panther of, ib. 102 extract of Preface to The New Converts Exposed, ib. 103 account of Dryden’s funeral by, i, 443 religio medici of, x, 7 Bruce, Robert, vide Aylesbury, Earl of Brutus Marcus, employed writing an epitome of Polybius, xviii, 30