Winter, Henry and Thomas, 49-52, 57 _Winter's Tale, The_, 110, 159, 283, 344, 386, 387, 390, 391, 393 _Wit at Severall Weapons_, 236, 237, 378 Wither, George, 134f., 138, 142 _Wit Without Money_, 237, 279 _Woman-Hater, The_, 7, 40, 41, 59, 72-79, 80, 82, 93, 100, 112, 115, 130, 171, 237, 239, 240, 250, 258, 273, 281, 285, 297, 305, 307-311, 350, 378, 382, 385, 407, 412 _Woman is a Weather-Cocke_, 87, 302-305 _Woman's Prize, The_, or _The Tamer Tamed_, 83, 236, 279 _(To Any) Woman that hath been no Weather-cocke_, 304 _Women Pleas'd_, 236, 279 Wood, Anthony, 32 Wordsworth, W., 20, 21, 25 Wright, Christopher and John, 49-52 Wright, Thomas, 13 Wriothesley, Henry, third Earl of Southampton, 154, 184 Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 175 Xenophon's _Cyropaedeia_, 109 Ye-test, the 271-273, 309, 371, 374-375 _Yorkshire Tragedy, The_, 303 _Your Five Gallants_, 324 Zola, 404 * * * * * Transcriber's note: Minor punctuation and capitalization inconsistencies have been corrected without comment and include adding missing opening or closing quotes, closing parenthesis, and sentence closing periods. Tables of Family Trees on pages 419-423 have been formatted to fit into the page margins. Images falling within an unbroken paragraph have been relocated to either the top or bottom of said paragraph. Word spelling, hyphenation, abbreviation, capitalization, apostrophization, diacritical accents and other variations or inconsistencies occur throughout the authors text, footnotes, index, noted verse(s) and quoted materials. All have been retained as printed unless specifically noted. Examples are provided below. Typographical corrections: p. 17, "Holme-Pierpoint" to "Holme-Pierrepoint" (5) (Holme-Pierrepoint is seventeen) p. 23, "Huntington" to "Huntingdon" (20) (Francis of Huntingdon) p. 62, "clerygyman" to "clergyman" (had been a clergyman) p. 68, "worldy" to "worldly" (Bishop's worldly estate) p. 118, "Aven" to "Avon" (2) (Stratford upon Avon) p. 164, "Beaument" to "Beaumont" (674) (John Beaumont never recalls) p. 345, "Gentleman" to "Gentlemen" (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) p. 445, "320" to "302" ("Woman is a Weather-Cocke," 87, 302-305) p. 444, "Kinsman" to "Kinsmen" (Two Noble Kinsmen, The) p. 445, "Cycropaedeia" to "Cyropaedeia" (Xenophon's Cyropaedeia) Possible typographical errors retained in text; falling within quoted material: p. 64, "lived in her highnes," (highness) p. 81, "it was no ofspring" (offspring) p. 108, "Drammatick and Scenical King" (Dramatick) p. 122, "... excellent Maister Beamont" (Beaumont) p. 194, "... Francis Beamont" (Beaumont) p. 231, "Flesher and Beaumont" (Fletcher) p. 231, "The Faithfull Shipheardesse" (Shepheardesse) p. 375, "Abigal," (Abigail) p. 430, "Cavendishes" (Cavendishs') (in Index) Several instances of "Middle English Spellings" used are: