account of him, ii. 467; iii. 151;
  valetudinarian, iii. 152, 412;
  mentioned, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 471. 
SEWARD, William, F.R.S.,
  account of him, iii. 123;
  Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2;
  Harington’s Nugae Antiquae, suggests a motto for, iv. 180;
  Johnson and Bacon, iii. 194;
    bow to an Archbishop, iv. 198;
    epitaph, iv. 423, n, 3, 445;
    on the Ministry and Opposition, iv. 139;
    recommends him to Boswell, iii. 124;
    tetrastrick on Goldsmith, translates, ii. 282, n. 1;
  Langton’s ancestor and Sir M. Hale, iv. 310, n. 2;
  Parr, Dr., letter from, iv. 423, n. 3;
  people without religion, iv. 215;
  retired tradesman, anecdote of a, iii. 176, n. 1;
  Scotland, visits, iii. 123-4, 126;
  mentioned, i. 367; ii. 76, 308; iii. 167, 354; iv. 43, 83, n. 1, 444. 
SEXES,
  equality in another world, iii. 287;
  intercourse between the two, ii. 473; iii. 341;
  irregular, should be punished, iii. 17. 
SHAFTESBURY, fourth Earl of, i. 464. 
SHAKESPEARE, William,
  Boar’s Head Club, v. 247;
  ‘Boswell,’ needed a, v. 415;
  ‘brought into notice,’ ii. 92;
  Capel’s edition, iv. 5;
  Catharine of Aragon, character of, iv. 242;
  Congreve, compared with, ii. 85-7,
  Corneille and the Greek dramatists, compared with, iv. 16
  diction of common life, iii. 194
  Dogberry boasting of his losses, i. 65, n. 1;
  editions published between 1725-1751, v. 244, n. 2;
  fame, his, iii. 263;
  fault, never six lines without a, ii. 96;
  Hamlet’s description of his father, iv. 72, n. 3;
    the ghost, iv. 16, n. 2; v. 38,
      (see below under Johnson’s edition);
  Hanmer’s edition, i. 178, n. 1;
  imitations, ii. 225, n. 2;
  Johnson’s admiration of him, ii. 86, n. 1;
  Johnson’s edition, account of it, Proposals, i. 175, n. 3, 318, 327;
    delayed, i. 176, 319, 322, 327, 329, 496, n. 3; ii. 1, n. 1;
    subscribers, i. 319, n. 3, 323, 327, 336, 499;
    list lost and money spent, iv. 111;
    published, i. 496;
    went through several editions, ii. 204;
    re-published by Steevens, ii. 114, 204;
    attacked by Churchill, i. 319-320;
    confesses his ignorance where ignorant, i. 327;
    edited it from necessity, iii. 19, n. 3;
    Garrick not mentioned, ii. 92;
    reflection on him, ii. 192;
  Kenrick’s attack, i. 497;
    newspaper criticisms, ii.
    notes on two passages in Hamlet, iii. 55;
    preface, i. 496, 497, n. 3;
    Warburton criticised, i. 329;
    Warton, J. and T., notes by, i. 335; ii. 114-5;
    Johnson’s Prologue, iv. 25;
    Jubilee, ii. 68;
  Ladies’ Shakespeare Club, v. 244, n. 2;
  Latin, knowledge of, iv. 18;
  Macbeth, description of night, ii. 90;
    never read through by Mrs. Pritchard, ii. 349;
    speech to the witches, v.