384 (Fn. 1)
Aspasia, an excellent woman 128
Ass, schoolman’s case of the, applied 191, 196, 201
Assizes, county, described 122
Association of honest men proposed 126
Assurance, modest 75, 166, 185, 373
Astraea, D’Urfe’s 37 (Fn. 2)
Astrop Spa 154 (Fn. 3)
Atheists 237, 381, 389, 483
Atalantis, the New 37 (Fn. 2)
Attention, the true posture of 521
Atticus,
  his genius 150
  as a friend 385
Audience at a play 13, 190, 502
August described 425
Augustus Caesar 528, 585
Aurelia, a happy wife 15
Author
  and readers 1
  and artist 166
  and author 124
  on himself 4, 9
  for what to be admired 355
  inconvenience of his signing his name to his works 451
  of folios takes precedence 529
  for the stage 51
Avarice 55, 224, 624
Axe, poem in the shape of an 58

Babblers 218
Babes in the Wood 85
Babylon 415
Bachelors, an inquisition on 320
Bacon flitch at Whichenovre 607
Bacon, Lord 554
  quoted 10, 19, 411, 447
Bags of money transformed 3
Balance, Jupiter’s, in Homer and Virgil 463
Baldness 497
Ballads (old),
  admiration of 85, 502 (Fn. 1)
  Chevy Chace 70, 74
  Babes in the Wood 85
Balloon 45 (Fn. 3)
Balzac 355
Bamboo, Benjamin, his philosophical use of a shrew 482
Bank of England 2 (Fn. 1)
Bankruptcy 428, 456
Bantam, the ambassador from, describes the English