157
Puns 61, 396, 454, 504
Puppet-show, Powell’s 14 (Fn. 2)
Purcell, Henry 29 (Fn. 3)
Puzzle, Tom, in argument 476
Pyramids of Egypt 415
Pyrrhus, King 180
Pythagoras 447, 586

Quacks 444, 547 (Fn. 1), 572
Quakers 396
Quality 34, 219
Queries in love 625
Quick, Mrs., of the Widows’ Club 561
Quidnunc, Tom 625
Quillet, Claude 23 (Fn. 4)
Quintilian 168
Quir, Peter de, on Puns 396
Quixote, Don, patron of Sigher’s Club 30

Rabelais                                                283
Racine                                                  39 (Fn. 4)
Rack                                                    239
Radcliffe, Dr. John                                     468 (Fn. 4)
Raillery                                                422
Rainbow                                                 415
coffee-house                                          16 (Fn. 1)
Rakes                                                   336, 576
Raleigh, Sir W.                                         510
Ramble from Richmond to the Exchange                    454
Ramsey, Will., the astrologer, describes night          582
Rant                                                    40
Rape of Proserpine, a French opera                      29
Raphael                                                 226, 244, 467
Rapin, Rene                                   44 (Fn. 3), 291 (Fn. 2)
Rattling Club at church                                 630
Read, Sir Wm., oculist                               472, 547 (Fn. 1)
Readers                                            1, 62, 93, 94, 179
Reason                                               6, 120, 408, 447
Rebus                                                   59
Rechteren, Count, and M. Menager                        481 (Fn. 3)
Recitative                                              29
Reciters                                                521
Recluse, the                                            282
Recommendations,
letters of, generally unjust and absurd               493
Recreations                                             258
Rehearsal, Buckingham’s                                 3 (Fn. 7)
Religion                                 201, 213, 292, 356, 447, 459,
471, 483, 494, 574
Renatus Valentinus, story of                            426