Prolongation of life, 331

Prometheus, 57; tradition of, 323; inventor of fire, 323
Prophecies, 137

Prophecy, Spanish fleet, 140

Proferpina, or Spirit, 345; fable of, relating to nature, 346
Profperity, 17

Proteus, a prophet, 291; or Matter, 291

Providence, nature of, illustrated by fable of Prometheus, 326
Public, envy hath fome good, 32; revenge, 15

Pyrrha and Deucalion, 310

QUARRELS, wisdom of avoiding, 67

REBELLIONS, or the fable of Typhon, 253
Recurrence of weather in a cycle, 214

Regimen of health, 121

Religion, true, unchangeable, 214; pillar of government,
52; unity in, 8; Lucretius, 12

Religious differences diffolve friendships, 304; errors should
be oppofed with mildnefs by the reformation of abuses,
and the compounding of small differences, 216; warfare
unknown to the ancients, 303

Remedies of fedition, 54

Reftitution, 310

Revenge, public, 15; private, 16; wild justice, 14
Riches, baggage of virtue, 133; impediment to virtue, 133;
lafting only when earned, 134

Romans and Turks profpered by arms alone, 117

Rooms for fummer and winter, 170

SAFETY-valve for fedition, 56

Satire falt, not bitter, 127

Saturn fabled as matter, 288

Savages in colonies, how to be treated, 132

Schoolmen, 64

Scylla and Icarus, 338

Secrecy, virtue of a confeffor, 19

Seditions, 49; materials of, 52; poverty and difcontent-
ment, 53; causes of, 54; innovation in religion, 54;
alteration of laws, 54; advancement of unworthy per-

fons, 54; fafety-valve of, 56; and figns of, 50
Seditious tumult deftructive of philosophy, 287

Seeming Wife, 94

Self-love, inftances of, 89; or Narcissus, 257

Seneca, 6, 16; prophecy of, 138; on anger, 209
Shepherds of the people fhould calendar tempefts, 49
Simulation, 21; advantages of, 21; disadvantages of, 22;
and diffimulation, 18

Single Life and Marriage, 25

Slaves, Spartan, 116; abolished by Chriftian law, 116
Soldiers dangerous to the state in large bodies, 74

Solitude, faying of, 96

Solomon, his fayings of riches, 133

Soul, fhaken off mortality, 228

Spanish, proverb of dispatch, 93; state, 115

Spartan ftate, 114; firm, while fmall, 114; ruined by ex-

tenfion, 114

Speeches, fharp, by kings, danger of, 58

Sphynx, or Science, riddle of, 340
Statue of Man, 323

Study, fet hours for, 149

Styx, or neceffity, 260; or Leagues, 259
Suitor of Juno, or Baseness, 296

Superftition, caufes of, 64

Sufpicions, 124; of fufpicion, 124
Switzers, laft long as a people, 48

Sybilla's offer, 81

Sylla's friendship for Pompey, 99

Syrens, the, or Pleasures, 351; their habitation, 352

Tacitus, upon Fame, 50

Talking of atheism, 60

Tamerlane, not envious, 29

Tempefts, greatest about the equinox, 49

Terror, ministers of, or Cyclops, 256

Themistocles, fayings of, 108

Thieves, not fit for plantations, 129

Things, but two conftant, 212

Tiberius, his favourites, 279

Tigillinus, fayings of, 86

Time, the greatest innovator, 91

Timotheus, the Athenian, 154

Travel, 65; fcenes at fea and on fhore, 66; obfervations
to be made in travelling, 66; acquaintance to be sought
in travelling, 67

Tree of monarchy, 114

Troubles and Seditions, 49

True dispatch, 92

Truth, I; beft obtained in counsel, when kings are filent, 81
Turks, and Romans prescribed as nations by arms, 117; un-
married, make bafe foldiers, 26

Typhon, or a Rebel, 253

Tythonus, or Satiety, 295

Ulyffes and Syrens, 352
Unity in Religion, 8
Ufurers, 155

Ufury, 155; must be permitted, 156; difcommodities of,
156; commodities of, 157; in all countries, 158; refor-
mation and regulation of, 158; two rates of, 158

Vefpafian, prophecy of, 138; Appollonius' answer to, 69
Vices of authority, four, 39

Viciffitude of things, 311

Viciffitudes, in war, 216; chiefly in three things, 216; of
fects and religions, 214; of things, 212

Virgil, Battle of Actium, 313

Virgil's character of Italy, 113

Virtue, best plain set, 163; walks not in the highway, 227
Vulcan, 309

WAR, its finews not money, 111; or Perfeus, 274; true
exercise to bodies politic, 118; foreign, healthy for a
people, 118; battles by fea, 119

Wars, of modern times, 120; ufual on the decay of an em-
pire, 216

Wealth, of nations, 55; pillar of government, 52

Wife and children, difcipline of humanity, 26

Wisdom, of the Ancients, 235; for a Man's Self, 88
Wives, good, with bad husbands, from pride of patience, 27

YOUNG MEN, their faults, 161

Youth, 160; fitter for execution than counsel, 161; pre-
ferved from decay, 331

Zeal, or Diomed, 302

CORRIGENDA.-P. 20, note, read I penfieri stretti &. P. 45, note,
for Caprimulgas read Caprimulgus. P. 98, line 10, for liveth
read lieth.