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C\u*ouic\e au<V ttazelta. EDITED BY JOSEPH VALLENCB BEVAN. I'IULISUf.D KVkBT Monday t$ Thursday. .jT f|VE IHILCAU9 PEU ANNUM, PATABLK IX ai.vancs.-covstbv papkh, once a week, TIIIJSB DOU.AH9 rtll ANNUM, VAIAHI.I AI AO IN ADVANCE. Original. }'OR THE CUHOJWCLB. Mi. F.niTo*, I'M a simple fellow as you’ll ere light on, 1 ncW have travcll’d ai«'» setn ,!01 Brixhton — Certes I don’t belong to ill’ illummali, N’o—nor the ancient sc .00l <if literati Vet, when I see that pen and ink is handy* rm pester'd with, Carffiilies Scribrndi Yh hardly know n subject I would write on To hit (filer, won't do—that might biiug a fiaht yn— Nor what’s still worse—to fly mto exsla tics, That might endanger me—among tnecii lies ■, . . , But aa Byron says—to quote him mn t un iting ; . . « Nothing’s so difficult ns a beginning. “In Poesy,” this is true, none will doub' it That have ever thought, or dreamed a bout it; therefore, thus, having made nay intro duction, I'm going to say sii— sans instruction— That I won’t quarrel with ’jour friend “ Abatou” Nor the " Oihoinai.” of the Advertise”. J'm uot so envious ns to be sorry at Their better claims for “ Poet Laureate” ,'J*n shb’s we've other bards of high pre tensions, All sorts, ail sizes, and of ill ilimei s ons i • JPm*IV- si arch all the climes terrenial, Twi’ll find this the one that’s moat con genial MVve one, who by the by s’ no common SC I'iit ell That styles himself “ The Bard of the Colton Patch,” And then we’ve lud another, / tour le con • tve. With a deucM long name I think ’iv as “ Cbitamnestra" But whether mate, or fan. hang me il I know As you’ve been a trav’ler sir—entre nous (-No jesting, you'll give me perhaps (he knowledge. For as lv’<; said, I ne’er was in a college,J These long rolling mimes are vejwtioip.lv uncivil, 'Tfs’nt the first lime I’ve wish’d them h the (I 1, But I don’t like unwholesome truths to light on So I’ve written enough, to say—good t ight on I’ll now dismiss my rouse till alter Christ mas, And then, perhaps, for some good so ks I’ll twist as Mrilliant aw' green a wreath—as they ’ll, request, or Can be wove, by the would-be Haul of CHESTER. I —1 FOll THE CHRONICLE, Hr. Enrron, I i Struck with the poetic i»n apery, and pathetic beauty ol the Sen n ml- which you copied fr m Advtrti set. I was induced to attempt uu inntatio i, which is herewith presented SERENA. DR. a List f O, List*! /’’—Shakespeare Listen 1 the Frog t his pond has hopt, And croaks like Croaker, crnakingly— Th hght Hugs ypleara like golden drops, And Jowler howis out choakingly ! Listen! the Wagoner cracks his » hip, And whistles along quite cheerily ! TV bile Sam Sc “ Sue” with hand and hip, Dance “ Juba up /” so merrily. Listen I the “ Corn Shuck ” has begun, And tills the wood with harmony, When »Ifric sprite* in merry pound. Husk Coni, then —cat their ho aim my Listen! the Cock begins to crow *• Cock a-doodle,’" roaringly ! V 1 “ scent the air”—away 1 go ! For Julia sleeps too snoringly. lUCDUMIUNIDI'S. • I fell srme hesitation in using this quotation, as a shrewd Irish Comme -lator had informed me, that Hamlet's Ghost - us a Tailor ! “ Why r” said 1—“ He cries out for List,” said he , ago, tic must be a Tailor, lint 1 deny the sentience, altho’ 1 uni firmly convinced that a ghost is but the remnant of a man s The Knights of the Whip travel day and night. VMy brother Poet very felicitously compares Chanticleer’s shrill note, to a fall of Water— ihis is very good—for Lin ium Fidelias, 1 believe, classes him with ’water fowls. [Hy Request.] tnoM TUK GLAS OW lIKC. Description of a Handy written in a La do’s Album, at unbridge H ells, Oct 1, 1818. A Da Mil’s a thing without meaning or • worth. Unlike any creature that crawls upon .. _ t art i I A fungus, unknown to philosophy’s era? ’. It icenis to ex's. —but we cannot tel! why .« Os no species a pan—neither fish, fl. »h, nor flow ). And shunn’d by mankind, os bials s'.tin the ow!! A thing, which of use no mortal can ren der, By uilors m de up, without any g. nder, Oi beitj, and of bandages, buck i am, am' tape, And in alt points, bat seme, like an ass oi An ape• k And yet such poor nothings with apes to com pa i e Is an act of injustice to brutes, I declare ! For apes have reflection—and useful tin ASB * Rut a Dandy can only rtflec* in his glass Then approach not these titles, dear la'J.e>, * P ri '. v » . , For if once you embrace them th y el faint quite away ! We have h- ard ot a buck macaroni, an sfait i But a Dandy (poor thing !) was unknown in th at k ; For Noah had i ever endeavour’d to save ; , p »/•.. ~sf (i om the deluge's wave ! He Jiaru and CurkHis • F,'facts from Sir Thomas Brown’s i’seu dodoxia Er.id-mica; or, Enquiii'-s m'o very many' Iteceived Tenenis a- d com monly pre.imi- d Truths London 7tli Ed. MDULXXXVI p. 217—225. Compendiously of many questionable Cus toms, Opinions, Pictures, i radices, and Popular Ob»i nations. If an Haie cr-'Sthe High-way, there arc few above thru- score years that are not perplexed thereat : which notwithstand ing is but an augural terror, accord ng to that receivi d expression, Inauspieatum dat inter obtains Leptis. And the gruund of the conceit was probably no greater than this, 1 Itu a fear fit I animal passing by to, portended unto t s something t<* be fearet.: as upon tin- dke consi'oration, the meeting i f a Fox presaged some fu ture imposture ; which was as pcr.-ititious ohserva 1 ion prohibited unto me ,1 ws, as is exprr ss. din he Idolatry of liluinmnidcs, and is referu*tl unto the sin ot an observ er of For'u run, or on -tha. abus.'h , vc; t unto go 1 cl oi had signs ; forbidden by the Law et Muses; which not withstanding sor etirncs succeeding, according to fears or de*ir< s, have !■ ft Rupees ions and 'im>- rims especialions in credulous minds for ever. 2. 7’l.ai Owls and Ravens are ominous appears, aid pn-signifying unlucky e vents, as Ch. is l ians yet conceit, was ui n> an uugnriat concept ion. B c.mse many Ravens weic seen when Ah-xa ider enter cd Babylon, dicy were thougiu to pic omitiAie his death; and because an 0.-1 app ared In fore Hie bKtle, it piesageu In; ruin of Crnssus Which though rle crepit supeis'i. unis, and such as had their ■ •ativiiy in tui.es b.yor.d all insiury, are f chuiu the ohs.'i v.tion if m?uy Heads, ami by li cn du!‘ i s and Cemi'.ine parly still in sunn in «jcsly among us Aiu.tucre lore tin; emblem of sup'ustition was -veil set out by Ilipn, in tile piciure of an Owl, an lliir., and an old Woman And it no . ay coiifi; inf Hi the angmial consideration, '••at an o*l is a forbidd-n food in the Law of 'loses ; or that .L rusalem w;.s threaten i i by ihe Raven ard the Owl, in that ex n i ssi in of Isai, d 4 Thai i' sln u'.d be a co’ii t for Owls, that the Cormorant mid the >) "l tern should possess it, and the On I ai. d the Raven dwell mil. For thereby was •my uni bed their ensuing desolation, at, is ex pound rI in the woids succeeding: He shall d.vw upon it the lin*- of c i.fusion, and the sionei; of emi.tiuess. 3. The falling of Salt is an authentic presagement of ill-luck, nor can even tem per contemn it; from whence ikuw 'o standiug nothing can be natmaily f.-t.r d : our was the same a general prognostick of future evil among the Ancients, luu pa- - Hcular oniination concerning the b . ad. of frienddup For Sah as incorrupt b! , was llio syinhru of friendship, and h. f.ve the oilier service was offered on'o their gii'-sis; which if .it casually fell, *as ac counted >im .1-;iis, and their amity of no duration But tvlu-iher Salt were not •n --ly a symbol ut f ie. dsuip with man, but, als-'a figure of .unity and ttcouciuat ou wit-. (Ini, u’-.d was therefore observed in . K.vilicf.s, is a'< higher spreu!-tihu 4. Is break tin E. g-sliil. af-,er the M. ai is out. wean taught in our Ehlld hood, and p'a i se o ail onr lives; which ncviT'-hel. s .s bn' , Bupetstitions rel'qne according 1 1 to judgment of Pliny, line pmtnunit ovonini, n' exsorbueril qn.squo (•slices protimis fraugi, ant ensucni euch- Icarihus perforata ; and the intent bereof was to proven' witchcraft; for lest wi'cit es-'iou d draw or prick their'lames tb r> - in, and v ciu fii-iously n.isc'def their pe>- sms, hey imike the slieil, asDclecampiu h.th bserved. 5 The TrmT.overs Kuo* is very much m-igiulied, and still retained in Presents <-I Love among us; which though in all (loint-s it doth not make om, had perhaps i:s original tVom the Nodus Hercu'anns, or that which Was called Hercules Ins knot, resin-biing the snaky complication in the Caducous or tod of Hermes ; and in which form -U. Zone or woolku Ciir die of (lie Unde \v.is f stcued, as Tun e bus observetli in bis Adversatia. 6. A lien our Check burnetii or Ear tingicili, we usually say tii-.t some Body .» taiking of jis, which is an ancient concei .•md ranked among snjierslitions opinions ■oy Piiny.— Which is a conceit bardic t. be m.uie out without tin concession oi - signifying Genius, or universal Mcretin : conducting sounds unto dieir distant Mia jec.s, and teaching us to hea. by touch 7. When wc desire to confine oui words, we commonly say tli .y .rc -pok. u mule, the Rose; which expression is com incndahle, it tlie Ruse from any nulm.i. property may he the symbol of silen, And is also tolerable, if by desiring u s creey to words spoken under the Hose, we only mean in society and coir.poi.njo; fretn die anen n custom in Symposiark meetings, to wear Ghaplits of Roses abwui tlu ir heads: and to vve coud iuu uni (|>i- G rinan cus om, which ovur the Tali.e de- ’ scribe th a Rose in the Ceiling. 8 I hat smoke doth follow the fairest, is an usual saying widi ns, and m many parts of Europe; whereof ulthoug.i there «;<uu no natural .ground, \ei il >s 'lie con tinuation of a very ancient opinion. 9. I o sit cross-K-g\l, or with onr fingers pectn atcit or shut together, is accounted bau, and Fiicnds will persnail- us from it. I lie same conceit religiously possessed the Ancients, as is onservable from Pliny 10 l*!ie set ami suitary uinesofpa rnig of N.i,a, and culling of Hair, is llioiigllt by many a point ot consieKialien ; which is perhaps but the cuiuinuation o) an an cient •uiperatilion. For piacnlous it was to die Romans to pair their Nails upon the N'lndmse, observed every nin'h dm ; a .d »as also f ared by otheis in ccnaiii day s I vne week; and was one part of th v • Hikediicss dial filled up the measure o 1 M.masst s, when ’its delivered that i.e t'b '■*l tllilfS. 11. A cotiiirnn fashion »> to nourish Han- upon the.l/uuset the Face; whichm ' the peFftcfuation of a very ancleht custom; an.] though innocent.v pract.H .1 a cog ns, tn.iy have a sunti a items Origin From tiie like might proceed the fe.js 1 noting 1 evelocks or complicated haii| of the head, an 1 tilso of locks longer 'haithe other hair; they b ing votary at firdfjand Indicated upon occasion ; preserved wi It great care, and accoidingly esteemed by others. 12 A custom there is in most parts of Ettrope to adorn aqueducts, spouts and > 1 cisterns with lions heads: which thtugb no ilhudable ornament, isofan Kgy#tixn gentalogv, who practised the sune oi er ! a symbolical illation For the '■■tin hfcjng i ir Leo, the flood of Nihts was at the fail, an i Water b came conveyed in’o every part, they made the spools of I heir iqm dnets through the In ad of a lion. Ann upon some cad- stial respects it s not tm 3 piobahle the great Mogul or Indicfi King doth beat for It s Anns a Lion uttd the Sun. 13. Many conceive there is somewhat amiss, and that as we usually say th.y ar° • ui blest, until they put on tluir C’file. Wherein (although most know not .t hat they saw) there are involved unknown ’ consideration*. For by a girdle or duo t t ile are sj mb lically imp ied Truth, He solution, and Keidtuts unto action, which > are pailsa id v irtues required n the st -1 vice of God Accc ding whereto w- find 1 that the Israelites did <at tbs Paschal f Lamb with their 1 iyns girded; and dt. > Almighty clia'lenging Jtih, hi Is him gif' ■ up his luyns like ain u.. So rnniv th In i expression of Peter, G't ■</ us) the inym of • your tninih , he sober uni! hofit to the nil: s so die high PiieM was girl win the gtr- K die of fine linnen . so is it pari of the holy i habit to have our luyns girt about with • truth; and so it is also stud concernin'.’’oitv Saviou ", Ulffht ■■ outness s/hdl be the ff.rtllr of ; ht! loyns, anil Jcttllifnlnees the ffirrtlc of las < re tin - Moreover by the Girdle, the heart ui.d ■ parts which God requires are divided from r the iefyrioi uartSiimply ng thereby a me mint o, unto pinilication at d cleanliness <>f 5 heart, wuich is commonly defiled from the concupisc. rice Ss. yfii-ct in oflhose parts ; • x then fbre nni .• this day dti Jews do bless th tnsclvea when they put on th. ir zone or cuiiture And thus way we make out • lit • doctrine of Pythagoras, to offer sacri 1 fie s with our feet naked, that is, that our 1 . fat or parts and larti.est removed from reason might be free, and of no impetli ’ mtjnt unto us Thus Achilles, though dipped in Siy.r, yet having his heel ttn i tombed by that water; a.though lie were fortified elscvvb re, he was slain ; n tha part, as only vu nerab’e in the inferior I an I brutal part of man. Dus is that part i of Eve, and tier posterity, the Devil still 1 doth bruise, that is, that pact of ihe soul i wuich a lliereth imloeanh, and walks in the paths thereof. And in ties seconda ry and symbolical sense it may be under stood, when the Priests in the Law wash ed their feet before the sacrifice ; when our Saviour washed the feet of bin Disci pies, and said unto Peter, If / tonsh not thy feet, thou hurt no fart in via Aim thus is it symbolically explainable, anti implieth purification and cleanness, when in the bumUoffenngs ihe Trust is coin mantled to wash the in »at .is and legs I hereof in water; mid in thcpe.ce and sin-'ff rings, to burn tb< two kidneys, th' fa' which is about the flanks, and as we translate it,lit. Gaul above the Liver, Hut i. h th'.T the .lews when they bl s.-a tl themselves, had any eve unto the words of Jure-, y, wliert in G .-1 makes them his Gir dle ; or bad therein any reference un*o the g'ndli which the Proph. t was com irumded to bide in the ho'c of the rock of Fi ipUrat' :., and which w-.s tint type of t eir captivity, we leave unto higher con ji c.: i;re 14 The picture of the Creator, or God t'.c Father in the shape of an old man, is a da .gerous piece, and in Ibis fecundity of sec's may revive the Anihropotnorphites. Which uillv ugh maintained from the ex pression .if Daniel, I behe'il wbefii the .'ln dent of days did S'l. wh re hair of his /trail was 1 1 h< the fiu e wool ; yei nitty it he also derivative from the hieroglyph cal degcrip tii.n ;>f tin* Egyptians; who to expre-s • ♦ lu-ii Eit plmr Creator of the world, d*'- I scrib' dan old man in a blue mantle, with • an egg in lus mouth ; which was the Em ■ Idem of the world. Surely those Ilea ■liens, hat notwithstanding the exernpla '■y advantage in Heaven, wiild endure no pictures of Bun or Moon, as bring visible ' u'.to all till wornl, and nettin gno repre- I sc;.tat 'it; do evidently accuse the pmc 1 lice of those pencils, that will describe > invisibles And he that challenged the , boldest hand unto the picture of an Rch >, > trust laugh ..t this attempt, not only in lit., i description of invisibility, hut circnmscrip 1 'ion of übiquity, and fetching under lutes • inccitipr lii usihlc circularity The p'etures t;f the .Egyptians were itt.re tolerable, and in their Sacred letters ■ more veninbly expressed the apprihc.i inn of D vinity. For though they im plied 'he same by an eye upon a Scepter, iy an E.gh s bend, a Crocodile, am! the life: yet dal these manuel titscriplious pretend no corpora* representations; nor cosdd the people misconceive the sain* untn ;val correspondencies. So though the Cherub carried some apprehension ot Divinity, yet was it not conceived to be th shape thereof: and so perhaps be a use it is metnpliorically predicated of G >l, tint he is a consuming fire, he may e harmlessly described by a flaming re .'.vsentution ; yet if, as some will nave it, all mediocrity of folly is foolish, and be cause an unrequitable evil may ensue, an i 'iff. rent convenience treat be omitted ; we shall not urge such represenlments; we could spare the holy Lamb for the oirture of our Saviour, a< d the Dove or fiery Tongues to represent the Holy Gh at 15. The Sun and Moon are usually tie scribed with human fares : whether here in there be not a Pagan imitation, and hose visages at first implied ,Apo lo anti Diana, we may make some donb'; and we fi ul the -tatne of tnc Sun was framed will; •ah s about the head, which were the in deoiduotis and unshaven locks of Apollo We should hi too Iconomicai to question the pictioes ot the winds, as c.iuunoniv drvwn m human heads, and with the’; cheeks di •tended; which r> withstand-' •ng we find comb mned by M uutius, a answering poetical fancies, aad the Gen tile descrip.ion o! -Edits, Boreas and the letgne Deities of Winds. 16. W- shah not, I hone, disp* r »ge the U- sitr ection of cur Ketlecmt r, if we say 'he Sun dot i not dance on Master-day. And though we would willingly assent tin o any sympathetica! exultation, yet can ■ *» conceive therein any more than a Tro pical expression. Whether any such mo 'tioa there were in that day wherein Christ arose. Scripture hath not feveaied, which hath been punctual in other records con ccrning Solary miracles; andthe Areopa gbe that was amaa. d at the Eclipse, took no notice of this. And if metaphorical exitresatin*go so far, we may be bold to affirm, not only that one Sut danced, but two arose that dt'V • The light appeared at his nativity, and darkness at his death, and yet a light at both ; for even 'hat_ dark 1 c .s was a ligln unto the Gentiles, ilhtwti nMeiihv that obscurity. That’twas the firs' i tune the Sun set above the Horizon ; that although there were darkness above the earth, there was fight beneath i', nor dare we tiay that l!eh v.as dark if he were in h. 17. Great coticetis are raysed of the in volution o. membranous covering, com ,-ionly called the Silly-how. that sometimes :S found about the heads of children upotv their hiitii ; and is therefore preserved with great care, not only as medical in diseases, hut ■■ ffcctual in success,concern ing the 1 fan' and o hers ; which is sure | v no more than a cont nue.d superstition Forhe eof we read in 'he life of Vntoninus delivered by Spartiamts, hat children are horn sometimts with tliis natural cap; . . wli'C'i Midwifes were want to sell unto credulous Lovers, who had an opinion that it advanced thei- promotion 18 That Vis good to b.; drunk once a [ month, is aco moil fladery of seusoa'ity, support mg itsdf tpou Physick, and the headltful . ffets of itu bviad ni 11ns in deed is plainly affirm' d jb. Avicenna, a Pitt sician of great authority, and whose r religion prohibiting wine, could less e - ebrieiy. Hut Averroes,a man of . Ins own f.d'h, was of another belief; res training h s i briety unto hilarity, and in i effect .oak ing no more thereof titan Sene ■ c,t coiitinandeth, and was allowable in (Ja f to; tha' is, a sober incalesccnce and re ! gloated astnation from wine; orwhatmay b conceived b'etwern .l"S' pit and his 1 Urct!ieieii,witen«ii\e Text exprrsst th they were merry,or tlra:ik ar-.ely, and w'.ere :>y indeed ’he commodnies set d-wn by [ AviCenna, that is, alleviation ol spirits re solution .if stipe; Unities, provocation ot i sweat and urine, may also ensue. But as i for deirienta ton, sopidou of reason, and tin divinf r particle from di’ink ; though A.n rican Heligioti approve, and Pagan piety of old hath practised it, ev n at ■ I heir sacrifices; Christian morality and the Doctrine of Christ will not allow. And snfelv that l.’eligiou which excttstlh the fact ot Noali, in the age I surptizal of six huiidred yeu s, and unexpected inebriuion from the m.known effects of wine, will neither acquit ehriosity nor .-briety, in their known ami inietuu d ttervcrsioi s And indeed, although sometimes effects succceed which may relieve the hotly, vet tuey carry mischief or peril to tho sou l , we are therein ri strainabie by Divinity, which circumscribeth Pbvsick aid cir cumstantially determines the use thereof. And truly effecs, consequents, ot events winch we com-m“ittl, a ,se oft-times from ways which we ad condemn. Tims from ih fact of Lot, we derive to- gc. iteration of Huth, and hleasi d Nativity our Saviour; which notwithstanding did extenuate the incestuous ebriety of the generator. And if, as commonly urged, we think to extenuate ebriety from the benefit of vomit oft succeeding, we. loolishly contemn the liberal hand of God, and ample fi id f medicines which s her ly produce that action. 19 A conceit there is, that the Devi! 1 commonly tippcarelh with a cloven hoof: wherein atihough it seem excessively ri diculous, there may he somewhat of truth ; and the ground thereof at first might be ins frequent appearing in the shape ol a Gnat, which answers that desointion. lies was the opinion of ancient Christians concerning th- appaiati.m of Pauites, Fauns, and Satyrs; and in tltis form we read of one that appeared ■ unto Antony in the Wi'derness. s'lte same is also confirmed from K.x 'ositions of Holy Scrptur • ; for where:,s it is said. Thou shidt not t Jfer inito Devi/s, (lie oiugi 1 nal word is ''egliuifi u, t*ial is, rough and hairy Goats, because in that shape the De vi! most often appear cl: as Is expounded i b the Kah hi ns, as TremeUins hath also exidained: audits the word Ascimajt, Hie god of Emmath. is by some conceived. . Nor did he oidy assume this shape in elder limes, but commonly in latter times, ee peciaily in the p’ace of his worship, if i there he any truth in Ihe confession of witches, and ax in many stories it stands confirmed by Bodinus And therefore a 0-at is not improperly the IHetoglyphick of the Devil,as Pierlus hath expressed it. So might it he tne Emblem of sin, as it was in the sin-offering; and so likewise of wicked and sinful men, according to the xpression cf Scripture in the method of .he last distribution'; when our Saviour shall separate the Sheep from the Goats, ■ hat is, the Sons of the Lamb from the children cf tin- Devil. Vs some others. 1. That temperamental dignotions, and conjecture of prevalent humours, may be collected from spots in our nail's, we are not averse lo concede But yet not ready to admit sundry divinations, vulgarly fais ■ d upon tbem N* rdo we observe it ve rilied in oiliei-s, vvbat Gardnn d'seovered as a property in himself; to have font d luereins unc signs of mostevents that ever happened unto him Or that there is rnucli coiisideitihle in that doctrine of Cheiro mancy, ll'.ai spots in the top of the hails do signitie things past; in the middle, things present; and at the bottom, events to come. That white specks presage our felicity; blue ones our misfortunes That those itt the nail of the thumb have signi fications of honor, those in the forefinger, of riches, and so respectively in other fingers, (acco’ding to plauetical relations, fr.un whence they receive their names) as ITicasans hath taken up, and Ptcciolus well rejccteth. We snail not proceed to qnerie, what truth there is in palmistry, or divination from those lines in onr liai ds, of high de uomipaiinn. Although if any thing be i bt rein, it seems not confisinble unto man ; hut other creatures are also ceus'uterable ; as is the fore foot cf the mole, and especi ally the monkey ; woe re in we have ob served the tame-line, that ot life, and of me live - 2. That children committed unto the school cf without institution, would naturally speak the primitive language of tiie world, was the opinion of ancient hea thens, and continued since by Christians : who will have it our H* b'ew longue, as being the language of Adam. Thai this were true, were much to be desired, not only for the easie attaint'.ent of mat use ful longue, but to determ.'nt the ttue and prim. live Hebrew. Fo> w he-her the pre sent Hebrew b* th« uu»erL)Ujideri >n -4 ' ffiiare of Babel, and that which remaining n in lleber, was continued bv Abraham and t his nosterity; or rather the language of I Phoenicia and Canaan, wherein ho lived, r Sl ,ma learned men 1 perceive do yet re main unsatisfied. Although I confess pro c bability stands fairest for the former; nor v ■ue they without all reason, who think that ( It the co; fusion of tongues, there was no 1 constitution cf a new speech in every tain ily, but u variation and pet mutation c.i the : old - out of one common language raising several dialects : the primitive tongue re- i maimiig still entire Which they who re ;aiiied, might make a shift to understand most of the rest. By ventue when of in those primitive times and gieener confn. dons, Abraham of the family ol 11. ber ts as able to converse with the Chaldeans, to understand Mesopotamians, Canaanites, . Philistines, and Kgyplians: wltosiyeveral dialects he could reduce unto thc-W.ginal and primitive tongue, and so be able to understand them. 3. Though useless unto ks, and rather of molestation, tve commonly rctiain from killing swallows, and esteem it unlucky to destroy them: whether herein there be not a Pagan Uelique, we liave mine tea i son to doubt. IVr we read in -SI an, th.d ! these birds were sacred unto the Penates or household gods < f the ancients, and , therefore were preserved. The same they also honored as the Nu icio’s oflhc Spring; and we llnu in Atlu usrus that the Knodi ans tuvl a soiemn Song to welcome in the ■ ; swallow 4. That candles and lights burn dhn and , blue at the apparition of spirits, may b-. ■' true, if tiie ambient aii be (ub of sulpiiijrc , o\:s spirits, as it happvneth oft-times in mines; where .tamps and acid exhalations are able to extinguish them. And may be also verified, when spirits do mak ; them selves visible by bodi- s of such effluviums. Hut of lower consideration is the common , fore telling of strangers, from the ftlugous (jure is about tin wieks of cundr s; winch . only signified! a moist and pluvious air a bout them, Hindering die avolatmn ofth light and favliious particles- vrhetvupun ( they ire f.rcc.l to settle upon the Suasi. • 5. I’hough coral doth propeily pre [ serve ayd fasten tiie teeth in men, yet it i is used in children io make an easier par , sage for them; and for that intern is worn t about their necks lint whether this cus tout Wore not supeislhiously founded, is I presume da > amu.el o' d ('• ngjtive ugamsi . fascination, is not beyond all doubt.—For : tne same is delivered by Piiny. , 5 A strange kind of exploration and I peculiar way of Uhabdomancy is that which* ! is used in mi -ral discoveries; that is, with a forked hazel, commonly called i Moses his Rod, which freely held foitli, t wid slii and play if any min. be u der it ( And though many tin. re are who nave at tempted to make it good, yet until belter . information, we are of opinion with Agri cola, that in it self it is a fruitless explnr.i i tioii, strongly scenic lcf Pagan derivation, j and the virgvla tliviua. proverbial >y mag i' nified of md. Tn. ground when cf were . the magical rods m poets, that of Pallas in Homer, that of Mercury that ebuno- d Ar | gus, a d tiiat cf Crce which transformed . the fol,owns «f Ulysses Too bokfy p usurping the name cf Moses H. d, n mi . wh.ch not withstaudir.g, and dial of Aaron, , were probab.y occasioned die failles of all the rest. For that cf Moses must needs . be famous unto the ./Egyptians; ami that of Aaion unto many other nations «s be ! ing preserved in the ark, tin'il the des . iruction oftbe temjde bunt by Solomon. 7. A practice there is among us (o de termine doubtful matters, by the opening . ot a book, and letting fall a siatf; which i notwithstanding are and. nt frag me ns of Pagan divinations. Tiie first an imilalio t of Sortes llomericffi, or Vir.iiiaua, draw i ing determinations from verses casually ! occurring. Tne same was practise Ihy [ Servevus, who entertained ominous hopes . cf the Empire, from that versa in Virgil, j i n regcre imperio populos Romano in - mento ; and (Jordiunus wlto reigned but few days was discouraged bv another ; [ that is, O-t.iidviut term hnne tantmn fata, nec nlti :• Msse sinunt. Nor was tint [ only performed in Heathen authors, but , upon the sicred text of the scripture, ss . Gregorius-Tu. oner sis hath left some ac count ; and as the practice of the Empe . rnr Heradius, before his expedition m'o As a minor, is delivered by Cedrenus. r As for Hie divination or decision from p the Stall) it is an Augurial reiique, and the , pi-.icuce thereof is accused by God him t self; My people ask counsel of their • stocks, and tlitii staff declartTU uiitotbem Os this kind of Rbahdomancy was that practises In Nebiichadoriuzoi io that Ciial j dean miscellany, delivered by Ezekiel; . Tiie king ot H.ibybn stood at the parting ■ of the way, at die head of two ways -o use . divinatioi., be made ins arrows bright, lie consulted wit is images, lie l> ked into tne . liver; at the right nan.t were ill.- divina tions of Jerusalem. That is, a» F.suus ex pounded f, 'l'iio left way leading unto | U-.tb.mh, the chief city of ihe Atom uiVtos, . and the right un o Jerusalem, ho co.-suited dots and entrails, lie threw up a b ndle ol . arrows to see which way they would light; . and falling on the i'g it hand he mure ed lovva-ds Jerusalem. A like way of l!d»- j inuiiey or Divination by arrows na h men [ ui request with Scythians, nla-ms, tier mans, with Uie Africans in d'forks ot At , giei. Hut of another nature vt as that which . aas practised by Ehshs, wherihy in arrow shot from an iyasicrn-window, lie pre-sig uifk-d tile destruction of Syria ; or when . according unto the three streaks of Joaah, Willi ao hit aw upon the groom!, he fi.r.- to!d die number if ids victo ics T r . thereby the spirit of God parlicukr’d the same; and determined I lie streaks ot tiie . King, unto tbee, which the hopes of the prophet expected in twice that number. s 8. We cannot omit to observe, die ter.a --j city of ancient customs, in the nominal observation of tiie several day s et the week, according to Geniile and Pap an ap i pollutions: tor .ne original is very hv n, and . as cud as th • ancient /Egypt an.-, who n.mi . edtlic same accOi dmgU) Hie seven Pfa .es, I the admired Stars ut Heaven and reputed . Deities among theni. Untoeveiy one as . signing a several day; not according to . their cceiestial order, or as they are tiispos f ed jin Heaven; bur alter a iliute*sermot musical fourth. Fi r beginning Saturday ; . with Salt supreamest Planet, they by 1 Jupiter and Mars unto So), making Sun f day. From Sol in like manner by . Venus and Mercury umo Luna, making ; Monday; and so through all urn rest. And ; the same order they confirmed by mini ( bring the hours of the day unto twenty t.four, according to the natural order or . ! the Planets. For beginning to account from 1 Saturn. Jupiter, Mars, uu>; so about unit. . j twenty four, the mxt du will fall unit , • j So!.- whence sevountiug twenty forr, die. * we next wni Happen unvi J.unn, making Mu;, day. And so with the rest, according u the account and order observed still u mong us. The Jews thcmselvesin their A'trelo gical considerations, concerning nativiti and planetary hours, observe ttic same ok! der, upon as witty Ibundatior.s. Uccame by an cfjual intoned, they make sever liltingles, the bases when o r are tile seven sides cf a septilateral figure, d< scribed within a circle. Tint is, if a n rf seven sides be described in i circle, and at the Angles thereof the names of ti* Planets nc placed, in their natural nh-r on it: if vve begin with Saturn, ;uul tm,. cesslvely diaw l ues from angle to angle until seven cquicrua! triangles be de! scribed, whose bases are the sides of p.. sepUlaterird figure; the triangles wi.l be made by this order. The first being male bwSaturn, Sol and Luna, that is, Ssuirdav Stfnday, Muiiday, an 1 so the rest In the order still retained. But thus much is observable, that! n-v ever in codcstial considerations they cm.' braced tlie received or the Planets, vcj did not retain either charse'ers. or name* in common use amongst us,- hut humane denominations, tiny C si : <-f-tiA them names from some remarkable quail*' ties; as is very observable in their red and I splendent Planets, that is,, of Mj rs ' Sl ,'p I Venus. But the change of their na'hcs I disparaged not the. conskleradnu of t ,i-i r I ■ natures; nor did thereby reject aH m< mo. I ry of tlic.se remarkable stars, which (ioi I himself admitted in his Tybernaele, If I conjecture will hold concerning the jed- I den candlestick, whose shaft resembled 1 the Sun, and six bat dies the Plututs r..| bout it. I 9. We are unwilling to enlarge entt. I corning many oilier; only referring sober examination,what natural t fleets can I reas iiably, be expected, when lopnvJntß the Ephialtes or night rnare,wehangup - B hollow Stone In our stalne; when for tinm-l lets against agues we use the eft! »' effl gallows and places < f execution. \i ; lc . :l fl for warls we rub our hands hefbtv t 1,9 Moon, or commit any maculated p.vt iiiii9 the touch of Hie dead. What there is in those common female Duel trines, our learned and criticalPhil<iso| pliers might illustrate, whoseexacu-r pcr| formauces mlr adventures dp but S'llicittß mean while, I hope, tney will pliuisiidl receive our attempts, or candidly correcß-1 out misconjecturea By The Turks have a drink called Cufm U (for they use no wine) so named, f ,h -efll ry as black as soot, and as liniei (hk. h;Wj black drink which was n use the Lact-dxihoniaus, and fierlians sum. ) which they sip still off, mvi sup |; warm as limy cm suffer, they spend time in their Goff a-house’s, what like our Ale-houses or Taverns, there they sit chatting and drinking B drive a.vav the time,and to be u errv tiler, because tin;} (hide by eXjifileuW hit tii *1 kirule of drink so used lieipifl digestion., and puicuielbalacrity. them take Opium to 1 lii» purpos;.— /'fl ] ton’s -hint-any of JUdnnchohj, 7ln a.'u/B | pvllll'! f/; 166 Q ■ ■■ And heiv, for my pleasure, I purposl little by the way, to play and spnrte vl n.y master Tally; from whom con.nu am never wont to dissent. iltHnni&l I'm - this point of leurnyng, in his veil doth halt a little by his leave; he nM ■not denie it, if lie were alive; m;r t il defend iiim now that iove hnn best. '■ (mil i lay to Ids charge; bicun.se oncH plyase l hint, though some* hat itari/ie,® over uncuvleslie, to ratio lip-m i'■ C'lg.ando, objecting both extreme » ga r ie, and rr*e».e barbarit-iijness iihtofl Afityng thus unit) his friend Al'.i® “There is not one scsuple cf silver in ■ whole isle; or any one that kiutvc !>■ tlier Icaviiynirov letter ” ■ Lj.it now, master <: cfi'.'o,b’esstill).! <■ and Ins sonne Jesus Christ, wb- in yotil ver knew, except it cere as it phfl him to lighten you by soma shadow overtile in one place ye cniifrs.w, s Vevitatit tantum vmbrain crj-vlarntM yam master 1’ aco did bit *rc vuu; b. '■ be God, I say, that sixteen hundred }■ after you were dean and gone, t H trewlv be sayd, that fur sth p v, more conjlie plate in otic euie <. ■ lande, than is it) four ofjthe pi'inidcst J in all 1 1 alio, and take Hun.a In "■ i hem: and for leamyng, beside me w (edge of all learned longcs and >■ sciences even yourownebookes, <:>■ be as well read, and your cxcei.enM (pi nee is as well lik-al and Isteu Irewlie lolowed in Kaglaiule *»l as it is now, or e\er vvassince ; - 11 '* tyine, in any place of I’odie, eitu.-. V dim in, where you was borne, tJo.ue, where you was brought up m , Hale to brag w itbyou them, « •<<-'« youiselfe, by yottr leave, bailed ’.mint of loamy ng in your own tonga ■ Kntrlarde at this day go hofi in trewe skill, and right uy-'n ■ i , —H,{rev Mdum'-t liu/h ■ neif* Edition ji(i& hh ■ rimr t:ie otASiiv-r ’■s■ • I Captain JJravo. I The following Conversation tonhß between an Irish Captain umi »■ Student,. while wailing t! “ ; ' I sarits, on the Ground fis'-d f -tH dezvous, to settle an Vda* ' 1 *■ Pkuhaps,” saul , ' l '* rlie Hi’sl business tri k,, “ A H you were ever engag' U ■ ■ rue young . was. “I dono 1 blame) JI i>, oM.' V Hi)-. * »;ec:uise you ave »i» .■ my own part, i was i*Jf - ;■ nv. dat your age- T,ie . ■ with a relation or my ov, t-« . would ree my coinage t'" 1 * ■ would contribute the piirciiHse <tm\ ' ;,J be H i sent bun word that « »;>«; give him one T ,rt): ' i “‘Vf-.uchoß lag :an 1 when we m-t, > • , m smartly in tbe leg.tnat It ■ J since. Hut all !•*, u ■ nvrvrcUfccl.eevfdlycom;;-* ta With the real ol iiave been very K r -° ' r ‘ W “ I*ray what gate J second r’ sa J the ) 011 *.hn.inb ■ ■! “ (low it began than 1 ran teii.’ c‘ui[H ail I know is, that » ‘-‘ r .lined together; we r \ ~H t! . rB deep, and I went <■•> stV : ,kl 4 torgetlulness, k. d m jnorning nom a t ; o r,g .rH i who c g>* I • t'i