CONTENT S.

R Emarks of Mr Whalley on Every Drill against Drawcanfir

HE SUPPLEMENT to the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE,

THE VOL. XXI. for the Year 1751.

THE

Gentleman's Magazine:

For JANUAR Y, 1752.

HE public having been lately entertained with Every Man in bis Humour, a revived play of Ben. Johnson's, we take the opportunity of A 22 illuftrating fome obfcure paffages in it, from Mr Whalley's remarks, by whom a complete edition of all that poet's works, with critical and explanatory notes, is preparing for the prefs.

Fobnfon hath but few paffages that want B correction; the chief bufinefs of his editor will be to point out the references to the cuftoms of that age, and his imitations of antient authors. This poet was an early admirer of the claffics, and tranflations from them appear even in the piece before us, which was brought up- C on the ftage when he was about twenty four years old. In the firft act, fcene 2. Knowell expreffeth himself thus: "There is a way of winning more by love, "And urging of the modefty, than fear, &c."

Thefe and the following fentiments, which are adapted with great propriety to the character of the ipeaker, are taken from Terence:

Pudere, et liberalitate liberos
Retinere, fatius effe credo

quam metu.

Her patrium eft, potius confuefacere filium
Sua fponte vette facere, quam alieno metu.
ADELPH. ACT 1. Sc. 1.

In ACT 2. Sc. 5. is a paffage which receives much light from fome lines in Juvenal, to which it alludes:

KNOWELL.)

"Neither have I

"Dreft fnails or mushrooms curiously be-
"fore him ;

[make 'em ;
Perfum'd my fauces, and taught him to
Preceding fill with my grey gluttony.
Here follows the original of these
veries :

Radere tubera terræ,
Beletum condire, et eodem jure natantes

Mergere ficedulas didicit nebulone parentes Et cana monftrante gula. SAT.14. v. 6,&c. We must not omit the facetious juftice Clement's eulogium of a good poet, which is to be met with in the laft Icene of the play,

"They are not born every year as an al--
"derman; there goes more to the making
"of a good poet, than a fheriff."
This is a very humorous tranflation
of the old Latin verfes :

Confules fiunt quotannis, et proconfules;
Solus porta non quotannis najcitur.

In the number of the places which
require explanation, the reader will per-
ceive that what we are going to produce
would not be quite fo intelligible, with-
out that affiftance. It is neceffary to
explain the phrafe, and develope the
allufion that is couched under it. Let
us take an inftance from what Bobadill
fays to Cobb's wife: ACT 1. Sc. 5.
"Hoftefs, accommodate us with another bed-

ftaff; the woman does not understand "the words of action."

Accommodate was a modifh term of the age; and corporal Bardolph will exD plain to us what the captain means by the words of action.

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Bard. "Pardon me, Sir, I have heard the "word; phrafe call you it? by this day, I "know not the phrafe; but I will main"tain the word, with my fword, to be a "foldier-like word, and a sword of exceed "ing good command."

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ACT 2. Sc. 3. "Troth, my head akes extremely. Alas, how it burns! keep "you warm; good truth, it is this new "difeafe."

The poet is exact in his defcription. Violent pains in the head were the diagnolitics of a diforder prevalent at that time, which bore the appellation that Tobufon gives it. So the author of AuFicus Coquinarie, mentioning the illneis of which prince Henry died: "Returned," Jays be, "to Richmond in

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Whalley's Remarks, &c. the fall of the leaf, he complained afrefo of his pain in the head, with increase of a meagre complexion, inclining to feverif; and then for the rarenejs there. of called the new difeafe."

ACT 4. Sc. 2. "Cherish this tame poeti"cal fury, you'll be begg'd elfe fhortly

Much Ado, a Dialogue. with eagerness, and a prepofal for the cure of a distempered horfe, or the making a dog, was liften'd to with attention. Upon this occafion I was about to bring together a few hints for your Magazine, when a friend to whom I communicated my purpofe, referred me A to a dialogue called Much ado in the fecond volume of Mifs Fielding's letters. I greatly admired this little piece, and regretted that it was in fo few hands.. Surely, Mr Urban, it is not inconfikent with your plan to diffucilo excellent and ufeful a fatire, especially as it is unhappily become feafonahle by our recent loffes. I am, &c. X. MUCH ADO: A DIALOGUE., The PERSONS.

for a concealment." Alluding to the practice in Q. Elixabeth's time of begging lands, which had formerly been appropriated to fuperftitious utes. Thete were then called concealed lands. Commiffions were granted at feveral times for the difcovery of them. An allufion to the fame thing B Occurs in Fletcher's Humorous Lieutenant, ACT 2.Timqn, defcribing the bawd Leucippe, fays, "She keeps an office of con

realments.

In ACT 3. Sc. 5. there is mention made of the Gentlemen of the Round. It may be proper to explain this phrafe. A gentleman of the round was a foldier of inferior rank, but in a ftation above that of a common man. In a pamphlet, publifhed in 1581, the feveral military degrees are thus enumerated: "The

general, high marfpal with his prorofts, ferjeant general, lerjeant of a re- D "giment, coronel, captayne, lieutenant, "auncient, ferjeant of a company,corporall,

gentleman in a company, or of the round, "Taunce-pafiado; Thele, Jays the author, **are ipecial, the other that remain pri

vate or common foldiers.' The duty of thefe gentlemen was to visit the centinels, watches, &c. and from their E office of going their rounds they derive their name.

From thefe and other pa Tages, which might eafily be brought, it is evident, that a reader of Jobnfon's plays, hath more to look for than is commonly i magined, and which, perhaps, he would F not be able to apprehend without the benefit of this kind of affiftance. So that an attempt to illuftrate the works of fo eminent a poet, may lay fome claim to the public attention and regard, and the advantage will greatly redound to our own language, if not to letters in general.

MR URBAN,

HERE cannot be a ftronger indi

An old Gentleman. His Friend. Mr
Johnson. His two Nieces.

a Lap-dog, &c.

Very

SCENE: A Garden by the fide of a
Canal.

Old Gent. LOST, fay you?

Friend. Ay, fir, caft away. Fr. Not the leaft. "Tis agreed on all Old Gent. And no account how? hands, that every foul perifhed.

Old Gent. Well, 'tis a fad affair; but we are all mortal, and

Enter Nieces.

1ft Niere. Indeed, Madam, faid fhe, if your ladyship will but confider, the flounces are not at all too deep.-Lord! Mrs La Saye, faid I, they are too deep by a mile.Your ladyfhip, faid fhe, muft remember the robeings.- -The robeings, Mrs La Sove, faid I

Old Gent. Nieces! Nieces! have you heard the news?

1ft Niece. What, fir ? what? zd Niece. Dear uncle, what? I long to hear.

Old Gent. The Victory is loft.

1 Niece. And who won it, pray?

Old Gent. I mean, child, the fhip fo called is caft away; and in her a gallant Gadmiral, and a thoufand brave feamen. -A fad accident! Are you not forry to hear it

1ft Niece. Lord, fir, you know I am no politician. I don't understand thele matters.

2d Niece. Well, I was always mighty afraid of water. You remember, cousin

bility to public and extenfive calamity; Hey, I was once like to be drowned.

and it was with the utmost indignation that I remarked the indifference with which the accounts of the damage done at fea by the late hurricanes (e vol xx. .522) were generally read, at the fame e, that a play bill was adverted to

Lord, what a fweet pair of fhoes did I fpoil then by the wet!

Niece. You mean when you fell into that great puddle in the Mall. 2d Niece. I do..

ft Nice

Much Ado Cure for the Hiccough

1 Niete. That was the very morning Mrs La Soye brought home your pink damak. Captain O Blaze met us, you remember, in blue and filver. No, no; 'twasn't blue neither 'twas brown, turned up with brocade.

2d Niete. Upon my word he never wore the brocade till above a week after. A 1 Niece. Then it must be the blue and filver.

2d Niece. Stay, let me reflect a little. -(Juddenly starting)Olord! Ten , look! look this moment! Help! help!

Niece. O! heavens! uncle! un- B cle! where's my uncle? For God's fake, help!-Poor dear little foul, 'twill bedrown'd this very moment; 'twill be loft this inftant.

2d Niece. That odious, turkey-cock! him into the garden?

Who let him Heyday! heyday! what's

the matter now?

1ft Niece. Lord, fir, fee-Very, firPoor dear Veny in the canal en'd in by the turkey-cock.

--

fright

2d Niece. Sweet creature! it can't fwim; it never learnt..

Old Gent. Tom! Here!

thy rake..

Motto.

dear, to think on what might have hap-
pened to poor Veny?

Old Gent. How was it poffible the
pilot could be fo mistaken?

ift Niece. How could Tom be fuch a
wretch, as to let that turky-cock into
the garden? An abominable fellow, to
mind nothing in the world but his cu-
cumbers and his melons, and his trum-
and not to confider that -
pery,
Old Gent. Hark! hark! the dinner-
Bell! Dinner, nieces! dinner!
Nor to confider that
ift Niece
fuch a great filthy, two-legg'd bird
Old Gent. Dinner, I fay! dinner!
Both Nieces. Lord, fir, we are com-
have us fly?
ing Would you
Old Gent. Come along; come along.
[Exeunt omnes.

✓ Mr. URBAN,

HE was taken

CT following motto web an explanation is defired by

Lend me D

Friend. Look, fir; look - Mils en

zy faints.:

Old Gent. Be fo kind to dip up a little water, and fling in her face.

2d Niece Speak, my dear, fpeak! Lord! Lord! what have I done with my bottle of falts? I can't find it E for my life-Speak, Jenny; fpeak, my Mr dear! And poor Veny too! Jobnjon, you are vaftly good; for you have thrown a prodigious deal of water upon my cousin.

Friend. She is coming, madam, to herfelf-I believe we have fetch'd her. F Old Gent, Well, niece, I have raked him out Don't be terrify d-Veny's not drown'd this bout.

1ft Niece. (recovering berfelf and bugging Veny)-Little dear thing how monftroufly is frighten'd? How it pants, and it quakes, and it drops, and G it fhivers? If it fhould take cold now, Mi Well, pleafe god, I' or have fits! fend to Dr Slaughter this moment, and have his advice.

Old Gent, Come, come, niece; as the danger's over, better take a turn or two in the garden. A little washing H. will do the dog no harm-But to return, Mr Johnjon, to the bad news Don't it make you melancholy, to think on the lofs of this brave fhip?

Your Correfpondent W.P.

Heb: DDow: Heb: DDim: Dvw: A: ''Digen,

Chart in Kent.

The HICCOUGH.

INGULTUM (fays Dr Fuller in his Pharm.

extemp.) valde funeftum effe Symptoma age nofco. Ingenuè fateor, licet totis viribus certavi, vix et ne vix remedium, inuenire aut excogitafe poffum, quod illi par erit. And then the doctor recommends a compofition of confe&t. aleberm. &c. How far that may take effect, I never yet put to the trial, but this I will aver, (and per haps it may be of future benefit) that in the moft obftinate HICCOUGH I ever met with, this following prefcription never failed me, and I have tried it in numberless inftances.

Afingle drop of chymical oil of cinnamon, dropt upon a lump of treble-refined fugar Let it diffolve in the mouth leifurely. Obfervations on the Weather; continuca from Dec, 26, to Jan. 25, 1752. BAROMETER.

Weather and Difeafes fore part of this month the quickfilver ftood moftly above 30 deg. with a northerly wind. It funk about the middle of the month very low, with the wind at S.E. and S.W. viz. to 29. and rofe but a degree or two during ten days, though the wind fhifted to the A north-eaft, and kept northerly all the time, with dark, cold, moist weather, fome rain, and now and then a flight appearance of fnow.

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What is most fingular in this cafe is, that the quickfilver fhould fink fo low and continue there fo fteadily, with a B wind that commonly raifes it to 30 deg. at leaft, that is, a full inch higher, unless great quantities of fnow fall at the fame ume; but as very little of this appeared about London, the obferver was at a lofs to account for it any other way than by fuppofing that in the north fomething unulual must have happened, as indeed he was foon after informed of.* The variations, in respect to heat or cold, have been very inconfiderable; the mercury having traverfed only nine degrees during the whole month, and only four of these in any one day. But to the fenfes the weather feemed much more variable, it having been in general dark, moift, cold and unpleafant month. A diftinét benign kind of the fmall pox continued to be the epidemic of this month; a few confluent cafes occurred, but rarely, in comparison of the numbers of those who had them in a fa

Nautilus defcribed.

and flow remittent fevers, often attended with apthe, and running out to great length, especially if either copious evacuations, on one hand, or a too warm regimen on the other, had difordered the ufual procedures of nature.

Moderate evacuations, blifters, gentle diaphoretics, keeping the body foluble at the fame time, appear the most likely methods of removing the diforders of the feason, being moltly the produce of a ferofa colluvies.

THO' the Nautilus is a fhell that has been long known, and its structure much admired by the curious, ye I imagine there are many people who perufe the Gentleman's Magazine, to whom fome account of it will not be altogether unacceptable.

And I am the more folicitous to obtain a place for this memorial, in fo ufeful a collection, as I believe it is convey'd to every part of the globe, where any of the British fubjects refide, Din

vourable way. Bleeding moderately, E and an emetic, at the first attack, come monly rendered the disease extremely Favourable, and, except a gentle anodyne to abate the fenfe of forenefs, or an emollient clyfter, was almoft the only medical affittance required.

A few had the malignant angina, together with the fmall pox. These required a warm antifeptic regimen, and commonly did well. The intercurrent difeafes were the peripneumonia netha,

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*Extract of a letter from Richmond in York-
fhire, dated the 21ft inft.,
-The fnow began to fall the 15th, and,
fave a little intermiffion the next morning; G

hath continued talling ever fince; and tho'
we have a strong north-eaft wind, which
drives, the fnow into hollow, fheltered places,
yet in the middle of a plain field, into which I
got with fome difficulty this evening, to mea-
fure the depth of the fnow, I found it to be
27 inches deep, very heavy, and clofe. If it
had fallen light, and with little wind, it must H
have lain above a yard deep upon the plain
ground, which is more by above one half than
most people here have ever feel, and it fill
continues fnowing,

hopes that fome of thofe, who traverse the feas where this fifh is indigenous, will be pleafed to beftow fome of their leisure hours, in furnishing us with a diftinct account of the way of life and mechanifmn of an ani. mal, of which we can here obtain but a very imperfect idea.

It may in the first place be obferved, that there are feveral kinds of this thell, but the two principal divifions are into the paper Nautilus having only one cavity, and the chamber'd Nautilus which has many. The firft kind is fo called from the tender paper-like tructure of the fhell, and feems to be the kind which was known to the earliest writers on this fubject, and I believe is the only one found in thofe feas, with whole productions the antients were in any degree acquainted.

Of this, I fhall at prefent make no farther mention, having nothing to ob ferve relating to it, but what is already given us by the generality of natural hiftorians; but, proceed to make fome remarks on the other, or the chamber'd Nautilus, which is fo called from the chambers, compartments, or cavities into which great part of it is divided. :

In FIG. 1. the reader may observe the exact form of the thell, tho' not the just fize; the original from whence this was copied, being a fhell of a moderate bulk, meafuring in a freight line from

the