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 Q. XXTHETHER the advice of Gamaliel (Afts iii.) 
 W in reiation to the JpoftleSy and the religion they 
 taught t be not a good argument in behalf of the Maho- 
 metan religion, ivhich has made fo great a progrefsy and 
 hadfo long a duration in the njoorld? 
 
 A. Gamaliel faw, that the chrlftian religion was 
 propagated by fuch unequal agents, fuch weak, fuch 
 feeble inftruments (who had unheard of difadvan- 
 tages to ftruggle with, both with regard to the na- 
 ture of the do^rine taught, and the powerful adver- 
 faries that oppos'd it) that he prudently concluded, 
 that a religion fo ftrangely circumllantiated, cou*d 
 never gain credit in the world, unlefs miraculoufly 
 fupported by a power divine. But this bears no man- 
 ner of analogy to the Mahometan impoflure ; which 
 fpread fo far by the power of the prevailing fword, 
 and was of a nature politicly accommodated Xoflejh 
 and blood. 
 
 Q^ What is the reafon and ufe of the column offgures 
 in the calenders of Common-Prayer-Books, before the 
 days of the months P 
 
 A. The column fpecified is composM out of the 
 golden number, or cycle of the moon, which is a 
 revolution of nineteen years : and therefore you may 
 obferve, that there is no number in the column ex- 
 
 VoL. III. H h ceeding 
 
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 ceeding nineteen. As often as that revolution is pcr- 
 form'd, the new moons, the full moons, and all the 
 other configurations of the moon return to the fame 
 folar day. If therefore you obferve, what day of any 
 month the moon changes, you may conclude, that 
 upon the expiration of nineteen years, the moon will 
 change on the very fame day of the month. And 
 therefore by the column you may know, on whaf 
 day in any month the moon changes. For when ypv 
 have got the golden number for the year, look for 
 the number in the column of the month, you de- 
 sign ; and the day of the month the faid golden num- 
 ber is affixed to, is the time of the moon's changing. 
 And therefore, if any preferve this paper, they may 
 know the changes of the moon, not only prefent, 
 but for an hundred, or any number of years to come. 
 For if you know the golden number (which rvery 
 almanack will tell you) you may eafily find out the 
 faid number for any year to come by proceeding to 
 nineteen, and from thence back to an unite, and fo 
 on till you come to the year you defign. And when 
 you have got the golden number for the year intend- 
 ed you muft apply it by the forementionM rule. 
 
 Q^ / obferve you are of^pinion, that the earth has a 
 double motion, viz. 0»e round its trwn axis in 24 hours, 
 find the other, through the fwehe Jigns in 365 days, or 
 thereabouts. 
 
 *lhe firji I can eajtly conceT*ve, but the latter perplexes 
 me : For I canntt underjiand hoiu the earth in its annual 
 motion Jheuld make fuch a conjiderable inclination to the 
 fun, and (none that can be percei'ved) to thejixedjiars. 
 
 A. The objedion will readily vanifti, if you confidcr, 
 the fixed ftars are fo vaftly diftant from the earth, 
 that they cannot exert fo attradlive an influence, as 
 to determine the motion of the earth from that di- 
 reft motion, which the great Creator may at firft be 
 ftjppofed to have imparted to it. For the annual mo- 
 tion of the earth is a mixed motion, composed of a 
 right line motion, and a tendency towards the fun. 
 W^rc it not for the former, the earth wou*d move 
 
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 dircftly to the fun, and we ihouM be burnt up with 
 heat. Were it not for the latter, it wou'd be conti- 
 nually moving to a greater diftance from the fun, 
 and we fhould be frozen up with cold. But thef« 
 two different motions fo determine each other, that 
 we happily enjoy a delightful medium. Manifold are 
 thy rworhf O Lord; in<wifdom hajl thou made them alL 
 Q. Ye fins of the Britifli Apollo, 
 Whomfi manywife men do follow , 
 Pray tell me the reafin^ 
 Why againji a woet feafon^ 
 So lonxj dothfiy thefiwallonxj? 
 A, The flies, which the fwallows devour 
 Defcend, when in clouds hangs a Ihower* 
 And that is the reafon. 
 Why near a wet feafon. 
 The fwallow directs her flight lower. 
 Q^ Wefentf a letter i other daj^ 
 As nve tuere moijiening our clay. 
 Not touching matter philofophie^ 
 Or any other foaring topic ; 
 But an oddfayingf that's fi <very 
 Current ^mongft us luhen <we*re merry ; 
 Highly conceiting there <wouIdfolbw 
 Solution J by the next Apollo ; 
 But difappoointed ofthatpleafure. 
 Whether thro^ lofs, or ixjant ofleifuri^ 
 Wejiill addrefsf infanguine hope 
 Te nvill not let the queftion drop ; 
 ■ But compliment us honejl fellonvs, O 
 
 And the original meaning tell us, S 
 
 Cyfinging old rofe and burning the bcUow*. 3 
 
 A. Your ditty, merry fellows, know,j 
 Came to our hands ten days ago : 
 But then our brains ftood mathematic. 
 And all our flights were mof extatic. 
 Till noiVy like you, our clay toe moiften. 
 And fiy by chance, your queftion hoifl in. 
 An anfwer then, we'll give you, very 
 True aB*t,pl«afe ye. Sirs, and merry^ 
 
 H h 2 Highly 
 
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 Highly conceiting there will follow 
 
 Thanks to your faithful friend APOLLO. 
 
 In good King Stephen's days, the RAM, 
 
 An ancient inn at NOTTINGHAM, 
 
 Was kept as our ^wife father knows. 
 
 By a brisk female call'd OLD ROSE ; 
 
 Many like you y who hated thinking 
 
 On any other theme but drinking^ 
 
 Met there, d^ye fee, mf anguine hope, 
 
 To kifs their landlady, and tope ; 
 
 But one crofs night, 'mongft twenty other, 
 
 The_/r£ burnt not, without great /<7/^^r. 
 
 Till ROSE, atlaft, began to fing. 
 
 And the cold blades to dance and fpring ; 
 
 So, by their exercife and kiffes. 
 
 They grew as nuarm as were their ijci/hei : 
 
 \Vhtnfcorningfre, the JOLLY FELLOWS 
 
 Cry'd, SING OLD ROSE, AND BURN THE 
 
 BELLOWS. 
 This is our anfwer to your letter. 
 Which if you like not, find a better, 
 
 QjI Pardon bright offspring ofajirefuhlime. 
 Pardon young TheodorV univary crime. 
 My folly has ivith lively grief oppr eft 
 My tender foul, and left no fpacefor refl. 
 Ifigh, I ba^ve offended him I love, 
 O let myfiontoing tears your pity move ; 
 Excufe the fault, "" tnvas virgin^modefty. 
 That forced the fuit, th^ unhappy fuit for mi, 
 J hope your love admits of no delay, 
 JVhilft mine's too vigorous grown to fear decay ; 
 This rather adds unto my chafe de/ires, 
 This rather adds unto my purer f res : 
 Smile on your captive voith apleafing ray. 
 And then Pll name the place and happy day, 
 
 Theodora. 
 
 A. Whilft Theodora thus in vails conceals 
 Her f elf in vain Yitr pajjion fhe reveals ; 
 Apollo now his brighteft rays puts on, 
 Andfmiles all day, but muft at night be gone, 
 
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 No mortal influence can his prefence flay. 
 Each may call this, but none the next, their dtyr 
 No more procraftination then, but (hew 
 The myftery, or bid the God, Jdieu, 
 
 fbe Epitaph of His Royal Highnefs, the late Prince 
 George of Denmark. 
 Here Lies, 
 
 WHO, fhall I fay ? No name can fuit his praife ; 
 May they the laurel give who claim the hays, 
 Th' indulgent majier bore fo mild a fway, 
 Ylis fer'vants thought it empire to obey. 
 The hujhand rulM fo 'void of noify ftrife, 
 The /over eign could not overlook the n^ife. 
 Nor did the husband owtvXooV the ^een: 
 A ilrangely mingled, yet a tuneful fcene. 
 Her ^-wifdom greeted inoffenfive love ; 
 The ferpent tempered by the gallefs dove. 
 Biveetnefs and grandeur with fuch luftre flionc. 
 In him the blended couple made but ONE. 
 To hea'v'n with wondrous fleadinefs inclin*d. 
 He drew the pidlure of his confert'*s mind. 
 To find the mixture, whither muft we roam ? 
 In w^r a LYON, but a LAMB at home. 
 When bravely he the Snjoedijh troops difmay*d, 
 The brother and the fubje^ he difplay'd. 
 When DaniJ^ valour did with BELGIC join, 
 We viewM SCAMANDER in the frighted BOYN. 
 The Bojn that flows with heliconian ftreams, 
 And lavifiily infpifes poetic themes. 
 Denmark his youthful days, the better part 
 O^r happy ifle; but BOTH enjo/d his HEART. 
 In Britain^ love he had fo large a (hare 
 As tho' hefirji had breath'd Britannic air. 
 Each had his love, xht great ones, and thsjmall. 
 And yet to ANNA he bequeathed his all. 
 Does coftly fpice the teeth of time controul ? 
 His precioufly embalm'd in ANNA'S _/3W. 
 Does marbU blazon the fepulchral nxjomb? 
 Fame is HIS monument, the nuorld HIS tomb, 
 
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 Q^ Halving an acquaintance toith a Lady^ ivho perjffii 
 in a refolutiott of ahjiainingfrom things fir angled, obeying 
 the command in a literal fen/e, notix^ithfianding fome 
 arguments ufed, thd' not in her opinion fufiicient to prove 
 her Z£al fuperfiitiousi therefore <would dejtre you to lend 
 (1 nvould fay, but that IJhall never be able to repay) 
 fome of your cogent reafons^ <vjhich no doubt but ivill con- 
 tvince her^ and be of public ufe, her diJicTnper being io9 
 tpidemical, 
 
 A. Having another queftion by us concerning ab- 
 toence from blood (as in the ufe of black puddings, 
 and the like) as well as from things ftrangled, wc 
 fliall take this occafion to give a folution of them 
 both, fince an objedion may be Ilarted to the one, 
 ivhich is no ways applicable to the other. 
 
 But we mull obferve, that the Lady very properly 
 underftands the injunction in a literal fenfe, tho' 
 yet fhe is under no obligation of obeying it. For if 
 ib plain and eafy a paffage (for the command is given 
 in the method of a ilatute law, where figures art 
 never ufed) may be evaded by a metaphor, we may 
 expound away the whole volume of the Scriptures, 
 and give a loofe to the moll extravagant opinions. 
 But we beg leave to propofe the ftrefs of the ob- 
 jeftion, that a folution may be given with the great- 
 er clearnefs. 
 
 The prohibition is a Chriftian, not a Jewilh Law ; 
 enafted by the great apoftolical council at Jerufalem, 
 under the direftion of the Holy Ghcil : It feemeth 
 good, faith St. James the prefident of the council, to 
 the Holy Ghoft and to us ; and fo on : The prohibition 
 was impos*d, not upon Jewifli, but Gentile Con- 
 verts J impofed upon men, who were under no ob- 
 ligation to the Jewilh Ceremonies. 
 
 But in anfwer to this plaufible objeftion, we (hou'd 
 diftinguifh between a temporary and a perpetual law ; 
 between a law that has a peculiar regard to prefent 
 circumftances, and a law that is always obligatory, 
 To apply the dillinftion to the prcfcnt cafe, wc m:iy 
 remember (for St. Paul has taught it U5.) that the 
 
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 Judaizing Chrlilians Wduld fain have imposed the 
 whole yoke of ordinances upon the Gentile Con- 
 verts. But tho' it feemed good to the Holy Ghoft 
 to admit the Gentiles as/g/Ioiv citizens nA)ith the Saints ^ 
 without fo burthenfome an obfervance, yet he might 
 think fit, to give as little offence as pofTible to the 
 Jevvifh Converts, that thfe Gentiles fhould abftain 
 from fome few particulars, to which the Jews might 
 have a more than ordinary averfion. But what re* 
 fpeft can this bear to us, whofe circumftances are fo 
 widely different ? 
 
 It may perhaps be of fome confideration too, that 
 this law was enafted before the deftrudion of the 
 temple, which was to complete the abolition o f 
 Jewifh Ceremonies. 
 
 But to an abflinence from blood it may be faid, 
 that the prohibition was enjoined to Noah and his 
 fons, from whom we all defcend, before the promul- 
 gation oftheMofaic Inftitution. 
 
 But here alfo we fhou*d have a regard to a tempo- 
 rary, a circumltantial law. For we may confider, 
 
 1 , That as Adam and his children before the flood 
 V.'ere funcr'd to cat no ether food, than what the 
 fruits of the earth afforded them, fo to Noah and hit 
 children after their defcent from the ark, this charter 
 was enlarged, and living creatures were included in it. 
 But left the novel ufage of killing thofe living crea^ 
 tures, from which they had before religioully ab- 
 ftain'd, fhould infpire them with cruelty to one ano- 
 ther, God might think fit to reftrain fuch cruelty by 
 a proper fymbol, by an abflinence from blood. But 
 
 2. This abllineQce from blood might have been en- 
 joined as a flyadoiM of better things to come, as a type 
 of infinitely precious blood ; the blood of the cove^ 
 nant ; that blood, which was to take away the fins 
 of the world. But what have we to do with the>^^- 
 dowsy who enjoy the fuhjiance? What have we to 
 do with types^ who can look back upon the great 
 architype as happy Chriftians ! who are gracioufly al- 
 lowed to fay ; Old things are done a'vjay, all things are 
 
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 become nenxj. But if we are pleafed with fymbolical 
 reprefentations, with emblematical refemblances, we 
 may behold (and O ! that we would but frequently 
 behold them) more fignificant fymbols, more lively 
 emblems ; namely the bread and wine in the bleffed 
 Sacrament. 
 
 Q^ Why atiy infant that fucks a njooman that is nvith 
 thtldfhould have an antipathy to cheefe as they certainly 
 have? 
 
 A. Such is the frame and conftitution of our na- 
 ture, that when any thing has been very ofFenfive to 
 it, we retain an averfion for it. But the milk of a 
 woman that is with child, turning fourilh, eafily curds 
 as it were into cheefe in the ftomach of an infant 
 fucking it, and thereby becomes fo very hurtful to 
 him that it often endangers his life. *Tis no won- 
 der then, if thofe who efcape the danger have a 
 ftrong antipathy againft cheefe, which fo much re- 
 fembles that milk, which was more like to prove a 
 poifon to them, than nourilhment. 
 
 ~ han^e fent ye a nut to cracky nvhich 1 believe 
 ^eak your teeth. Honvever^ fince ye are admirably 
 fiiiWd in tranflations, as appears by your excellent ver- 
 fan of Mr. Dryden'j Latin Diftich, pray tranflate the 
 following Epitaph, vohich is very ancient, and made by a 
 Monk, on the death of an ingenious Organift ; 1 don^t 
 quejiion but you knovo the meaning cf it, What I mean 
 by tranflating it, is to make it Englilh and lofe nothing 
 Iftbefampy iv/^/V^ antiquity put upon it; do that If 
 you can. Sir, 
 Muficus^ Medicus 'LM\CTO^jacethicce]oMi'His, 
 
 Organa namque loqui fecerat ecce quajt. 
 
 A. Right voorfhipful querifl ', anfwer a fool accord- 
 ing to his folly is a maxim of an admirable autho- 
 rity, but not applicable (you knoiv) to you, who have 
 doubtlefs more guts in your brains, than to think that 
 a' Monk could puzzle Apollo ; therefore have at you, 
 worthy reader, in an Engli/h Epitaph, every whit as 
 mgnki/h as that original. 
 
 Mufi- 
 
 vilJ brea. 
 
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 Mufician and Fhyfician eke, 
 John LanSlon lyeth here, 
 Who made the organs/?r to fpeak. 
 Behold even as it avere. 
 
 Q^ What is it that does as it ivere Boil out of lire, 
 ivhen burning? 
 
 J. It is a refinous liquor, not much differing in 
 its nature from turpentine. 
 
 Q^ // is the pra^ice of all chirurgical authors, nvhen 
 a tumour appears, to difcufs it if they can. No^ Idefire 
 to kno^, ivhy it is not better to fuppurate and difcharge 
 the offending humour, and if not, Huhat becomes of the 
 offending humour ivhen difcuf^d? 
 
 A. Tumours are of various kinds, as they arife 
 from various caufes, and fomc are moll properly dif- 
 cufs'd, and others mofl properly fuppurated : But dif- 
 cuflion is performed by fuch applications, as by their 
 heating and tenacious parts dilTolve grumous and co- 
 agulated matter, and render it fluxible, whether it be 
 blood, ferum, lympha, choleric, or phlegmatic hu- 
 mours; whence by perfpiration or excretion they 
 may be difcharged : And where fuch a method is 
 fufficient to procure relief, none furely will undergo 
 the pain and trouble attending fuppurations. 
 
 Q;^ / have had the hard fate and misfortune to enter 
 into the lift ©/"old maids, and confequently to be /lighted 
 and defpifed by all. They fay our very looks and quali^ 
 ties differ from the reft of voornankind \ pray. Gentlemen y 
 inform me nuhat is the caufe of this change, and nvhether 
 marriage noav I am grovonfo Hale, vuould have any effe^ 
 upon me? But alas ! 1 need not talk of that, for 1 am 
 abnoft in dejpair of a hufband, Therefore good Mr. A- 
 pollg, you that knonu all things, pray put me inanvay, 
 for injhort I vjould do any thing to be rid of thefcandal 
 cf anoXdi maid. 
 
 A, It is no wonder if croffes, vexations, teazings, 
 and difappointments, ihou'd alter the looks and qualities, 
 of a perfon : The only remedy we can propofe to 
 your forlorn condition, is that you immediately take 
 a lodging at M'apping, and wait the arrival of a JVeJi or 
 Hhs Eaft^ 
 
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 Eaft- India fleet ; and if there be any compafFion left 
 in human nature for the moll obfolete of your fex, 
 you are moft likely to find it amongft the tarsy after 
 their long lent. 
 
 Q^ Ingenious youths (or by nvhat title pall 
 l^y humble mufe addrefs your glorious Jhrine) 
 
 Who eafefo many grie^ved breaJIs in thrall. 
 And ha've fuch large pojfejjton too of mine. 
 
 To you the doubtful Celia no-iv does fend. 
 To eafe th^ ambiguous burthen of her mind\ 
 
 And hopes as yoti've commenced our fex* s friend^ 
 That thefe may to your lo'v'd acceptance find. 
 
 Tell us houofar <we may perfect ion trace, 
 Jionjofar ivith her to hea<ven a riJtJig know. 
 
 Before the rays of her illufriousface 
 Are loji, to guide ourfootjieps as wue go. 
 
 Or can njoe here her fpotlefs swings difplay, 
 And black contagion from our breajis remove, 
 
 Or not {as clog'd, as vehicles of clay) 
 Until vue mount thofe happy realms above. 
 
 A. So m&ny frailties human life attend. 
 Such ftrong temptations our weak minds affail, 
 
 That tho' to gsiin perfe^ion here, we bend 
 "Our utmoft force, we of our ends mull fail. 
 
 The utmoikfep, that we have pow'r to tread. 
 Is, by ay?nV7, religious li/e helov/. 
 
 To gain zfulla/liirance, when we're dead, 
 Jn future life we ihsAl perfe^ion know. 
 
 Q^ Opprefi voith griping poverty and vjant, 
 Toung, and unfkilPd in all the arts of gain. 
 
 Fierce hunger and melancholy haunt 
 Over my foulnvithfalvage rigour reign, 
 
 I cannot foot h the vices of the age, 
 ikr flatter, and on great mens fitps attend, 
 
 Thofe are the confantfubjeSis of my rage. 
 Nor ivir tan my haughty fpirit hend.^ 
 
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 "DeftruSliue pleafures too my foul entice, 
 Pleafuresy luhkh gentle youth can fear ce forbear ^ * 
 
 And bid me tread the eafy paths of 'vice. 
 But ft Hi my 'virtue does fee ure me there. 
 
 Yet fain Vd live, and like myfelf appear, 
 Butfcorn to rife by flattery or deceit. 
 
 Let others to falfe cheating arts adhere. 
 By honefty, not fraud, I ixjou'd be great. 
 
 Teach me, ah ! teach me then, ye bards ! tofhun 
 The dang'rousfhehes on ivhich miftaken youth, 
 
 (For nvant of guides mifled) do often run, 
 Andraife Tfty finking ft ate, yet fill prefer've my truth. 
 
 A. Since honour rules the diftates of your mind, 
 Averfe to vulgar and ignoble arts. 
 
 To flattery, or fordid, fervile kind, 
 Whilin««i;^ and /oo/ play their alternate parts. 
 
 Where but in camps, wou'd you expert to rife. 
 And give a luftre to your lofvS ring fate, 
 
 Unfully'd glory there will be the prizes 
 And there you may be innocently great ? 
 
 Q. Ihanje been a prentice noiju five year$. 
 And truly I may tell it you in tears j 
 / ha've undergone many a cruel bang, 
 Infomuch that I think it is better far to hang. 
 J am now inclined to the ivars. 
 Since afivordgi'ves more honourable fears. 
 Than a tough cudgel ; pray inform me ho'W 
 Ifhall proceed, and your praifes 1 njoill a^vonn f 
 
 A. What pity 'tis fuch a bud of honour 
 Shou'd be croft by fortune ! Oh ! fie upon her I 
 Since you no more gene rous find her. 
 We'll to your cudgelled carcafs be kinder. 
 And give our beft advice, and ihew the ways 
 Proper your courage to great deeds to raife. 
 On training days go to th* artillery ground. 
 Or Tutt/e-Fields, in both equally is found 
 Undaunted prowess. Mark how they face 
 With ftern looks, then ihoot, and file off with grace ; 
 Hh6 Then 
 
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 Then altogether (which a ftorm you'd think) 
 
 Rattle their pikes and drum, and bound and flink. 
 
 And after mark, what far exceeds all thefe, 
 
 With what fury they fall on ducks and fatted geefe. 
 
 What value in their llomach lyes. 
 
 When they affault huge apple pies, 
 
 Defy red fiery tongues and potent muftard. 
 
 And fcale the lofty walls of cullard ; 
 
 Yet have like generous fouls, more grace, 
 
 Than to cut and mangle human race. 
 
 Such brave exploits as thefe muft needs 
 
 Raife you to the attempt of glorious deeds. 
 
 Made tough already by found banging, 
 
 And make you give o'er all thoughts of hanging. 
 
 Q;^ What is the meaning of thofe n.vords in the fecond 
 chapter of the Coloflians and the i %th werfe : Let no 
 fnan beguile you of your reivard in a 'voluntary humility y 
 and nvorjhiping of angeh, intruding into thofe things vjhich 
 he hath not feen, <vainlypuft up by his flejhly ?nind ? 
 
 A. As this whole epiftle in general, fo this paiTage 
 5n particular, is levell'd againft thofe heretical teachers, 
 who endeavourM to infmuate the unwarrantable do- 
 ctrine of worfliiping, of adoring angels. 
 
 But we muft oblerve, that what is tranflated vo- 
 luntary, and is conneiSled with humility, has a different 
 acceptance in the Greek original, and is a nominative 
 participle joinM in appofition to the perfon, of 
 whofe fly infinuations the Cohfjians were to beware. 
 The original therefore may be tranflated thus . Let 
 no man beguile you of your reward, delighting (for 
 fuch an acceptation of the word ©sXwv is warranted 
 by the Seventy) in humility, l^c. 
 
 Here then we are forbid fo to demean, fo to de- 
 bafc ourfelves (under the plaufible appearance of 
 modefty and humility) fo to overlook the dignity of 
 cur nature, to forget, that njce are made but a little 
 lonjoer than the angels, as to to be induc'd to pay our 
 homage to thofe our fellow-creatures, our adorations 
 to thofe our fellow-fervants. 
 
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 T*he foremention'd vouchers of fo unwarrantable a 
 dodlrine are therefore faid to intrude into thofe things 
 nvhich they had not feen, and to be 'vainly puft up in 
 their jiejhly minds, becaufe they made pretence to what 
 they knew nothing of, and gave this aiFeded but falfe 
 plea for the worlhiping of angels, becaufe (as they 
 ignorantly, but proudly faid) God is inacceffibly glo- 
 rious, and therefore not to be approach'd to, by puny 
 mortals. But thanks be to God, that (as this apoftle 
 clfewhere teaches us) vje hanje thro" Chriji accefs unto 
 the Father. 
 
 Q^ Hyiv do the parts of matter cohere ? 
 A, As there has not hitherto been given by the 
 moft able philofophers any fatisfadory folution of fo 
 obfcure a matter, fo that it may perhaps be doubted, 
 whether human reafon be capable of folving it. And 
 indeed how can the queftion be otherwife than diffi- 
 cult, when one of the very terms of which it is 
 compos'd, is it felf of a very puzzling nature. For as 
 the parts of matter, concerning which the query is 
 proposM, how they cohere, muft be divifible into 
 other parts, fo you may ftart the queftion afrefli, 
 how the parts, into which they are divifible, do them- 
 felves cohere. And fo you may proceed in infinitum, 
 inafmuch as matter is divifible in infinitum. 
 
 Some attribute the cohefion of parts to the pref- 
 fure of the air or fubtile matter. But here we may 
 enquire, what it is that makes the parts of that fub- 
 tile matter to cohere. And if it be anfwer*d, the ftill 
 more fmall, or fubtile matter, we may reduce them 
 to a confeffion of what they would be loth to own ; 
 namely, that matter is not only infinitely divifible, 
 but actually fo divided. And as they wou'd confirm 
 their folution by the experiment of two hemifpheres, 
 fo the very experiment they propofe. returns upon 
 them, for it plainly fhews, that if the prefTure of the 
 air or fubtile matter were the caufe of the cohefion of 
 parts, it wou'd follow, that upon our diftradlion of 
 the parts in any other lines than right oppofites, there 
 wouM confequently be no cohefion. 
 
 Others 
 
yio ^he British Apollo. 
 
 Others pretend to Tolve fo difficult a point by no 
 other caufe than that of reft. But as reft is nothing 
 but a privation only, how can we imagine, that a 
 privative ftiou'd caufe a pofitive ? But as reft muft 
 give way to the fmalleft degree of motion, it thence 
 naturally follows, that we may as eafily feparate the 
 coherent parts of a continuous body, as any two 
 contiguous ones. And this would entirely overthrow 
 the effential difference between continuity a«d conti- 
 guity. 
 
 There are not wanting thofe, who afcribe the phae- 
 nomenon before us to the nature of the particles, of 
 which matter is composed. For thofe particles (fay 
 they) are fo configurated, as to twine within one 
 another in fo particular a manner, as to be the caufe 
 of a cohefion. But then, as before, it may be retort- 
 ed with enquiry, what makes the particles of thofc 
 very twining particles to cohere themfelves. 
 
 (^ My mtftrefs, or fpoufe, 
 Orjhe that keeps boufey 
 
 Oft by argument's dint 
 
 (But the de'vil is in't) 
 Could newr yet come to condujian j 
 
 Iho' often tve try, 
 
 And in pajjions doJJy, 
 *fiU at length nve are all o'er in confufion : 
 
 The roajl Jhe n.>Ml rule. 
 
 And calls me afooly 
 
 Andtofer've her oixnjiead 
 
 T^bis maxim does pleady 
 That a <vertuous soman's a crvwri 
 
 T^o the puppy her con/or t^ 
 
 And thus nve oft try for t, 
 fiUthe luords of the 'lAJtfe knocks me down. 
 
 At loft "ujc'^ve agreed 
 
 Tofend^withallfpeed 
 
 To him, that is 'willing. 
 
 Without a round /hillin^t 
 
 Suth 
 
^he British Apollo. 711 
 
 Such advice that is nvholefom to offer ; 
 So I beg you" II take pains 
 7o fettle her brains, 
 Andfilence th"* impertinent fcoffer. 
 A. We'll grant then this crown 
 (As a maxim fct down) 
 Does the monarch adorn. 
 By whom it is worn -, 
 But as crowns to their kings are inferior. 
 So are you, tho' a fool, 
 Tho' infipid and dull. 
 To your vapouring madam fuperior. 
 Q^ Apollo, liften^ pray lend (both) your ears. 
 Unto a njoeeping maid of thirty years. 
 
 Nine difappointments in nine years T<ve had; 
 But oh! this lafi, this lafi does make me mad. 
 T<ve flighted goodnefs, nxiifdom, youth and ^wealth i 
 One fitted for my terrene, fanjing health ; 
 And nowu Tm left, O madnefs ! O benvitch'd! 
 Would I had dy dor been at Tyburn twoitch'^d. 
 When 1 thofe proud, thofe fcornful njoords let fly. 
 Be gone, he qone, no more to me come nigh. 
 Dear Phoebus, aid me at this fullen hour, 
 1 kno<w you can, if yotill exert your po^er, 
 A hecatomb Til to your altar bring. 
 And thankful fongs perpetually imllftng. 
 
 Stark flaring Margery. 
 A, A weeping maid you fay of thirty years, 
 By this fure all your moifture's run in tears ; 
 Yet ftill you are ali'ue, rejoice in that, 
 Nine deaths. You know enough to kill a cat. 
 Nine years of penance for your fault enjoin. 
 And after that, add but the other nine j 
 And then with this comfort we'll abfolve at laft, 
 Tg chnv the cud on all the courtfhipspafi ; 
 To tell the world, how many in your May, 
 You fcom'd, fwhilfi none believe a iMordyoufay, 
 (^ from about Ormond-ftreet, 
 Old Apollo Igreety 
 
 Jnd 
 
712 The British Apollo. 
 
 ^nd humbly make fuit far an anfwer. 
 For a riddle livei there, 
 Of the fex they call fair, 
 Trayy let him find her out if he can. Sir, 
 Her beauty V hut fmall. 
 And her wit none at all. 
 Oft fhe's fick, ivhen there* s nothing does ail her. 
 Her father and mother 
 Late hufband and brother. 
 Were Jkiird in the art of a Taylor. 
 She's a widow of late. 
 And her njohimfical -pate. 
 Has a mouth that is apt to make water. 
 But Jhe Jnvears by her book, 
 That a lord, earl, or duke ; 
 And no other man fhall come at her 
 NoiJU they fay, thxt her worth 
 Makes amends for her birth. 
 For full twenty thoufand fhe^s got. Sir, 
 Thenfince Tm but poor 
 Shou d I offer to njuoe her. 
 Pray, d'ye think Jhe may fall to my lot, Sir ? 
 
 A' Since affurance you've got, 
 
 Tho' but poor is your lot. 
 You can hardly fall fhort in your meafure. 
 
 For tho' envy will carp, 
 
 Yet as long as you're Jharp, 
 Ten to one but you'll fitch up your treafure. 
 
 Shou'd fhe think you too bold. 
 
 When you aim at her gold 
 Sure the pride of old Satan mull ail her. 
 
 For 'tis ftrange if the tool, 
 
 Might not floop to your rule. 
 As foon as a duke wed a taylor, 
 
 Q^ Is it lanxful for a perfon, after the fufeptlon of 
 a n)onM of holy celibacy, to marry, provided he keep him - 
 ftlf an undcfled virgin ? 
 
 A. As 
 
 I 
 
ne British Apollo. 713 
 
 A. As celibacy fignifies (for fo the Greek original 
 imports) a fingle or unmarried life, fo we fuppofe the 
 perfon, who makes a vow of celibacy, to intend it 
 in that fenfe. 
 
 There are feveral particulars, (as the judicious 
 Saunder/on obferves) which, tho' cxprefliveiy included 
 in a vow or oath, may yet, upon intervening circum- 
 ftances, be reafonablydifpensM with, on the neceflary 
 provifo, that the principal intention be no ways en- 
 croach'd upon. For inftance ; tho' a pious clergyman 
 ftiould make a folemn vow, that he will take a voy- 
 age to one of our American plantations, the moft de- 
 ftitute of preachers, in order to propagate the true 
 religion % yet, on fuppofition, that before he entred 
 on his voyage, it fhould fo happen, that all our Ame- 
 rican plantations fhould be difpeopled, the obligation 
 of his vow would immediately expire. But that 
 fuch a cafe is no ways parallel to your's will readily 
 appear, if we confider the reafon why the forefaid 
 obligation is entirely canceled, upon the intermediate 
 •revolution. 
 
 And the reafon is, becaufe as the propagation of re- 
 ligion was the primary intention of the truly zealous 
 clergyman, and the voyage to America no other wife 
 intended, than as barely fubfervient to that defign ; 
 fo the exception fpecified was tacitly included in the 
 vow itfelf. For had he been reminded of it before 
 he made the vow, he never would have made it with- 
 out referve. Tho' yet he might not have exprefs'd 
 the condition, but would perhaps have anfwer'd, that 
 his vow would be founded on the neceffary fuppo- 
 fition, that the plantation would continue to be Hill 
 inhabited. But he who makes a vow of celibacy, 
 defigns, not only to preferve his virgin chaflity, but 
 alfo to keep unmarried. And had anyone mention'd 
 to him fo peculiar a referve, he would not, (probably, 
 we mean) have at all regarded it. 
 
 But we fliall endeavour to give farther proofs, that 
 an abftinence from marriage, as well as from the ufe 
 
 of 
 
714 ^^^ B R I T I s H Apollo. 
 
 of the nuptial bed, is an effential ingredient of the 
 foremen tioned vow. 
 
 I. He who engages in fuch a vow, defigns (as we 
 are apt to think) to retain (as far as humanity will 
 permit) fo heavenly, fo angelical a chaility (for the 
 angels neither marry, nor are given in marriage J as to 
 abftain from all the embraces of a woman. But it 
 is a queftion, whether he, who marries on fuppofal, 
 that he does not infringe his vow, will enjoin him- 
 felf fo fevere an abftinence. But, 
 
 2^/v, We may fuppofe, that he may have it tranli« 
 ently in his thoughts, to devote himfelf more entire- 
 ly to his Maker's fervice, while difencumber'd from 
 a marriage ftate. For when St. ?««/ encourages ba- 
 chelors to continue fo, he propofes this as a motive 
 to fo pious a felf-denial : He, that ii unmarried, careih 
 for the things that belong to the Lord, honx) he may pleafe 
 the Lord. But he, that is married, carethfor the things 
 that are of the ivorld, honv he may pUafe his ivife. 
 
 But we may confider too, that a cohabitation with 
 a wife may prove a fnare to the perfon fpecified, 
 and at lafl unhappily prevail upon him to violate his 
 VC'A'. Ar.d fir.C^ h? 'petitions to his God, in his daily 
 prayer, to deli^ver him from temptation, it is fure an act 
 ef very high prefumption, to rufti headlong into that 
 temptation, which he earneftly implores to be deli- 
 vered from. 
 
 Q^ IVhy an infant, horn in the fe-venth month, generally 
 lives, njuhenone born in the eighth frequently dies ? 
 
 A. Eecaufe the infant is ever moving towards the 
 birth in the feventh month, at which time, if it be 
 ftrong enough, it comes to the birth ; but if not, it 
 remains in the womb commonly two months longer, 
 in order to get rtrength ; but if after the motion, at 
 fevcn months end, it be not born,, the fituation is 
 mov*d, and the infant fo debilitated thereby, that 
 fhould it come forth in the eighth month, it could 
 fcarcely live, by reafon of the hurt receivM thereby. 
 
 Q^Uay 
 
Tbg British Apollo. 715 
 
 Q;^ May ivood'betony be fmoKd by them ivho cannot 
 hear tobacco, lAjithout prejudicing the health ? 
 
 A. It may, and is commonly ufed in that manner 
 inftead of tobacco, with a great deal of benefit, in 
 peroral and cephalic cafes. 
 
 Q. i^hy, njohen a cold or an ague Ua<ves us, does itge- 
 nerally break out about the mouth? 
 
 A. That eruption is not common in agues, but it 
 is generally accounted, and found a falubrious fymp- 
 tom after the taking of cold. For when nature dif- 
 charges her felf of thofe ferous acidities thro' thofc 
 parts, others more fubjed to cattrrhs remain fafe, 
 and the offending mattei being thus expelled, the dif- 
 order ceafes. 
 
 Q^ 1 ha've often experienced, that fitting in a coach, 
 nvith my eyes Jhut, the coach feems to move the contrary 
 •voay to ivhat it really does ? 
 
 A, While our bodies are moved in a coach, the a- 
 nimal fpirits floating in the brain receive a contrary 
 tendency, ss it is ufual for the cant^nt 10 receive from 
 the moving continent. Since therefore when our eye« 
 are fhut we cannet judge of the tendency of the coach's 
 motion, any otherwife than by the motion of the 
 forefaid fpirits, our imagination confequently fuppof- 
 es, that the coach moves contrary to the reality of 
 its genuine motion. 
 
 Q. Which ivayjhall I (fiveet youths) feek to obtain, 
 Not tranfient joys, but fuch as ivill remain. 
 Oft-times amidjiafcene of heightened joys. 
 When ivine inclines, and company decoys 
 A fecret anxious thought my mirth dejireys. 
 7hen faintly I refohe, but all in <vain^ 
 Soon as the fn are is laid, Tm caught a a- a in. 
 ^Teach me honv to refolve, [and break the chain) 
 Reje^ thofe follies, and thofe fools difdain. 
 Who la'vijh of their golden hours and dap. 
 Live to themfelves, not to their Make/spraife ? 
 
 A. Confider the cfFeds, the fordid flains 
 Attend the vice, with all the griefs and pains : 
 
 That 
 
 } 
 
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 yi6 The British Apollo. 
 
 That reajbny that iright fiampy by which we're grac'd, 
 
 To differ us from l^ru/es^ is quite defac'd ; 
 
 That they're moft bleft in fenfual delight, 
 
 By quicker relilh, flronger appetite, 
 
 Free from remorfe, which mankind muft endure, 
 
 Render'd by confcious reafon more impure. 
 
 Confider, on the wife, what ihameful rapes 
 
 It makes, reducing them to fwinc and apes. 
 
 And how X\iok momentary joys obtain. 
 
 Long years of penance in difeafe and pain. 
 
 How, when the brains are in confufion hurl'd, 
 
 All thoughts are flifled of another nxiorld ; 
 
 Whilft by fuch noxious dull delight as this, 
 
 We rclilh here no perfect joy, and forfeit future blifi? 
 
 Q^ r've read your poetry Jo longy 
 IChey have taught me to make a Jong^ 
 Which I unto my mijlrefi ga^ve^ 
 On njulich Jhe caWd me nvity knwce ; 
 And think yeu not^ 1 Jhall her have ? 
 
 I^cnv Gentlemen, Jome fuhjeSt tell me. 
 Of matters tending to the belly j 
 And you Jhall Jee^ hoi.v I vjill Jirtiin^ 
 'To Jtng it in heroic ^vein ; 
 
 For Jince ^tavas you made me a poet, *jj> 
 
 And taught me nvity e'^er I cou'd kno^ it, ^ 
 
 It is your right noiv to bejtoiv it. 3 
 
 A. Our modcfty will never own. 
 
 To teach fuch at-// as you have Ihown ; 
 
 Whofe lines are of more force, and louder. 
 
 Than ilrongeft muftard, or gun-powder ; 
 
 Whofe fenfe in fuch profoundnefs lyes. 
 
 Twill ne'er be reach'd by mortal eyes j 
 
 So fofc and fweet your numbers run, 
 
 Sure treacle was your helicon ; 
 
 Nor cou'd their fmoothnefs fo prevail, 
 
 Were that not mix'd with double-ale. 
 
 Yet fmce you condefccnd to afk. 
 
 That we wou'd fet your mufc a talk. 
 
 On which you might, in lines heroic 
 
 Flourifh and ^ild, like any/?MVi 
 
 And 
 
the British Apollo. 717 
 
 And that it be fome lelly-matter ; 
 
 Suppofe then a huge earthen platter. 
 
 Your miftrefs at it eating fprats. 
 
 And feeding with the tails her cats. 
 
 A fpacious field this to enlarge on. 
 
 To fee her broil, and turn, and charge on : 
 
 And all her brighter airs difcover, 
 
 Perfpicuous to the r^ulleft lover : 
 
 How eagerly, whilft hot, (he fnaps. 
 
 Then fnatches out from fcalded chaps ; 
 
 Whilft tears bedew her /kining face^ 
 
 Chang'd by furprize into grimace ; 
 
 To hear her after, figh in Weljh^ 
 
 (Which ill bred clowns will call a belch) 
 
 Then all Arabia you may tell. 
 
 In fpice and gums, breathes in the fmell. 
 
 This often hath been done in meter^ 
 
 On fuch whofe breaths were not much fwceter. 
 
 But thefe we only touch to (hew. 
 What one of fancy bright like you. 
 May on fuch lofty fubjeft write, 
 Whilft ak infpires, and fuma indite. 
 
 An Ode, occajiotCd by the late glorious vi^oty. 
 
 AS in a dark recefs. 
 With folemn iilence crown'd. 
 The fad URANIA fat. 
 And mourn*d the crxitX Jiroke of fate. 
 Which in one inaufpicious day. 
 Snatch d all the comforts of her life away. 
 The nymphs who fill her train. 
 
 Seek to redrefs 
 Her forroTvSy but, alas ! in vain. 
 They at the anvful 'vijion grow 
 With her into one PIECE of WOE, 
 AH fympathixing in a grief profound. 
 At length thus kind, propitious heaiPn, 
 
 Enougk 
 
7i8 TheBRiT isH Apollo. 
 
 Enough weVe trfd the oSje^^ of our /ovfy 
 And prov'd her, by afflidions to the height. 
 To make her (hew more bright y 
 And juiUy claim her. title from abovey 
 "By fufftageSf none but 2ifoul di<viney 
 Like hersy couM bear, and uneclipfed ftiine : 
 But now we'll change ihtfcene again ; 
 Since wondroufly fhe*s homhcr grief , 
 By wondrous ways ovfV/ give relief. 
 Crown'd with a train of joys y in number more. 
 Than e'er of farrows fhe has felt before, 
 And be as ready to indulge, 2isjhe is to implore. 
 The lofsjhe has fuftain'd of late, 
 Of her unrival'd/»/7«f ^^- matCy 
 Shall be made up, by num'rous blej/ing fhewn". 
 To children equally her onvn j 
 Whom we will daily blefs, 
 With fuch fui^prifing turns of ivonderful fuccefs, 
 ThatySrroxt'j never more fhall find difpacey 
 
 Her comforts to deface, 
 "^Mt Jhe in thefn, and they in her delight. 
 And both in fearch of mutual happinefs unite; 
 With rivi/domfrom abo've we'll /&/rinfpirc. 
 And them with pious duty fire. 
 To their triumphant fwords we'll bind, 
 Sure viftory, which (hall 
 As oft befal. 
 As enemies they find : 
 Heavens faid — and roaring thunders round y confirm'd 
 it all for fate. 
 Hark) hark ! the pledge of heai/n is come. 
 
 Loud peals of Joy prepare, * 
 
 Its paffage thro' the air, 
 Whilll the dividing atoms all. 
 With violence recal. 
 To give it hafty room. 
 Great Marlbro y and invincible Eugene, 
 
 Have wide difplay'd the glorious fcene. 
 And giv'n a blov^j hath pierc'd the heart ofFrancf, 
 And Itill on their retiring troops ad'vanct. 
 
 Rejoke, 
 
The British Apollo. 719 
 
 Rejoice, ye Britons, the great luork's nigh done. 
 Which (hall with glory end as Unvas n^ith piety begun. 
 
 Qj_ In the lafi chapter of the fecond book ^Samuel, // 
 is f aid, the Lord was wrath with Da<vid for number- 
 ing the people, wherefore hefent apeftilenceamongil 
 them, fo that there died of the people 70000. Jrhe- 
 t her you think they nxiere not happy, fine e they died not for 
 their o-yunfins, but far Dsivld's imprudence ? 
 
 A. The deftrudlion of thofe 70000 was a punifh- 
 ment to Da^uid, but no other than a misfortune to 
 thofe unfortunate perfons. But whether they \verc> 
 happy or unhappy after their deceafe, the determina- 
 tion depends upon their nature of the actions. For 
 they who died in a ftate of impenitence were un- 
 doubtedly , unhappy, not for Da^vid's fin, but their 
 own tranfgrelRons. For both parts of the preceding 
 affertion, namely, that the impenitent were unhappy, 
 and that their unhappinefs proceeded from their own 
 proper fins, are both included in that finglc fea- 
 tence; the foul that finneth, that Jha II die. 
 
 Qj^ Since ye are fuch dabfters at tranflation, I nvduld 
 defireyou to give afroke to the underwritten dijiichy *with 
 an account of its original: 
 
 Vervex cum puero, puer alter, fponfa, maritus, 
 Cultello, lympha, fune, dolore, cad it. 
 A. Some think, that the compendious diftich was 
 compos'd by a fchool-boy of the Chartreux-houfe, But 
 we are apt to think this to be a miftake occafion^4 
 by that famous monoftich, Lympha Pudica, &c. which 
 is faid to owe its original to one of that fchool. 
 
 The vulgar account is, that th^ Devil, under the 
 appearance of human fhape, upon a contraft with 
 orte of Eaton fchool, composed the diftich for him. 
 But tho* we cannot rely upon the relation, yet as 
 ^ fome truth may be often found among mingled for- 
 tteries, fo this may lead us to a no improbable con- 
 jcdure, that an Eaton Lad was the author of the verr 
 fes. The tranflation you may have as follows. 
 Weather nuith boy, t"" other boy,fpoufe, her mate, 
 10 knife^ *water, rope, grief refign their fate. 
 
720 7y^^ Br IT ISH A PO L LO. 
 
 Q^ /;7 1 Sam. xxi. i. Ah'imdech. Jays fo David, 
 why art thou alone, and no man with thee ? jf/ 
 'uerfe the 4/^, ixje read of young men that tuere nvith 
 David, pray honjo are thefe tixjo <verfes reconcilable ? 
 
 A. Da'vid was a grandee of the firft rank in the 
 court of Saul. And therefore we may fuppofe, that 
 he never travel'd to any diftance from the court with- 
 out a fplendid train, a numerous retinue j well there- 
 fore might Ahimelech falute him with the queftion, 
 'why art thou alone^ and no man nvith thee ? no man in 
 comparifon with what I have reafon to expeft. 
 
 Q^ Tour thoughts of a death-bed repentance^ ^whether 
 it be acceptable in the fight of God ? 
 
 A. Tho* a death -bed repentance were always avail- 
 able to falvation, yet no wife man would venture an 
 eternity on fo hazardous a dye. Who of us can aflure 
 ourfelves, that fome acute diftemper fhall not hurry 
 us away, and give us no warning to make up our 
 accounts, before njue go hence y and be no morefeen? Who 
 of us can affure our felves, that an untimely death 
 does not await us, that fome one of the ten thoufand 
 accidents that may befal us, fhall not fummon us 
 from hence in a melancholy moment, and not per- 
 mit us fo much as to make our exit with a Lord haie 
 mercy upon my mifer able foul P Who of us can affure 
 our felves, that if a leifurely difeafe (hall allow us an 
 opportunity of repentance, we fhall yet embrace the 
 opportunity allowed us, and endeavour to appeafe our 
 offended God .' But to the queftion : 
 
 A true, a fmcere repentance, at what time foever 
 we fet about it, is available to falvation upon the 
 fubfequent account. 
 
 No man can truly repent him of his fins without 
 the co-operation of the bleffed Spirit. No man can 
 thus come unto Chrijiy unlefs the Father draiu him. But 
 we may depend upon the goodnefs of the Father, 
 that he will not tantalize any of his creatures, that 
 he will not draw any man to his Son, and yet defign 
 his evcrlafting ruin. 
 
 But 
 
The British Apollo, yii 
 
 But with what confidence can we hope, that the 
 Father will bring- us to repentance, will draw us to 
 his Son, when we have fo long flighted his promifes, 
 defpis'd his threatnings, trampled upon his mercy, 
 defied his juftice, ijcould none of his reproofs and fought 
 not the Lordy nvhile he might be found? With what 
 confidence can we expedt to reapy ivhere <we ha-ve not 
 fcvjny to gather, ixhere ive have not freiv'dt to en- 
 joy the prize, before we begin our courfe, to poflefs 
 a crown, before we fght the good fight ? 
 
 But here it may be perhaps objedled, that many 
 actually repent, when the time of their difTolution 
 draweth nigh : that many bewail their fins, bit4:erly 
 bewail their paft mifcarriages. But alas ! may they 
 not bewail, bitterly bewail their fins, without a fin- 
 cere repentance, without a rightly troubled fpirit, 
 without a truly broken and contrite heart, without 
 X\i2X facrificty which thou^ O God, wilt «ff/ dejpife? 
 Sure the natural man, without any divine afliftance, 
 may bid adieu to fin, when fin has bid adieu to him ;' 
 may renounce his once darling vices, when they have 
 loft their imaginary charms, when they are become 
 taftlefs and ungrateful to him ; become fo, not as the 
 confequence of his goodnefs but of his weaknefs j not 
 as the produd of his piety, but of his infirmity. 
 Sure the merely natural man may be able to lament 
 his evil practices, when the puniihment of fin is fo 
 very near, is even at the door ; when death, when 
 the King of terrors flares him in the face, when eter-] 
 nity is in view, and the very pains of hell have in a 
 manner taken hold upon him. And that a death-bed re- 
 pentance is at leaft very often no other than fuch 2. 
 prefent forrow, fuch a temporary concern, fuch a 
 circumftantiated bewailing, we are unhappily in- 
 formed by the examples of the many, who upon 
 their recovery return ivith the dog to the vomit. 
 Antiquum tenent (as the poet expreffes it) go on in 
 their former courfes without an awful dread, left a 
 tworfe thing f>ould come upon them ; and run with 
 their old companions to the fame excefs of rish 
 
 Vol. III. I i ' ^L 
 
722 5*^^ British Apollo. 
 
 As therefore we muil leave the death-bed penitent 
 to that God, who is a Jearcher of the hearty fo we 
 fhould do well to fufpeft the very worft of fo falla- 
 cious, fo treacherous a repentance. We Ihould ^q 
 well to be afraid (for we have reafon enough* to be 
 £d) left our injur'd mafter, when in our laft hour he 
 fhall behold the anguifh of our fouls, fhould upbraid 
 i]9 in thefe bitter, but defervM expreffions : Becaufe I 
 ha*ve calledy avd ye refufedy I hwue Jireiched out my 
 handy and ye regarded not ; it is reafon good, that I 
 fhould laugh at your calamity y and mock, nov^/ your fsar 
 Cometh. Tho' ye call upon mey yet / at?"// not anfvcer r 
 fince 5'e feek me fo LATE, ye fhall not find me. 
 
 Q^ Under/landing by one of your anfivers, that you ^Id 
 ruith modern ajlronomers, that the fun remains fixty and 
 that the different feafom of the year are produced by the 
 annual motion of the earthy I defire you to gi've a brief 
 definition of its performance. For to me, the opinion of the 
 more ancient aJironomerSy thai afcribe only a diurnal mo- 
 tion to the earthy and the %odaical to the fuuy afipears 
 much more plain and demonjirabk. For if n.ve alhijo the 
 farmery honu comes it to pafsy that nve fee fome northern] 
 jiars at their Jetting (as ive common^ call it J ahvayt but 
 jufi touch the hcrizony and that the earth is not either 
 fometimes fo depreffed as to rcprtfent thofe fars at their 
 lon-vefi defcent higher than the hcrizony or fometimes fo ele- 
 <vated as to ohfcure them. Or, to explain my meaning 
 hetiery ^vhy do thofe people that live under the poles always 
 fee the fame Jiars in their zenith : and thojc under the e- 
 quino^iial line, fill find themfe he spreci/ely under that cir- 
 cle , as iKcll nx;hen the fun is in Cancer ot Capricorn, as 
 in Aries or Libra, ixhich feemeth to e'vince, that the 
 €(irth hath no other motion than that upon its axis ? 
 
 A. Sir, we wonder, that you Ihould think the 
 new Copernican fyftem of the earth's annual motion" 
 lefs intelligible than the old Ptolemaic fyftem, which 
 contains fuch manifold unimaginable chimera's: name- 
 ly, thofe of folid fpheres, epicycles, ftations and re- 
 trogradations of the planets. As for the feafonsof the 
 year, >\e own^ that tlt^y would be inconfiftent with 
 
 the 
 
The British Apollo. 723 
 
 the annual motion of the earth, were it not for the 
 third motion, or motion of inclination or declinar 
 tion, tho* indeed the motion of inclination is not fo 
 properly a third or diftind motion from the fecond 
 or annual one, as a peculiar modification of it. Bat 
 as that peculiar modification continually deflcdls the 
 axis of the earth from a parallelifm with the axis of 
 the equator, it oecafions the fame variety of feafons^ 
 as the annual motion of the fun would do. 
 
 As for what you alledge of thofe who always fee 
 the fame ftars at their zenith, we may confidcr, that 
 the whole- plane of the circle, which the earth annu-* 
 ally defcribes, is fo inconfiderable in refped to the 
 vaftly dillant fphere of the fixt liars, that if it be 
 fupposM continued thither, it will appear no othet 
 than a point. And if fo, it can make no fenfible 
 difference* with regard to the feeming zenith or other 
 pofition of the ftars. And the fame notion accounts 
 for your other inftances, which are of the fame na- 
 ture with the preceding one. 
 
 Q^ Pray favour me woith the inrtuei of tobacco: to 
 ivhat conjlitution it is beneficial, and to 'what inju- 
 rious ? 
 
 A, Tobacco is by nature hot and c'ry \ it difcufles, 
 refolves and cleanfes, is purging, emetic, anodyne 
 and vulnerary, and is chiefly beneficial in cold and 
 moifl conftitutions, and hurtful in the contrary. 
 
 Q. What makes Thames numterfiink, and then turn 
 fiveet upon a 'voj^ge, tmre than any other ^water ? 
 
 A. If your obfervation be true, it may probably 
 be caufed by a greater plenty of fulphur and fait in 
 that, than in other waters. 
 
 Q. Te facred friends of juft and 'virtuous lave, 
 I'ell a defpairing ivretch, /mixj to remo've 
 His anxious cares, oppre/i tuith double ivoe, 
 Forfook by Julia, and by Strephon too. 
 The fair I thought perfeSl in emery part. 
 Had long indulg'd my fond tr an/ported heart : 
 The youth all 'virtues in his breaji confirCdy 
 Was Jicretf witty, generous, juji and kind, 
 
 I i 2 In 
 
724 TZ'^ British Apollo. 
 
 In their lo^d cotpverfe years I did employ y 
 
 Bleji as I thought n^Ath more than mortal joy : 
 
 But fee the effeSl of fuhlunary hlifsy 
 
 Deluding Julia ro^d me of my refi. 
 
 The dear unkindy unmindful of my lovey 
 
 Blafed my hopes and did unconfant pro^'e ; 
 
 But fill my Strephon confant did remain y 
 
 His balmy friejidjhip did ajpwage my pain. 
 
 At length the cha7-ms of an engaging maidy 
 
 (Bane to my joys) his noble heart engag'dy 
 
 iVith folemn 'vo'ws ffje has the youth engrof, 
 
 *Thus lo^'e, and happy friendfhip both I've lofl ; 
 
 If eloquence has charms to footh to refy 
 
 And fuch it has as tuell your nvorks exprefiy 
 
 O Phccbus, oVr a nvretch refeSi your raySy 
 
 Difpelthe difmal gloom-, that clouds his youthful days. 
 
 A. Unhappy fwain, your trouble's great, 'tis true. 
 To lofe your deareft friend, and miftrefs too. 
 Nought more than fcorn can make a lover grieve, 
 And, who, alas .' can lofe his friend and live ? 
 But fince (thro' providential means you grant, 
 That all fublunar joys duration want, 
 A preparation for this change declare, 
 And let your breaft ferene and calm appear. 
 So (hall your wond'ring fair her flames return, 
 60 (hall th' enamour'd youth with former friend(hip 
 burn. 
 
 Q^ Hail bright Apollo of our Briti(h Ifle, 
 Whofe charming Lyre does all our hours beguile y 
 With humble ren/rence at your (hrine 1 kneely 
 iP implore your God (hip ivould the caufe re'vealy 
 Why, amongjl all the numerous feather'd throng, 
 Ihe cocks ha've fill the moil harmonious fong ? 
 
 A. The feather'd choir y who (Iretch their ivarblin^ 
 throats. 
 And fill the ijcoods with fweet harmonious notes. 
 Have by ftrong heat their melhitj'd nioice re(in'd. 
 Which onlf warms the cocks of all the kind ; 
 Cramp'd by chill coldy each hen attends her mate. 
 And, unlike London wives, is feldom known to prate. 
 
Jhe British Apollo. 725 
 
 Q^ 1 defer e to kno^w, if the return from the captivity 
 '' mentioned in the ivth chap, (s/" Judith and the 3d verie, 
 nx:as that of Manafles, if not ^ to nvhat time muji nxie af 
 fegn that adion of hers, or is it nvholly fabulous ? - 
 
 A. The captivity mentioned in thepaffage you a1- 
 ledge, was that under Antiochus Epiphanes, reprefented 
 at large in the firit chapter of the firft book of the 
 Maccabees. 
 
 Q.- / ha've taken out a dog's fpleen, and he is alinje, 
 and I perceive no alteration in the leaf in him: pray , ^-what 
 is the ufe of the fpleen ? 
 
 A. Authors difagree very much in this point. The 
 ancients held it to be the receptacle of the melancho- 
 lic humour : fome of the moderns will have it to 
 be either a blood-making or a blood -perfeding bow- 
 el : others look upon it as the elaboratory of the ner- 
 vous juice : others again, that it only promotes the 
 adlion of the liver, by furthering the feparation of 
 the bile, nor is the true ufe of it as yet fully diico- 
 vered. 
 
 (^ What is the caufe offnoring in one's fee ep ? 
 
 A. Snoring we take to be nothing elfe, but anoify 
 and troublefom kind of breathing thro' the nofe, oc- 
 cafion'd by fome impediment either within or with- 
 out the noflrils. 
 
 Q^ / -would defer e to know (why the fea is fait , and the 
 Thames frefe?, and -where it is that the water goes at lo^vj 
 tide? 
 
 A. The faltnefs of the fea moll probably derives 
 its original from the fait rocks (of which there are 
 many in and about the fea) and the great abundance 
 of fait contained in the earth, thro' which the waters 
 of the fea pafs in fabterraneous caverns. 
 
 The Thames is fait, till mingled with fo great a 
 quantity of frefh water, as to make fo proportiona- 
 bly diminutive a quantity of fak to be impercep- 
 tible. 
 
 The water at ebbing flows down to that part of 
 the fea, which lyeg between the tropick of Cancer and 
 the Equator. 
 
 On 
 
726 7he British Apollo. 
 
 On the taking tf the citadel ofL ISLE, ^c, 
 
 TRiirmphant ^^rorj Marlborough /7/7// Eugene^ 
 When will you terminate the glorious /cfw? 
 Not nvinterWith. its inaufpicious forms, 
 Darkjfullen brows, cold damps and threatning dorms'. 
 Your thirft of glory can allay, whilH jc« 
 Thro' all obftrudlions your great end purfue : 
 In vain the Gallic p<nv'rs your force withftand. 
 When over nature you extend command. 
 
 Juftly that people's term'd a dancing nation. 
 And luckily they brought the knack in falhion. 
 Since now their heels (land them in far moxt Jiead^ 
 Than Levjis his, or Maint''non\ greater head. 
 In vain they toil, in vain ih^y fortify , 
 In vain i-^^enchy (refolv'd before to fly) 
 Cou'd pitj-vocationst threats , or f corn prevail, 
 O any ihingy prevent their turning tail. 
 E'er this, by one decifiv« blow you'd laid 
 The tyrant flat, and all \i\%fhame difplay'd. 
 Howe'er at laft you have him in the /o//, 
 Now force him to difgorge his ill %ot fpoil, 
 Whilll the propitious hea^Jns on your brave anions 
 fmile. 
 Q^ Whether that place of Scripture that faysy If thy 
 right hand offend thee, ^c. does not intimate that we 
 fkall enter cur eternal fate, ijcith the imperfections nxje may 
 ha've had in our bodies^ njuhilf Having in this ivorld, tho"* J 
 am not ignorant of the meaning of the former part of the 
 vx)ords-j hut it is this part Iconjtder, ivhere our Sanjiour 
 fays. For it is better to enter into heaven halt or maim- 
 ed, than having ^c. 
 
 A. Your concluiion would be true, if our Saviour 
 intended thefe expreflions in a literal fenfe. But the 
 figurative meaning of the pafTage is, that if any pre- 
 dominant luft, any prevailing palTion be as dear, be as 
 ufeful to us as a right eye, a right hand, {sfr. we 
 mud bid adieu to fo dear a luft, to fo ufeful a pafli- 
 on, fince it is more profitable for us to enter in at the 
 
 ftrait 
 
 1 
 
Ti&^British Apollo. 727 
 
 flmit gate, that leadeth unto life, under the no fmall 
 uneafinefs of ftruggling with our brutal part, of 
 wrellling with flefti and blood, than to walk in the 
 ' broad road that leadeth to deflruftion, with all the 
 pleafure and eafinefs that may accrue to the fenfual 
 man, from gratifying his inclinations, from fwim- 
 ing with the ftream, and folhnxiittgthe de'vices and 
 dejires of his o^n heart. 
 
 Q^ / ha've heard jefveral relate flaries nxj'ith di'verfe 
 oaths in them T andjuppofe 1 rehearfe the fame jloriesijoith 
 the oaths : 
 
 Whether fuch rehearfal is finful, and nxjhether I incur 
 the penalties thelanjjs enjoin for fjcearing? 
 
 A. Tho' the law of the land has no regard to the 
 repetition of another's oaths, yet a tender confcience 
 would be very cautious of fuch a repetition, for the 
 following reafon : when an oath (from fo provoking 
 a tranfgreilion, good Lord deliver us) when an oath 
 is profanely uttered, the good, the pious man im- 
 aiediately cries out, that it grates his offended ears. 
 Wiienever therefore we rehearfe any oath that we 
 have been fo unhappy as to hear, we bring the iinj, 
 as it were, upon the ftage again ; we make the com- 
 pany auditors of difobliging words; renew our owa 
 unhappinefs, tho* overpaft \ and give thofe about us 
 an ungrateful fellow-feeling offo unfortunate a fcene. 
 That fentence therefore of St. PaitPs, with an incon- 
 fiderable variation, is very applicable here ; It isea/eu 
 ajhame to fpeak of thofe things , wi'hich are done ef them 
 infecret. 
 
 Qj^ A young many an apprentice, married a young ivo* 
 man, but ne'ver bedded. He has (tnce got another nuoman 
 *with child, andixeyit a<vjay<with her, fo that he has not 
 been heard of for ahnoft thcfe three years pajl. The law- 
 yers tell us, that bed and board is the fundamental a5l of 
 marriage. The query is, ^jether this young vjoman tnay 
 not laixfully marry another man, her former being but 
 half a marriage J according to the laiv 0/ England I 
 
 I4 . ^.What 
 
728 7/??^ British Apollo, 
 
 A. Whatever the cafe, you propofe, may be with 
 refpeft to an earthly judicature, it is a complete mar- 
 riage with regard to an higher court, the court of 
 confcience. The perfons menticj^ed were undoubt- 
 edly man and wife in the fight of God. And ivhat 
 Cod has joined together^ no man fhould put afunder. Bat 
 tho' the marriage were complete, yet if the unwar- 
 rantable adl, which the hufband was guilty of, were 
 committed afterwards, that adulterous offence, in the 
 judgment of our blefled Lord himfeJf, cut afunder 
 the gordian knot. The woman therefore upon this 
 fuppofal is at liberty to marry, if fhe has the advice 
 of a very able lawyer, that by fo doing fhe fha!! 
 make no encroachment upon the laws of the land. 
 For otherwife fhe cannot overlook that apoftolical in- 
 junction; fuh?nit your /elves to e'very ordhiatice of man 
 Jhr the Lord's fake. 
 
 Q^ J once courted a lady^ nvho telling me I nvas not in 
 eamefi^ I<iK;i/hcd a mofl dreadful mifclance might befal 
 7ne, if 1 enjer married any other ; hut f nee that^/he hanj- 
 ing proved a bafe ifjoman, I am going to marry an§- 
 iker. 
 
 A. You fhould have let us know, whether, when 
 you fay, that the perfon you had once a better opi- 
 nion of has proved a bafe woman, by bafenefs you 
 mean the lofs of her virgin modefty. For fmce a 
 married woman, if fhe defile her husband's bed, is no 
 more a wife, and might lawfully be put away, would 
 the law of the land permit it, as may implicitly be 
 colle6led from our Saviour's words ; Wkofoe<-cer putteth 
 anx:ay his i^ife^ excepting in the cafe cf fornication ; fo 
 much more does fo inexcufable a bafenefs cancel an 
 obligation inferior to that of a raarriage-folemnity. 
 
 But we would advife you for the future religiouf- 
 ly to avoid all manner of imprecations, and not rafh- 
 ly venture to entangle your-felf in fuch enfnaring as 
 well as unwarrant^'.ble circumflances. 
 
 Q^ // hath pleafcd God, that hitherto ive ha<ve had no 
 children y nor probably may ; on 'which my Inifhand for 
 fime time hath grcmin a littk melancholy. 1 entreat you 
 
 ^woiild 
 
The Bri T isH Apollo. 729 
 
 nvouIJ be fo kind^ as to fend him njohat comforts you can 
 under fuch circutnjiances. 
 
 J. Madam, we never expofe any thing but the vi- 
 ces and follies of the age. As to the query, it may 
 be obferved, that providence is fo indulgent to man- 
 kind, as to afford comforts in all conditions of life, 
 how (ieemingly) unhappy foever they may be, if maa 
 takes the pains to fearch them out, and fubmits to 
 the convidion of them. As to the cafe before us, 
 moft fure it is, that children are certain troubles, but 
 uncertain comforts. In their minority, their infenfibi- 
 lity of our kindnefs to them, renders us little fatif- 
 faction from the gratitude of their returns. As they 
 increafe in years, we but more and more part with 
 them, to fchools, then to univerfities, inns of court, 
 trades, ISc. during which time, the diilance prudence 
 commands us to keep prevents all pleafure of conver- 
 fation. And when they come to years of difcre- 
 tion, too often the return for all our cares, pains and 
 expences on their education, l^c. is, pray Father be 
 pleas' d to die ! The ccnfideration whereof fhocks even 
 nature. If they happen to be fools or vicious, they 
 adminifter only difgrace and affliftion ; if they excel 
 on the other hand, they eclipfe and deipife us. If we 
 are deprefs'd in our own circumftances, they add the 
 extremity af afllidion, in the confideration we fhoald 
 bring them into the world to be miferable ; if we 
 enjoy the affluence of all things, it generally debauches 
 their natures j befides, as afflictions Hick faiter to us 
 than comforts, the infelicity of depravM children is 
 more infapportabl6, than the einjoyraent of the good 
 is fatisfadory. On the other hand, he who has no 
 children is not only freed thereby from infinite cares 
 and troubles, which affault thofe who have, but alfo 
 enjoys even tranfports in mifery itfelf, when he con- 
 fiders he has not made others miferable with him as 
 he finds many of his neighbours around him have 
 done 1 and if he enjoys great plenty, he has opportu- 
 nity to adopt for children pious adts of charity" 
 which will be fo far from upbraiding their Father^ 
 lis Or 
 
730 fhe Br I T isH ApoL LO. 
 
 or wifiiing his life Ihortned, that they will afllfl him 
 in obtaining eternal life, in the beatific vifion. 
 Q^ Te learned fons cf art, hf heaaJ'n dejlgrid 
 ^0 blefs, improve, and culti^jate mankind v 
 Who mighty things in lofty fir ainsexprefs , 
 Jlnd in each fio-ixiing line the God confefs ; 
 Who to the 'uir etched ahvays yield relief, 
 JBind up their njcounds, and kindly footh their grief ^ 
 Tet this once more extend your generous aid 
 To an affiiSied, lofi, abandon' d maid. 
 I^G^M had the glorious ruler of the day. 
 From TTwrtal 'vienjo ^thdranjon his all^enli'venwg rayf 
 jlnd new the palefac'd emprefs of the night 
 Hhro' gloomy clouds diffusd a Jickly light : 
 When in thejhelter of a 'verdant grv^e. 
 Such as the Gods adm/r^d, (ijohen Gods made Itrvt} 
 J met the lovely objeSl of myfiatne, 
 Ihe charming Strephon— ^^ unhappy name I 
 Our folemn wvixs lue 7nutuftlly reneiKi d, 
 jind njuitb delight the f acred theme purfud, 
 lill he, regardlefs of my peace and fame, 
 Prefdme to joys, '^ivhich lijuant nj^ords to namt. 
 With grief and anger filtd long time 1 firove 
 Jigainfi the torrent of inmading lonje ; 
 Hut he ixjilhfrejh attacks my heart affaild, 
 ^ill o'er my fainting ivirtue he at length pre^vaitd. 
 To all loruis dilates I obedience paid, 
 But new (too late) I find I am betray d, 
 
 The Swain 
 
 yWith hafe ingrcititude my fame requites. 
 Laughs at my anger, mtd my faffnn ftights : 
 Where fhall 1 fly, oh I mjhither fhall 1 run. 
 My Jhame, dijlonour, and my f elf to Jhun ? 
 Where Jhall I fl^roud me from this dire difgrace, 
 Jltid in nvhat corner hide my guilty face ? 
 Ho'w Jhall I to my foul lofi peace refiore, 
 That peace, nvhich I too happily enjoy' d before ? 
 
 A. As fair Clo/wda's charms our fex upbraid. 
 To be lb cruil to fo kind a maid, 
 
 Whofc 
 
} 
 
 7^^ Bri TisH Apollo. 731 
 
 Whofe numbers, fahage natures might reclaim. 
 And make barbarians lofe their horrid name > 
 So fhe reftores our dignity again, 
 y^y yielding up to our defpotick reign ; 
 Cancels our plot of tyranny, wheny^^ 
 Her 'virtue flays with greater cruelty. 
 
 When fuch llrong folid fenfe and poignant wit 
 To grofs fallacious arguments fubmit ; 
 Yield jewels of ineftimabk price. 
 The purchafe of the fordid rags of vice : 
 Who can prefume he ^i}\fecurely (land. 
 Except upheld bj^ome fuperior hand? 
 Implore that unfeen powV with flowing eyts. 
 There your redrefiy Clorifida, only lyes : j\ 
 
 Implore his aid, your virtue to reflore. 
 With refolution to relapfe no more ; 
 Your virtue thus recovered may be ftronger than 
 before. 
 
 Q^ Apollo's fons, he cauHous boiv ye guide 
 FAMHTs CHARIOT, let not Phaetonian pride 
 Pojfefs your hearts, too high yoxtr thoughts elate. 
 And you untimely meet your brother^ fate ; 
 For nim re<volving months your glary bright, 
 Hasjhone o'er Britain luith refplendcnt light ; 
 But Ttonuyour flagging rnvStfupinely roves 
 In tracks inglorious, flnging nought but loves. 
 For Jhame you Britains roufey your ft rams prep^'e,. 
 To 'welcome home our heroes from the vuar. 
 The labours of the dujly field relate. 
 With all the toil and actions of the great ', 
 Or elfe let flinging (dityr point your lines, 
 To lajh the follies of thefe 'vicious tifnes. 
 Dare to be bold, in virtue's caufe engage. 
 And cru/h the gronjoifig crimes of this degenerate age^ 
 
 A. Miftaken bard^ is love fo low a field. 
 To whom die Gods their azvful fcepters yield. 
 Who trinmphs o\x the atuibutes of heaven^ 
 And with coeleftial flanicb infpires the bell of men 5 | 
 Who is all harmony, to whom the fpheres,, 
 Tune all the meafures o£ fucceeding years t, . 
 
 li 6 ; .. : Vet 
 
y^i The British Apollo. 
 
 Yet Fenus not fo abfolutely reigns, *. 
 
 Within the empire of our glowing vein?, 
 
 Biit Mars ihall have his due, whene'er we meet. 
 
 An here worthy of our mu/e to greet. 
 
 We'll alfo la{h with juft^^/zV rage, 
 
 By an alternate ftroke, the 'vices of the age. 
 
 Q. Jt is a recei'ved axiom, that 'when the eye is placed 
 777 the f.ner medium, and the obje^ in the grojfer, that nviil 
 4ijpecr bigger than it really is : but contrarinjuifey ivhen the 
 eye is in the groffer medium, and the ohjeB in the finer, 1 
 (dejlre to knoii\ honv it nvill appear then ? As for exampky 
 if a man ivas to di've to the bottom of^ clear rinjer, and 
 look up tg an ohjeB placed abo've him in the air, ivhether 
 the ohje5i nxould feem to him lefs than it is ? 
 
 A. As every received truth, is not an axiom,, fo, if 
 what you alledge were a received truth, yet it could 
 not pafs under the denomination of an axiom. 
 
 Some eminent philofophers have been fo far from 
 acknowledging what you fay to be a receiv'd truth, 
 that they have on the contrary maintained the fame 
 pha^nomejion to proceed from a revsrted fituation. 
 for when afkt, why the fun and moon appear big- 
 ger to the fight when near the horizon, than when 
 in their meridian, they have accounted for the matter 
 from the denfity of the air between the eye and the 
 Jiorizontal luminaries: for as the air does more con- 
 dcnfate rear the furface of the earth (as is cvider^t 
 from the noted experiment of bladder, containing a 
 certain portion of air, which continually rarifies, and 
 gradually extends the bladder, as it is carried from 
 the foot to the (ummit of a mountain) fo there are a 
 greater quantity of vapours between the eye and the 
 f'orefaid horizontal objects. 
 
 Bet tho' doiJior Wallis confutes thi« hypothefis, and 
 gives another and truer folilfion of the matter, fo 
 neither does he eftabli(h what you call a receiv'd 
 axiom ; but en the contrary aflerts, that refraction in 
 % e cafe before us can do no other than elevate the ob- 
 jeft. For a ray of light falling obliquely upon a 
 groHer medium, defle^s to a greater diftance from a 
 
 I perpen- 
 
fbff British Apollo. 7^^ 
 
 perpendicular. Whence it is, that we behold the fun 
 and moon, when below our horizon, and defcend 
 from a pofTibility of a llrait line'-^ being drawn be- 
 tween us and them. And hence alfo it is, that by 
 the help of glafies we can view dillinft iflands, when 
 otherwile, by reafon of the convexity of the earth, 
 they wou'd be invifible. 
 
 But left you may be apt to think, that fmce, as a 
 ray falling obliquely upon a groffer medium deflefts 
 from a perpendicular, fo a ray filling in the fame 
 manner upon a fjier defleds nearer to a perpendicu- 
 lar, therefore as in the former pofition the objed may 
 be lefs, fo in the latter it may be bigger than it re- 
 ally is. But in anfwer to this, as the one is contrary 
 to what we have obferv'd from doftor WalliSf fo we 
 beg leave to offer two particulars. 
 
 1 . If the matter were true, this cou'd afFedl no o- 
 ther objedls than thofe from^which the rays fall ob- 
 liquely upon the groffer or finer medium. And there- 
 fore, where the rays fall perpendicular,, the objedl 
 wou'd be neither bigger nor lefs than it really is. But 
 you propofe the matter ia an irreflridive manner* 
 But, 
 
 2. If the rays falling obliquely upon a groffer me^ 
 dium, and therefore deflefting from a perpendicular 
 were ad^ually to lefTen the objedl, as to its appearance, 
 it wouM not therefore follow, that the rays falling 
 in the foremention'd manner upon a finer mediam, 
 and therefore deflefting nearer to a perpendicular, 
 wou'd magnify the objech For if the firft cafe were 
 granted true, the reaion of it wou'd be infer'd from 
 the retufion of the rays by the forefaid reflection . 
 And yet in the latter cafe there is a retufion alfo, tho* 
 prcportionably lefs, and' therefore in both cafes the 
 objedl wou'd be lefs, with this only difference, that 
 in the one cafe it wou'd not be fo much lefs as in the 
 other. 
 
 Q^ Hoav mttji I underjland thefs nv&rdi^ they may re- 
 ceive you into everlailing habitations, xK-hat they is 
 there meant ? the "i^iords are in Luke xvi. 9. 
 
 J. The 
 
734 ^i^^ British Apollo. 
 
 A. The antecedent, to which the relative They re- 
 fers, is the mammon of unrighteoufnefs. But then it 
 may be afkt, why the relative is not in the fame 
 number with the antecedent ? To which we anfwer, 
 that the mammon of unrighteoufnefs is a periphraiis 
 for riches, a plural word j and it is a fort of figure 
 to make adjeOives, verbs and relatives, to agree witk 
 the word couched under the periphrafis. 
 
 Q^ Marriage f I knoiVy effe^lually does prove 
 The fiirefi bane, and antidote of hyve ; 
 But oh I the remedy^ nahcn it Jhoiid eafe, 
 Pro-ves more obnoxious than the dire difeafe: 
 Is thtre no other more expedient ivay. 
 No other means, that can lo^oe's /mart allay ? 
 For your advice I'll grateful tribute fay. 
 
 A. In marriage, love is made more firm and flrong. 
 By joys, which to no other ftate belong ; 
 Free from remorfe and fcandal, which but four 
 The fweeteft fallies of a loofe amour : 
 But you prophane the facred name of love 
 'Tis luft you mean, which we fcorn to improve 
 Loath'd by the good, and punifh'd from above 
 
 Q;_ You 'will oblige me vuith the t r art/la t ion of the tnvo 
 folkinxing verfes compos'' d by Virgil : 
 
 Nodie pluit totd ; redeunt fpedacula mane : 
 Divifum imperium cum JOVE C-^SAR habet. 
 A. All night it rains ; ^Vitjhenjcs the morning^?/*/: 
 C^S AR and JOVE a fplitted fcepter wield. 
 
 Or thus. 
 All night it rains ; fine fhevcs bedeck the* mom : 
 CiESAR with Jove divided rule adorn. 
 Q^ Why the Trauli, a people near the Thracians, 
 *vjhen an infant is nc'wly born, fit dovun and cry over 
 it, and carry a dead man out avith Jinging and dancing ? 
 A. The cuftom might proceed from the opinioa 
 they might entertain of this troublefom world -, and 
 therefore might conclude it more eligible to die thaa 
 to be bom. 
 
 } 
 
 ■I 
 
^e British Apollo. y^S 
 
 Q^ In Exod. xxi. 32. *we read concerning the plague 
 9/ hail, that the barley was fmitten, for it was in the 
 ear i but the wheat and the rye were not fmitten, for 
 they were not grown up. AW; Jince the barley-har<vefi 
 is the latefl 'with us, Idefire to know the different feafons 
 for thofe different fort i of corn, 
 
 A. The barley-harveft in ^gyft was a month fooner 
 than that of wheat and rye. Pliny (the great Roman 
 natural ifl, who flourilh*d while Egypt was a Roman 
 province) informs us, that barley in thofe countries 
 began to ripen in March, and wheat in April, 
 
 Q^ Pray, learned A^Wo, di<vulge the fine knack, 
 Js^t from foot or from fmall-coal ive ha've our lamp-hlackf 
 Toull end a difpute by njouchfafing an anfijver. 
 And highly oblige youn to command. Sir. 
 
 A. From foot of a lamp on a canopy plac'd 
 At a dillance, which foon with that tindure is fac'd. 
 Q^Jn the xxiii. chapter ofDcMt. the 18 'verfe. Thou 
 (halt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of 
 a dog into the houfe of God for any vow ; for evea 
 both thefe are abomination unto the Lord thy God^ 
 Nonju 1 defre the explanation of this werfe, and ^hy the 
 dog is an abomination to the Lord? 
 
 A, The former part of the verfe implies, that if 
 an iramodeft woman proftituted her body for filthy 
 lucre, fhe muil not expeft that he, ivho is of purer 
 eyes than to behold iniquity, wouM accept of an offer- 
 ing ( for it was ufual to vow an of^ring unto the 
 Ijord, and therefore it is faid, for any fvowj from. 
 fo unwarrantable a gain. 
 
 And fo great an abomination was a dog reputed 
 t^y the Levitical inftitution, that if any man fold a 
 dog (as- -the latter part of the verfe acquaints us) he 
 was not permitted to purchafe any facrifice with the 
 money, in order to make an oblation to the God of 
 J/rael. 
 : ■ To the queftion, why a dog was in fo diftinguifh- 
 ing a manner sbominabie to God, we anfwer, that 
 (as the great Bochartus very pertinently obferves) the 
 ancient Egyptians paid their Jiomage to thtir great God 
 
 Anubi}^ 
 
 ^ 
 
73^ TZv Br I T is^ Apol Lo. 
 
 Anubis^ as hieroglyph ically reprefented with a head 
 like a dog's. And tho' we cannot be informed from 
 hiilory, whether this particular part of their fuper- 
 llirious woriliip obtain'd fo early as the days of Mofes, 
 yet it cannot be difallow'd, that this pafiage in the 
 Mofaick Law makes it not improbable. 
 
 Q^ Does the foul increafe <with the body, or is it breathed 
 into the infant in full perfedion? If the former, and the 
 infant die, <ivhat lofs of immortality can the foul ha^e ? 
 If the latter, nvhy is not a child capable of reafonable 
 things at the minute of its birth -, fince the body fer<ves 
 only as a repofitory for the foul, and it is actuated by that 
 alone? 
 
 A. Which fide foever of the quelHon be true, the 
 confequences you feem to draw are eafil); to be a- 
 voided. For, if infants are born with but fmall capa- 
 cities, but capable of improvement by fenfation and 
 refiedion, it no way follows, that the foul of a dying 
 infant pcrifhes with the body ; fince ?.s it will remain 
 after its fepa ration from the body, with the fame 
 fmall capacities it er.joy'd while in the body, fo 
 God, no doubt, will raife thofe capacities to fo ad- 
 vanced a meafure of peifeiftion, as may fit it for the 
 eternal enjoyment of hinifelf But if an infant is 
 born with the fame perfedtion, with reference to his 
 foul, as it can afterwards enjoy, when arriv'd at 
 manhood, then it naturally follows, that the faculties 
 of the foul lye dormant and unexerted, 'till the or- 
 gans of the body, by advances and degrees, be fo par- 
 ticularly conformed, as no longer to rellrain thofe 
 manicled, as we may call them, faculties. And this 
 cannot feem ftrange to any one, who confiders that 
 x!:i^ fumes of wine can fo alter the difpofition of the 
 body, as to reduce the moft enlarged faculties of the 
 moft ingenious perfon , to. their primitive unadive 
 dormitance. 
 
 Q. When Noah'i flood ivas, ivhether all the nvorld 
 avas then co-vered nvith njjater ? 
 
 A. Ducalion% flood indeed was a partial one, and 
 confui'd to the territories of Greece. And tho' the de- 
 
 fcriy tion 
 
TheBK I TisH Apollo. y^y 
 
 fcription of that flood (as accurately reprefented in 
 Oi'i^'s Metamoi-phofii) very nearly comports with Mofis 
 his defcription of Noah's flood, yet this is no more 
 than an addition ofcircumftances, taken notice of by 
 Mofeso^2in univerfal flood, to that partial flood under 
 King Deucalion. 
 
 Some indeed have thought Noah's flood to have 
 been alfo a partial one. But fuch a groundlefs con- 
 ceit is entirely overthrown by .two pafl^ages in Scrip- 
 ture. We read in Gen. vii. 19. That the ivaters pr^ 
 'vaiVd exceedingly upon the earthy and all the high hills 
 under the wchole hea'vens ^ere covered. At verfe the 21 ft. 
 we are told, that alljlejh died that nxjas upon the earth. 
 And the following relation is full of pregnant notes 
 of univerfality. 
 
 \i therefore fo plain, fo exprefilve a defcription 
 may be figuratively confined, there can be no fuch 
 thing as <^vrejiing the fcriptures to our o^vcndejlru^lion. 
 
 Q^ In our coalpits about New-Caftle, 'when they ha've 
 intirely dug out a 'vein^ theyjlop it up nx)ith all imagina- 
 lie diligence, that the kaji air may not pojjlhly enter ^ left - 
 it fire the remaining dujl of the coals , and irritate it ijoith 
 the irrefifiihle rage of gun-pvwdery to blonv up all above 
 it } as fwas lately unhappily experienc'd, by the lofs of the 
 lives ofabonje 40 perfons, 
 
 A. There may be a very good reafon for that cau- 
 tion of not letting in the air into thofe pits ; but we 
 do not think the greater danger lyeth in that the re- 
 maining duft of the coals might be fired by it. For 
 fuppofe it fliould, no fuch dreadful blowing up as 
 happened lately would follow ; 'tis rather to be feared 
 left the nitrous particles, with which the air abounds, 
 mixing with the loofe fulphureous matter of the coal 
 mine, fliould make a compound not unlike to gun- 
 powder, and apt to be fired accidentally feveral ways, 
 as by lighting a candle, a pipe, or the ftriking of 
 fome flint-ftone, but not by the air alone. 
 
 Q^ / defire you nx:Quld gvve the beji account you can of 
 cochinele whence it comes, and the origin ofthcjame. 
 
 A. The 
 
738 Tfje British Apollo. 
 
 ji. The drug, which we diftinguifh by the name 
 ©f cochinele^ is commonly reported by the Spaniards^ 
 {who in their dominions in the Wtfi-Indies are the 
 mailers of fufficient opportunities to know it throughly 
 by the quantities producod) we fay, it is by them 
 reported to be nothing but the carcafes of little flies, 
 not much unlike the infeft cali'd a ladj-bird, which 
 breed upon the leaves of the prickly Indian fig-ire'.^ and 
 when they have attained to full maturity, are fmo- 
 'thered by the fumes of herbs or flraw burnt under 
 them, and falling down on canvas fheets, are dried 
 by virtue of a conllant fun-lhine ; and the wings 
 rub'd oft in gathering leave the body round and fliri- 
 vel'd, in the form and bulk we have our cochinele in. 
 
 The merchants tell us, there are four forts thereof. 
 As ift. Tujkaliohe^ which is of a black dull colour, 
 but the longeft grain, zdly. Mnjieko^ which is % 
 gray fcrt, and the meaneft of all the kinds, sdly. Gal- 
 baca, in colour between both, of the fame fize but 
 much excelling in goodnefs. 4thly. Uaxcala or Rofeta 
 which is the reddeft in fhew, and the richeft of all in 
 ufe ; but all thefe forts make up one commodity, for 
 the merchants mingle them together, and fell them 
 promifcuoufly for the beft kind. 
 
 It is called Cochinele by the Spaniards^ as a diminih 
 tive from the Coccm of the ancients, Cocchus Baphicus, 
 or Infc^oriom^ which we now call Kirmes, from whence 
 that precious juice Alkermes is taken. 
 
 But not to enter upon the merits of the caufe, re- 
 lating to its being a fly or not, we fliall inform you, 
 that though common credit {peaks the drug a pro- 
 duft of no other part than thofe above-named, yet a 
 Gentleman of our fociety difcover'd on an ifland, 
 fouth oiTenedoSf in the JEgean fea^ a. certain kind of 
 bufli or ftirub, the talleft not exceeding two yards in 
 height, and of breadth proportionable; they bear a 
 Jeaf thick, long and narrow, and a certain cod like 
 thofe of vetches, which contained 4, 6, or 8, more 
 orlefs fmall peas, or, fomcthing like 'em, cover'd o- 
 ver with a hoary kind of downinefs and juicy like 
 the body of a red wall ipider. Looking 
 
The British A p o l l o. 739 
 
 Looking on the ground he found it covered with 
 the fallen produft of a former year, the cods were 
 open, and on taking up the little fruit they bore, he 
 found thun both in talle, form, bignefs, colour and 
 effeft, no other than the Cochinele you fpeak of. Hence 
 the querift may dire<fl his judgment on the fubjeft, 
 as he thinks moll reafonable. 
 
 (^ Dover court, alljpeakirsy and no hearers. Whence 
 the original of the py<yverb? 
 
 A, A learned man propofes a very probable opi- 
 nion, namely, that the proverb took its rife from 
 fome tumultuous court kept at Do^er, where was a 
 confluence of many noify and boifterous feamen, who 
 are generally too ready to encroach upon the wo- 
 mens perogative, and are ufually fo fall of talk as to 
 ieave no room for attention. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, fayfro?n nx}hence arife 
 Thofe fallacies njuhich blind our eyes. 
 Which gi've us hope, each day far more 
 Wejhalltnpy, than e'er before \ 
 Yet thd' ^wefmd itjiill untrue. 
 Our hopes %'oe foolifjly purfue, 
 E'v'n to old age, and then believe 
 In joys, nvhich youth coiCd never give. 
 
 A. We hope, nor are our hopes in vain, 
 Altho* our wifh we don't obtain j 
 Since thefe a relaxation grant 
 To life's vexations, cares and v^ant i 
 And in the midft oi pains give eafe. 
 And in the midft oi troubles pie afe. 
 
 Nor is it vain, to hope for more 
 Succeeding joys, than paft before. 
 Since knoivledge with experience join'd. 
 Yield brighter tranfports to the mind. 
 Than giddy youth, fenfe theie's the fource. 
 Alloy 'd by fcandal2ccA remorfe. 
 
 Hopes by balfamicponjo'r controul 
 ThQ grie/s and anguljh of the foul, 
 promote its energy divine, 
 And make it e'en in darknefs Ihine j 
 
 Su/fain 
 
740 . ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Suftain our pi/gnmagehelov/. 
 
 Support zg^imklYie fatal blonv, 
 
 Withdrctvj the curtains of our night. 
 
 And give us here a gUmpfe o^ future fields of light, 
 
 Q^ I caught afjh (others among) 
 WhcJ'e head luas full five foot long. 
 And his tail ivas f truly J 
 j4s long as his head and half his body. 
 And his body {^'ithout fail) 
 Wasjufi as long as his head and tail. 
 This is my quefiion^ 
 
 Refohe if you can, 
 Ho^j long lias the body 
 And fife's tail then? 
 
 A. Wife Sir, a fifteen -footed difli 
 Exaftly nicks the tail o'th' fifh. 
 Of twenty feet another 
 Contains the body without any pother. 
 
 Q^ Te fons ^Apollo, I often have heard, 
 That your father's you call him, had never a beard. 
 If he hady pray iyiform me hoiv this foolijh fiory 
 Was invented at fiyfi, fince it fullies his glory ? 
 For nxho amongft men, hut is counted as no man, 
 Jf bear die fs he is, and is hifdby the nvomen : 
 If not, honvcoudhe, ivko nx as counted fo nxjife, be 
 Offuch a crime guilty, and be fuch a nizy? 
 
 A. 'Tis a wonder more flrange, how the querifl 
 can dare, 
 The phyz of bright Phoebus with man's to compare : 
 Or fuch praife to that troublefcm part can impute. 
 Which makes its ftern bearer refemble a brute. 
 Were a beard by the God of all fciences worn. 
 It might then the/)^//c/&^Z'frjuflly adorn ; 
 But as foils without it, nor Mercury has it. 
 So it av2,uesphilofi>phum barba nonfacit. 
 
 Q^ Why does a mifi of ten precede an hot day ? 
 
 A. Heat and cold owe their original, not only to 
 the vicinity or diftance of^the fun, but alfo to the 
 various difpofitions of the atraofphere. And this is 
 evident from common experience, fmce in the begin- 
 ning 
 
*The British Apollo. 741 
 
 fling of fummer, we have fometimes hotter weather, 
 than when the fun approaches the northern tropic of 
 Cancer, 
 
 In a morning therefore preceding an hot day, 
 the atmofphere is fo difposM as to receive from the 
 fun fuch a proportionable degree of heat, as is fuffi- 
 cient to exhale fuch a quantity of moiflure, as 
 is enough to compofe a mift. 
 
 But this obfervation is more generally taken, when 
 a fultry day fucceeds to preceding cooler ones. For 
 in cooler weather there is a greater portion of 
 moiflure near the fur face of the earth, for the 
 fun to exhale and elevate. 
 
 Q^ The Brazil fleet brings lOOOO arabs of gold (each 
 crab ^weighs thirty t<TX'o pound) and a great quantity of 
 diamonds, befides their other ufual merchandizes : The 
 fleet is <valued at fifty millions of crufades ; each crufade 
 is njjorth three Jhillings and four fence : I deflre to knono 
 fwhat the nvhole fleet comes to ? 
 
 A. Tho' the queftion be of vulgar operation, and 
 may be folv'd by a very fmall proficient in arithmC' 
 tic ; yet fmce the Brazil fleet is the greateft that ever 
 arriv'd at Portugal (by reafon that the Portuguefe have 
 lately fprang a new mine in thofe parts) and therefore 
 many, who underftand not fo much as multiplication 
 and divifion, may be curious to know the value of fo 
 remarkable a fleet, we think fit to acquaint thequerifl:, 
 that the value amounts to eight millions, three hun- 
 dred and thirty three thoufand, three hundred and 
 thirty three pounds, fix Ihillings and eight pence. 
 
 Q^ Why ijohere the rofemary groius, it is Jaid there 
 the nxoman reigns P 
 
 A. Rofemary is held an extraordinary thing to for- 
 tify the brain, ftrengthen the nerves, and recover loll 
 fpeech, which lall virtue renders it highly valuable 
 amongil the female fex : and fince the woman go- 
 verixis thro* the power of her tongue, it is no wonder 
 fhe takes care to cherifli that herb, that may aiFord 
 her fuch a fovereign aiUllancei in cafe of a failure. 
 
 Q. What 
 
} 
 
 742 TheBKiTi$H Apollo. 
 
 Q^ ffhat particular nutrk may be found up9n dijfeffi' 
 Wy to knonv ivhether the party deceaid dfd by opium ? 
 
 A. A fymptom of that kind we believe is fcarcely 
 difcerHible upon diffedion, becaufe the operation of 
 opium is chiefly upon the animal fpirits } but it is 
 ^flible, that a quantity of it crude taken into the 
 ftomach may inflame and diforder it in a very great 
 meafure : an inftance whereof, Dr. 'Mead in his E£ay 
 on Opium, gives us in a fmall dog, into whofe llo- 
 mach he forc'd about two drachms of it, which firft 
 doz'd him, then threw him into convulfions, and 
 kiird him. Being open'd, the infide of his ftomach 
 was as clean as if fcrap'd, and wafli'd from all flime 
 of the glands, with fome rednefs here and there, as 
 in an incipient inflammation. 
 
 Q^ To you for aid^ all o'er in deep defpair, 
 The nxiounded foul with trembling does appear^ 
 G' er'whehn' d in thought, dijfohv'd in anxious fear. 
 But fovn thofe fears, thofe 'very fears are gone. 
 When at your feet Jhe makes her piteous moan. 
 The daring Atlyeijl trembles, nxihen he reads 
 Your cogent arguments, and ijoith reluSiance pleads , 
 That bright Apollo does his thoughts controul. 
 And checks th'' impetuous fallies of his foul. 
 To you the injur d 'virgin does complain. 
 To ^ou Jhe fues, nor does (he fue in 'vain. 
 Thus your extenf-ve bounty's not confiri'd. 
 To all obliging, and to all you re kind. 
 Enccura^d thus, J trouble your recep. 
 From youy from you it is, 1 Jkek redrefs. 
 Unfold the mffty of this facred text. 
 Which has of late my troubled foul perplext ; 
 To lAjit: the fea fhall * then give up her dead. 
 On 'whom innumerable creatures fed. 
 There in ten thoufand thoufand pieces torn. 
 To 'various parts by different creatures born. 
 Who fjon perhaps to t}> greater kind becomt 
 A prey, and in their bellies find a tomb. 
 
 * Alluding to the rifurre^ionf 
 
 Whilji 
 
The British Apollo. 743 
 
 Whiijl they them/elves within a little /pace, 
 Suhfefvient are fcr food to human race, 
 
 tell me then honu can the deep refigny 
 What Jke nvithin her/elf does not contain ? 
 
 -^.When heav'n's alarmingtrump ihall dreadful found. 
 The trembling rocks fhall into atoms bound. 
 All nature (hall a deep attention lend j 
 Earth, air, and fea their Mafter*s voice commend. 
 Each element their captives fhall reflore. 
 And death (grim monarch) fhall prevail no more: 
 Th' earth fhall obey with emulating ftrife. 
 And mouldring afhes quicken into life. 
 The willing fea difgorge the mangled prey 
 It Ihall enfold on that portentous day. 
 
 Q^ No more delays^ dear youth, my jfelf and charms^ 
 
 1 yield an eajy <vi^im to your arms ; 
 And ntrw innjite you boldly to that ivar, 
 Where only Joft endearments, iveapons art. 
 My fancy does my expeSiafion mo've. 
 
 With hopes of more than bare Platonic love ; 
 ExpeB me then, bright darling of my foul, 
 Weji of that place, 'where fporting billonjos roll. 
 Within the park, thofe pleafant rcyal grooves. 
 Shall be the nmtnefs of our tender hrves ; 
 fuji at that timt, niuhen Jiars of leffer light 
 Vanijh, ajhatt^d at your great father^ s fight ; 
 The morning that fucceeds your next reply, 
 Thither nvitlr joy "jcill Theodora fy. 
 
 A. Myfterious fex, form'd to amufe mankind. 
 Who can the depth of all your riddles find ? 
 Fair THEODORA owns her felf a lo^er. 
 But flill declines the objeft to difcover. 
 One of Apollo's fons, fhe grants the grace. 
 But names not which, of all Apollg?, race. 
 In facred bands of amity theyVe ty'd, 
 Nor wouM infringe the hwt, e'en for a bride. 
 In mutual courtefies dwells their delight. 
 Each cautious to invade another's right j 
 Till Theodora then her fwain reveals, 
 Whiift fhc dulares ohfcurely, fhe conceals. 
 
 CL ^kethsr 
 
744 ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Q. Whether it be laivful to play at cards or noti 
 and ifjt iSf honv muji 'we play without a breach of any 
 of the commandments P 
 
 A. To play at cards is undoubtedly an innocent 
 diverfion, fo it be confin'd within its proper bounda- 
 ries. And therefore cards fliould not claim too great 
 a portion of your time, fhould not get the afcendant 
 of your heart, Ihould not make you greedy of filthy 
 lucre, Ihould not tempt you, either to deceit, or 
 paffion. 
 
 Q^ May fecond coujins marry ? 
 A. Since fecond coufms are not within the prohi- 
 bition fpccified in the i8th chapter of Leviticus, nor 
 in the canon of the Church, which is a tranfcript of 
 tlic faid chapter i and fmce withal they are a fecond 
 remove from the prohibited degrees, we fee no iha- 
 dow of a fcruple, why they may not he joined toge- 
 ther in holy matrimony. * 
 
 Q^ Whence is the nvord parliament derinj'd ? 
 A. The word is of French original, and is deriv'd 
 from the word parlement^ which fignifies difcourf- 
 ing, conferring, or converfing with. And this is 
 again.deriv'd a parler la 7nente^ to fpeak one's mind ; 
 becaufe in conferences we declare our fentiments. 
 
 Q. / am 'very often troubled (nvhen I am, as one may 
 fay^ betiveen feep and awake, ixjhich may properly be 
 called f umbering) nxith a grietvous nv eight by reafon of 
 nvhich I am not able to fiir either hand or foot, and 
 ha've not the power of fpekking \ which when it firfi 
 troubled tney 1 was njery much furpriz^d', but being 
 often ufed to it^ it is not fo frightful. 
 
 A. This diforder of yours is that which is called 
 Incubus, of the Kight Mare, and it is caufed, as fome 
 will have it, by thick, melancholic blood ; but we 
 rather impute it to malignant vapours afcending to 
 the brain, and fo afteding the nerves, as to hinder 
 the influx of the animal fpirits to the heart, and or- 
 gans of refpiration : fo that the motion of the heart, 
 and pneumonic veffels, being hardly performed, the 
 blood is in a manner flagnated, and occafions that 
 
 4 ienfe 
 
ne British Apollo. 745 
 
 fenfe of weight, and other fymptoms abovemen- 
 tioned. 
 
 Q^ What is it that engenders JicCy and 'why fame folks 
 da breed theniy and others are entirely free from them ? 
 
 A. As to the ordinary generation of lice, it is 
 coranaonly imputed to filth and naflinefs, and a cor- 
 rupt moift humour, which is animated by the heat pf 
 the body. But there is another fort of loufinefs, 
 which is purely a difeafe, fo that notwithftanding 
 the patient fhould bath and iliift every hour in the 
 day, yet will thefe vermin abound : and this is fup- 
 pofed to proceed from excrementitious and preter- 
 natural humours, communicated from the blood to 
 the cutisy where breaking out into fmall pullules, 
 the lice are engender'd, and thence extruded. 
 
 Q^ We are con^uinc'd that God is good ; 
 For he doth give us daily food : 
 We knonx) his pleafure is to fa'vCy 
 Becaufe he made his fin a Jlave. 
 And 1VC believe, that true delight 
 Lyes in a n.vorld thaCs out of fight. 
 That if in faith vut quit our breath, 
 We gain immortal life by death. 
 We knon/j likevjife this nJcorWs a cheat, 
 We find its joys fo foon retreat. 
 Nay, at the beji ive do but Jhare 
 Our good, n^ith a ^vexatious care. 
 Then n,vhy fo flovo, fo loth to lea've 
 This earth, that ixje fnay heaven receive^ 
 This paradox, Apollo, pray explain, 
 Ho^lD in one foicl thefe different pajfions reign? 
 
 A. No friends on earth fo clofe are join'd, 
 As human body to the mind. 
 Which fympathize in evVy thing. 
 Together laugh, grieve, figh, or fmg ; 
 Of equal joys in all partake. 
 And fufFer for each other's fake. 
 And is it ilrange, v/hen thefe mull par^. 
 That nature fbock'd ihould give a Hart ? 
 
 Vol. irr. . Kk And 
 
74^ Tl^if Bri T 1 SH Apollo. 
 
 And when thefe ancient, dearefl friends 
 Mull part, for fuch vail difterent ends. 
 Whilil one afcends yon azure Iky, 
 The other 'n earth muft mouldring lye ; 
 And yet a firm and vigorous faith 
 A pow'r fo wondrous llrcngthning hath, 
 That ev'o in this fad parting, *twou'd relieve, 
 Since always 'tis defedive, when we grieve, 
 
 Q^ Te// me, ivh^ hufiifmen, nvhen laid do-wn to Jteep^ 
 Cannot their a6ii<ve minds in /lumber keep } 
 But to the tvoods and ca<ves n.vill take their nvay^ 
 And hunt by night n.vhat they had caught by day ? 
 
 y/.When we to fpecial things our thoughts reftrain^ 
 Thofe thoughts leave obvious traces in the brain. 
 No wonder then the fubtile fpirits greet 
 Thofe parts, where they an open paffage meet. 
 And when they thro' the fame apertures dance. 
 The fame ideas in our fouls advance. 
 : Q^ Behold ! beheld! Apollo, fee, 
 A fuppliant here ixith bended knee^ 
 And hands extended to your Deity ^ 
 Offering up facrifces to your Jhrine, 
 And raijing trophies to ycu mojl di'vine^ 
 In hopes you njoill not nanv my caufe rejeSi^ 
 And on my former troubles once refied : 
 But fatisfy my poor dejefled mind. 
 If in your reapers you can but find 
 A cure, for one ^with pox and gout afliSledi 
 And by mojl ^ivife phxficlans noiv rcjeiied. 
 Left to defpair obtaining of a cure. 
 And forced <uiith patience cruel pains f endure^ 
 JRaging in e'very limb and e^ery part. 
 From head to foot, from hand to heart. 
 ^Tivice ha.'ve I undergone a poix'd''ring courfsj 
 But yet ne'er better, for I fill gro<vj nxorfe. 
 Noijo if you don't extend manum fanantem, 
 /// hang my felf. Tours, Henry Rogantem. 
 
 A. Since powd'ring courfes cannot move your ills> 
 But thefe your ailings fail the dodof i Ikills, 
 
 Your 
 
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the Brit I sh Apollo. 747 
 
 Your own prefcription praftife then, the rope. 
 It cures deipair, and cancels flattering hope. 
 Hempisafovereign balm for ev'ry woe. 
 And what you ought t' have tailed long ago. 
 And tho' 'tis late, yet bttter late than ne-ver. 
 One dofe thereof prevents returns for ever. 
 
 Q^ Whether a foetus that dies at the exp'iratidtt 
 if eight months is fenfible cf a future Jlate^ 
 
 A. Since a foetus is before that time inform'd with 
 an human foul ; that immediate to its expira- 
 tion it is fenfible of a future ftate is what cannot 
 be denied by any, but fuchas difallow of (oh! that 
 there were none, who either by miftake, or preju- 
 dice, would maintain fo dangerous a doftrine) the 
 natural immortality of the foul. 
 
 Q^ Does it not feem probable, that Ovi6. had fome no^ 
 thn of the fcripture, ivhen he fpeaks of 'Dt\JiQ2iY\on' s food, 
 nvhich fcems to allude to the food in Noah'j time ; and 
 Agamemnon'j going to facrifice his daughter, had not 
 Diana internjend, feems to allude toAhv2L]ia.m''sfacrifcing 
 his f on Ifaac, had not the angel happily pre'vented it F 
 
 2. That the heathens in and before O-vicVs time, 
 borrowed many things from thofe oracles of truth, 
 their writings and ufages manifeftly declare. As God 
 in Deuteronomy is callM a confuming fire, fo Huetius 
 is of opinion, that this memorable pafTage gave occa- 
 fion to the Perfian idolatry of adoring fire. The 
 law-givers of the Gentile world evidenced their z6h 
 miration of Mof^s's inilitution, by a tranfcription of 
 feveral of his laws, as may be plainly gathered from 
 the old Attic laws, and the twelve tables of Rome. 
 As for the heathen mythology, which owed its 
 Settlement to the ancient Greek poet, a late learned 
 prelate is of opinion, that it was not borrowed from 
 the Scriptures, but derived from the traditionary ac- 
 counts of thofe occurrences, of which Mofes gives us 
 an hillorical relation. 
 
 But if it be enquired, as it pertinently may, how 
 
 came their mythological accounts, if deriv'd from the 
 
 founCain-head, to differ in fo great a variety of cir- 
 
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748 57;(? British Apollo. 
 
 cumftances from the hiftory of Mofes, to the enquiry 
 we fubjoin the fubfequent particulars, which are 
 more largely handled by the foremen tioned author. 
 
 1 . We cannot but be fenfible of the very great 
 uncertainty confequent to tradition, fince we often 
 exprience, that even a modern tradition does fre- 
 quently reprefent occurrences under a Ilrange diver- 
 fity of material circumftances. 
 
 2. The confufioTi of tongues at the tower of Ba- 
 hel made tradition to become more uncertain and 
 precarious. 
 
 6^, The equivocal word?, fo familiar to the oriental 
 languages, might ftill add to the uncertainty of 
 their diffonant accounts. - 
 
 4. Upon the increafe of idolatry in the world 
 they might accommodate their accounts to their fu- 
 pcrftitious obfervances. 
 
 5. What new traditions they might meet with in 
 their travels into other countries,, they might blend 
 and mingle with the old. 
 
 6. The Greek poets might purpofely make confi- 
 derable alterations, to difguife and cover the tradi- 
 tion, that they might without difcovery of the cheat 
 accommodate the Itory to their own country. 
 
 7. As for the diveriity of names ; in that (as %0' 
 chartus oblerves) they applied the method of the 
 oriental tcmgues to the idiom of the Greeks ; whence 
 their proper names, as deriv'd from appellatives, 
 have the fame fignification in the Greek, as have 
 the fcripture -names in other languages. 
 
 The learned prelate, taken notice of above, thinks, 
 that Noafjs flood and that of Deucalion's are the v^ry 
 fame : and that fince Deucalion was the moft ancient 
 King of Thejfaly^ the 7hejfalians therefore appropriated 
 to him the ancient tradition of Noah\ flood. But 
 fince Deucalion\ flood is fo remarkable an trra in an- 
 cient hiitory ; fmce both profane authors and the 
 chrillian fathers are fo particulir in the ftory, we 
 think ourfelves excufable, tiio' v.e difient from fo 
 great a man. 
 
 Whoever 
 
ne British Apollo. 749 
 
 Whoever reads JpolloJoius's, as well as Ovid^s de- 
 fcrlption of Dsucalionh flood, cannot choofe but 
 fee various applications from the general to the par- 
 tial deluge. Which latter, according to an ancient 
 author, was eight hundred and eighty four years after 
 the former. But as fome carry the epocha lower 
 down, fo others remove it higher. 
 
 What you fay of Iphigenia may perhaps be a no 
 improbable conjedlure. But fmce Jgamemmn and 
 Jeptha are fuppofed contemporaries, fome learned 
 men are of opinion, that the Ilory is derived from 
 thence. 
 
 Q^ ^Vhence nvas the original fafing deri*vedy that a con- 
 tented cuckold gee i to heaven? 
 
 A, Probably from this fuppofuion, that he who 
 can be contented in that condition can be contented 
 in any ftate of life. 
 
 Q^ ^ho' not a ChriJIian, yet my darken'* d breirji 
 Contains ajoul, to generous thoughts incUnd^ 
 
 And for th" aJfijUngfa'vour yoiC<ve exprejiy 
 Accept the tribute of a grateful mind. 
 
 7hefacred Scriptures, you dejire, Td read. 
 And there confult thofe oracles divine ; 
 
 But as ajuji ohjedion, firjl I pie ad ^ 
 What grounds ? nAjhat knoivledgeha'veyou^ that eachlini 
 
 Was by /// Almighty pen" d? "'tis this Vdhnnv^ 
 ^Tis this 'will fix my infant faith fecure ; 
 
 Tour efforts ufc, con'vince me, this isfo 
 By folid reafon, that a God all-pure, 
 
 Whofe throne on yonder azure roof is plac''d, 
 Shou'^d from yon ^jaulted palaces defend 
 
 (There ^with refulgent light in glory grac'd) 
 TinJiruSl mankind, that hefpou'd condefcend 
 
 To me's myjlerious • ■■ 
 
 A. What ? Ihall Go4condefcend a world to make 
 Yet difregard the very world he made ? 
 
 Shall the Creator his own works forfake. 
 And childrffi by their father be betray'd ? 
 
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750 The British ApollO. 
 
 If dazling grandeur does our thoughts furprife. 
 As tho' below his proijickntial fate, 
 
 Yet this will clear our whimfical furmife. 
 He's infinitely good, as well as great. 
 
 Such flagrant miracles the Scriptures prove 
 To owe their rife to the celeflial fpheres. 
 
 That fhort refieflions will our doubts remove, 
 Increafe our wonder, and allay our fears. 
 
 Such awful myfteries themfelves unvail, 
 Difclofe their beauty to th' admiring eye, 
 
 Thus to exclaim the reader cannot fail. 
 Him, him I view, who dwells in yonder fky. 
 
 The certainty of figns "recorded there 
 AttcHing miriads zealoufly proclaim-; 
 
 Nor. will contemporary oppofers dare 
 To call in queflion fo renown'd a fame. 
 
 Begin, ingenuous Indian, to enjoy 
 The raj tares, from thofe facred truths accrue ; 
 
 Trace blooming honours, joys, that never cloy; 
 And blifsful paths of fpotlefs fame purfue. 
 
 Q^ In youthful bloom free from domefik ctxrt 
 Or n,vant penurious^ coy DaphneVyf(Jr« ; 
 My hours in rural Jports revohving pa ft, 
 <yer hill and dale on Sorrel, noble feed, 
 (P leas' d ivith the grateful din of nf:ell-mQUth'' d hounds) 
 The rapid chace undaunted I purfue', 
 SoTnettfnes at break of da<z'jn, o'er icy cruf. 
 With engine fatal to the volant kind, 
 Whofe hlajl fulphureous mounts the ioxvering lead. 
 Checking their flighty precipitant Hxith deaths 
 j^nd 'u: hen your {ixc dots fultty raysdifpence, 
 Ihen unto cooling ftr earns <with luring bait, 
 J do retire the finny herd to take. 
 At hour of dujk, then nxjtth cmipanions boon, 
 Blithfom and jocund, o'er the fparkling glafs. 
 Still mindful of the Golden Mean Ipajl 
 My time in harmlefs chat and repartee ; 
 Or elfe ^ith njirtuous nymphs, in rujlic dance 
 
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i'/??^BR I T I SH A POL LO. 751 
 
 By charming founds injpir'dy the night I 'wafte. 
 Sagacious bards, diiiateyour facred rules 
 To my unji able foul ', ^ajhich may refrain 
 My thoughts, too much to fenfual joys incUn'dy 
 And pleafure to enjoy, as not to taint my mind. 
 
 J. Hail happy bard, who in a ftate retired 
 From all the noxious vices of the town. 
 And anxious cares which prey on human life, ' 
 
 Pafs fmoothly on your blifsful days in peace, 
 (A Hate which monarchs would afpire to tafte.) 
 
 So foft the blandijhments, your hours beguile. 
 And with fo fweet a face of innocence, ^ 
 
 The (harpefl fight they ch.illenge to explore 
 The hidden tracks, which may infed the foul. 
 Be vigilant then, on your guard, to know. 
 How they deprefs your virtJe, or exalt. 
 If they refrefh or more afFed your mind ; 
 If they're your end, or but fubordinate 
 To purpofe more fublime ; if at the<:reatare 
 You flop not, but thro' all the various turns 
 Occur, you make your ultimate fole end 
 The great Gfeator's dignity and praife. 
 Then in an heav'n on earth you'll pafs your happy 
 days. 
 
 Q^ Honx} long muf Theodora y«^ in ^vain, 
 E'erfhc her lonjely charmer can obtain ? 
 H01.V long her bitter plaints andflghs rehear fe. 
 Tell o'*er and o'er her moounds in humble 'verfe ? 
 Jimidf the glorious youths that daxhng fhine ^ 
 In your bright fynod, in your royal line. 
 My tim'rous quill does nvillingly impart, 
 IVhich has my love, ^hich has my abfent heart. 
 ^Tis he, nf:ho nvithf^weet numbers long hath charm' d, 
 And no^ of all its forxe my foul difarm' d . 
 'Tis he, nvho ^writes fo hea-v'nly, fo divine ^ 
 Conveying fecret njuounds by ev^y line, 
 Whofe nervous 'verfe, and lofty 'vigorous flights, 
 Ra'vifh each liffning maid ^with pure delights: 
 
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752 51?^ British Apollo. 
 
 IVho iviliiTJg prisoners makes the beauteous nine, 
 WhiJjl ethers arms thtyfcornfully decline. 
 Tofet in cleareji light the doubt, V/j he, 
 Wbofe province it hasheen^ to treat 'votihrne. 
 
 A. So foft, fo fvveet, your charming numbers flow. 
 So bright a foul their tuneful author Ihow; 
 Whilft Theodora by thefe powerful arts 
 AfTauks, o'ercomes and captivates oar hearts ; 
 Enough to fhake our undivided ftate, 
 Were not our amity confirm'd by fate. 
 The glorious prize each claiming to bdlcjrig 
 To fecret merits of his happy fong ; 
 Whilit we alternately our force rejoin, 
 J^mbitious in your favours All tolhine. 
 Since each then to that province hath afpirM, 
 And each with hopes of fair fuccefs is fir'd j 
 "Which is the happy fvvain, we all fubmit 
 To the unerring umpire of your wit, 
 
 Q^ In the 20th chapter cf St. John and the 1 7th 
 verfe, ye/us faith unto her, viz. Mary Magdalen,, touch 
 Pie not; for I am not yet a fc ended to my Father, Sec. And 
 yet in the 28th of St. Matthew and 9th verfe, it's/aid^ 
 And they came and held him by the feet and wor- 
 fhipped him ; and in the 24th chapter of St. Luke ;VV 
 to the fame purpofe, viz. And the fame day at evenings 
 Jefus focd in the midfl of them, and fays. Behold my 
 hands and my feet, for it is I my felf ; handle me and 
 fee, ^'f . Ai-w I defire your opinion nvhether Chrif ehd af 
 cend, or no, before he made his public afcenfiou t 
 
 A. That Chrifl did not after his refurreftion 
 afcend into heaven before his public afcenfion, is 
 what all expofitors are agreed in ; and therefore the 
 difnculty lyes in the expofition of thofe memorable 
 words. Touch tne not, for lam not yet afcended to my Fa- 
 ther. And as this paflage has tortured expofitors, and 
 therefore put them upon variety of interpretations, fo 
 we beg leave to propofe what feems to us to bid the 
 fairell for the genuine fenfe. But we would firft cb- 
 ferve, that what we tranflate, touch, fjgnifies alfo to 
 detain or hold hik. And therefore our Saviour docs 
 
 not 
 
the Bri T iSH Apollo. 755 
 
 not forbid her to touch him for the proof of his real 
 humanity, but as fhe may be fuppos'd out of her ardent 
 love (for our Lord himfelf affures us, that (he io'vcd 
 much) to have detained him longer than he thought 
 convenient, fo he alfo may be naturally fuppofed to 
 have rellrain'd her unfeafonable love in the foremen- 
 tion'd words, which we would thus paraphraftically 
 expound. " Detain me not, Matyt from the bufme^ 
 " ivkich my Father fent me to do : For I am not yet af~ 
 " cended to my Father ; I have not yet difcharged my 
 ** mediatorial office, an office necefTarily confequent 
 " to that expiatory facrifice I ofFer'd upon the crofs. 
 ** Since therefore I have fo great, fo important an 
 ** employment upon my hands, interrupt me not with 
 " your no'vo impertinent embraces, but fuffer me to 
 " make needful preparations for fo vaft, fo moment- 
 -" ous an affair. Suifer me to confirm my melancho- 
 ** ly difciples, my defponding brethren, in the grand 
 " article of my refurrc6lion from the dead. Suffer me 
 ** to Jbe=w my felf ali^je unto them, by many infallthle 
 ** proofs to he feen of them forty days, to fpeak of the 
 ** thingi pertaining to the kingdom of God. Suffer me 
 ** to difcharge this weighty bufmefs upon earth, that 
 ** I may be ready to afcend up on high, to lead capti'vi- 
 ** ty capiive, to fit do-ivn on tf^ right hand of God, to 
 ** make intercejpon for the fins of the people, to recei've 
 ** Sif^^ fi^ ^^"* ^^^* *^^ ^o^'d God may dxvell among 
 ** them. And when I have performed all this, when 
 ** / am afcended to my Father, then I Ihall be ready to 
 ** receive you at your diflblution : you and every o- 
 ** ther departing faint, into my everlafting embraces, 
 " my eternal arms. Then I ihall no longer fay, De- 
 ** tain me not, 
 
 Qj^ Is there any charm, incantation, or medicine in na^ 
 ture JO poijuerful, as to be able to force the appearance 
 ef any fpirit, damon, or apparition of a deceafed per* 
 Jin? 
 
 A» We cannot vhink it, for two rcafons* 
 
 1:^.-. 
 
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754 f/^^ British Apollo. 
 
 1 . V/e cannot conceive, that matter, without the 
 Biediation of a vital union, can operate upon an im- 
 material fubflance, unlefs by the intervention of an 
 almighty agency. 
 
 2. If matter, while within moderate degrees of 
 vicinity, could influence a fpiritual fubflance, yet the 
 unknown diftance of feparate fouls would naturally 
 prevent the application. 
 
 Q;^ la the fens near Thorney in Northamptonfhire, 
 1 ha've feen oak trees of a black colour, that have been 
 taken out of the ground about t^wofoot deep,, and twelve 
 or fourteen foot in length. I dejireyour opinion^ ^whether 
 they ivere there biiriedy or of natural groivth, by reafon 
 all the ^winter the ground is cohered 'with mooter , nor are 
 there any trees grooving ivithin three miles of the place* 
 Iha've heard ayh of the like in Chefhire. 
 
 ji. It is thought by fomc, that thofe trees which- 
 are found laid down fo deep in the earth, have been 
 there ever fince the flood, and that having at that 
 time been rooted up, and carried to and fro by the 
 violence of the water, they were left in feveral places 
 where no trees grow, and remained covered by the 
 loofe earth or mud, which by degrees fettled from the 
 waters, as they did either evaporate or retire into 
 their channels. That is the moll probable account that 
 can be given of thofe who lye pretty deep, and are of 
 a confiderable bignefs: but as for thofe you mention, 
 perhaps it may not be neceflfary to have reco«rfe to 
 that general inundation of the earth, but only to fome 
 particular one. 
 
 Q. Honju do you frorve that there are antipodes ? 
 
 A. On fuppofition that the earth is globular, if a 
 Urait line b« drawn from any part of the fuperficies, 
 and extended quite thro' the globe, fo as to pene- 
 trate the centre, they who inhabit the two extremi- 
 ties of the forefaid line are callM antipodes : and 
 therefore the folution of the queftion depends upon 
 ths proof that the earth is globular, and this ts prov'd 
 by tx:e foUov/ing arguments. 
 
 I. The 
 
The l^KiTi^w. Apol Lo. 755 
 
 1 . The fun rifes fooner to the eaftern, than to the 
 wellern inhabitants of the earth. And pilot?, who 
 fail fouthward, view fuch Itars above their horizon, as 
 were before below it, and obferve the fame liars to ap- 
 proach nearer to the zenith, in proportion to the dif- 
 ferent degrees of latitude they advance to. But nei- 
 ther of thefe two phasnomena's, deducible from the 
 longitude and latitude of places, could be admitted as 
 matter of fadl, unlefs the figure of the earth were 
 fpherical. 
 
 2. When the earth comes between the fun and any 
 part of the moon, it calls upon the moon a conic 
 ihadow : and optics alTure us, that if any folid body 
 call a conic (hadow upon a fpherical body, that folid 
 body is alfo fpherical. 
 
 3. Our Europeans have feveral times fet fail from 
 Europe y and gone diredly weft-fouth to the Magellanic 
 fea, and thence weft- north, till they have returned in- 
 to Europe from the eaft, and have obferv'd all the 
 fame phaenomena, which naturally refult from the 
 property of a fphere. 
 
 4. When we travel a diflance from a mountain, 
 where our profped is no ways bounded, firft the 
 lower, and then gradually the upper parts of the 
 mountain vanifh from our fight. And when we ap- 
 proach the mountain again, we may obferve a re- 
 verted fcene. And this appearance or difappearance 
 of the feveral parts of the mountain holds an accu- 
 rate proportion to the fpherical tumour of the earth. 
 
 And mdecd there are a great number of appearan- 
 ces obfervM by both geographers and aftronomers, 
 that cannot be otherwife accounted for, than by the 
 fpherical figure of the earth. 
 
 Q;^ When in a dumpijh humour^ as I fat, 
 The time unto my fancy adequate ; 
 My mindy my thoughtjul mind ivas njchylly bent 
 On you, and on the quejlivn I ha-vefent, 
 fojhhe the ivhich, Itinirom crwve your aid, 
 ^et to implore Jo Trmch 1 am afraid, 
 
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y^6 The British Apoll©, 
 
 heji ycupro'vokt, difplayyour dreadful ire^ 
 
 £y fending forth your rod^ and not your lyre : 
 
 Be therefore pleased to knonM, niivait ivitk pleafure. 
 
 For your foluticn at your great eji leifure. 
 
 For njchat I *very fain ivou^d underjland 
 
 Jsy tvhen by the divine, almighty hand 
 
 Were angels made? 
 
 J. D* you ask, when angels into being rofe ? 
 'Tis what an angel can alone difclofe. 
 Thofe elder brothers made a tuneful choir. 
 E'er Adam was inform'd with heav'nly fire. 
 Bat whether they were in their infant Hate, 
 When the Creator did the world create ; 
 Or whether crownM with a maturer age. 
 When devils vented their infernal rage j 
 The facrcd penmen no difclofures make : 
 .And if they're y?/?«/, who fhall dare to fpeak? 
 
 Q^ Is it a Jtn to fnxear by the name of God in a true 
 things for methinks the commandment only forbids to f'wear 
 in njain ? 
 
 A. God's name is taken in 'vain by a twofold per- 
 son ; by the falfe^ and by the common fwearer : The 
 one hlafphemes his Maker's honour, the other fports 
 with it : And therefore both unhappily forget that 
 holy and reverend is his name. 
 
 But what, iho' the commandment had not forbid 
 <:uftomary fwearing ? Is it not fufficient, that your 
 Saviour has forbid it, forbid it in a full, in an expref- 
 five manner? Svcear not at all ; but let your communi- 
 <ation he yea, yea ; nay, nay : For ixhatfoever is more 
 than thefe ccmeth of evil. 
 
 Q. iVhy ive can from Greenwich at high ivafer 
 plainly difcern the cattle feeding in the Ifle of dogs, 
 and not at love vcater, alt ho' vje and they are in the fame 
 phce P 
 
 A. Becaufe at that time the water is high enough 
 to receive the light, reflefted from the cattle, in fuch 
 a manner, as that the fame light entring a grofTer 
 medium, and therefore deflefting farther from a per- 
 pendicular, may by fuch a defk^^ion elevate the ob- 
 
 jeftj 
 
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 Jefts to fuch an height, as to make them become vi- 
 iible to tkofe at Greenivich. 
 
 Q^ Hoiv lovg this kingdom hath retain" d the name of 
 England ; nuhen and by ixjhom it received that title ? 
 
 A. Egbert { fon of Alcmond) one of the Kings of 
 the Saxon Heptarchy, and 1 8^** King of the Weji-Saxons, 
 by his warlike atchievements (for he was one of the 
 famous heroes of the age) conquered the other fix 
 Kings, and reduc'd their dominions under his obedi- 
 ence. Whereupon in the year 819. he was crown'd 
 at Winchejler fole monarch of South-Britain ^ under the 
 new title of England, which he eflablifht by royal 
 proclamation, as derivM from his anceftors, the Angles, 
 who aflilled the Saxons in the conqueft of this coun- 
 try. 
 
 Q^I dejireyour opinion , nvhy lighted coals are red, and 
 the flames of a different colour ? 
 
 A. As according to the incomparable Sir Ifaac Ne^v 
 ton, all colours have their exillence in the rays of 
 light, fo objeds are of different colours, according as 
 their particles -are difpos'd to fwallow up fome, and 
 refleft ether of the difform rays. As therefore the 
 particles of ihe flame are differently modified from 
 the particles of the fiery coals, fo the particular mo- 
 dification of the latter renders them capable of refleft- 
 ing principally thofe rays that are endued with a red 
 colour, whereas the modification of the former dif- 
 pofes them to the reflexion of all, or almofl all forts 
 of ray?, from which variety of mixture the colour of 
 tV.e flame arife?. 
 
 Qj_ I hanje often taken up a firefick in my hand, ajid 
 turned it f^Txiftly about ; fo that there feems a circle of 
 fire, tho' the f re is but in one place at a time. 
 ' A. The phaenomenon proceeds from no other caufe 
 than the fucceffive motion of the fiery particles, which 
 by its difproportion'd fwiftnefs fo eludes the optic 
 nerves, as that they are not able to reprefent the in- 
 tervals. 
 
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75^ ^/^^ Br iTi SH Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Our youthful Jparksy and fuch are term'd theviits. 
 Nay, and fine Gentlemen, (but h<yw this Jits 
 Their genius, 'vcife Apollo tnuji ad<vife, 
 Whofe fame fo great, all others nve defpife) 
 In their brisk fallies, fatyrize, lampoon ^ 
 The fairer fex, and as a grofs buffoon 
 A marry'd man expofe, nor will believe 
 That matrimony any joys can give ; 
 Yokes, halters, pillories are their frequent jeft. 
 By ivhich their parts are ivond^roujly expreji : 
 i^onx) tell us ivhether this true gentry >i?'ow/. 
 Or wit fublime, or ^whence the error flonjos ? 
 
 A. Far is't ixom. gentry, fince the beji bred men 
 Efteem the fex the nobkji gift of heav'n ; 
 The neareft to the glorious forms above, 
 FramM to exalt the extacy of love ; 
 To crown with utmoil blifs our wifhes, while 
 They raife our joys to raptures with a fmile. 
 
 Much lefs is nuit in thofe poor thoughts main* 
 tain'd. 
 It rather fhews, that to the dregs *tis drain'd i 
 Since all they prate, is only what before, 
 A thoufand times has been repeated o*er ; 
 They fancy that x)\t\x fovereigns they are. 
 And have prerogative t' infult the fair ; 
 Bafe, abjed thoughts, which nobler brutes rejeifl. 
 Ought they not, if they'd ^c<i^^r« to proteSl ? 
 Much lefs with hateful cowardice pretend. 
 To triumph over thofe, unarmed to contend. 
 
 Their fenfelefs palate, through a vicious life. 
 Gives them no talte i'th' bleflings of a nvife ; 
 Whilfl (as it is the cuitom of a fool) 
 What they can't comprekendy they ridicule. 
 
 jy ye hear ApolloV fins! 
 Q. Kine taylors go to make « man. 
 As you did Jeem to prove, 
 ^faying that a lujiy maid. 
 Who met eight nair a grove ; 
 
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 And Jheioing them a black-pudding 
 
 Did fright them dreadfully ^ 
 Who thinking that it nvas a gun 
 
 Did lofe their coin thereby. 
 Now /, *who am a taylor flrongj 
 
 And 'will defend the caufe. 
 Will fight njoith any tivo of you 
 
 At either fword or paws. 
 ^ Caufe you fuch fcandaU raife on us, 
 
 MethinkSf "'tis njery hard — O ; 
 If you nuillmeet betiueen both parks 
 
 The tvaliant]QvC^z.n. Pardee. 
 A. Thou threat* ning ninth, of temper odJ, 
 
 Whofe manhood none believe ; 
 Who laugh'ft, when all the nation mourns. 
 
 And when that's o'er viWtgrie've. 
 flujh^d on our griefs, like cronjjs on corps j 
 
 Thou woud'il extend \\iy fpan. 
 And fancy tnvel've pence more a day, 
 
 Will build thee up to man. 
 
 March to the parks, a dwarf black guard, 
 (Thy match) fhall meet thee nimble, 
 
 Thrafh thy lank hide^ although thou'rt arm'"d 
 With needle, yard and thimble. 
 
 To a young Lady complaining that the SipmnttJ^e play'^d 
 upon and Jung to nuas out of Tune. 
 
 STill you complain, and ftill my foul 
 Is fweetly beckon d to your found. 
 About my lifted fancy -phantoms roll. 
 
 My thoughts mfaity circles dance around. 
 Each piercing Jiroke your nimble fingers g?ve. 
 
 Not on\y pleafes but dilates my mind, 
 I fwell, methinks, beyond myfelf, and leave 
 . The iajie oi frail mortality behind. 
 My beating heart of hea'v^nly force poffefi, 
 
 inocks loudly at my eat-thl^ breafi. 
 
760 The British Apollo. 
 
 Fain would be gone, but knows not where ; 
 
 For when elated into air, 
 
 1'he found IS loji^ which fummon'd it away, 
 
 7hen all impatient of delay 
 
 The raptur'd fugitive is donjcnwuards fung, "> 
 
 Clings to your infrument, tho' loofely Itrung, S- 
 
 And hangs upon the mufick of your tongue, ]> 
 
 Still you complain^ flill l0--ve infpire. 
 Like men, who live in an inferred air, 
 I gape for breathy but ftrait admit defpair. 
 Each tuneful accent, arm'd with pointed pain, 
 Kaifes the \iQ\x^^t{i fury of defre^ 
 Which your harmonious charms can never lay again. 
 Ah cruel fair, too late, alas ! I fee. 
 
 The needlefs firatagem of your difdain. 
 You might with open force have conquer'd ms^ 
 
 For all reffiance had been njain. 
 But, ah! you adl like fomc dehfi've foiy 
 
 Who does ^ fecming ignorance difplay ; 
 A whiU with auknvard gejiures waits each bIow> 
 
 Jndy^ixh a rujlyf^joord difputes the day. 
 Till his unnjoary enemy amaz'd 
 
 To find a fudden change in his alarms. 
 So long furprix'd has on the wonder gaz'd. 
 
 That wanting Ikill to fght he throws away hfs 
 arms, 
 
 Q^ Could our frf parents Adam and Eve hanje ftnned, 
 had not the dt-vil tempted them ? 
 
 J. Our lirft parents perhaps might never have tranf- 
 grefs'd, had they not been tempted : But that they 
 CQiid have fm'd, or that it was pojjlble for them to 
 have fin'd, may be readily colleded, in that they 
 were created with a freedom of election (for other- 
 wife they cou'd not have been tempted to fm) and 
 in that he, who tempted them, was once a Seraph, 
 and yet vcntur'd upon fm without a tempter. 
 
 Q^ We read in Rom. V. 14. That death reigned 
 
 ffoiu ^dam to Mofes, even over them that had not 
 
 - ^ fm'd 
 
TbeBK 1 TisH Apollo. 761 
 
 iliiM after the fimilitude of Adarn^ tranfgreffion. 
 Nonfjjince thofe Anie-Mofaks could not 'violate the after- 
 iatu of MoCqs, IV hie h denounced death to its tranfgrejfors^ 
 nor yet nx: ere guilty of finning after theJimilitudeofAddiYlCs 
 trtinsgrejficn, hofix came death to reign o'ver them? 
 
 A. The very fame Apoftle in the immediately fuc- 
 ceeding verfe intimates the reafon in an hypothetical 
 fentence, if thro" the offence of one many he dead, Adam 
 by his difobedience to a poiitive law (and therefore 
 to difobey a pofitive law is X.ofin after the fimilitude 
 o/'AdamV tranfgrejjion) intailed the heritage of death, 
 upon his whole poilerity. 
 
 Q;_ 'Tis faid in the 27 th verfe, of the fir fi chapter of 
 Genefis, that God created man in his own image, in 
 the image of God created he him. And in the latter 
 fart ofthefaidvtde, 'tis faid again, male and female 
 created he them. 
 
 A. The word ?nan, in the paflage alledged, couches 
 a fpecies under an individual, and therefore imports 
 mankind. For at that time Adam and E've composed 
 the whole fpecies. And therefore him agrees with 
 tKan, the word couching ; them with mankind, the 
 word couch t. 
 
 Q. Whether thofe that Jhall he extant at the day of., 
 judgment Jhall fuffer death, or any change in their hq- 
 dies, but receive their hlifs or wooe •voithout any alteration ; 
 and ^whether thofe that fisall b£ raifed fi^all he in all 
 things like unto them? 
 
 A. To both the queftions we reply from no lefs a 
 perfon than St. Paul; Behold Ifi^enju you a myfiery, lue 
 jhall not all feep, hut ijoe fo all all be changed in a mO' 
 ment, in the tivinkling of an eye^ at the lafi trump (for 
 the trumpet fl^all found, and the dead Jhall be raijed in^ 
 corruptible, and <^^:e Jhall be chemged) For this corruptible 
 mufi put on incorruption, and this mortal mufi put on im- 
 mortality, I Cor. XV. 51, 52, 53. From which me- 
 morable paffage it evidently appears, that the dead 
 Ihall be raifed, and the living changed into the very 
 fame fimilitude, into an incorruptible, an immortal 
 ilate. Tar Chrifi Jhall change our *vile body (whether 
 
 dead 
 
ySz The BritishApollo. 
 
 dead or living) /hat it mqy he like unto his glorious hodyy 
 according to the nvorking ivherehy he is able tofubdue all 
 things unto himfelf. But if we enquire into the more 
 particular fimilitude of Chrift's glorious body, and 
 confequently of our own future bodies, St. John giveJ 
 tos a full, tho' a negative reply to fuch an enquiry ; 
 // doth not yet appear tihat <v:e Jhall he : hut nve kno<Wy 
 that nvhen he Jhall appear , ive Jhall he like him : for ive 
 Jhall fee him as he is. And O ! that our pra<^ice were 
 agreeable to our curiofity, that we were willing to 
 obfer\'e the inference deduced from hence by this di- 
 vine Apoftle ; E'very man that hath this hope in him 
 (the joyful hope, the ravifliing expedlation of being 
 like the bleffed Jefus at his great appearance) purifeth 
 himfelfy foen as he is pure. 
 
 Q^ Why the trade-vAnd in the Weft-Indies alivayi 
 hloTMs nx'iihin one quarter of the compafs, at all timei 
 of the year ? 
 
 A. As winds are diftinguifl-.ed into conftant *nd in- 
 conftant, general and particular, fo the wind ydU fpealt 
 of is both conftant and general. And becaufe it is 
 general, that is, blows in many places from the fame 
 point over a lar^e quantity of the globe, it is there* 
 fore called a trade-wind. It is an eaft-wind, and blows 
 in the atlantic, ethiopic and pacific feas. It is 
 Jeaft variable in the latter, fince fea-men can fail from 
 Jquapulco in nevo Spain to the Philippine ijlands (a voyage 
 of 1650 leagues) in 60 days, without any occaliort 
 to fhift their fails. This wind is obfervable, not only 
 within the tropics, but even to the 30th degree of 
 latitude on each fide of the equator. 
 
 Some have attributed this wind to the daily rota- 
 tion of the earth, which as it moves eaftward, fo it 
 leaves the air, which is a fluid behind it, whence it 
 blows weftward with refpeft to the fuperficies of the 
 earth. And this folution receives fome countenance 
 from that other phasnomenon of the eaft-wind, namelyj 
 that it is converfant near the equator, and under fuch 
 parallels, where the circles defcribed are the largeft, 
 and confequently the rotation of the earth the greateft. 
 
 But 
 
The Britiip Apollo. 763 
 
 But the Copernicans, in defenfe of their modern (y- 
 ftem ofaftronomy, have clearly overthrown this plau- 
 Tible folution. For (as they well obferve) fmce the 
 air gravitates towards the earth, and adheres to.it, it 
 is naturally carried round with the fame motion. 
 
 Cartejius draws the phaenomenon from the influ- 
 ence of the moon. But fmce his folution depends 
 upon feveral phyfical hypothefes, and is withal re- 
 jected by Varenius^ it is enough to have barely men- 
 tion'd it. 
 
 But the bell and indeed true folution is taken from 
 the fun. For as the courfe of the fun is weftward, 
 and as the air is moll rarified under the fun's meri- 
 dian, fo it follows from the neceffary laws of Ita- 
 lics, that the air which is more condenfed, readily 
 flows to that which is more rarified, in order to 
 prefervc an equal balance. Whence the air which is 
 not at a greater diftance than is mentioned above, from 
 a vertical fun, naturally follows the courfe of the fun. 
 But fmce the fun, as it paflTes the ecliptic, goes north- 
 ward and fouthward, it follows, that to thofe who 
 live under the line, the forefaid wind is fometimes 
 full eafl, fometimes eaft-north, and fometimes caft- 
 fouth ; and that to thofe, who live in the temperate 
 Zones, it is fometimes full eaft, namely, when the 
 declenfion of the fun is too fmall'to make a diife- 
 rence; at other times to the northern failors it is 
 eaft-fouth, to the fouthefn eaft-north. 
 
 Q^ Pra^ explain the meaning of the Esiton dijlich? 
 
 A. The ftory is reported of a butcher, who with 
 4he fame knife he kilVd a weather, accidentally flew 
 one of his fons, who was unhappily too near the 
 weather, hn immoderate concern for fojunlucky a 
 mifchance tempted the father to hang himfelf. The 
 other fon was unfortunately drownM, and the mother 
 was fo fenfibly aiFedled with the tragical misfortunes 
 of her family, as to expire with grief. 
 
 Q. W}}y a candle the fiame being put out, Jhouldfend 
 forth fuch an odious /me II i ^whereas flamingo it is not in 
 iheleafl offenfive? 
 
 A, That 
 
! 
 
 764 31?^ B R 1 TjS H Apollo. 
 
 J. That ofFenfive fin ell proceeds from a fcetid ful- 
 phur, whofe particles, whilH the candle flames fwiftly 
 riy away, conjoined together as it were in a torrent, 
 whereby the ill favour is prevented : but when the 
 flame is put out, thofe fulphureous particles are fepa^- ^ 
 rated and retarded, and through their fluggifh flight 1 
 we become more fcnfible of that ungrateful fmell. ^ 
 
 Q^ To n>:hat -fonJUtution is tea beneficial^ and to 'what 
 injurious ? 
 
 J. By tea, we underftand you, green tea, which 
 moderately heats and dries, opens, refolves, and at- 
 tenuates, is diuretic and anodyne : takes away pains 
 of the head, is good in difficulties of breathing, and 
 eafes griping in the bowels : Contemperates the blood 
 and humours, and is fuppofed to expell fleep, by re- 
 prefTmg or refolving the vapours that afcend to the 
 head : and fo corroborates the brain as to enable it 
 to be without fleep M,'hole nights without injury : and 
 is chiefly beneficial to cold and moift conllitutions. 
 
 Q^ TTe /acred fageSy nvho ii'ith lajs di'vine^ 
 To fol<veour doubts and pleafe the tonxin combine ^ 
 Who by your fvsondrous ponjf r of'verfe can heal 
 Our bleeding nvoundsy ah! condefcend to tell, 
 H01V a moji tor etched nvoman may regain 
 That peace y ichich nonju alas ! Jhefeeks in vain ? 
 I lov'd a youth by nature form" d to pleafe. 
 Adorn" d nx)ith e'very art to gain accefs 
 To a fond 'womati s hearty nvho thought herfelfundoni 
 Tillfhe coudf.xthe nvondrous youth her onvn. 
 Venus propitious to my nvijhes pro'vdy 
 And <vjhilji Iflgh^dfor himy he o^rid he lonJ^d. 
 Spring-tides of pie a fur c did my hreaf invade. 
 When he in monjing founds his flame betrafd, 
 'For he njoasallmyjoysy and I lis chamber-maid. 
 But oh ! nvhat nvordsy nvhat accent sfhall 1 chufe 
 What God fhalll inn)okey njohat f acred mufe. 
 To paint the reffit for A polio V eye, 
 Whilfi covfcious blufhes of thedeepef dye 
 Iiflavie my checks^ and damp my rifingjoy ? 
 
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 Far 
 
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 ^he British Apollo. 765 
 
 For ah! the hlackeft guilt my pencil guides ^ 
 Jnd Jure no deity o'er broken 'Voivs prejides. 
 This dear, this lo'vely youth I hwve betray d^ 
 And fatally another man my hujhand made. 
 IXi'uine Apollo, if your art can Jheiv 
 What recompence to injur'' d love 1 o<we. 
 Let a defpairing moretch the fecret knowo. 
 ' A. Can fuch delinquents afk an aid divine > 
 Can fuch unhallow'd hands approach our fhrine ? 
 Can thence fuch criminals a pardon gain. 
 Where juftice ^flovvs, and wifdom's di<5lates reign ? 
 Not Helen's, crime a deeper tindure gave, 
 Whofe faithlefs flight procur'd old Troy a grave. 
 Scarce Danaus off-fprings adled greater ill, 
 When each her Lord did at their nuptials kill. 
 Nor could vindidive heaven tl^^ guilt forgive. 
 Or let fuch finners unrewarded live. 
 Religion shy ^ocntfs^ andthofeof lo^e^ 
 Could never merit favours from above ; 
 Go then, perfidious wretch, remain diflrcft. 
 And feel the torcures of a perjured breail. 
 Let youthful phantoms ever plague thy fight, 
 And loll enjoyments rack thee day and night. 
 Let former billet-deux frelh woes prepare. 
 And every line a dread indiftment bear ; 
 Let pall defaults thy future blifs deftroy, 
 And long regret prevent all accidental joy. 
 Q^ Sons of the Delian God, / pray allot, 
 The caufe <why Jharpefl 'u-vV pro'ves greatefl fot P 
 
 A. Such think their wit will never let them wanf, 
 And thence th' ingenious prove extravagant. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, Tm a plump ajzd jolly bronvn njuench, 
 Lonje mirth, ivhen on leivdnefs it does not intrench : 
 Tm courted by one is fo lean ^ou nvoudfnvear. 
 That nvith fle/h and blood he at enmity njoere ; 
 A mere bag of bones from his feet to his croivn. 
 And his fkin fits upon ''em like a loofe morni?ig gonvn ; 
 No-iv fay to ivhat ufe can I put this feat creature^ 
 Excepting to look on^ and laugh my felf fatter ? 
 
 A. He 
 
^65 ^^ British Apollo. 
 
 A. He may be for moral inflru£lion and ufe. 
 Which on both accounts may your liking induce $ 
 If the ancients a Jkull plac'd each day on the table, 
 To mind them of death, and that life was unfiable, 
 A futleton is more txpr^ifva, your fight 
 It not only takes> but you feel it at night. 
 Of ule in your gardens ^ he like wife may be. 
 For his clattering bones, when thcyVe hang'd on a 
 
 tree. 
 May frighten the birds beyond maukin or fnapper. 
 This caution alone you mull take, that your clapper 
 Inform him no fecret, for fear he*s fo thin 
 That people niay read it quite tliroagh hi? (kin. 
 
 Q^ Ye ijoife and mofi delightful too^ 
 
 ril fpend this 'voice in cries. 
 
 In tears PlI <vjajie thefe eyes, 
 JJnlefs I am relie'vd by you. 
 J love, hut dare n't let it be knoivn, 
 . Who can like me complain. 
 
 To lo've and lo^je in aiain f 
 My love « kind of dream is groivn. 
 Fear, anger, hope, gi-ve all your aid, 
 
 This tyrant dri<ve from me ; 
 
 If your fociety 
 Can ddt, for you my pray'rs are made ? 
 J. Obferve well all 'the fwains you fee. 
 
 Perhaps you foon will find. 
 
 For fhape, for face, for mind, 
 A nobler iwain, by far than he. 
 
 Thus you your flame may fmother> 
 
 If ev'ry grace and air, 
 
 You 'mpartially compare^ 
 And by one heat, dri've out another. 
 
 Q^ In the bible njoe meet ivith this exprejton, wiiie 
 that cheareth the heart of God and men : Pray^ 
 honu can nvine chear the heart of God ? 
 
 A. Princes andmagiftratesare ilyled Gods infcrip- 
 ture, agreeabk to that paflage in the P^almift, Ifai^ 
 
 )* 
 
 i 
 
^beBKiTtsn ApoLto. 767 
 
 ye are Gods, and ye are all the children of the mojl High : 
 And to this very paffage our Saviour has recourfe : Is 
 it net nvritten in your law, I /aid ye are Godi? 
 
 Q. The prophet Ezekiel, chap. i. gi^es us an account 
 ^ a Hjtjion of four li<ving creatures. They had the like- 
 nefs of a man, 'ver. 5. As for the likenefs of theil? 
 faces, they four had the face of a man^ and the face 
 cf a lion on the right fide, and they four had the face 
 of an ox on the left fide ; they four had alfo the face 
 pf an eagle, 'uer. 10* There were alfo four wheels 
 of one likenefs, and their appearance and their work 
 was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel, 
 i^er. 16. This'vijion is acknouoledg'd to be a type of the 
 E'vangelijls, and the fubjeSis they nvrite upon agreeable 
 hereunto. %he man's face is applied to St. Ma.tthie\v, the 
 lion to St^ Mark, the ox to St. Luke, and the eagle to 
 St. John. yfW the reafon is obnjious, that thefymhols are 
 adapted to them, not only from the beginning, but alfo 
 
 from the <vohole tenour of their Gofpels. 7hus St. Matthew 
 begins avith his manhood, deri^oing his pedigree from 
 Abraham. St. Mark acknovo ledges him a king, typiffdby 
 the lion of Juda, Gen. xlix. ven 9, i o. fuda is a lion^s 
 whelp, ifSc. The fceptre fhall not depart from Juda^ 
 
 , nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh 
 come i and unto him fliall the gathering of the people 
 be. And accordingly he begins <vjith this glorious king^s 
 harbinger, his Kri^v^ or ayyth'^, nxjho lion-like cries ouf 
 'ErotfAaVaTe T15V olav, &C. and thro' the nvhole does inform 
 
 ' us, that that man <who can do fo great miracles mujl be 
 more than a mere man, (Lord of all) and fo concludes his 
 Go/pel ixith Chrifs afcenjion. St. Luke begins njuith hif 
 priejlhood, and therefore is typify d by an ox or calf, the 
 principal of their facrifices. But above all. St. John 
 foars high, ^^d luith an eagle's fight piercing the clouds, 
 not only reaches his foul, but e'ven his di'vinity. For tho 
 the others ha've gi'ven us an account of his body and car- 
 nal genealogy, none but St. John has told us Aoy®- 
 
 i era^l lyiv&roi The word was made flefh : ivhich is the 
 
 ! reafon, as you may 'well obferve, that he ivas fo much 
 admired by the Heathens. Agreeable to this interpretation 
 
 ii 
 
 \ 
 
768 T^i? British Apollo. 
 
 is ivhat Lyray2?)'f, in Gloff. ord. fup. i. P. Joan. In 
 homine humanitas, in leone regnum, in vitulofacer- 
 dotium, inaquiladivinitatis facramentum. -^«^Lu- 
 dolphus fcjs^ de vita Chrifti, Marcus in Evangelic 
 fuo intendit hominem, fcil. Jcfum, efle & fuiffe vir- 
 tutum dominum & imperatorem & regem omnium, 
 j^nd nvhat is yety ohjewahle, is, that tho' thefe differ 
 in their nvi-itings ahmt the office^ yet like the four <TJuhecIs, 
 they all agree in the per/on ^ Jefus Chriji. 
 
 A. Sir, as we think the objedion you are pleased 
 to make to our explication of the four fymbols, a 
 fpecimen of your ingenuity and learning ; fo we pre- 
 fume upon your candor, that you will not refent our 
 endeavours to refute it. We therefore beg leave to 
 propofe the fubfequent particulars. 
 
 I . The paffage in Ezekiel is introduced with the 
 reprefentation of a nxhirlwind from the north \ the ufual 
 language of the prophets, when they fpeak of the 
 punilhment of the Je^.\:s by the king of Babylon. But 
 this is incompatible to the four Evangelifts, who be- 
 gan in Judea to preach that Gofpel which went forth j 
 as lightning from the Eaft. And this is agreeable to I 
 thofe ancient prophecies concerning the Mefliah, 
 mentioned by Jofephus and Tacitus, that fome great 
 perfon (hould come out of the Eaft and rule the 
 world ; which the former as well as the latter (to 
 curry favour, we may fuppofe) impioufly applied to 
 Vefpafan, created Emperor in Judea. 
 
 2. The various circumftances of the four living 
 creatures are circumftances of terror ; and therefore 
 very proper to decypher the deftrudion of the fenjus 
 by the northern monarch. But this is difagreeable 
 to the nature of the four Evangelifts, who were fent 
 upon a pleafmg errand, were embark'd in an amica- 
 ble defign, v»ere employ'd in an alluring embafTy, 
 and difcover'd the grateful engaging news of a friend' 
 ly reconciliation with an offended God. Well there- 
 fore does Efaias prophefy, houo beautiful upon the 
 fnountains are the feet of him (a fenechdoche of one 
 number for another) that bringeth good tidings, that 
 4 publifiab ' 
 
 
The British Apollo. 763^ 
 
 puhli/heth peace, that bringeth good tydings of good, that 
 publijheth falvation, that faith u?tto Sion, thy God 
 reigncth. 
 
 3 , . As there are feveral interpretations of the four 
 living creatures, fo that feems the bell, which fup- 
 pofes them fymbols of four principal angels, com- 
 millioned from above to aflill: the King of Babylon ia 
 the deftruiStion o^ JerufalemyZXi^. to chaftife the Je^f 
 wherever they fhould flee. And the number /^ar ma/ 
 not improbably allude, either to the four divifions of 
 the camp of Ifrael, to reprefent their intire dellruc- 
 tion : or to the four corners of the world, to fignify 
 that no diftant refuge Ihould be able to proteft them 
 from Almighty vengeance. 
 
 And the four living creatures fpecified point out 
 the angels qualifications to difcharge their office. For 
 as a man is endowed with wifdom, a lion with cou- 
 rage, an ox with patience, an eagle with fwiftnefs, 
 fo thefe endowments are indifpenfably neceffary to 
 thofe meffengers of deftrutlion. 
 
 4. Your expofition fuppofes the firft fymbol to b© 
 a man, ours an angel. 
 
 5. St. Luke is fo far from beginning with his 
 prieilhood, that he begins with his regal office j for 
 the angel fays to I^laryy He Jhall be called great , and 
 
 Jhall be called the Son of the highefi, and the Lord God 
 ^all gii'e unto him the throne of his father David -, and 
 he fhall reign o-ver the houfe o/* David for ever, and of 
 his kingdom there Jhall be no end. And indeed we can- 
 not fee how the Evangelill could begin with his 
 priefthood in an hiftorical manner, fince our Lord 
 difcharged his prieftly office on the crofs. But if you 
 refer to the prophecy of Zacharias, the father of the 
 Baptift, yet the prieftly office is fubfequent to the re- 
 gal in the order of the narrative. 
 
 And whereas you fay, that the miracles recorded 
 by St. Mark fpeak our bleffed Lord to be more than 
 man, this no way diftinguifhes St. Mark from St. 
 Mattheixjf fmce the former is allowed to be an epi- 
 tomifer of the latter. 
 Vol, III. XI Gea 
 
770 T'f&if Bri T I SH Apollo. 
 
 . Q^ Gentlemen, / doubt not but you ha<ve either feen 
 er heard of an oldfello<vo^ <who carries fe<veral monjirous 
 feet US' s in fpirits^ ixhich he expofes to fght for a Jmall 
 matter, and not only afirmSy but produces a certificate 
 Jignd by many perfons, that the faid nionjiers njcere 'vo- 
 mited out of his body at fcveral difant times. He farther 
 aftirmsy that he has noiv one in his body, njuhich gnanvs 
 him continually^ and caufes him to eat as much as ijoould 
 fuffice three or four good fomachs. 
 
 A. Without ieeing the old fellow you fpeak of, or 
 his monftrous foetus's, which we fuppofe to be hu- 
 man, we may be pofitive, that notwithftanding his 
 affirmations and certificates, he is a cheat and an im- 
 poftor, and that he is not like to find any credit, but 
 with the moft credulous and ignoranfpart of man- 
 kind : for as it is certain that no fuch monftrous pro- 
 ductions can happen but where natural ones do, it is 
 no lefs certain, that no human foetus can be gene- 
 rated in a man's ftomach, where neither the material 
 nor the efficient caufe can be found. Some other 
 fmall living creatures indeed may perhaps be hatched 
 there, when we happen to fwallow their eggs in our 
 meat or drink ; but we fuppofe no reafonable body 
 will think, that the eggs out of which the human 
 foetus's are produced, are liable to be fo fwallowed up. 
 Q^ Gentlemen, a friend of mine conjiantly praSiifeth 
 the cutting do^n c/h-trees at a certain \Gnly\ critical 
 vjtnute in the year (nvhich jundure he had from the 
 late famous Van Helmont) that he alfo cuts out into 
 fmall pocket-pieces, and gives gratis fome thoufands 
 yearly for the general good, that indifputably hanje 
 ^wrought great cures, and are deemed to fympathize 
 *with nature in all her deficiencies, as the Jiopping of 
 bleeding either at nofe or nx:ounds, are repercuffi've and 
 riifcutient injnoft fivellings, aches, lamenefs, and pains ; 
 a fonjereign balfam to firengtben the fght, and difperfe 
 rheums from the eyes : innvardly are reputed carmina^ 
 tive and alexipharmic . In Jhort, they ha've abfolutefy 
 teen beneficial in moji dijiempers incident to body, both 
 inUfnal and externaL 
 
 A. Wc 
 
The British Apollo. 771 
 
 A. We are not altogether ignorant of the reputed 
 virtues of the aftien-ftick, or of the mighty curiofity 
 in choofing a proper time to cut this wood ; feveral 
 agreeing that Midfummer-day is the time, either be- 
 fore fun-rifing, or precifely at noon ; others faying^ 
 between 1 1 and 1 2 at night j and others, that it is 
 moft effeftually gather'd when Sol and Luna are ia 
 conjundion in Aries, But we have not as yet had 
 any eye-witneffes of the famous exploits hereof : fo 
 that we (hall beg leave to be better fatisfied in its 
 performances, before we pretend to account for it. 
 Q. Gentlemen, Iha'veobjh-'v d that this year ijo'^, 
 the Englilh Church celebrated the Eafter holy-days on the 
 /\.th o/* April, O. S. nvhich is the l^th N. S. and the 
 Roman Church on April 8, N. S. //6^ Jews on the ^th 
 N. S. fo that there is but /even days difference bet-ween, 
 the tijoo Churches, and ten days difference from the Jews 
 io the Church of England. Noiv in the year foll(nuing^ 
 1 709, / find that the Englifh Church celebrates on the 
 2^h e/^ April, O. S. ivhich is the ^th of May, N. S. 
 the Roman on the ^i of March, N. S. the Jews on 
 the z6th of March, N. S. y3 that the Englilh Church 
 differs fi've Rjohole nioeeks from /i'^ Roman, and the Jews 
 'very near fix iveeks. I have a book in Italian, entitled 
 Pafchologia, luhich explains the reafon of this difference : 
 hut I, not underftanding Italian, nvould defire of you ta 
 let me kno^iv the reafon of this difference ? 
 
 A. That you lye under a millake, as to the dif- 
 ference you mention concerning the obfervation of 
 Eafter folemnity, will appear evident by the fubfe- 
 quent account. 
 
 In the early times of Chriftianity, the eadern and 
 weftern churches differed about the time of celebrat- 
 ing Eafter. The former followed the method of the 
 Jeivif? PaiTover, and kept their Eafter on the 14th. 
 day fubfequent to the appearance of the moon : 
 whence the famous controverfy that enfued concern- 
 ing it, was call'd quartodeciman. The latter defer'd 
 the folemnity to the Sunday following, that our Lord's 
 h\ z refur- 
 
772 ^e British Apollo. 
 
 refurre£lion might be commemorated on the fame 
 day of the week on which he rofe. As therefore 
 the eaftern churches join'd iffue with the Jeivs, (o 
 the difference obferv'd by the wellern Churches could 
 not exceed fix days : for when the 14th day after the 
 appearance of the moon fell upon a Sunday y thcJeiAJs 
 and both the eallern and weilern Churches all three 
 concurred. 
 
 But as there was a difference, tho' an inconfider* 
 able one, between the eaftern and weftern Churches, 
 fo they both vindicated their refpedive cuftoms from 
 Apoftolical tradition ; and we fee no reafon why they 
 both might not appeal to the genuine, tho' a differ- 
 ing tradition: for St. Philip and St. John might very 
 reafonably, in fo indifferent a matter, condefcend to 
 a compliance with tYitJenvi/h converts, who abounded 
 in the Lejir Afia, where the rule of keeping Eajier 
 on the Jeixiijh paffover was principally obferved. 
 Whereas St. Paul and St. Peter might command it to 
 be celebrated on the firft day of the week, in fuch 
 places where the number of Je^wijh converts were 
 lefs confiderable. 
 
 In the year 157. Polycarptis (Bifhop Q^ Smyrna) took 
 a journey to Rome, in order to debate the matter 
 with Anicetus (Bifhop of Rome) and the chief prelates 
 of the weftern church. But tho' each party retain'd 
 their diflind cuftoms, yet Polycarp and Anicetus received 
 the facramcnt together, as a token of their chriftian 
 charity, and parted from each other in a very ami- 
 cable manner. 
 
 In the year 196, the controverfy was revived with 
 greater heat by Vidor (then Bifhop of Rome) a man of 
 a different temper from his predeceffor Anicetus: for 
 he excommunicated all the Afiatic Churches for their 
 non-compliance with the Roman zw'^om. A prelude, 
 as it were, to the after-encroachments of that impe- 
 rious fee. But as the Afiatic s maintain'd their ufage un- 
 der the direction of Polycrates (Bifhop oi Ephefiis) fo it is 
 to be fear'd a difunion had enfu'd, had not the fynodical 
 letter, writ by Ircnefus (Bilhop of Lyons in Gaul) pre- 
 vented 
 
TZ?/? British Apollo. 773 
 
 vented (as we may reafonably fuppofe) the melan- 
 choly confequence. 
 
 In the year 325, when the famous Nicene Council 
 (which was the firft general council) was conven'd 
 by Conjlantine the Great (a council confifting of 3 1 8 
 bifliops, and many confeftors, under Hojtui oi Corduba 
 their prefident) this controverfy was finally adjufted, 
 and the obfervance of the Roman ufage prefer ib'd to 
 all the churches of the world. And it was fure the 
 moft reafonible that this ufage (hould obtain, fince 
 the Afiatic cuftom was probably (r.s is obferv'd above) 
 no other than a compliance with the peculiar cir- 
 cumftances of time and pLice. 
 
 And now you may eafily obferve, that the various 
 circumftances of this relation make it highly impro- 
 bable, that modern ?^om3 fhould in this particular 
 recede from the ufage of ancient Rome. 
 
 Q. Tour reafon for the follov:ing proverb, viz. 
 ^mfey the Rich ? 
 
 A. This proverb takes its derivation from an abbey 
 called Ramfeyy which was accounted the Crcefm of all 
 our Englijh ones ; for the revenues thence ariling, ac- 
 cording to the ftandard of thofe times, did amount 
 to 7000 /. per annuTKy out of which there was a main- 
 tenance for fixty monks and their abbot ; each monk 
 receiving a hundred, and their abbot a thoufand 
 pounds a year. But after the diflblution of monafte- 
 ries, the yearly revenue of this abbey was reduc'd 
 to 1983 /. which difcovers a very great difference iut 
 thefe eftimations. 
 
 Q^ Gentlemen, from country fellonvs. 
 Who fmg old rofe and burn the bellows, 
 A queftion comes 
 
 Strephon in luftful blood all o'er 
 Lay 'with a damrCd infe^ious fwhore, 
 As he himfelf has fince made knvwn 
 To friends and quacks about the toton ; 
 For to his Jhame^ nuith burning pains 
 He is perplexed in's back and reins^ 
 
 ■ LI 3 With 
 
^74 ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 iVith itching great to that degree. 
 He cannot rtji or eajy be^ 
 And ftctrs th' effeSi, leji dry infeSiion 
 Should prove his ruin in perfeBhn. 
 N(nv pray refoh-e us, ^vet or dry. 
 Can the French pox he curd, n.>je cry f 
 
 A. Strephoii^ alarm'd with groundlefs fears. 
 The pox no fuch diftindion bears ; 
 Thofe dlfF'ring terms which you repeat. 
 To confliiutions do relate ; 
 And therefore if 'tis thus you mean. 
 Whether in habits dry and lean 
 A prilHne vigour e'er obtain'd ? 
 It is with difficulty gain'd. 
 
 Q^ IVhdJl plagu'd ^vith torments of a love-Jick mind, 
 Ho eafe from fair Orinda'j pride I find. 
 To ycur learnd oracle, f am' d Sirs, Ifiy, 
 To fche the riddle of my dediny. 
 When firfi ive met, thd" then nvithout defign, 
 My eyes on hers niere fixt, and hers on mine, 
 The darts that few, foon kindled fames of love. 
 And to improve ''em, ev'ry motion frove ; 
 Thus toucht ^cve parted, but my evil far 
 DireBed me to tread the paths of nvar : 
 When I voas ahfent, fhe her thoughts confeft. 
 And to my friend for me ejleem exprefi : 
 Soon I return'' d (for Mars ivas not my trade ^ 
 After 1 had the Britifh camp furvefd.) 
 And thiis encourag'd did the nymph adore. 
 And pity from her tender heart implore i 
 She us'd all arts my pajjton to beguile. 
 And feem^d on e-v'ry nxord 1 f aid to fmile ; 
 1 thought my felf of future joys fecure. 
 And for her fake did mighty pains endure : 
 But on a fudden fie grenjo cold and Jhy, 
 And did nj:ith fcorn her former -voixs deny ; 
 Surprizd Jhe left me in a furious huff, 
 A>td faid 7}iy fortune ivas nst large enough. 
 Then tell m.e, Sons of Phcebus, ought the fair, 
 On this pretence to leave me fn defpair P 
 
 And 
 
TbeBRiT isn Apollo. 775 
 
 Jfi^ muji not confcience nvith her honour join, 
 ^Gainji fordid inter eft to make her mine ? 
 
 ^ ^ L}xafter. 
 
 A. Lovers In their own caufe too partial are. 
 And oft misjudge the notions of the fair ; 
 Wreft ev'ry look, and ev'ry fmile believe 
 Defign'd frefn hopes oi 'viSiory to give : 
 But if the ny?nph has bid the fwain rely 
 On promised hlifsy more than the language of the eye^ 
 Or m particular, her favours fhovvn. 
 Which ought to be to none but lovers known ; 
 And he ne'er forfeited his property, 
 By indifcretion or inconilancy : 
 Confcience engages her topromife paft. 
 And honour will oblige her in thelef, 
 Q^ Of my abode vjithin fight , 
 
 Stands by day and by night, 
 A young lady fo charming a creature ; 
 
 All the Gods did combine 
 
 For to make her thusfoine. 
 And excel all her fex in her feature^ 
 
 Nonv tell 7ne, I pray. 
 
 What your fraternity fay. 
 And hcnu I mayfpeedily mo-ve her ; 
 
 And kno^v the juf reafon. 
 
 Why my lonje's out offcafon. 
 And 1 can't her flame to me difco^er ? 
 A. 3ince all day and night. 
 
 She flands in your fight, 
 A ftatue fhe furely muft be ; 
 
 Get Pigmalion^s pray'r 
 
 To foften the fair. 
 And your fortune you'll fuddenly fee. 
 
 Q^ / nxjould nvillingly make choice of a perfon to ny 
 fujife, 'with ^whom 1 7mght rationally expert to pafs a^way 
 wy time <vjith much fatisf action and eafe : I ha've tixjo 
 perfon s offered me, equal in age, fortune, and beauty ; thi 
 one is ivhat tve call good-humour d, and e^very nxsay fit for 
 (economical affairs ; the other 'very religious^ hut of no parts 
 ' LI4 for 
 
77^ 77j^ British Apollo. 
 
 for managing domejiic affair i. Nonv I dtjtre to knotA) 
 nvhich I may njeyitiire to make my njcife ? 
 
 A. As we gather from the Antithefis, that the 
 good humour'd Lady has no great relifh of Religi- 
 on, Co we would advife you to marry neither of them. 
 Oeconomical difcretion is one of the necefiary ingre- 
 dients that go to the compofure of a female ccnfort; 
 and be a woman never fo pioufly add!<5\ed, fo religi- 
 oufly inclined, yctwithout a due mixture of prudential 
 condud, fhe cannot tell how eftcf^ually to inftill the 
 fame commendable principles into her tender children, 
 to form their practice agreeable to her own, to or- 
 der their converfation aright, and train them up in the 
 nurture and admonition of the Lord. And as their civil 
 as well as religious behaviour claims a juft regard, as 
 their temporal as well as fpiritual provifion demands a 
 fhare, tho' not an equal one, fo here the pious, but 
 imprudent, mother is utterly at a Icfs ; fhe often ex- 
 pofes her family to the derifion of the world, and 
 ibmetimes fo manages the things of this prefent life, 
 as to have a fatal influence on better things to come. 
 
 And yet who would choofe a confort who will not 
 be a fharer in his devotions as well as in his goods ; 
 with whom he cannot. go hand in hand in the fer- 
 vice of his Maker; who will forbid him to cry out 
 with a pious Jcfl/ua, aj for me and my houfe, nve wiil 
 fernje the Lord? who will choofe a confort who will not 
 allow him to allude to the joyful Pfalmift, Invas glad 
 nxhen Jhe /aid unto me, nve njuill go into the houfe of the 
 Lord? whofe negligence in herduty may notfufterhim 
 to depend with fo well-grounded an afTurance, that he 
 fhall at leaft have a comfortable competence, tho' riches 
 €ind plenteoufnefs may not he in his houje. 
 
 Ufe therefore a cautious induftry (for fo weighty 
 a concern deferves it) in the choice of fuch a wife, 
 in whom piety and prudence meet together, in whom 
 jeligion and difcrelion kifs each other. 
 
 But fmce a wife, as well as children is a blefling 
 that Cometh of the Lord, addrefs your felf to heaven 
 in fo momentous an Affair ,* petition the Maker, the 
 
 uniter 
 
"The Brit iSH Apollo. 777 
 
 uniter of hearts, and expeft a confort endow'd with 
 fuch lovely qualities ; expedl her from that generous 
 benefador, who is the giojer of every good and perfect 
 gift. Say with Eliezer^ with Abraham's fervant on 
 the like occafion, namely, when he fought a wife for 
 hi« mailer's fon. Lord, fend me good fpeed this day. 
 
 But be fure to qualify yourfelf for fo defirable a 
 bleffmg, to become a fubjedt worthy fo extraordinary 
 a favour. For to have a prudent, a religious wife,, 
 and in confequence of that, to have dutiful, to have 
 hopeful children ; to expeft fo unrivaled a felicity, is 
 fure prefumptuous in any one but him whofe piety 
 has made him a favourite of Hea.ven ; for thus fhall 
 the man he bleji that fear eth the Lord. 
 
 Q^ Why isamanfaidy <vjhen he fpeaks at random, t9- 
 talk like an apothecary ? 
 
 A. We take the original thereof to be a common 
 error among the vulgar ; who, when an apothecary 
 endeavours to exprefs himfelf properly, and ufes fome 
 terms of art, are generally at a lofs to underlland 
 him ; and then to hide the defeds of their own ca- 
 pacities, immediately declare his difcourfe to be ran- 
 dom, and altogether foreign to the purpofe, when,, 
 perhaps, only foreign to their apprehenfions. 
 
 Qj^ Was there ever any fuch thing as giants ? 
 
 J. Some indeed very ilrenuouily contend, that the 
 notion of giants is a mere chimera, and fit only to be 
 us'd as a bugbear to frighten children : But we beg. 
 thofe Gentlemens pardon, if we are willing to be fo- 
 credulous as to entertain fo chimerical a notion. Our 
 own age has produced fome perfons of a very un- 
 common fize ; and pray where is the abfurdity of 
 fuppofmg a race of men of even a more gigantic 
 llature ? The very learned Huetius, in his qiiefionesAl- 
 getan^e, has furniih'd us with giants from ^w^y coun- 
 try in the world. The ancient Poets flourilh upon 
 the unufual flature of fome portentous men. And 
 Homer tells us. That the corps of Tityus lay flretcht 
 upon nine acres of land. But tho' the Poets muft 
 not be taken for Hiftorians, fmce where they do not. 
 forge, they yet hyperbolize ; we are yet ready to per- 
 Ll 5 fuadc 
 
77^ ST/j^ Br I T isH A POLLO, 
 
 fuade our felve?, that they found their poetical de- 
 icriptions concerning this, as it is evident they do 
 concerning many other lubjefts, upon traditionary 
 accounts of former giants. And as Antaus was a 
 mighty Aibj;;d with the Poets, fo Plutarch (a judi- 
 cious, a grave Kifrorian ) acquaints us, that when Ser- 
 tonus (that politick Roman, who fo often put Pompey 
 to the nonplus) was in Spain ^ the corps of that pro- 
 digious giant were found, and prov'd to be of a lla- 
 ture not unequal to the poetical defcriptions of him. 
 And tho' that it was Ant<£us fhould be fuppos'd to be 
 a miflaken point, it yet equally proves trie notion we 
 are upon. 
 
 As it is the wifdom of prudence to ufe variety of 
 jnethods to accomplifh its defigns, fo why might it 
 not, in thofe early times, raife up a progeny of gi- 
 ants to chaitife their wicked neighbours, to infult a 
 punifhable people, to be a terrible fcourge in the hands 
 of the Almighty? 
 
 But they who believe the Scriptures (and O that 
 none of our countrymen v.ere chargeable with infi- 
 delity ! ) can't chcofe but yield a full affent to fo un- 
 controveitible a truth. In Gen. vi. 4. we read that there 
 avere giants in the earth in thofe days. But tho' the ori- 
 ginal primarily imports 2. giant, and we are therefore 
 of opinion that their extravagant il:ature is included 
 in the wcrd, yet fmce it is of equivocal importance, 
 and therefore is by fome tranflated Men of tiolencs, 
 we fliall not urge the paffage to thofe who are of a 
 different perfuafion. In Deut. iii. 13. we read Bafkan 
 *zvas calLd a land cf giants : But fince what we tranf- 
 Idie giants may be no other than a proper name, and 
 therefore may be tranflated Rephaims, we fliall not in- 
 fift upon this neither ; tho' yet we muft obferve, that 
 as many proper nr.mes derive their original from ap- 
 pellatives, fo the inhabitants of Brfjan might have 
 t:iken their name from their gignntick Itature. In 
 Deut. ii. II. we are told that the Ennms were count- 
 ed giants : Now fince a dihinft proper name is added, 
 fcnte would be ready with affurance to conclude, that 
 Hit word giants ffiurt of ncccfhty be ai appellative. 
 
 But 
 
The British Apol lo. 779 
 
 But vvs fhall not difTemble the propofal of a learned 
 man, who fays that the Emtmi might have been alfa 
 Rephaims, but called Emims by the Moabitesy to diflin- 
 guifh them from other Rephaims. 
 
 But to pafs from probable conclufions and corrobo' 
 rating circumftances, to abfolute, to undoubted cer- 
 tainty, we need no more than appeal to Numb. xiii. 
 32, 33. J/id all the people ^xuhich -ivefan,v in it (Canaan) 
 HA:ere of great Jiature ', and there we fanA; the giants ^ the 
 Jons cf Anak, ivhich come of the giants ; and ive 'were in 
 our O'ivnjight as gr a/hoppers, and fo tve njoere in their fight. 
 And indeed it was the affrighting ftature of the gi- 
 gantick Canaanites, that fo difcouragM the fainting 
 Ifraeiites^ that they look'd upon them as an uncon- 
 querable people, as too ftrong for even heaven to cope 
 with, as too formidable for the almighty condudlor 
 of their armies, as an over-match for the Lord of hofts. 
 Q^ l^/hat is the foul? 
 
 A. A created (:o diitinguifh it from God) imma- 
 terial (to diitinguifh it from the body) thinking fub- 
 ftance. 
 
 We might have added, imbodied, to diftinguifh it 
 from Angels, had not this been an exclufion of the 
 foul, while in a itate of feparation. But if it be en- 
 quired, how then a feparate foul is di{iingui.(hable 
 from an Angel, weanfvver, that, for ought we know^ 
 there may be no dillindion. 
 
 Q^ What proof ha--oe w^ of the foul's immortality, ei- 
 ther from reafouy or the nature of the thing ? 
 
 A. Cicero, tho' an heathen, pledged the antiquity 
 and univerfality of his own perfuafion, namely, that 
 the foul is an immortal principle. Whence it may be- 
 fairly argu'd, that it muft have a foundation in natu-- 
 ral as \yell as revealed religion. To proceed there- 
 fore to the arguments deducible from reafon. 
 
 I. We may gather the immortality of the foul^ 
 from our very defire of an immortal ilate. For tho'" 
 v^e muH acknowledge, that the very principles of 
 felt-prefervation, which we have in common with. 
 the leafs that peri/b, while implanted in creatures ca- 
 pable of reafoning, cannot be feparatedfrom a defire of 
 Ll 6 immor^ 
 
ySo W<; British Apollo. 
 
 3mmortalit}\ yet we may confider, that if we Ihall 
 not enjoy that immortality we (o earneftly pant after, 
 we, tho' the nobleft workmanfliip of the Almighty 
 Artificer, are o/^^// creatures ti>e moftmiferable. For if the 
 foul perifheth with the body, what has our Creator 
 done, but torturM us with defires that (hall never be 
 fatisfy'd ; rackM us with wifhes that have no founda- 
 tion, and tantaliz'd reafon with fruitlefs longings. 
 
 2. Can we think that God would raife us above 
 other creatures, conftitute us lords of the whole crea- 
 tion, put all things in fubjedlion under our feet, en- 
 dow us with exalted faculties, render us a tranfcript 
 ©f his own perfedlions, and yet make our lives but» 
 as it were, a fpan long, out-ftript, wonderfully out- 
 flript by our flaves and vaffals ? 
 
 3. It no ways agrees with the moral attributes of 
 God, that virtue fhould not be rewarded, that wick- 
 cdnefs fhou'd go unpunidi'd. We mull therefore re- 
 cur to a future ftate, if we wou'd juftify the good- 
 Ti^{?> of our tender Father, wou^d clear the juftice of 
 our righteous Mafter, wou'd vindicate the providence 
 ©fan almighty Governor, 
 
 4. The fool is of an immaterial fubftance, and 
 therefore void of parts. But we have no other idea 
 of peri filing, than as it is a diffolution or feparation- 
 ©f parts. 
 
 But tho'^ fuch arguments as thefe adminiflred won- 
 derful delight to the wifer heathens, yet that they 
 are not fufficient for impotent, for feeble nature, we 
 have a melancholy inllancc from a doubting Socrates. 
 And therefore happy we, if we are but fenfible of 
 ©ur happinefs, that we enjoy the clear difcoveries of 
 that ever-to-be-valu'd Gofpcl, nuhich brings life and 
 immortality to light. 
 
 Q^ The lajl chapter of Malachi, ver. ^th and 6th.. 
 
 Behold, 1 ^ill fend you 'E\\]2ih. the prophety before the 
 tcming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. 
 
 And hejhall turn the heart of the fathers to the chil- 
 dren, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lef 1 
 (ome and fmite the earth <with a curfe. 
 
 I dtfire you to acquaint me nxfjo this Elijah ivas, the 
 prophet fpeaks of ? A. From 
 
^^i? Br I T isH Apoli^o. ySt 
 
 A. From this paflage in the prophet the Jenx^s were- 
 qf opinion, that Elijah was appointed to defcend from 
 heaven, and ufher in, as a glorious harbinger, the 
 triumphant advent of the great, the auguft Mefliah : 
 from hence alfo fome of the primitive fathers were 
 perfuaded, that Elijah would precede the fecond ad- 
 vent. But fmce you are defirous of being inform'd 
 who it is that is couch'd under the perfon of Elijah^ 
 read from ^jerfe the 1 2th to 'verfe the 1 8th of th« 
 firll chapter of St. Luke ; and there an angel from 
 heaven will both acquaint you with the perfon, and 
 explain the name. For as he defcribes the oflke 
 of a fore-runner in a palpable allufion to this pro- 
 phecy of Malachi, fo he plainly intimates, that he was 
 therefore prophetically ftyl'd i'/t/a^jbecaufe he fhou'd 
 come in the fpirit and poiver of Elijah. And if (not ta 
 take notice of lefs remarkable refemblances) we com- 
 pare the behaviour of John the Baptiji (for he is the 
 perfon mentioned by the angel) to Haod the tyrant 
 king, with the parallel behaviour of Elijah to a no 
 lefs tyrannic Jhah, we may fiy of John, he was an 
 Elijahi VJt may fay of Elijah, he was a John. 
 
 Kear alfo v/hat the bleffed Jefus, what the very 
 Mefliah, whofe way he was to prepare before hira; 
 hear what even he vouchfafes to fay concerning fo 
 renownM a perfonage. For when his difciplcs (aid. 
 Why fay the Scribes (thofe expounders of the law and 
 prophets, who deriv'd their notion from this place 
 in Malachi) that Eli as mujl frft come? He made them 
 this reply ; EUas is co?ne already, (John the Bapiijl^ who 
 was a fecond EUas, has already gone before my face ) 
 and they knenx) him not, hut ha<ve done unto hitn tvhat- 
 foe'ver they Ufled: For Herod had beheaded John in pri- 
 fon. And fo plain v/ere thefe our Saviour's words, 
 that the difciples, who were generally but flow of 
 underllanding, were not at a lofs to know his mean- 
 ing : For it is immediately fubjoin'd ; then the difci- 
 fles uiiderf.Qod that he /pake unto them of John the Bap- 
 trjL 
 
 Q^ I'm 
 
782 51&(? British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ I'm afjol 1 mujl oix:n, 
 Tet dont tell all the tonvn, 
 '[hd of late. Sir, ?i\g2LTlick is marry^d : 
 For 77ia',iy an one 
 hike 7ne s been undone 
 When th^ inte7ition like mine has Tnifcarryd. 
 She fays that foe' s young, 
 Bui Tm fure her curs d tongue. 
 Like XantippeV, doth clack a rare bargain i 
 For Tm fiirejhe is old. 
 And a damnable fold. 
 Hard fate for poor innocent organ. 
 She's as gray as a cat, 
 Teeth a ■ black as your hat. 
 Her Itgs crooked are like a billet i 
 Her THOuth is fo ^vide, 
 That, tho' T<ve oft tryd, 
 A three penny loaf ^ill fcarce fill it, 
 No^ji', Sir, if you can. 
 Pity me, foolijh man, 
 ■ And extend your compajjton if any : 
 For halving a creature. 
 Who in e^oery feature. 
 In air and in f rape's fo like granny. 
 A. Ah ! poor flave, as now ty'd 
 To a Billingfgate bride. 
 Take fome comfort as well as compafiion : 
 Since advantage to you, 
 From this crofs may enlue. 
 By promoting your mcrtificaticn. 
 Q^ Gtntkmen, it is xvell knoixn to you, that at the 
 crucifxon of our bleffcd Lord and Sa<viour, there vjas at 
 the fame time tivo 7nalefadors, n^ho receinSd the like pu- 
 Tii/hment ; ivhereas the one retuPd him. Joying, Luke 
 xxiii. 29. If thou be the Chrift, fave thy lelf, and 
 us ; the other conlrari^wife rebulid his felloivfufferer, 
 faying, in the 40/^ 'verfe, Doll: not thou fear God, 
 feeing thou art in the iame condemnation ? and like- 
 *vjife f aid to Jefus ia the ^zdwerfe. Lord, remember 
 xne when thou comell into thy kingdom. Which 
 
 for 
 
T/;^ British Apollo. yS^ 
 
 for his faith, he returned him this an/hjer, ver. 43. Ve- 
 rily I fay unto thee, to day llialt thou, be with me iu 
 paradife. Whereas nve are -eery evidently taught by the 
 holy Scripture J that he nxas huryd tnx>o days before his 
 refurreSlionr, as it appears Luke xl v. 7. 
 
 A. As we have elTewhere obferv'd, that thofe words 
 cf our bleffed Lord may perhaps be intended of his 
 Divinity, fo we have obfervM withal, that his foul, 
 immediate to its feparation from the body, might 
 take its flight to heaven ( if heaven be defignM by 
 Paradife) and return the third day from thofe blifsful 
 manfions, in order to be reunited to its forfaken in- 
 timate. 
 
 Q^ Tray inform me, if it's pofible for a foul once im- 
 paradis'd in hea-ven, to return again to its body, and d-ixeil 
 again on this earth ? 
 
 A, We mutt allow it pofTible,. becaufe it implies 
 not a contradidion : But we cannot think it proba- 
 ble, that a gracious, a munificent Creator, who had 
 admitted any of his creatures to the beatifick vifion, 
 to the blifsful enjoyment cf himfelf, to the raptures 
 that mufl neceflarily accrue to thofe ^.vho fee God and 
 hue, (hould fnd it in his heart (unlefs for fome ex* 
 traordinary purpofes infcrutable to man) to banifli him 
 fo perfeft a fruition, to remove him from fo ravifh- 
 ing a prefence, to remand him back to a valley of 
 tears, and oblige him to cry oat in his melancholy 
 complaint, V/o is me, that 1 am fore'' d to d'tvell njAth Me- 
 fecb, and have my habitation among the tents of Kedar. 
 Q. Injoas lately reading in the %ih chapter cfSt. Mark, 
 twhere at the loth, iitb, and izthi'erfes, I read the 
 Pharfees demanded a fgn of Chriji, nvhich nx:as denied 
 them. The query therefore is, ivhat njjas the reafon of 
 their rcqi'.eji and his denial? 
 
 A. In anfwer to the quefTion, it is proper to ob- 
 ferve, that the demand of the prefumptuous Pharifees 
 was not fimply a fign, but a fgn from heaven. And 
 this f:gn from heaven was more perhaps than, proba- 
 bly, tne fign oi the Son of man coming in the clouds of 
 heaven, reprefented in J)amel\ prophecy, chap. vii. 
 
 ^jer. 13, 
 
784 TJje British Apol lo. 
 
 ver, 13, 14. for that the ancient y^wj gatherM fome 
 particulars concerning the Meffiah from that great 
 Prophet ( however the modern Jenvs, out of preju- 
 dice to Chriltianity, place him in no higher a clafs 
 than that of their aytot, their holy, not infpired wri- 
 ters ) is evident from a double inilance ; namely, in 
 that from him they borrowM the very word Meffiah^ 
 ( a name fo cuftomary with them at the time of our 
 Lord's appearance in the flefh ) and in that one of 
 their countrymen (Nehemiah by name) 50 years, 
 before our Saviour's incarnation, ventured to affirm 
 from DanieTs weeks, that the advent of the Meffiah 
 couM not be defer'd beyond 50 years. And that this, 
 was the fign demanded, may be farther concluded, in 
 that our blclTed Lord, a little before his death, pro- 
 mis'd the very fign requir'd, promis'd to come in the 
 clouds of hea'uen, but in fuch a terrible, fuch an af- 
 frighting manner, as they ihould tremble to behold 
 him in. And this promife he pundlually performed, 
 before that generation nx:aspaf anjoay^ when he commif- 
 fion'd the deilroying Angel to level Jerufakm, (that 
 city of the great King) to level her with the ground, 
 and lay her honour in the duji : When he uiher'd in 
 the fad C£.tiftrophe with fuch ailoniihing appearances, 
 and fent forth fuch alarming prefages of impending 
 ruin, prefages particularly enumerated by Jofephusy 
 their own hiftorian. 
 
 But as Daniel\ prophecy was the ground of the 
 Pharifees requell, fo their unworthinefs to be com- 
 ply'd with w^as one of the reafons of our Lord's re- 
 fufal. For they had feen many of his miracles, had 
 been witncfTes to his tnighty nvorhy had been authen- 
 tically infcrm'd of fuch ftupendious figns, as flartled 
 the gazing world, and j^/ helienjednot. Nay, infidelity, 
 tacit infidelity, was the fmalleft of their crimes : They 
 blacken'd fpotlefs innocence ; they traduc'd even him 
 *who did no fin, and blafphemoufly accus'd him of dia- 
 bolical delufion. And did they deferve the grant of a 
 particular fign, who had fo ill reported of hii mar- 
 *vellous ivorks f Did they deferve to view him coming 
 4 ia 
 
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 in the clouds ofhea^ven^ who had accused him as con- 
 federate with hell? Did they deferve any favour from 
 the fon of God, who came on purpole to mock him, 
 to infalt him ? for the text afTures us, that they l^e- 
 gan to qiiejiion nj/ith him, feeking of him Q.Jignfro7n hea- 
 'ven, tempting him. Signs and wonders are fit to be 
 indulg'd to none, but fuchmodeft, fuch humble men, 
 who are willing to believe, where reafon will war- 
 rant their belief^ who are open to convidion ; who 
 are ready to give up their a (Tent to a well attefted 
 truth; And therefore it is, that we read of a certain 
 people, that he could do no mighty njuorks among them^ be- 
 caufe of their unbelief? 
 
 Q^ Why the heating of a drum in an alej^oufe Jhould 
 turn their drink four ? 
 
 A, ^y raifing a great commotion in the air, which 
 being communicated to the liquor, caufeth in it a 
 new fermentation, and by that an exaltation of its 
 tartarous parts, and a depreffion or diifipation of the 
 fpirituous. 
 
 Ci_ Why do painters faint death like afkeleton? 
 
 A. Since death can be no otherwife than hierogly- 
 phically decypher'd, how can an invifible caufe be 
 more properly reprefented, than by avifible efFeft? ' 
 ■ And fmce it is the prerogative of death to change the 
 beautiful, the comely body, into the grim deformity 
 of an affrighting fkeleton, what more fignificant to 
 imprefs upon our minds a fenfible idea of the King of 
 terrors, to reftrain the wantonnefs of our defires with 
 a feeling apprehenlion of our mortality ; to wean our 
 afFedlions j to take off our fondnefs from fo frail, fo 
 periftiing an enjoyment j to centre our provident con- 
 cern in the indullrious culture of our immortal part, 
 in the daily, in the conltant improvement of our 
 fouls ? 
 
 Q^ // ii often feen that men receinje great nvounds, 
 contufons. Sec. and yet live ; <vjhen on the other hand, a 
 fcratch of pin ^ prick of a thorn^ or fuch like trifle, 
 many times pro-ves mortal. Pray, give your opinion, ho^w 
 fuch little inconfiderabk accidents are fo dangerous in the 
 confe^uence^ A. Such. 
 
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 jf. Such confequences are mofdy owing to an ill 
 habit of body, wherein the blood and humours are 
 fo extremely vitiated, thatinftead of being balfamic, 
 they prove corrofive, whence a trivial malady often 
 degenerates into a fatal evil. 
 
 Q^ ff'^/y do the ajhes of Scotch coal hum ^whiter than 
 thofe of our coal? 
 
 A. Becaufe the Scotch coal is endued with more 
 fulphur, and lefs earthy and watery particles than 
 your other coal. 
 
 Q^ I dfjire to knonvthe reafon, njohyihe urine is fait ? 
 
 A. Urine receives its faline quality from the faline 
 particles of food eaten, which, thro' the natural heat, 
 and conco^lion of the bowels, are exalted even to a 
 volatility. 
 
 Q^ // ^was ahjoays my opinion, that the greateji hap-, 
 pinefs human life ^uoas capable of nvas 'where tijco 'virtuous 
 perfons contraiied fuch a friendfhip as that the^ might 
 truly be accounted t<wo bodies aduated by one foul. To 
 enlarge upon the character or comjeniences cffuch a friend- 
 fhip , is both needlefs to you, and foreign to my purpofe ; 
 tut I dejire your judgments, ixhether it be poffible for the 
 diftinSlions of fuperiority, &c. command or obey, to be 
 compatible ivith fuch a friend/hip ; or ^whether it can hi 
 maintained -with more than oneperfan at a time P 
 
 A. The chief purport of your queition (by thofe 
 terms command and obey) appears to be whether a 
 real friendfhip can be maintained in a marriage-ftate ; 
 to which wc anfwer, with the learned Dr. Taylor, 
 that marriage is the queen of friendfiiips, and the 
 meafure of all others, there being a communication 
 of all which can be communicated by friendfhip. It 
 is made facred by vows and love, by bodies and fouls, 
 by religion, by laws, by common counfels and com- 
 mon fortunes. As for the terms of command and 
 obey, they being fuitableto the nature and difpofitions 
 of the two lexes, they are fo flir from derogating 
 from friend/hip, that they rather give m:ny opportu- 
 nities to exprefs love and tendernefs to each other. 
 In the man, by a relaxation of his authority ; and in 
 
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 the woman, by a ready fubmiflion beyond his injunc- 
 tions : ' And whereas fome obje6l, that the fair fex 
 are not capable of fecrecy and conftancy, hiflory 
 affords as noble examples of the fair in both, as we 
 can boafl of. What noblenefs was in that Lady, 
 who fuck'd the poifonous purulent matter, from the 
 wound of our brave Prince in the holy Land, when 
 an affajjine had pierc'd him with a venom'd arrow ? 
 What a glorious example of retaining counfel was 
 Tarda, who being fearful of the weaknefs of her 
 fex, ftab'd her felf into the thigh, to try how (he 
 could bear pain ; and then gently chid her Brutus, 
 for not daring to trull her, when ^i\t could bear fo 
 much ? We cou'd inftance in many more. As to that 
 part of your quellion, whether a friendfhip can be 
 maintain'd with more than one at a time, we an- 
 fwer, a friendfhip in the mofl abllrafted fenfe, can be 
 maintain'd but with one. For as foon as I have 
 made fuch a friend, he commands all I have in the 
 world ; fo I have nothing left to be at the difpofi- 
 tion of a third perfon. 
 
 Q. May a gelding be properly caWd a horfe ? 
 
 A, Yes doubtlefs, as properly as an eunuch may 
 be call'd a man. 
 
 Q^ 7 ha'Ve kepi company (with a young ijjoman this half 
 year, de/igningtomakeherrnywifey and Jhe hath gi<ven 
 her confent -, hut I fear Jhe doth not really lo-ve me, be- 
 caufe ivhen I am in company ivith her, and a near rela- 
 tion of hers, ivho knonjos jhe fuit from the beginningy 
 Jhe Jeemi Jirange ; and if I kifs her, immediately Jhe 
 luipes her lips, but is not nxtlling I Jhould fee her \ if I 
 €ijk her concerning matrimony, Jhe is al'v:ays free ? 
 
 A. Alas, poor Gentleman ! Let not the abundance 
 of your love be the occafion of fuch furmifes. Mo- 
 deily is the peculiar attribute of the female fex, and 
 if any be divelted of it, fhe m.ay then properly be faid 
 to degenerate from the fame : And this we take to 
 be the grounds of your intimations, and the invalid 
 caufe of your ralh complaint. Blame not then your 
 fair one^ if llie give you- fome tokens of her natural 
 
 endowmentv 
 
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 } 
 
 endowments, or if fhe receive your favours with Jl 
 willing indifference, like that of the poet. 
 Dum fragrantia deforquet ad ofcula 
 Cer'vicemy aut facili fanjitia negat, 
 ^te pofcente magh gaudeat eripiy 
 Interdum rapere occupet. 
 When ftie's to balmy kiflfes prone, 
 
 Or with a fidioas frown denies. 
 
 Or fometimes joys to fnatch the prize 
 Which ihe thro' force would have her own. 
 
 Qc Qff^P^'^"i °f Phoebus, in nvhofe e'v'ry line 
 Immortal nvit and folid learning Jhine^ 
 Hoxv Jhall I (as I ought) your fame difplay. 
 And in nvhat terms my grateful tribute pay F 
 Accept my thanks (for they alone are left) 
 Wretch that I am ! of all things elfe bereft. 
 E'er r<ve difcharg^d the debt I onjodhefore, 
 J once again feek to augment the fcore. 
 And bankrupt- like am come to borrcio mote. 
 A ivhile your pleajtng numben charm my foul. 
 And all her paj/tons all her cares controul j 
 
 But, at the murth^rer's Jight my pains return. 
 
 And oh ! again in hopelefs fires I burn j 
 
 hoove's fecret poifon glides thr^ e'v'ry njein, j 
 
 And reafon faintly does her fnjoay maintain ; 
 
 My pajjjons mutinous and headfirong grow, 
 
 ^nd loudly threaten to admit the foe. 
 
 Then facred bardsy ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 
 
 Jf my repofe or happinefs you frize, 
 
 Hafiey quickly hafe, and pour in frejh fupplies. 
 
 Yet once again exert your p^yvSrful art. 
 
 And by firong reafon' s rules reclaim my rjja'v'ring heart % 
 
 Pity my frailties^ and my faults forget. 
 
 And break the dangrous fnares nvith njuhich I am bejet. 
 
 A. Shall creatures deftitute of reafon fliun 
 Thofe accidents by which they've been undone. 
 And fhall Clorinda, fraught with wondrous fenfe, 
 treble the Jhame, by doubling the offence! 
 To fall is human, and relenting heav'n 
 Implor'd, loft innocence may reinftate again ; 
 
 But 
 
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 But to repeat a crime, degrades our khd. 
 
 Sullies the body, and dethrones the mind. • 
 
 Such who from fenfual thoughts their meafures take, 
 
 And only dream, e'en when they're moft anvake ; 
 
 Black fpots in their dark lives can ne'er furprize. 
 
 Nor can they fall, who ne'er had pow'r to rife. 
 
 But if Clorinda frorn her tonvring flight. 
 
 In wrV and fenfe, from her prodigious height .; 
 
 If ihe fhall fink from her enlighten'd Jphere^ 
 
 A fecond fall of Angels we may fear ; 
 
 A fpot upon fo bright a foul will Ihow 
 
 Confpicuous to the gazing world below ; 
 
 Oh I dread a fecond fall, left ne'er again 
 
 Your luftre be reftor'd, nor reconcil'd to heav''n. 
 Q^ Divine Apollo, tell me ^uohy 
 
 ^he cranes, <vjhen o^er the fea they fly. 
 
 Within their throats do carry fund. 
 
 And not nvhen on the earth they fland? 
 
 And <why, 'when fleep does them pojefs, 
 
 They in their cla<ws a ftone carefs ? 
 A. Would you a true foiution gain. 
 
 Or reafons for thefe rhimes obtain. 
 
 Vouchers produce, and good ones too. 
 
 For this your ipfe dixit will not do. 
 
 Q^ TV// me, dear cruel youth^ O ! tell me, fwhy 
 You Jiro've to ivound tne by your late reply ? 
 
 With keenefl fatyr fought to pierce my heart, 
 
 Methinks, you rather cordials fhould impart : 
 Ut not enough to flee my too fond arms, 
 
 Nvw you have gain'd a conqueji by your charms ? 
 
 Js*t not enough to captivate my foul. 
 
 Wherein thofe ftrong tumultuous pajjtons roll. 
 
 Of love, of hope, of fear ? Unhapyy maid, 
 
 Whofe pQvo'rful love her votaknefs has betrafd. 
 
 Don't pierce a virgin's breaft, nvho does adort 
 
 Your grateful name more than fhe did before. 
 
 No more thus perfecute a vanquifly'd fair. 
 
 By lines that cut too deep for her to bear* 
 
 If Theodora ivrites refined lays, 
 
 ""Tis by the influence of your brigh/er fays: 
 
 But the reverfsm y ■ .i. ■ ■ Dt/jfel 
 
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 Difpel thofe clouds that hcyver o'er my heady 
 That 1» might re- enjoy that peace that" s fled ', 
 Afid then the plea/ant tajk I Jhall fulfil y 
 And name nr^ darling 'with a ready inill. 
 
 A. Will Theodorah cruelty exad, 
 So many flaves be kept upon the rack, 
 Whilft ihe takes pleafures, which to its keenefl darts. 
 To lirike deep wounds in their retentive hearts ? 
 The moft tyrannic of your fex afpire. 
 One conqueft only at one time t'acquire : 
 But you, by your myfterious wit and fenfe. 
 Keep feveral at once in dark fufpence. 
 Diflblve the charm, and point out by your eye. 
 Which mull the happy be, and which muft die, 
 
 Q^ Kind Britifh bards re/ohe me this. 
 Why fear does people caufe to pifs ? 
 
 A. It is becaufe the nerves through fear, 
 A kind of refolution bear : 
 The fphindler hence invalid grows. 
 And from the bladder urine flows. 
 
 Q. With all fubmijfon I accoji your fhrine, . 
 Who are fo deep and learnedly divine. 
 In your hind precepts darting in each line : 
 Extend your nvonted kindnefs to a fnjoain. 
 And give him eafe of his tormenting pain^ 
 Loves the difeafe ; my dearefl Sylvia, Oh ! 
 Tho' more 1 love her colder Jhe doth grovj. 
 When I advance unto her fairejl-felf 
 She prefently turns tail, and calls me elf. 
 And fundry other names too mean to telly 
 Came out o/" SylviaV mouth to one that loves fo ifjell, 
 'S inipoffthle to think hovo vain I flrive. 
 To gain one nxord of love to let me live. 
 I fighy I mourn y look pale y nay almoji die. 
 But ftill her heart no pity doth defcry. 
 Tell me then dire portenters hovj to gain 
 My dearefl Sylvia, and remove my pain ? 
 
 A, If you muft doat, choofe Tome deferving fhe. 
 Who knows to value your fmcerity i 
 
 Whof© 
 
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 7^^ British Apollo. 791 
 
 Whofe tender breaft may an Afyium prove 
 
 To all your cares, and render love for love. 
 
 Not $yhia-\\k.Q to treat you with difdain. 
 
 But with good manners Iboth your am'rous pain. 
 
 To talk of dying for fo vile a fair, 
 
 Shews that you're loft to reafon ; ah ! beware. 
 
 How you forfake that glorious guide divine. 
 
 To offer incenfe at a female fhrine. 
 
 But if you muft for deareft Syhia burn, 
 
 Difguife your grief, nor let her fee you mourn ; 
 
 For if you feem to ftoop, fhe'il treat you ftill with 
 
 fcorn. 
 Women by art and nature both are fly 
 When we addrefs, but follow when we fly. 
 
 Q^ In the ^2d nierfe of the ^th chap, of St. Matthew, 
 woe read thus: But I fay unto you, that whofoever is 
 angry with his brother without a caufe, fliall be in 
 danger of the judgment ; and whofoever fliali fay to 
 his brother, Racha^ fliall be in danger of the counfel ; 
 but whofoever ftiall fay, Thou fool, fliall be in dan- 
 ger of hell-fire. Pray explain thisi'erfe. 
 
 A. It is obferv'd, that the Jews had three diftinft 
 courts of juftice. The loweft confifted of three men, 
 and refembled a bench of juftices with us. The next 
 was compos'd of twenty three, and might be com- 
 pared to our Queen's-bench. The higheft call'd the 
 great Sanhedrim, was made up of feventy, and bore 
 analogy to our Parliament. Several learned men are 
 of opinion, that this threefold gradation of our bleflTed 
 Lord's refers to thofe three diftind courts of juftice. 
 But we cannot fee how the Sanhedrim could be re- 
 prefented under the exprefiion of hell-fire. 
 
 Racha is a word of Hebrenv original, and figni- 
 fies a vain, idle, pitiful worthlefs fellow- But 2.^ fool 
 •in the Scripture notion of the word imports a pro- 
 phane wicked wretch, fo it is a word of greater 
 contumely than Racha. 
 
 As he, who is only inwardly angry v/ith his brother 
 
 Avithout a caufe,cannot come under the corredtion of the 
 
 TVIagiftrate, who is not privy to the conceptions of 
 
 4 his 
 
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 his mind ; fo hy judgment we underiland the judgment 
 or anger of that God who is a fearcher of the heart. 
 But if a man proceed from angry thoughts to reproach- 
 ful language, fuch as the calling of his brother (or 
 what is all one, any of his fellow creatures, for we 
 are all brethren) Racha^ he (hall be in danger of the 
 counfel ; that is, fuch contumelious ufage (to allude 
 to Job) is an heinous crime, yet it is an iniquity to be 
 punijhed by the judges. But if he advance (out of ma- 
 lice and revenge, as we mull fuppofe alfo in the pre- 
 ceding cafe) to the highell degree of contumely, to 
 chat flanderous reproach of thou fool, the penalty 
 inflided by the counfel will be the fmallefl of his 
 punifhment ; for he will be more particularly fub- 
 jedl to the vengeance of eternal fire. 
 
 How different is this paffage (as is obferv'd by Dr. 
 Hammond) from Homer's morals in the cafe before 
 us ? who introduces the goddefs Miner'ua forbidding 
 indeed Achilles to draw his fwcrd fo fight his antago- 
 mii Agamemnon, but giving him permiffion to rail and 
 flander as he pleas'd. But our Lord (fo pure, fo re- 
 finM is his fyllem of morality) commands us not only 
 to forbear all manner of contumelious language, but 
 alfo to reilrain the very motions of the heart, out of 
 the abundance of which the mouth fpeaketh. 
 
 Q^ Whether the receiving the Lord^s Supper be qbfo- 
 lutely necejfafy to falvation, tothofe 'who are of an age to 
 partake of it ? 
 
 A. The Apoftle fays, we mull bring every thought 
 into captivity to the obedience of Chrifl. How much 
 more muft our actions be conformable to his holy 
 laws, te his divine commandments ? And yet our 
 attendance on the holy Eucharift, is what he propofes 
 to us under the authority of a peremptory command, 
 do this in remembrance of me. While then we fland 
 indiftable of a noncompliance with fo indifpenfable 
 an injunction, we unhappily come under that farcaf- 
 tical reprehenfion, mohy call ye me Lord, Lord, and do 
 not the thing that I command you ? If we negleft the 
 afTembling our felves together, (as the manner of too 
 
 many 
 
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 many is) at the Lord's table, whatever formal con- 
 felTions we may pretend to make, we do in efFed 
 difown our mafter, deny the Lord that bought usy and 
 impioufly cry out with the mifcreants in the GofpeJ, 
 ifje nuUl not hvve this man to reign over us. 
 
 Is not ingratitude a heinous, a damning fin, and 
 confequently gratitude neceffary to falvation ? And yet 
 by neglefting the bleffed facrament we add bafenefs 
 to difobedience, and ingratitude to rebellion. For is 
 it not an unheard oi inltance of ingratitude to refufo 
 to remember him, who in fo wonderful a manner re- 
 membred us ; to refufe to do fo fmall a thing for him, 
 who has done fuch great things for us, ^whereof nve re^ 
 joice J to refufe to banquet with him, who faded forty 
 days for us ; to refufe to eat bread and drink wine 
 for his fake, who for our fakes had gall to eat, and 
 'vinegar to drink ? From fuch a complication of difo- 
 bedience and ingratitude, good Lordt deliver us. 
 
 In I Cor, X. 1 6 . we read. The cup of bleffing, nxihich 
 nve hlefs, is it not the communion of the blood of Chriji P 
 ^he bread ivhich vue break, is it not the communion of the 
 body of ChriJI ? From which palTage it naturally fol- 
 lows, that the bleffed confequences of our Saviour's 
 fufFerings, to wit, the overtures of grace, the remif- 
 ilon of our fins, the opportunities of repentance, the 
 afliftance of the Holy Spirit ; that they are all con- 
 fined to the inllitation of fo heavenly a repaft. And 
 if Chriil has enabled a peculiar ordinance to bellow 
 his favours by, can we exped: to partake of them, tho' 
 thus appropriated, while we negle£l the proper con- 
 duits of conveyance ? As well might Naaman, the 6^- 
 rian leper, have been cur'd of his leprofy by walhing 
 in Abana or Pharpar, which he boafted to be better 
 then all the rivers of Ifrael. He therefore did well at 
 lail to comply with the entreaties of his fervants, 
 and follow the directions of Elijha, For no fooner 
 did he wafh in the river Jordan, the river appointed 
 by the prophet, but he was immediately clean. Come 
 then to the bleflTed facrament, frequently partake of 
 that heavenly banquet, if ye would be cur'd of the 
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794 2'/b<? Bri T I SH Apoi Lo. 
 
 leprofy of fin, would he made ijohole, would nioajh and 
 be clean. 
 
 Q^ Whether a bird dies a natural death ? I have 
 for fe^veral yean ohfernjedy that 1 never found in any 
 place a bird dead, unlefs Jlarvedy or Jhot, or by Jome 
 untimely death. 
 
 A. All living creatures converfant in this lower 
 world are fubjeft to a natural diflblution j and there 
 fore birds are not exempt from the common lot. 
 A% their compofure contains the principles of cor- 
 ruption, fo what you feem willing to believe, cannot 
 poffibly be true upon any other foundation, than the 
 prepollerous fuppofition, that in all birds an untimely 
 death prevents a natural. In fuch cafes, the expe- 
 rience of one man is not fufHcient to found a truth 
 upon. For tho* you in the courfe of many years 
 might never have found one fuch, yet it does not 
 follow but that others might have found many. For 
 a flight obfervation will furnifh you with many in- 
 flances of a refembling nature. But finte you fpeak 
 of fome birds you met with that were ftarved, how 
 do you know but that it might be a natural diftem- 
 per, that fo pall'd their appetite and weaken'd their 
 HoiP.ach, that they could not eat, and therefore were 
 reduc'd to fo lean a condition before their expiration? 
 You may confider too, that the birds which are kill'd 
 are more ready to be met with than thofe which 
 die a natural death, before which they may retire to 
 obfcure, and fometimes to impervious places. It's 
 wdl known alfo to all that deal in birds, that many 
 die of the pip, the rank, k^c. tho* every way pro- 
 vided for with the greateft care. 
 
 Q^ / dejire you nxjculd teach me the etymology of yow 
 fiyle in your paper ©/"Friday the 1 7/^ -T/'December, in the 
 lajijidey firjl column^under the article of l^^oxu, you fay 
 (inter alia) where there was a garrifon, ^c. Pray does 
 not the particle there redound, v/here heiiig immediately 
 prefixed ? It ii the opinion of fever al as nx:ell as my felf, 
 that the v:hole claufe is nonfenfe by reafon of that 'word : 
 J dejire at your leijure jou ivjuld either convince me, as 
 
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The British Apollo. 795 
 
 twell as others, of my error, or confirm me in my opinion 
 of yours, 
 
 A. If the word there. In the place alledg'd, were 
 an adverb of place, we woyld allow the criticifm to 
 be good. But in that article it is no more than what 
 grammarians call an expletive, and rhetoricians a ple- 
 onafm. Both which terms import a redundant or 
 infignificant word. And this expletive is ufually at- 
 tendant on the verb fubftantive thro' all the tenfes. 
 And the propriety of the Englijh tongue has fo far 
 adopted this pleonallical word, that in many inftances 
 it cannot be omitted. So that it is at once (a feem» 
 ing paradox) both redundant and necejSary too. We 
 hope you will allow the following fentence to be no 
 ways improper, Inhere nvas a time, nvhen. Sec. Now 
 you cannot but perceive, that the word there is no 
 adverb of place, fmce the fentence fpeaks only of 
 time,' which is dillini^ from place. 
 
 Q^ In a morning, ^vhen I rife out of my bed, as foon 
 €Ls 1 am got upon my feet, 1 hanje a ^violent pain in my 
 head, and a little gidditiefs, ixihich does not lafi abo'vt 
 a minute or tnx:o -, I defire to knonu the caufe ? 
 
 A. The caufe of this your pain and giddinefs, 
 we take to be a great weaknefs of the brain and 
 nervous ilock, whence the motion of rifmg may caufe 
 a perturbation of the animal fpirits, or quicken the 
 motion of the blood for fo fmall a time, in fuch a 
 manner as to produce this diforder. 
 
 Q^ / ha've frequently obfern/d, and hofve heard it af 
 frm'dby feveral, nay, e'ven gra've-diggers,7hat the earth 
 <^hich is dug out of a grave njoill not fill it after the coffin 
 is in, nvhich, nvithout di/pute adds to the repletion of it. 
 A. Notwithftanding this curious obfervation of 
 yours and the grave-diggers, give us leave to doubt 
 of the matter of fadt, fmce it is fo common to fee 
 the graves in every church-yard rais'd in proportion 
 to the coffin within it. 
 
 Q^There is a cortteji betnxjeen the fon and the fon-in-la<w 
 of a deceas' dGentlenxjoman, <whickJhaU defray the charges 
 of her funeral* They are of equal circumftances. Sec. 
 
 Mm 2 A, Their 
 
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 j^. Their circumftances being equal, the fon flands 
 much more engagM than the fon-in law, both by 
 duty and natural afFeftion. 
 
 Q;^ Te Britifh youths, ivho all things undertake. 
 And nxell perform in lovers maandring paths, 
 Vouchfafe my quejiion anj'wer, fuch as may 
 Luffs fatal raging fire quite extinguijh^ 
 Tet gently fan the fames of chafe defire. 
 
 Whence is't, the perfect libertine in 'whom 
 ^he headfrong pajjions and nuild appetites 
 Rule luith alternate fivay ; reafon dethron'd. 
 And confidence no^ no more ? Whence ist^ I fiaj. 
 This man thus abandon! d, his end ohtaitCd, 
 His lufifiul heat in Chloe's arms afikva^d, 
 (So call the proftitute) infiead ofi fienfie 
 Of obligation and efieem he looks 
 With hatred and contempt upon the fooly j 
 The fiond deluded partner ofi hif crime ? 
 Whiljl he wuho aSis by reafions fieady latvs. 
 And makes religion's clearer light his guide. 
 Lies panting on the hreafi ofi his chafe fiair. 
 Love and refipe^ increafng in his fioul. 
 
 A. The libertine^ with brutal fienfie alone, 
 Afteds the mercenary proftitute, 
 Which fatiated, finks into remorfie, 
 Sour'd by reflection on polluted joy. 
 But chafer fames envigorate delight, 
 And give a loofe^ unchecked by confcious guilt ; 
 Whillt mingling fouls abforb the flowing joys. 
 Dilated to unlimited extent. 
 The beauties of the mind thefe captivate. 
 Which f retch like their expanded origin. 
 In future worlds, aff'uring endlefs blils : 
 The other's limited to frail decay. 
 Sicken and die, with the deficient caufe. 
 
 Q^ Tell me J bright God, (for thou, or none canf tell, 
 The tnyfiic pollers ^ that in blejl numbers dv:ell. 
 Thou their great nature knonxjf, nor is it ft 
 This noblef ge?n ofi thine o^un cro-im fomit.) 
 
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 Tell me, fromnuhence thefe heavenly charms arife. 
 Teach the dullixjorU f admire mohat they defpife ? 
 
 A. Since thus fubmiflively you fpeakin rhime. 
 Know that great power conlills in xxw^fuhlime : 
 By nvords well chofe, and a juft turn of thought. 
 The vvond'rous charm, the mighty magic'i wrought: 
 Which as it needs no ornaments to (hine. 
 Commands rfy^^^, and fpeaksit felf Divine. 
 
 Q. Tell me, Apollo, if you durfi. Sir, 
 Why fome love crumb, and others cruji. Sir? 
 The reafon nvhy I fend this query. 
 It is, hecaufe I can affure ye. 
 There is a family in this to^wn. Sir, 
 That cruJl vuill not ivith them go doujn, Sir, 
 Sendtne, Apollo, if you can. Sir, 
 ji civil, or a criifty anfuier. 
 
 Tours, afuhfcriher, 
 
 A. Why cruft ofFenfive proves to fome, Sir, 
 Or why fuch mofl delight in crumb, Sir, 
 We hold the procatardic caufe. Sir, 
 Is deficience in their jaws. Sir : 
 Or elfe their teeth are like to break, Sir, 
 Or elfe their ftomachs are but weak. Sir, 
 Or elfe they covet better fare, Sir, 
 Or elfe they do't to make you flare, Sir, 
 Q^ We four do intend. 
 With provifo you'll lend 
 Us afevo of bright PhoebusV brains, 
 To be undertakers. 
 As <tve are cuckold-makers. 
 Or elfe voe mufi drop our highftrains. 
 We four, vjhen vue mujler 
 Our brains in a clufter, 
 Do feemfo vjonderfuljhalhw. 
 That voejhould be nuilling 
 To venture tenjhilling. 
 To purchafe fome more £/^ Apollo. 
 Undertakers are asfollovo : 
 
 T. P. M. M. R. T. D. N. 
 
 M m 3 A, *Tis 
 
798 7^^ B R I T I s h Apollo. 
 
 A. 'Tis a fign you want brain?, 
 (If your aim is at gain:) 
 Thus to feek to improve them no more. 
 When 'tis known, what njoife- acres 
 Set up underiakersy 
 The' Rfx^arkable blockheads before. 
 You've heard more than once. 
 Of a notable dunce. 
 Who three times fet up for an author. 
 Your purfe too he'll quench, 
 When heated with pence, 
 AtAyoxrc goods with a ivhimjical nvafer. 
 Q^ Oh! tell me, (for 'tis you the doubt inufl dear) 
 Jf lo'vc r.vas meant a hlifs, ^':hj four* d by fear ^ 
 Or damiid to doubts nve hmv r,ot ivhy uor ^vhcre ; 
 But if a curfe on human race deJion''d, 
 Why is not man lefsfond^ or heaven more kind ? 
 
 A. No joys are in themfclves full and complete, 
 Bat need their contraries, to make X.\\tmgreaty 
 And ir.uil be check'd, to make them more dilate 
 Thus doubts and fears the future blifs refine. 
 As liars unvail'd with greater luHre fhine/^ 
 
 Q^ What Jhould he the reafon, that auhen 1 atn at 
 churchy 1 Jhould he fojlcepy more than at another time ; 
 and 'when lam at prayers, txihy I Jhould hanje fa mcfny 
 Jirange nttions at that time, more than at another? 1 do 
 nvhat 1 can topre'vent thefe things, but can't. 
 
 A. As you propofe two queftions, fo to the iirft 
 we anfwer, that the caufeoffo unfeafonable a drow- 
 finefs may not improbably proceed from your not 
 being fo fenfibly affcfted with piety and devotion, as 
 with either fecular afFriirs, or matters of diverfion. 
 And tho' from your endeavours to prevent fo lethar- 
 gical a temper, you may be ready to rejoin, that you 
 defire nothing more than to fecure the important 
 concernment of eternity, yet we beg leave to tell you, 
 that to defire a thing, and to be fenfibly afFcd^ed with 
 it, are not terms equivalent. Some, but pious per- 
 fons, bitterly complain, that they are confcious of no 
 ravilhing delighf, in what is to others the rapturous 
 
 contem- 
 
ne British Apollo. 799 
 
 contemplation of better things to come. Now, tha^ 
 they are defirous of fuch a ravifning delight is evi- 
 dent from the complaint Itfelf ; that they enjoy not 
 the obje<S of their defire appears from the matter of 
 the complaint. 
 
 The beft way therefore to overcome the drovvli- 
 nefs you complain of, is to contemplate the beauty of 
 holinefs ; to refledl japon that God, who is fairer than 
 the children offnen; to confider that Son of God, who 
 h full of grace and truth ; to meditate, frequently to 
 meditate, on the beatific Vifion, on that fulnefs of 
 joy which is in the prefence of our heavenly Father, 
 en thofe r infers of pleafure^ njohich are at his right hand 
 for evermore. 
 
 But if you are of a melancholy temper, that may 
 probably render your endeavours ineffedual. And in 
 cafe they do, you muft look upon your fuccefslefs 
 enterprize, not as your fm but misfortune, and con- 
 fequently make it the cbj^d, not of your concern 
 but refignation. 
 
 The reafon of your fecond query is the produiSl 
 of your firft. For if you are not fenfibly afFefted 
 with your devotional employment, no wonder that 
 every impertinent, every rambling thought fhould in- 
 trude itfelf. But if you ihall have ufed your utmoft 
 endeavours to prevent it, without effect, you muft 
 reft contented under it, and depend upon the goodnefs 
 of a gracious Mafter, that he will not impute it as a 
 Sin, will not expefl To reap njohere he has notfo<vM. 
 
 Q^ Inxould fain kno-vu if it he a fin to die for love ef 
 one, and not let him knonv it F 
 
 A. To choofe rather to fubmit to the King of ter- 
 rors, than fuiFer the objed of our love to be acquaint- 
 ed with our weaknefs, it is not only a fin, but no 
 lefs than that ftartling one of felf-murder. The great 
 the necefTary law of felf-prefervation, indifpenfably 
 obliges us to guard, to fecure our lives, by all inno* 
 cent, all warrantable methods. As therefore to fufFer 
 our felves to be deftroyed, when capable of prevent- 
 ing ity or at leaft of endeavouring to prevent it, is 
 M ra 4 virtually 
 
8co 7^^ British Apollo. 
 
 virtually to deftroy our felves, fo we fhoirid ftruggle 
 to diveft our felves of thofe three general fatal caufes 
 of fo unfortunate an event, baftifulncfs (for it defervcs 
 •not the name of modefty) pride, and obftinacy. 
 
 But fince another queftion, which you fent witli 
 this, difcovers you to be a woman, you may be rea- 
 dy to reply, that fuch a difcovery of your love (for 
 by that ctSer, queflion, we perceive the cafe to be 
 your own) is derogatory to the cuftom of the world, 
 to the decorum obferv'd by the female fex. To which 
 we reply, that when fuch a particular decorum is in- 
 confiftent with the principles of religion, and inter- 
 feres with a neceflary duty, there is no indecorum in 
 the violation of it. For if any thing be ki'velyy any 
 thing of good report ; if there he anyfraife^ any decorum 
 to allure us, it is fure a ftrid obedience to the law& 
 of God. If therefore an unfeafonable, a guilty bafti- 
 fulnefs, fhall prevail upon you to conceal your love, 
 to the hazard of your life, as we have already pro- 
 nounc'd you guilty of laying, in a manner, violent 
 hands upon your felf, fo you incur alfo the additional 
 guilt of difregarding that apoftolical injundion, Be 
 not conformable to this nuorld. 
 
 Not but that we would advife you to be prudent 
 too (tho* indeed, love and prudence are not infepara- 
 ble companions) and endeavour fuch a method of 
 difcovery (and love, as well as neceflity, is the mo- 
 ther of invention) as that the perfon, who has 
 gain'd fo unrival'd a pofleflion of your heart, may 
 not be fenfible (tho' no part of the tranfadlion mull 
 tranfgrefs the facred boundaries of truth) that you 
 were^willing to let him know what a conquell he 
 has made. 
 
 Q^From mohence arife, ornvhat mayoccafion thofe migh- 
 ty pillars cf ivatery commonly termed by the failors, ^vja- 
 ter-fpoutSf nvhich afcendfrom the ocean, and fpread them- 
 fihes into the clouds ? 
 
 A. Thofe pillars of water, not unfitly called by the 
 failors water-fpouts, are occafioncd by a great quan- 
 tity of vapours arifing fudd«nly from the bottom of 
 
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 the fea, thro' which they pafs with that violence, that 
 they often carjy the water before them to a great 
 height in the air, from whence afterwards it has been 
 obferv'd to fall again, as if it had been pour*d out of a 
 bucket, even when the fky has been very clear. But 
 how (will you fay) can thefe vapours be producM from 
 the bottom of the fea, and be forc*d thro* fuch a 
 depth of water ? to that we anfwer, that this mull 
 needs be the effeft of fome internal heat or fire con- 
 tain'd in the bowels of the earth, on which the fea 
 lyeth ; and that there is fuch a fire, none can doubt, 
 if he. does but read that curious and wonderful rela- 
 tion of a new ifland lately formed, not far from that 
 of Candia. 
 
 Q^ Pray tell me the meaning ofetn old proverb, I met 
 ^ith in latin authors, they fay, nvhen a man has bad 
 luck, he has rid SEJAN's HORSE;» 
 
 J. The fame ungovernable fury, which provoked 
 the populace of Rome to tear in pieces the great SEJA- 
 NUS, urg'd them to pull do^-wn and break a Jlatue of 
 bis, which Hood on horfeback in the city : but the horfe 
 continuing entire, a certain ivhimfical poor fellouu got 
 aftride, by way of Rhodomantado, which the MOB in- 
 terpreting as a contempt of their proceedings beat his 
 brains out with the broken pieces of the ftatue. And 
 from that unlucky accident the proverb, you have men* 
 tion'd, took its origin, 
 
 Q^ I defire to knonjo the reafon, ivhy, njohen a man hath 
 been in lo<ve ivith a luoman, and hath married another ^ 
 he is more in love luith the former than he ivas before? 
 
 A. Tho* you fuppofe the cafe to be general, yet it 
 is not without exception : For fometimes the confi- 
 deration, that we cannot poffibly poffefs the object 
 of our wilhes, draws off our minds from what it 
 is in vain to wifh for, rellrains our thoughts from 
 what is without our reach, and forbids them to mak» 
 excurfions, where there is no magnetic centre of 
 our hopes. But where a difappointment (as indeed 
 it often does) rather increafes than diminiihes our de. 
 Mm 5 |-, 
 
 ^ 
 
So2 ^h€ BritishApollo. 
 
 fire, th.e phrenomenon proceeds from GUI' natural in- 
 clinations to imitate our mother E'vty and long for 
 the forbidden fruit. So worthlefs, To empty are all 
 fublunary enjoyments, that the common obfervation 
 is as true as common. That the poffeffion of a de- 
 llr'd object falls fliort of the expectation. As there- 
 fore the hopes of whatever we would obtain come 
 nearer to the enjoyment of it, than the impolfibility of 
 obtaining it, which is the fartheft remove from it; 
 thence it may not improbably proceed, that the latter 
 Jhflames us with greater intenfenefs of defrre. 
 
 Q^ 1 nvas lately taken 'with a 'violent bleeding at my 
 r.vfe, to that degree,, that all ferfons^ njjho thenja-iv me, 
 judged me to be a dead man ^ by 7-eafon of the great quan' 
 tity of blood I loji ; but after their opening a <vein, it fopt. 
 1 dtjire to kno^uo the reafony <n;hy that blood njchich came 
 from my nofe, /hould be as good a colour as it is poj/ible 
 for hlood to be ; and that njohich came from my army on the 
 contrary y as bad, though both came wway at the fame 
 time ? 
 
 A, Eecaufe the blood flowing from your nofe, was 
 emitted from fome capillary vein or artery, whofe 
 capacities are fitted only for the finelt of the blood ; 
 whilft the greater vefTels, as thofe of the arm, jugtr- 
 lars, i^c. are capable of containing the grofler as weli 
 as the purer, and always afford a mixture of the whole 
 mafs. 
 
 Q;_ Why «r^ Welfhmen ^^^//'^/TafRes, andfo often re- 
 proached 'With ridicule and contejnpty ivhen it's itell knovjit 
 that country affords many learned and eminent men, and 
 there is no country but affords a great many fools and 
 bbckheads ? 
 
 A. Welfitnen are call'd Taffies from the corruption 
 of the word Davidy being the name of the tutelar 
 faint of chat country. And as the generality of the 
 Y.orid is fo delighted with novelties, and confequent- 
 ly averfe to any thing of ancient date ', fo are the 
 people of th^t country fo commonly (but infipidly) 
 lidicui'd, becaufe }fity loyally perfevere in the ufe of 
 
 tteir 
 
ne Bri TiSH Apollo. 803 
 
 their priftine cuftoms and language, which is doubt- 
 lefs of very great antiquity. 
 
 Q. What is more unhappy than an ugly old maid? 
 
 A, It is poffible for an handfom young maid ta 
 be more unhappy than an ugly old one. For happi- 
 nefs confifts in our own eafe and fatisfa£lion, and not 
 in the opinions of others. Therefore an ugly old 
 maid, who thinks fhe neither looks old nor ugly, 
 (and there be fuch) is more happy than an handibm 
 young maid, who, not contented with the beauty 
 nature hath given her, is continually trying to im- 
 prove it by art (and there be fuch alfo.) But then, 
 if by happinefs you mean, what is the moll real and 
 perfeft happiaefs ('viz, a clear confcience, <void of of- 
 fence towards God and man) an ugly old maid ha* 
 much the advantage of an handfom young one, as 
 being free from thofe temptations the other is al- 
 ways liable to. 
 
 Q. Whence the deri'vation of the froroerh, from He l l, 
 Hull, and Hallifax, good Lord, deliver us ? 
 
 A. The proverb is of modern origin, and owed 
 its introdudtion to an order made by the magiltrates 
 of HULL and HALLIFAX, to njohip all beggars out 
 of the town, who came near them. This provok*d 
 the fafFering mortals to add HELL, to make the 
 third to /wo alike detelled places. 
 
 Q;^ EmeliaV charming air^ and conquering eyes^ 
 My captivated heart to hrue betray' d. 
 Then nefcient of my foe, fix refilefs nxjeeb 
 Forlorn Ipaft, ajhni/h d and amaz'd. 
 All hope ^future happi?iefs ivas lofi : 
 As yet I kne^w not <vJhoJhe iK-as, nor <where 
 The center of my trembling thoughts tuas fix'd. 
 At length I faiM ', (hut oh ! the <ve7y thought 
 Sinks frighted nature to, an ebb too lonxj 
 By mortal to be born) bright as the fun. 
 But common as its light ; her charms Jhe yields 
 To mortals bafe, for luft befogs on them 
 The blifs th$ bright eft ofourfex ^woiCd court, 
 
 M m 6 What 
 
804 tbs British Apollo. 
 
 What fhall 1 do? I to your altar btno 
 
 An bumble fuppliant, injlruSl me then. 
 
 How, from my anxious mind, I may remove 
 
 ^hefe pains ineffable ; for I as yet 
 
 Cannot behold her charms ivithout delight ; 
 
 But avhen J think a mind depraved beneath 
 
 ^he charming Flonv'r does lurk, hate does enfue, 
 
 ^ho^ not fo potent to eradicate 
 
 Firm rooted lo"je, and to refiore my peace, 
 
 A. When heaven enrich'd our bodies with quick 
 fenfe. 
 And appetite, to tafle the joys of life. 
 It more enrich'd our bright capacious minds 
 With rcafon to dilate or check thofe joys. 
 In their own nature turbulent and wild. 
 Tending to felfdeJlruSiion, if not rul'd. 
 Directed, and in limitations held : 
 Let reafon (as Ihe ought) then bear the fway. 
 She wiU inform you, that the proftitute, 
 Tho* fair to fight, like gilded fepulchres. 
 Contains within a loathiom fcene of ruin ; 
 Which with contagion foul your body foon 
 Will feize, and with remorfe perplex your foul ; 
 Dcftroying thofe fantaftic joys, with which 
 You now indulge your thoughts, and in their room 
 Will introduce grief horror, and defpair : 
 Unhappy choice ! but if in time you llrive 
 Againft temptation, heav*n with frelh fupplics 
 Will aid you to a perfect viflory. 
 
 Q^ ^Tis done I at length the mighty confliSTs o'er, 
 T[he hvely traitor Jhall pre-vail no more, 
 Nj more loith treacherous arts invade my breafl, 
 Kur nvith negleSied voivs dijlurb my reft. 
 Ms perjur'd accents Ino more voill hear, 
 Hjv to his fuff^ rings lend afa'v'ring ear : 
 Far from thefalfe deluding fnvain I'll go. 
 Far from this difmal fcene of fate and njjce ; 
 In fame obfcure recejs Tlljhroud my fame. 
 And to the Hf^iing vuinds my iwo^gs irgclaim^ 
 
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 Where humble fivains in peaceful cots rejide, ^ 
 
 Strangers to a'varice, to hji, and pride y S 
 
 7o en^vy, malice, every vice hejide ; ^ ^ 
 
 Where harmlefs /ports their happy hours employ. 
 
 And no diflraSling cares their peace annoy j 
 
 Where no inconjiant, woith enfnaring arts, 
 
 Falfe oaths and 'vo-ivs, betrays unguarded hearts ; 
 
 Where innocence is not opprefs'd by might. 
 
 Where pleafure croons the day, and love the night. 
 
 Thither Til fiy, and there my crimes confefs, 
 
 To hea<^i^s exalted court my pray* rs addrefs ; 
 
 With penitential tears my guilt deplore, . 
 
 And never, never, think of Strephon more, 
 
 A. Not any hero of a former age. 
 Nor greater now, which treads the modern llage, 
 CouM ever boail a viflory like thine. 
 Nor trophies fhew with equal luftre Ihine. 
 They who have conquer'd nations wild and rude. 
 Still by fuperior LOVE have been fubdu'd : 
 The great, the wife, have truckled to his pow'r. 
 Their grandeur yielding to a foft amour. 
 In a triumphant fhining chariot ride, 
 Thou voho hafi conquer'^d him, voho conquers allbejlde, 
 'Tis wifely done, now thou*rt fecurely great. 
 From frefh aflaults, to make a fafe retreat. 
 In rural joys, there let thy requiems flow. 
 Congratulated from above, and wonder'd at below. 
 
 Q;^ Harmonious youths, vjhofe mat chiefs numbers fhiney 
 With charming eloquence in ev'ry line. 
 Tell me (for you, and none like you can tell) 
 Where the myferious fprings of nature dnxell : 
 What fecret force doth oft my eyes confine 
 On bright Clarinda'j, tho^ vuithcut dejign, 
 Whilji Jympathizing glance returns from her^s to mine. 
 
 A. Nature, like iV//p, conceals her myllic head. 
 From fecret fprings, confpicuous channels fpread ; 
 The latent caufcs ftill we feek in vain. 
 While vifible the ftrange efFeds remain ; 
 Her unvail'd modefty we often prove. 
 Still find her fomevvhat dark, but quite obfcure in love, 
 ■ " " " Q^Ahsof 
 
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8o6 ^/6<? British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Ahoo ! mqpjeter Pollo-iVy 
 From all naufhom do follo'VJ, 
 For dy bracve grant Wijhdoms and Jhpejhee!, 
 Ar rah joy he /ho kiud^ 
 Shome curement to Jmdy 
 Tor de doMTiable plague in my breeches. 
 Dermot Owen Mat. Swinny, 
 Tfmt conjheited proud ninny y 
 Did told me, that IJhould take gluey 
 But a-top of myfi>ouly 
 It did mauke me to houl, 
 Tho' my tooizcs I could hardly undo. 
 
 Den dou <v:hofe njit nen)er fails y 
 To thefe pedic. inqumalis 
 Tut ajhtopt that dey gro^v nofajhter, 
 Leajht by redentigrajhon, 
 Dey plague dy ^uohole najhon. 
 And dou be condemn' d afh impojhtery 
 
 Strut O Bracket. 
 A. Alafii ! for poor Mac, 
 Dy fhorrow's ver graat. 
 And by geud fhaint Patrick^ fhoe-buckle 
 We fear it vil quafh 
 Dy vit and courafh, 
 And mauke dy tall fhtomack to truck. 
 But tauke dis advifh, 
 (Twill cure in a tri(h) 
 ViJ gun-powder rub dy fhirt o'er, 
 Dat's if dou hafht one. 
 Den fire it, dey'll run, 
 And neV mauke affhaults any more. 
 
 (^ If I freely bejloiv afeafonable kindnefs on my friend 
 in his dijlrefsy- but afterixiards be reduced to a far Ivwer 
 condition than he is at prefent in : ^ety, ivhether it be 
 laivful for himy in cafe he be in debt, to deli'ver me, by 
 an a£l of charity y from the palpable danger of Jiarnj- 
 ing F 
 
 A. In anfwcr to the quellion, we may confidcr, 
 i;ff. That common equity makes it lawful for any 
 debtor to deliver a mere Granger from fo terrible an 
 
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The British Apollo. 807 
 
 evil as tliat of ftarving, provided it be ^lo confidera- 
 ble difadvantage to his creditors : and, zdly, That a 
 return of gratitude is little other than the payment 
 of a debt ; and that, tho' the kindnefs received were 
 a voluntary donation, yet, in fome refpeft, the gene- 
 rofity of the giver enhances the obligation. Whence 
 it naturally follows, that tho' we are involv'd in debt, 
 we may proceed farther, in our kindnefs to a friend 
 that has oblig'd us, than to a flranger, or a common 
 acquaintance only. 
 
 Q, Honv do you reconcile St. Paul'/ recommendation of 
 perpetual 'virginity to that command of God to Noah and 
 his fonsy increafe and multiply ? 
 
 A. We muft freely own, that both Jews and Gen- 
 tiles look'd upon themfelves as under an obligation to 
 increafe and multiply their fpecies. The former from 
 the very precept you propofe, thought it unlawful to 
 continue in a virgin ftate beyond the age of twenty. 
 Nay, they proceeded fo far as to declare, that to re- 
 main unmarried longer than the forementioned time, 
 virtually implied the fin of homicide. Lycurgus (that 
 famous Lacedcemonian lawgiver) made it one of his 
 laws, that batchelors after fuch an age fhould be for- 
 bid to be fpe<^ators of the publick games. Plato (that 
 divine philofopher) pronounces the forementioned per- 
 fons unworthy of any honour at all, tho* St. Paul in 
 effe£l declares them to be worthy of double honour. 
 We learn from one of MartiaPs epigrams, that in his 
 time the father of three children was honoured with 
 a peculiar privilege, which was therefore calPd Jus 
 trium Liberonm. But notwithftanding fuch authority, 
 which we have been fo free to own, thofe words to 
 Noah and his fons are fairly reconcileable with St. Paul's 
 advice. And this we fhall evince by the fubfequent 
 particulars. 
 
 I. All words imperatively utter*d do not include 
 the obligation of a command. As when a fervant 
 asks leave of his mailer to go abroad, and the ma- 
 fter replies go ; the word go, tho' in the imperative 
 mood, does not imply a command, but a permiffion 
 tdgo. 2, Thofe 
 
8o8 7^<f B R I T 1 S H A P O L Ld. 
 
 2. Thofe words, hicreafe and multiply, might, if 
 abfolutely taken, be no other than a form of blelTmg. 
 And therefore their meaning might be no other than 
 this, I will fo profper your endeavours to propagate 
 your kind, as that ye fliall increafe and multiply. 
 What therefore determines the words to the obliga- 
 tion of a command, is the fpeciality of the time in 
 which they were pronouHc'd, namely, when there 
 were but eight perfons in the world, and God de- 
 fign'd to people the earth by fo inconfiderable a num- 
 ber. And this direds us to the meaning of St. PauT^ 
 advice, and Ihews us that it is temporary, and bears 
 refped to the circumftances of time and place, to 
 the then prefent condition of the Roman provinces, 
 which were fo plentifully inhabited, as to fufFer na ' 
 manner of inconvenience from the virginity of fo 
 very few, comparatively fpeaking, as he foreknew 
 would be willing to follow his advice. If therefore 
 we live in a country where the inhabitants are too 
 fcanty to make it flourifh, or obferve, that fuch num- 
 bers engage in a virgin-ftate, as in all probability will 
 depopulate our country, we are under an obligation 
 riOt to follow that counfel of St. PauTs, which, un- 
 der fuch circumflances, has no manner of regard to 
 us. 
 
 Some will have it, that St. Pauts recommendation 
 of virginity refpeds only thofe times of perfecution, 
 agreeable to thofe words of our bleffed Lord, con- 
 cerning the deftruftion of Jerufalem, when the Chri- 
 ftians were to flee to Pelluy Wo mito them that are 
 ivith childy aud to them that give fuck in thofe days. 
 But tho' in fome places he profefledly alludes to thofe 
 perilous times, yet elfewhere he has a plain regard to 
 fomething elfe, when he fays, He that is unmarried 
 cares for the things that belong to the Lord, honv he may 
 pleafe the Lord. And indeed the Chriftian inftitution 
 recommends fuch inllances of piety and devotion, of 
 mortification and felf-dcnial, as both Jews and Gen- 
 tiles were generally unacquainted with ; inllances of 
 an unufual dedication of our felves to heaven^ tho' in 
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!n?^BRiTisH Apollo* 809 
 
 the cafe before us not matter of precept, but advice ; 
 not indifpenfably neceflary, but highly commendable, 
 when under the reflridions fpecified above. 
 
 Q;_ In the key to the table of Eafler, in the liturgy, nve 
 meetivilh the word Prime ; What is the meaning of it ? 
 A. It fignifies the epad of the moon, or the revo- 
 lution of 1 9 years ; which for its excellency is called 
 the prime or golden number. For 19 years contain 
 all the various revolutions and configurations of the 
 moon ; and therefore when that number of years is 
 expired, the revolutions and configurations of the 
 moon return in the fame order as before. 
 
 Q;^ 1 am nonjOy among jl many others , become an humble 
 fuitor to you y on behalf of a Gentleman^ nvhofe modejly 
 HAJOuld not permit him to draiu his onjon piiiure. He is de- 
 fended of an ancient and noble family y and is univerfally 
 efeemed to ha<ve a njery great Jh are of natural farts y good 
 learnings a liberal education, and a great deal of huma- 
 nity , and other moral 'virtues. His per fin may pafs, nuhere 
 there are not a jury of critics \ and hefides, he is in a 
 fair nuay of making a confiderable figure in the nvorld. But 
 of all blejjings, there is none he di^inguijhes himfelfupon 
 morey than by being pajponately in lon}e njoith a Lady of a 
 fiveet temper, 'very agreeahie, modejl and 'virtuous ; and 
 in a 'wordy a Lady endi^d <with alt the graces of a (woman. 
 But, Gentlemeny the burden of the fong lyes here ; as 
 God has blefs'd her nvith all thefe excellent endowments, 
 both of body and mind, fo has he Ukenx)ife beftovjed on her 
 a njery plentiful fortune, far fuperiour to that of her ad- 
 mirer, ^who is ^very little indebted to that gipfy : And, on 
 the 'whole matter, this one quefiion muillarife, 
 
 Whether the Gentleman, notnvith/landing his inequality y 
 may not, fwithout the leaf cenfure of the moji malignant 
 fpirit, make his humble court, or at leaji his complaint^ 
 to this fair Lady ; and efpecially, fwhen "'tis confidered, that 
 nothing in the (world nvas ever more dif-interejled and pur^ 
 er than his affeSlionfor her ? 
 
 A, If the Lady's fortune be fufiicient to maintain 
 them both in a creditable manner, fo that there be not 
 a profpeiSl of bringing her under unhappy circumftan- 
 
 ces I 
 
8io Tlje British Apollo. 
 
 ces J and if the Gentleman difguifes not his own cir- 
 cumftances to her, we think his attempt fo ht from 
 giving jail caufe of cenfure, that it will not only be a 
 rcfledlion on his difcretion, but perhaps alfo a Fault, 
 to omit taking hold of an opportunity, which provi- 
 dence feems to offer him, for the reftoring the gran- 
 deur of his family. 
 
 Q^ Tour opinion of cold, may I define it hy a hare pri- 
 ^jation of heat ? 
 
 A. The true definition of cold is, that it is a privati- 
 on of a particular motion. For, as heat is nothing^ 
 clfe than motion particularly modify'd, fo cold is confe- 
 quently a privation of that particular kind of motion. 
 
 Q^ Who nxas thefirji inventor of paper ? 
 
 A, There grows a kind of reed in the Marjhes of 
 Egypt, call'd Papyrus Nilotica, of a flringy filamen- 
 tal fubftance : This the great Egyptian Monarch Phi- 
 LADELPHus, firfl contrivcd in a certain gummy wa- 
 ter, dry'd 'em in the fun, which afterwards divided 
 into fheets, were then call'd Papyri, from the reed 
 which made 'em, and of thefe the famous library of 
 Philadelphus was com^o^d originally. 
 
 Q^ What nvas the origifial of the proverbial faying. As 
 fure as God's in Gloucestershire ? 
 
 A. When the Ramijh faith was univerfally receiv*d 
 in England, Ghucefterjhire was, more than all the othet 
 counties, fill'd with convents, nunneries, and fuch 
 like houfes, dedicated to God's fervice ; who, becaufe 
 his iniiuence fhone more brightly there than elfe- 
 where, was imagin'd, by the common people, more 
 immediately converfant with the men q{ Ghucefterjhire 
 than other people. 
 
 Q^ Can you "J've us a reafon to helwve you ixiill conti- 
 nue your undf. akhig until it fivells to the hulk of the 
 Atho.I. KOr; . -J? 
 
 A ? letting forth to the world a far greater va- 
 riety til •.:. they did : by continually mingling t\ie pro- 
 fitable with the delightful: by carefully avoiding fuch . 
 grofs tiiors they were fometimes guilty of, in point 
 oi divinity, anfi abfurdities (now exploded) in point 
 
 of 
 
^I't? B R I T I S H A P O L L O. 8l I 
 
 of Philofephy : By encomiums on <virtue, and fatyrical 
 reflexions on vice and folly : by avoiding party-dif- 
 putesy and nicking the humours of the times, ^c, we 
 doubt not of fwelling our undertaking to a far 
 greater bulk than theirs, without danger of being 
 fupprefs'd by Church or State. 
 
 Q. The feafon of the year puts me in mind of ajking 
 youy ^whence came the cuftom (j/* new-years gifts, and of 
 choojing king and queen on Twelfth-day. 
 
 A. It came originally from a cuftom of the primi- 
 tii'e Chrijiiansy introduced in imitation of the Eafern 
 Kings, who on that day prefented mdJiy cojily gifts 
 to our Saviour Chri/i. Hence 'tis, that thofe who 
 happen to be king and queen on tivelfth day^ formerly 
 were usM to make confiderable prefents to each other, 
 and to entertain the company. 
 
 Q^ Moji reverend fagesy it is fo indeed, 
 That they ivho are ingagd in marriage-hands , 
 Should 710 ahJlraSledfriendJhip hold bejides ? 
 To this 1 crave an anfwer, and yet more, 
 Hovj 1 have difohli^d you in my lines ? 
 For 'when my applications 1 repeat. 
 To friends fo goody andfb genteel as you ', 
 If 710 reply comes in your charming fong, 
 Jmuji conclude my f elf is in the vurong, 
 
 A. In friendly offices of divers kinds, 
 A number may their feveral parts engage. 
 Firm and fmcere: fome by inftruftions apt. 
 By counfel and advice, abfolve and eafe 
 The doubts and fears attend precarious life ; 
 (In thefe we friendly ihall, with our beft fliill, 
 Afllft all, which addrefs our willing aid) 
 Some by their wealth may fuccour, feme by flrength 
 And courage refcue their friend's dearer life ; 
 But where the friendihip's firxTi, full, and complete. 
 All thefe concenter; and all lets controul. 
 Making of two, but one enlarged foul. 
 
 Q^ Some fay that Apoljo vjas heavenly voife. 
 
 And rightly foretold things to come : 
 Some fay it vjas only a prieft in difguife. 
 
 That cunningly plafd in his roam. Some 
 
8i2 The British Apollo. 
 
 Some /ay if avas nvitchcrafty and done hy the Devil', 
 
 So theje kind ofnvhims they maintain : 
 Some fay it njcasfome prophetic Sybil, 
 
 While others cry, Leger-de-main. 
 Oraculum Delphi ;'/ is ivhere I mean, 
 
 Where A^llo, they fay, did gi've anfucers, 
 V/hen he ivittily cult d( as I havefeen) 
 
 Not afeijo of our ancient great grandflrs, 
 Jis CrcefusyoA" one, njoho to his oivn cojl. 
 
 With the Delphic ^Enigma's ijcas caught: 
 When all his hra've army he loji. 
 
 With affu ranee of'viSlory fraught. 
 Which, if it be true, Ifhall 'willingly doubt ^ 
 
 Horw you canyour fonfhips gather : 
 And from that you can fear ce make it out, 
 
 That e'er you came by fuch a father* 
 Then your readers fwillwoonder to feeyou fitch foolsy 
 
 To be impos''d on by fuch a falfe name, ) 
 
 And you <will be fyP da parcel of fools. 
 
 To play fuch an odd kind of game, 
 1 advifeyou, in order your credits to faije^ 
 
 In your next your excufes tofhe'w. 
 And to let us fee *what good titles you have. 
 
 That for future your voorth vuemay knovJ: 
 If you can diffrovivohat I to you fend. 
 
 And in thofe crofs rhimings have ^writ ; 
 Then every one your choice voi II commend. 
 
 And applaud your Delphian ay;/. 
 
 A. Wtxt the Delphic Apollo 2. Sybil definM, 
 
 Or did priefts in his temple reply. 
 Were his notions of mere diabolical kind, 
 
 Or did he on fome wizard rely : 
 Were he all thefe, or none, it does nothing relate. 
 
 Or can tend to the prefent occafion : 
 Were your judgment but found, for a farther debate. 
 
 You had never made this preparation. 
 'Tis the Briti/h Apollo, whoft arts we profefs. 
 
 Far furpaffing the Delphic pretenfions : 
 And why him as our father we may not exprefs. 
 
 Don't appear from your weak repreheniion?. 
 
 But 
 
ne British Apollo. 813 
 
 But tho* you in fach matters fagacious appear. 
 And your knowledge fuch wifdom difplays. 
 
 Yet we'll promife, if you to your father will fwear. 
 That we'll merrily vote you the Bays, 
 Q^Whoii A^oWol Where is Wii} 
 
 And nxjhat ha<ve you to fay to it ? 
 
 A. His being all the Bards rehearfe. 
 
 And n.mt inhabits your re'verfe. 
 
 Q^ I alnvays thought it a Romantic tale, 
 
 7hat e'er Apollo ivould again re<veal 
 
 Myferious fecrets hid in the dark ivomb 
 
 Of future time, and tell ivbat is to come. 
 
 But nonv I find it true, and you his priejiy 
 
 Ordaitid to gi'ue the ^wretched Jure relief 
 
 For you foretold dear Julia nvould obferve. 
 
 My patient fufferings, and my grief regard. 
 
 And that in time the nymph my pajjion ivould reward ; 
 
 That faithful Strephon ivould again return. 
 
 And friend/hip ijuould nvith greater Lufire burn. 
 
 For the fond youth, and his beloved fair, 
 
 In\ friendjhip, love, and joy, have mutual Jhare. 
 
 So that injiead of lojutg of my friend, 
 I have another by his marriage gained. 
 
 Oh ! that thefe pleafures might for ever lafi. 
 Which novo revolving time has brought to pafs. 
 My grateful thanks for your prophetic lays 
 I give, and vjould, if able, fpread deferving fraije, 
 A. The force of gratitude is great, 'tis true, 
 
 ■ At once it praifes and rewards us too. 
 Go on then, generous youth, enjoy thofe charms. 
 That ever fpring from beauteous Julia\ arms. 
 May faithful Strephon ever call thee friend. 
 And this augmented friendfliip have no end. 
 60 (hall thy juft affedions merit gain. 
 And fo thy genVous patience happinefs obtain. 
 
 Q^ Your reply, learned Ploebeans, / hok for e^er this, 
 to my query, concerning the doxies of GxQQCe, 
 If by fpells they can play fuch an ill-naturd prank. 
 As /' enervate the Jloutejl qf men quoad hanc ; 
 
 4 / voould 
 
8i4 3^^Bp.iTisH Apollo* 
 
 I rwouU not appear ivith impertinence rude. 
 But 'when msre fuhjlantial demands don't intrude, 
 J then beg your godjhip no longer 'will falter. 
 But oblige '-jcith an anjnver, your Jla've 
 
 Chelfea Knacketory. Jemmy Salter. 
 
 A. All the Pranks which are pradis'd by thofc 
 cruel Jilters, 
 Are neither performed by fpells: nor by philters ; 
 But by drugs of more force, to obtain their curft end. 
 Than e'er was conceiv'd by the fubtle old fiend. 
 And therefore if Jemmy be in their fad cafe, 
 (The' we wou'd believe that his fpoufe has more 
 
 grace) 
 Ne*er alk of the de'el to releafe from thofe harms. 
 Since there be counter- drugs, which will prove coun- 
 ter-charms. 
 
 Q^ Genefis chap. ift. verfe 5 th. And God called 
 the light dayy and the darknefs he called night : And the 
 enjening and the morning 'were the jirjl day. No'w^ pray 
 Gentlemen inform me, at 'what hour in the e'vening does 
 the dciy begin ? 
 
 A. From the nature of the Je'wijh day, which 
 was probably inilituted by Mofes, and from the regu- 
 larity of that hour above any other hour, we may 
 reafonably fuppofe, that the firfl day began in the 
 place \\'here Paradife afterwards flood j (for under 
 difterent meridians, it muft have been different parts 
 of the day) atj fix in the evening. 
 
 Q^ Will you be pie a fed to exhibit the nature of our 
 Judge''s coming ; and luhether he 'will appear 'with his 
 crofsy as he did to animate Conllantine the Great. 
 
 A. Since nothing has a Wronger influence on the 
 pradlices of men (fo deprav'd, fo degenerate are they 
 that fear, tho' a more ungenerous, a more ignoble 
 paffion, with greater efficacy prevails, than the ten- 
 dernefs of love;) fmce nothing more powerfully 
 reftrains our a(!^ions, than the auguft, than the awful 
 manner of the fecond advent, the Scriptures are not 
 wanting to defcribe the coming of our Lord, as the 
 Njudge of all the earth : To defcribe it in many of its 
 
 various 
 
-t/i/<^ i5R IT iSH Apollo, 51^ 
 
 various circumltances : circumllances fo terribly fur- 
 prizing, that thofe expreffions may he pertinently 
 applied, tho' intended of his manifeftation in the flefh, 
 *ijJho may abide the day of his coming, a7id H^ho Jhall 
 Jlandy nx^hen he appeareth ? 
 
 In that amazing day all nature fhall be alarm'd, 
 the hea'vens /hall pafs a^voay ^th a great noife, and the 
 elements Jhall melt ^vith fernjent heat i that thofe words 
 may, in a manner, be literally fulfill'd, He Jhall come 
 like a rejiner'sjire. In that amazing day, the fun Jhall 
 he darkened, the moon Jhall not gi've her light', and a 
 worfe than ^Egyptian darknefs would overfpread the 
 diffolving univerfe, but that the flames of fo dreadful 
 a conflagration fhall fupply the room of thofe cx- 
 tinguifli'd luminaries. In that amazing day we fhall 
 behold our crucify'd Redeemer, coming in the clouds of 
 heaven, attended fuitably to the majeftyof an univer- 
 fal Judge ; for the chariots of the Lord ivill be twenty 
 thoufand, e'ven thoufands of Angels \ and God the Son 
 will be atnong them more awfully refplendent, than 
 was God the Father in the holy place ofSinah. Then 
 the trumpet fhall found, and God, even the moji mighty 
 God Jhall fpeak, and call the ivorldfrom therifng up of 
 the fun unto the going dovjn of the fame. He Jhall call 
 the heaven from above, and the earth, that he may judge 
 his people. Then the very dead fhall hear his voice, 
 and mouldring dufl obey the fummons. Then fhall 
 be pundually fulfilled thofe memorable words, all 
 kings Jhall fall dovjn before him ; all nations Jhall do 
 him Jervice. Tho' fome llialldo it with uneafinefs and 
 reludance, with horror and defpair, yet all fhall wor- 
 fhip him. Then probably the crofs will be exhibited 
 in the moil confpicuous manner ; exhibited as an en- 
 fign of the greateft honour 5 that as under Confantine 
 the Roman eagle fubmitted to the crofs of Chrill, fo 
 now, all the regal, all the imperial ftandards of the 
 world, may make their fubmiflion to that unrival'd 
 one. Then Pilate will flartle to fee the fcenereverft, 
 to view his prifoner his judge ; but may yet expedl 
 a more upright fentcnce, than he himfelf pronounc*d ; 
 4 ^or 
 
8i6 ST^^ British Apollo. 
 
 for Chrift fhall judge the ivorld in righteoufnefs. Then 
 that unjuft judge will fharply upbraid himfelf for 
 ihewing fuch regard to that reprehenfion of the Jews, 
 If thou let this man go, thou art not Caefar'j friend ; 
 iince thofe very Jews will now be ready to exclaim, 
 Beholdy a greater than Caefar is here. When we fhall 
 have all appeared before the judgment feat of Chriji ; 
 when the adlions of our lives, the words of our 
 mouths, and the iheditations of our hearts Ihall have 
 been laid open before him, before nvhom nue ha've to do ; 
 wlien the great, the univerfal fcrutiny fhall be over, 
 then the Judge fhall fay to the fheep on his right hand. 
 Come ye blejfed of myFather, inherit the kingdom prepared 
 for you from the foundation of the nvorld ; but to the goats 
 on the lefty Depart from me ye curfcdinto e'verlafling fire, 
 prepared for the de^vil and his angels. And when thus 
 God fhall have/«/ all things under the feet of his Son, 
 then Jh all the Son himfelf be fubjeSi to him, njoho put all 
 things under him, that God may be all in all. 
 
 Q^ Tour fpeedy anfnxer is defired by a fuhfcriher. 
 
 Whether the fea be not the alone occajion of the ebbing 
 
 and flonfiing of our Thames ; or has the moon any 
 
 influence on the Thames, fo as to caufe it- to ebb and 
 
 flovijy Without the inundation of the fea? 
 
 A. The ebbing and flowing of the Thames pro- 
 ceed immediately from the inundation of the fea, but 
 mediately from the influence of the moon upon that 
 part of the ocean under the edyptic, which is per* 
 pendicular under the meridian moon. And therefore 
 the moon can have no immenfe influence upon the 
 Thames, which is fituate fo many degrees from the 
 northern tropic of Cancer, which the moon never 
 paffes. 
 
 Qj^ The itvo follovoing improbabilities are told me by 
 perfons ofniery good credit, as eye-^joitneffes thereto, <vohicb 
 makes me defirous to gi've you the trouble of enquiring there- 
 in, and to gi've a folution, or fome probable reafonsfor the'nr. 
 The fit Ji is, A 'Woman of about eighty years old, that 
 bred fe'veral ne-iio teeth, and her old gray heirs falling off, 
 anfwbronfjn bead of hair grenu in the place of it\ the 
 
 other 
 
57?^ Bri T I SH A po L LO. 817 
 
 ether is of another ivohan, that after half an hour''s 
 putting on clean lineny there appear d upon e<very part of 
 it bleiu crojfesj that remained upon it until <vjajh''d out ; 
 and this alvcays happened, not^cuithjiandingjhe fometimss 
 *wore other folks linen as <vjell as her o'vjn. 
 
 A, Of thefe two ftrange relations, the firil feems 
 to be the leaft improbable, or rather is the mofl pro- 
 bable, particularly as to the breeding of new teeth, 
 fince we have the like attefted by feveral ancient and 
 modern writers; but we will only mention a very 
 remarkable inftance of it, related in the Ephemerid. 
 German, of the year. 1648. of a man a hundred and 
 twenty years old, living at Cleaves in 1666, who two 
 years before had bred new teeth, not without great 
 pains ; and the fame man faid, that about that time, 
 being at the Hague, he had feen there anEnglilhman 
 two years ol der than him, who had told him, that 
 being in his 1 1 8th year, he had likewife got a new 
 fet of teeth. Tiiis might induce one to tiunk, that 
 men are born with the ieeds, or buds of more than 
 two rows of teeth, but that few are of fo ftrong a 
 conflitution, or live long enough to bring them to 
 maturity, or perfection. We do not meet with fo 
 many inftances of old gray hairs falling, and of brown 
 growing in their flead, tho* Paracelfus boafted of a 
 quinteiTence of baum, by which he pretended not 
 only to work that happy change, but wholly to make 
 old people young again. 
 
 As to the fecond relation, it looks indeed very iai'^ 
 probable, and much like a Popifh legend : but fup- 
 pofmg it matter of faft, we may reafonably fufpedt 
 it to have been only a trick of the woman, who per- 
 haps might fo paint her Ikin, that the linen being 
 applied to it, would take and retain the fame marks. 
 
 Q^ Whence comes the prorjcrhy As drunk as Da-old's 
 fow ? 
 
 A. David Lloyd, a Weljhman, kept an alehoufe in 
 the town of Hereford, and had a kind of monftrous 
 fow, with fix legs, which he {hew'd to cullomers, 
 as a valuable rarity. 
 
 Vol. III. Na This 
 
8i8 5l6f British Apollo. 
 
 This David's wife would often ufe to make her felf 
 quite drunk, and then lye down to fleep an hour or 
 two, that fhe might qualify her felf for the perform- 
 ance of her bufmefs. But one day the houfe was 
 full, and fhe could find no other place to fleep in 
 but the hog-fty, where her hulband kept the fow a- 
 bove nam'd on clean ftraw, fo fhe very orderly went 
 in and fell afleep by her harmonious companion. 
 But the fow no fooner found the door upon the jar, 
 but out fhe flipt, and rambled to a confiderable diftancc 
 from the yard, in joy for her deliverance. 
 
 Dwvid had that day fome relations come to fee 
 him, who had been againft his marrying ; and to 
 give them an opinion of his prudent choice, he 
 took occafion to inform *em, he was forry that his 
 wife was then abroad, bccaufe he would have had 
 'cm feen her. For (fays Danjid) furely never man 
 was better matched, or met with a more honeft, 
 fober wife than I am bleft in. 
 
 They congratulated his good fortune, and were af- 
 ter a fhort time defired hyDaruiJ, to go fee the greatefl 
 wonder of a fow, that ever had been heard of in the 
 world. He led them to the hog-fly-door, and open- 
 ing it to its full widenefs, the firft thing they > fa w 
 was his good wife in fuch a poflure and condition, 
 as upon her flarting up, and calling Da'vidHUSBAND, 
 gave occafion for a hearty fit of laughter, and the 
 pro'verb you have mentioned. 
 
 Q^ 7here is a certain young Lady, "xho in beauty and 
 wcifdom^ ScQ. is inferior to none (but 1 ne<ver had any 
 con<verfation nvith her^ only 1 hear others fay^ thatjhe is 
 extremek '^ittyi &c.) Ihis Lady and I go to the famt 
 church \ I fit as it 'were behind her ; but (he^ as 1 often 
 perceive, turns her eyes upon me, 'which fixes a fancy in 
 my mind, thatjhe lo-ves me n)ery 'welly nvhich I am im- 
 portunate to knoixi by you, 'when con'venience gi'ves lea've? 
 
 A. Be not too hafly to entertain fuch fancies j for 
 
 by the purport of your letter, we have much reafbn 
 
 to believe you are miflaken. A beautiful young Lady 
 
 and miflrefs of fo great wifdom, wou'd be caution'd 
 
 4 thereby 
 
ne British Apollo. ^19 
 
 thereby (had fhe really conceiv'd a paffion for you) 
 to conceal it till addreft, and not proftitute it by 
 glances. Her cafting her eyes upon you may be 
 from another intent ; perhaps only to feed this fancy 
 in you for her own diverfion, when amongft her af- 
 fociates. Of this we be may politive, that either 
 you are miftaken in your caculation, or mifmform'd 
 in the charafter of her wit and wifdom. 
 
 Q^ Why are fome men more hairy than others ? 
 
 A. The difference of men, in thatrefpeft, proceeds 
 from the difference of conftitations, the hot and moid 
 tempers always affording more hair than any other. 
 
 Q^ A thoufand racks and deaths I Jeel, 
 Which art or danger can^t conceal. 
 But that ivhich mojl augments tr^ pain. 
 Ah me! 
 
 I lo-ve, alas ! — hut lo^e-^ in ^vain. 
 And more Td tell^ — hut griefs fo near in vieiv, 
 Ad=vancd to thought ^ hut make 'em bleed a-ntw. ' 
 
 Oh then ! dear happy youths, your candour Jhovs, 
 Let limpid jireams of tender pity flo^uo : 
 J^or let me thus (negleSled by your lyre) 
 In torture live, and in defpair expire : 
 But teach a n,vretched fair one honu /' obtain 
 Content, and dear lov'd happinefs again. 
 
 A. Thoit racks and i/(?^?/^j wou'd itrive in 'vain^ 
 To give your tender hofom pain. 
 Did reafon once your loa^e controul ; i 
 
 But oh ! 1 
 
 Your choice firft guided tortures to your foul : 
 We might have helfd you, had you a&'d beforty 
 But fuccours come too late, the loar once o^er. 
 
 Oh ! Lo'vely, loji, unthinking, capti've FAIR, 
 Not only pity Jhall fucceed thy pray'r. 
 But fuch ad'vice as may lofi peace reftore. 
 And never give thee fcope to languifh more ; 
 On barren ground, the fun wouM vainly Ihine, 
 The fruitful foil alone fhou'd feel fuch rays as thincJ 
 Q^ Te quacks of the age. 
 Who appear on the Jiage, 
 
820 7Z?<? British Apollo. 
 
 Tivice a nioeek nuith your packet. 
 For thofe nvho do lack it. 
 Well fior''d wcith ad<vice for difajlers : 
 
 Which packet contains 
 
 Th' effeSls of your brains. 
 Excelling pills, poni'ders, or plaifers. 
 
 So ril tell you my grief. 
 
 And beg your relief. 
 
 Like the croaking of frogs, 
 
 A7id the grunting of hogs : 
 
 Then like claps of thunder. 
 
 Which furpyix£ me nxith njoonder^ 
 Tm affrighted njoith noifes fo farious ; 
 
 Ah ! then, no'w or never. 
 
 Tour opinion deliver. 
 For my health Tm afraid is precarious : 
 
 Thus of late Fm fei^d. 
 
 And bitterly teaz^d. 
 With rumblings all o'er my Abdomen : 
 
 Which makes fuch a clatter y 
 
 And this is the matter, 
 Notu give your advice, or ye're no men. 
 A. Some will fay that 'tis wind. 
 In your bowels confin'd ; 
 
 Others think and aver 
 
 Noxious humours lodge there. 
 Which thefe noify diforders engender : 
 
 More may judge you thro' Ihaking 
 
 In this your fad taking, 
 French prophet, or fome fuch pretender ; 
 
 But, if laftly we may. 
 
 Our opinion difplay j 
 
 'Tis ihefux of your vuit. 
 
 That occafions this ft ; 
 
 *Tis the volatile ftrains 
 
 Of your exquifite brains, 
 Tkus afFedls your whole cofps thro* redundance : 
 
 So a Sibylline breaft. 
 
 When with ivonders opprefl. 
 Seems diilra^ed, and raves thro' abundance. 
 
 4 Q. Wj[;at 
 
^he British Apollo. 82 i 
 
 Q^ What joys, extatlck joys poj/efs my heart. 
 What raptures are diffus'd through e'vry part ? 
 Pleafures refifi'd, tny fprightly foul nonxj mo-vey 
 ^0 hear my dear enchanter oivn his lo^e : 
 Ranji/hing njte^jos it gives my mind, nvhen I, 
 With pleafure future fce?ies of hlifs efpy. 
 Love n(yw njoith transport rules njcithin my hreafly 
 Before ntsith mighty ^weights of grief opprefi , 
 Fare<wel all anxious cares, notv I addrefs 
 My conquer'd conqu'ror %vith affurd fuccefs. 
 uire all Apollo' J glorious offfpring mine ? 
 Are thofe hlejl youths de'voted to my fhrine ? 
 A hlifs too great, a hhfhing maid to cronion. 
 When that renjjard from one^s too high renonvn : 
 And mufi young Theodora ;;otv direSl 
 Her felf to one, and the bright refi rejeSl ; 
 Tar don her crime, nvho thinks fhe has engrofs'd 
 More numerous charms than all the choir can boaji ; 
 ^Tis then o'er come, Kving^d nvith dejtre, I fly 
 To his fair arms, ivho ivrit the lail reply. 
 
 Theodora. 
 
 A. Fiird with tumultuous joys, the youth we left, 
 Almoft of life, by too much life bereft } 
 Whofe mounting foul fair Theodora rais'd. 
 By lines more eafily admir''d than praised. 
 Since the kind fair refolv'd to eafe the pain, 
 (Howe'er't might hap) o'th' next replying fwain ; 
 Since equally each for the charmer burns, 
 WeVe hopes, we now fhall all be hv'd by turns. 
 Chance threw the longing fwain upon her breaft. 
 Chance equally may favour all the rell ; 
 If fo propitious to our ivifhesfhe. 
 Next Theodora (hall our Goddefs be. 
 Then a new fyftem to the world v/e'll fhow. 
 Of love, e'er this, none e'er were bleft to know 
 That he intire in a divided heart 
 May reign, and like the foul himfelf exert. 
 Be all in all, and all in e^vrypart. 
 Q;_ Apollo, Pray anfivery 
 That is, if you can; Sir, 
 
 Nn 3 The 
 
 } 
 
B22 Tb€ British Apollo. 
 
 Tife quejfion Tm about to prcpofe : 
 If you pleafe you may banter. 
 If you cannot anhuer. 
 
 Why drhiking ftrong liquors fljouid caufi a red nofe? 
 J. 'Tis the fumes of your wine 
 Make your boltfprit thus fhine, 
 
 Whicli aicending the top of your cranium y 
 Nature healthfully throws. 
 On your prominent nofe, 
 
 And proclaims you a jolly companion, 
 
 Q. If SjrSy you can inform me quick. 
 Why the devil: s calNoXd^-mcV ? 
 It being a fad affront., alas / 
 To 7ny neighbour y Seignior Nicholas. 
 
 A. This for a pro<verb came to paffi, 
 From an old fubtle Nicholas y 
 The politician Matchia'vely 
 As cunning as the de'elof hell. 
 But if yoiir neighbour can forbear. 
 To chrillen thus his fon and heir. 
 He may (if he's fo politic) 
 Efcape diflinftion oi old-nick. 
 
 Q^ Our blej/ed Lord is frequently faid to be both prieft 
 eind facrifce. I dtfire therefore to be informed in nxihat 
 reffeSI he may be calTd a prieji, Jtnce he fenjo not himfelf 
 as does a prieji the facrifce, but lAjas evidently put to 
 death by his inhuman crucifers ? 
 
 J. That our Lord was at once both prieft and fa- 
 criiice, v/e learn from St. P^a/ himfelf, who tells us, 
 that he cfferd up himfelf And this he may very pro- 
 perly be faid to do, in that his death, with refpc^ in- 
 deed to the perfecuting Jews, was fufficiently violent, 
 but with regard to himfelf intirely voluntary. Hear 
 what he fays himfelf; Therefore doth my Father love 
 n'.Cy hecaufe 1 lay do-wn my lifey that 1 might take it a- 
 gain : No man taketh it from me ; but 1 lay it do<wn of 
 my felf : 1 ha've ponuer to lay it doivUy and I ha've pon.uer 
 to take it again. If with defre, he had not defired to 
 die for finners, could he not have freely chofen, whe- 
 ther he wou'd have been madeflejh, and d^eh among 
 
 us? 
 
T^^British Apollo. 823 
 
 us ? ButyS/* this caufe n,vas he horn, to this end came he 
 into the wuorld ; He fore-knew the various circumftances 
 of his apprehenfion in the garden, and therefore could 
 have deliver'd himfelf from the fnare of the hunter ; 
 but the cup njohich his Father gaue him he was willing, 
 exceeding willing, to drink it. When he was adlually 
 apprehended, and in the hands of his raging adverfa- 
 ries, thinkeji thou that he cou'd not have prayed to his 
 Father, and he nvould prefently ha^je gi<ven him more 
 than t'wel've legions of Angels ? but ho^u then fhoidd the 
 Scriptures he fulfilled ', that THUS it pould he ? Thus, 
 becaufe he himfelf had voluntarily determined iii, 
 When his enemifes reviled him on the crofs. If be he 
 the King of I (rael, let him now come do-ainfrom the crofs^ 
 he could have immediately come down to the con- 
 fufion of thofe infulting wretches. But fuch was his 
 love to us, that he thought it expedient, that one man 
 Jhould die for the people, and that the 'whole nxjorld per'ijh 
 not. And now, ivho Jhall lay any thing of conflraint, 
 any thing of compulfion to the charge of him, who 
 made fo voluntary an oblation of himfelf, and there- 
 fore was as properly a prieft, as he was a facrifice, a 
 prieji for ever after the order o/'Melchifedeck ? 
 
 Q^ Pray inform me to the heji of your knoxvledge, hy 
 nvhat external and 'vifible fign God, under the patriarchal 
 difpenfation, teftifyed his acceptance, or refufal of their ob- 
 lation} For that he did gi<ve fome intelligible Jignature, 
 nx)herehy they ^jsere afcertain'd either ofhisfa'vour to-ivardsy 
 or difpleafure againji them, is e^vident hy Cain'j being fen^ 
 Jible, that God had refpe^i unto AheV s^/acnfce, and not 
 unto his. 
 
 A. The Jews fay, that God teftified his approba- 
 tion of AheV'-^ offering, by fire from heaven ; but the 
 late bifhop of Ely more probably, hy a fir earn of lights 
 or flame from the SHECHINAH, or glorious prefence 
 of God, to 'whom it uuas offered, njohich burnt up his fa- 
 crifice. And as he obferves, that what we tranflate, 
 the Lord had refpeSi unto Abel and his offering, Theodo- 
 tion tranflated thus, ^ Ktii^^i-^vt U) TXi ^vtIcc^ 'A/SjA, 
 ««i miTT^n^i, heboid upon AheVs facrificesy and fit them 
 N n^ on 
 
S24 77^<? British Apollo. 
 
 0)7 fire. So he takes notice withal, that fome ancient 
 fathers with St. Jerom approved that tranflition. 
 And he confirms this very probable opinion from fe- 
 veral inilances in after times ; as you may find in 
 Le^j. ix. 24. Jtidgeswi. 21. 1 K'pigs xviii. 38. i^c. 
 I Chron. xxi. 26. 2 Chron. vii. 13. and it is obferva- 
 ble, that the Hcbrenju word'^^lfignifies both io accept. 
 and to reduce to ajhes, as acceptations of equivalent 
 impcrtance. Whence that pafiage in P/alm xx. 3, Re^ 
 member all thy offerings, and Af CEPT (or confume to 
 afties) thy hurnl facrifice . 
 
 And as it was anciently obferved, that the devil 
 fver lovM to be an ape, and to mimick his Maker ; 
 fo the fore-mentioned prelate brings remarkable in- 
 ftances of diabolical delufions, in imitation of this an- 
 cient ufage, from Homer and Virgil^ thofe princes, 
 the one of the Greeky the other of the Latin poets. 
 
 But we muft obferve, that God witnefs*d his ac- 
 ceptance of the facrifices, and of the other acceptable 
 adlions of the pious Patriarchs, by a fomewhat dif- 
 ferent procedure ; the former (as is obferv'd above) 
 by a ftream of light, or a flame from the SHECHI« 
 NAH; the latter by the SHECHINAH itfelf ; the 
 SHECHINAH, which was veiy probably a glori- 
 ous, a refulgent light ; a light perhaps not unlike to 
 that, which made its appearance to St. Paul; a light 
 abo^je the brightnejs of the fiin. But this light which 
 in part compos'd the SHECHINAH* is fuppofed to 
 have been accompanied with a numerous retinue of 
 attending Angels. 
 
 Q^ What is S.7onx)? 
 
 ji. Snow is vapours congealed by the cold in the 
 upper regions of the air. Hence therefore is the rea- 
 fon, why fnow is of fo loofe a contexture ; namely, 
 becaufe it proceeds from thin and rarified vapours. 
 
 Q^ What is the meaning of the phrafe. To break 
 Frifcian's head ; and <vuhence came the expreffion F 
 
 A. Prifcian was a learned Grammarian, who flou- 
 riftied at Conjlantinopk in the year 525, he wasfo ac- 
 curate in Grammar, that to fpeak falfe Latin in his 
 
 company, 
 
T'/^^ Bri T I SH Apollo. S25 
 
 company, was as ungrateful to him as to break his 
 head. And indeed it is even now cufiomary with 
 many, when very much offended at any proceedings 
 of another, to cry out, I had rather you had broke 
 my head. 
 
 Q^ I am engaged to a 'very beautiful young Lady^ and 
 have beeji thefe three months. I have often urgd her to 
 grant me that hlifs, nvhich a conjugal fate affords ; hut 
 Jhe denies me, tho' fpe ovens <vje are as lawfully ma^t and 
 nx'ife as ever ive can be in the fght of God. She cannot 
 any ivays difrufi my receding from my fromife, nor doet 
 jhe, fince her jointure is fettled, and every thing confum- 
 mated with both friends confent. My arguments have 
 prevail d fo far voith her, that Jhe has promis'd me the 
 gratifying of my requejl, if you favour me voith an affir^ 
 mative anfu.er. I beg of you to faiy yea or nay, asfoon 
 as poJJible,fuice I, as nvell as Jhe, am refolvd to obey your 
 diiiates in the moji Jiri6i fenje. 
 
 A. As fare as you think your felves, confider, ma- 
 ny thing: happen between the lip and the cup. But fhould 
 no prevention happen, and your requell (as it is not) 
 were lawful, what man that has any regard to his 
 honour, would cuckold himfelf, and leave any per- 
 fon at liberty, without being able to bring any to 
 
 account for it, to call his Lady Since the 
 
 Lady fubmits to our decifion of the matter, we 
 would believe, Ihe does it in a full affurance, that we 
 wou'd by no means allow it. 
 
 Q^ / defre you'll inform me, njuhy people'' s hones are 
 more apt to break infrojiy weather, and lefs apt to cure ? 
 
 A. Becaufe in fuch weather, the drinefs of the am- 
 bient air exficcates the bones, and renders them more 
 brittle than at 6ther times j and the difficulty of cure 
 proceeds from their want of due moifture to promote 
 agglutinatioQ. 
 
 Q^ I . Whether feknites change their cohur as the moon 
 does her phafes ? 
 
 zd. fVhether aferites kindle themjehes^ being expoCd 
 to the rays of the fun? 
 
 3^. Whether gagatei kindle in water, and extinguijh' 
 themfehes in oiU N n 5 j^h. Whether 
 
$26 5^^ Br I T iSH Apol LO. 
 
 4/0, PFhether anthracites kindle their Jlames in icateff 
 and deaden them in the f.re ? 
 
 A. Thefe are the notions of Pliny and Jjjidorus, and 
 we look upon them to be altogether groundlefs and 
 whimfical. 
 
 Q^ Pray favour me ivith the federal fymptoms attend- 
 ing a confumption? 
 
 A. The chief fiejns then of a confirm'd confumpti- 
 on are, a very troublefom cough, a plentiful, thick, 
 and fcmetimes difcolour'd fpittle, languiftiing and pin- 
 ing of the whole body, lols of appetite, difficulty of 
 breathing, thiril and fervent heat of the blood, noc- 
 turnal fweats, and an utter decay of the flefh, almoft 
 to the drinefs of a fkeleton. 
 
 Qj_ / ha--ve for federal years ohfernjd, nayy I have been 
 aji eye-^itnefs to fame young people (tho^ 14 or 15 years 
 of age) to eat fand, gravely and clay^ and feveral more 
 fuch like thingSy yet could never apprehend vchat could he 
 the irJuceinetit of it, they having neither a grateful fmell 
 nor tafe. 
 
 A. This kind of appetite proceeds from a diftem- 
 per of the flomach, or the vitiation of the acid there- 
 in, cauf-ng a defire of fuch unnatural food, and that to 
 Urange degree of longing, fo as not to be fatisfy^d 
 withojt eating plentifully of the fame. 
 
 Q. thanks to 7ny faithful friends ^ the Britifh Bards, 
 Whofe prudence, charity and kindnefs voeigh. 
 Not all her nvifjes only^ hut our 'words ^ 
 And fend them back adapted and refin'd, 
 Woiid all voho read, confder voell the lAJorth, 
 And by your genius cultivate their oven, 
 The erring 'world might nicely he reclairnd. 
 And vicious, thought lefs mortals grovj bo^ good and nxifi ,■ 
 
 Something myferious in your anfvjers couch'' d. 
 Or elfe my judgment cannot reach your fen fe ', 
 Was ny complaint indulged or condemn'' d ? 
 Hon.ve''er it be, incoura^d by the frank 
 And geri rous promptnefs, to refolve our doubts, 
 IJhall approach your fhrine, for fecond thoughts } 
 Jf too much for. dnefs for my fiend may be^ 
 Or aiminal, or indfcreet, or vain* A, As 
 
51?^ British Apollo. 827 
 
 A. As friendfliip is the moft exalted blifs. 
 Which human nature can afpire to tafte j 
 And therefore moll allures, and charms our fouls. 
 And fwallows up our yielding faculties. 
 Gilded with fpecious fhews of innocence, 
 Of virtue, honour, and of gratitude ; 
 We therefore ought to be upon our guard. 
 Left the temptation fhould confederate ^, 
 
 With nature (of it felf, too much inclined) 
 To yield the fort of reafon, unadvifed, 
 On articles precarious. Well obferve 
 Thefe precepts, and no danger Ihall attend. 
 
 When mingling fouls augment the flowing joys, 
 And your indearments grown reciprocal. 
 With extacy confefs the bound lefs blifs j 
 Revolve then on the Author of them all. 
 Who form'd your foul capacious to retain. 
 And talle immenfe delights; that he's the fource. 
 To whofe indulgence all thofe ftreams you owe : 
 Your praife and thanks firft offer at his throne. 
 And raife your love fubfervient to that. end ; 
 A true platonic paffion then youVe gain'd. 
 With nothing noxious, or injurious mixt. 
 
 Q^ No-iv, at ApolloV feet I hu?nbly lay 
 A caufe, njjhich nvill demand his keeneft ray, 
 ^Tis he, nxjho kindly fuccours the dijirefi'dy 
 Muji heal the raging anguijh of my breaji^ 
 Tofs'd on the njua'ves of irrefiftlefs ioue, 
 Tet ne'er the pbrt of happinefs can prove. 
 Fix' d on no Jingle fair-one J nor can find 
 A ftymph nvith charms fuperior to her kind. 
 All are, me thinks, alike fupremely bright, 
 The fair, the black, the brwon, gi've equally delight, 
 Nonv if, for one ordained, I feel this pain. 
 Too long, alas ! I've fought the nymph in vain. 
 Let great Apollo then, produce the (he. 
 To nvhom this unfix' d heart mufi conflant he, 
 Should his onMn Daphne hear the ponxjerful charms, ^ ' 
 Like brave EugeneV unlimited alarms, ^ 
 
 I'd form the fort f and welt her in my ar?ns, J. 
 
 N n 6 A, What 
 
828 The British Apollo, 
 
 J. What wou'd this vrant-knight, whofe lofty 
 ftrain, 
 Afpires to rival De La Manchd's vein ? 
 Whofe rambling genius nothing can content. 
 But the inverting nature's government, 
 To change the Ipecies of the beauteous race, 
 And raife fome form with more than human grace. 
 Since nothing yet has fuch perfeftion fhown, 
 I'o merit him ; The fair, the black, the brown. 
 Give equal joy, yet unconcernM he views ; 
 His mind fo vain, it knows not where to choofc ; 
 But round the common fcatters his defires. 
 And cools his filthy flreams in viler fires : 
 But if divine /^polio's care you*d prove. 
 Let honour's rules inftrudt you how to love : 
 Beftow your generous warmth on one dear Ihe, 
 As 'tis ordain'd by a divine decree. 
 Thus when you've learnt t'obey right reafon*is voice. 
 Then Phcebus will direft you in your choice. 
 
 Q^ Gentlemen, thefe verfes are made upon three LadieSy 
 great friends y- they dejtre your opinion, 'which of them the 
 author liked beftj the mattir being of confe^uence to tiim 
 all. 
 
 May Caelia's bloom for ever laf. 
 
 And Cloe's wit increafe. 
 May Daphne fiill continue chafle,. 
 
 And wonder iv/V/ not ceafe. . 
 
 A, Fair doe's nvit he thinks fo great 
 
 It cannot be increased; 
 The laji he donbti ; the fitfl to fate 
 
 Yields : Thofe he praifes leaft. 
 
 Q. Apollo, your flan;es 
 
 Are a parcel of hnanjes. 
 Or £lfe you your fehes are to blame i. 
 
 For your papers, wohich ufe 
 
 To be our mo) nitig mufe, 
 Till right nciv ive can't have the fame, 
 
 Hope 
 
 I 
 
^he British Apollo. S29 
 
 7 hope you nvill try 
 For- to reSlify 
 The faulty either in you or the hay, 
 That nue mayn't ft ay at home, 
 ExpeSling him to come. 
 For our time nxje can better employ. 
 A. The fwift flying God 
 Still keeps his own road ; 
 Then you mull have alter'd your Ilation : 
 So at the fame time. 
 You cannot his prime 
 Imagine, with his declination. 
 An advantage in this, 
 (If you take't not amifs) 
 You will find, fmce you have it at laft ; 
 ExpeSlation befides. 
 Which often betides 
 More pleafure, than prefent or pajt. 
 Q^ A Gentleman of my acquaintance ivas lately drink' 
 ing a bottle, and /peaking of a certain Lady, curjl her in 
 the name of God; but addedivithal, Tetfhe is a dear girl. 
 Jdejire to knoiv, <vchether hispronouncing the curfe is a fin j 
 and if it he, ^whether his folloiving ivords, Tetfhe is a dear 
 girl, do not leffen the fin ? 
 
 A. His pronunciation of the curfe, tho' it were at- 
 tended with no injurious defign, yet as taken in the 
 moft inofFenfive fenfe, it is undoubtedly a fm, in that 
 it is a dallying with religion, a playing with the moft 
 important matter, a fporting with no lefs a being than 
 his Maker, a tranfgreffing the third commandment, 
 a taking the name of God in ^vain. But as the fin of 
 curfing is highly aggravated by the propenfenefs of 
 the malice that too frequently attends it, fo thofe 
 mollifying words, which the Gentleman annex'd to the 
 curfe he utter'd, leflTen the propenfenefs of his malice, 
 and confequently fubtraft, not from the intrinfic 
 fmfulnefs of the curfe, but from the aggravating 
 circumftances of it. Subtradl, we fay, from them, 
 not totally remove them, fince the Gentleman, not- 
 withilanding that fofc exprelfion, feems chargeable 
 
 with 
 
830 The British Apollo. 
 
 with fome degree of malice towards even the very 
 object of his love : For from fo odd a mixture, this 
 feems to be the tenor of his then prefent thoughts j Ifo 
 refentfome of her proceedings, that I cannot forbear to curfe 
 her, and yet at the fame time foe's the mifirefs of my heart. 
 As therefore we cannot poflibly acquit the Gentleman 
 of fm, fo we are afraid ( tho' he's the beft judge of 
 his own thoughts, and therefore the only proper per- 
 fon pofitively to determine that ) that he muft plead 
 guilty to fome kind of aggravation too. Well there- 
 fore were it for us, if we wou'd pay a flrid obedi- 
 ence to that truly chriftian law, to that lovely, that 
 endearing precept ; a precept worthy that Son of God, 
 who came on purpofe to blefs the world ; not to curfe 
 us, but to be made a curfe for us ; Blefs, and curfe not. 
 
 Q^ Gentlemen, fuppoft it could be demonftrated, that 
 liberty in man nvas inconftfent ivith prefcience in Gid^ 
 nuhich njcere it more fafe for me to deny? 
 
 A. The queftion is of a nice importance, lince the 
 denial of either of the things propos'd divells the God-, 
 head of an indifputable prdf erty, or an effential attri- 
 bute. To fay, that God does not forefee all human ac- 
 tions, tho' as yet in future, is to difown our Maker, 
 to afiert either the eternity of the world, or the for- 
 tuitous concourfe of jumbling atoms, and impiouf- 
 \y to deny, in derogation to St. Faul, that the invifi- 
 ble things of the creation are clearly feen by the things that 
 are made. For if God be our Creator, the Author 
 of all the faculties of our fouls, he muil confequent- 
 ly foreknow the feveral refults, the various iffues, the 
 moft contingent determinations of thofe faculties, he 
 himfelf is the autJior of. To deny a liberty in man, 
 and yet fuppofe him not only a punilhable creature, 
 but undoubtedly to be punifti'd, and that too with, 
 very great feverity, if he does amifs j what is this but 
 to deny the tendernefs of our Father, the goodnefs 
 of our Maker, and pronounce God no better than a 
 malicious Being, than an Omnipotent evil, than Al- 
 mighty cruelty ? .But tho' the denial of the former 
 makes God and man perfeft ftrangers to one another, 
 
 and 
 
Th^ British Apollg. 831 
 
 and gives us the liberty to fay, with a profligate 
 Pharaoh, Who is the Lord? yet the denial of the latter, 
 if it feem to allow God the relation of a Creator, yet 
 it dellroys the fweetnefs, the excellency of that re- 
 lation. And as to be e^il is a worfe deficiency than 
 not to he at all j fo to be an e^M creator is inferior 
 to a no creator.' Add to this. That goodnefs is God's 
 darling attribute, the perfeftion he moll of all glories 
 in : For when 'hhfes defires a profpeft of his glory, 
 this is the anfwer he receives, I"j)illmake my GOOD- 
 NESS to pafs before thee. By which remarkable reply 
 he very clearly intimates, that his goodnefs and his 
 glory are equivalent expreffions. And therefore we 
 cannot put a greater indignity upon God, than by fay- 
 ing, in contradiftion to the Scriptures, that he is not 
 merciful y nor gracious, nor abundant in goodnefs. 
 
 But the' the denial of the laft be the moil pernici- 
 ous, with regard to the capacities of men, who often 
 very fteadily believe a God, and yet in confequence 
 deny him, while they entertain miftaken notions, and 
 ignorantly aflert fome particular opinions contrary to 
 his elTenee ; yet if we canvafs the matter in an ablb- 
 lute, in an irrellriftive fenfe, we may trace things 
 to their firft principles, we Ihall find, that to deny 
 cither of your two propofals is equally pernicious. 
 For as to fay. That God made not the world, is as 
 much as to fay. That there is no God ; fo inafmuch 
 as God is of an indivifible nature, and all his attri- 
 butes make up but one fimple efTence, to deny any one 
 of them is to deny them all ; and confequently to 
 ungod him, to turn him out of ^eing. Let ua 
 therefore part with neither our own liberty, nor 
 God's prefcience, while fenfible, while confcious of 
 the fatal confequence. 
 
 Q^ Is it pojjible fo freeze and fnonv together? 
 A. As the two phenomena, which you queflion 
 whether they be compatible, are matter of fadl, and 
 obvious to common notice (of which your own 
 obfcrvation might lately have convinced you) fo we 
 know of no confiderable objedion to it. If therefore 
 
 you 
 
832 The British Apollo. 
 
 you will be pleased to propofe any, we fhall endeavour 
 to oblige you with a folution. 
 
 Q^ / ha've lately fmolCd tobacco^ more out of a fro- 
 lic than any thing elfe. Whenever I fmokey it makes me 
 fpit a prodigious quantity of an Aqueous Saliva, fometimes 
 to thi quantity of four ounces, in the fmoking one ■pipe, 
 1 am naturally lean, hut, 1 thank God, I ha've my health 
 very ivell : Nona-, Gentlemen, 1 beg the fa'vour of you to 
 inform me, whether it he 'wholefom for me to fmoke ? I 
 Jhall either proceed or defji according to your ingenious 
 adnjice. 
 
 A. We advife you then to defift, fince in fuch 
 quantities of fpittle it is poffible that fome portion of 
 the nutritious juices may be evacuated, and your 
 health thereby impaiiM. 
 
 (i. What is hail? 
 
 A. Hail is the thicker clouds congeal'd in the 
 lower regions, as fnow is the thinner vapours con 
 geal'd in the higher regions of the atmofphere. 
 
 Q^ I defire to knonxj nxho brought furgery up frjl, and 
 hcnx) it came to he found out? 
 
 A. The art of chirurgery was doubtlefs imparted 
 to mankind at his firft formation by the all -wife 
 Creator, and by the fame providential, means it was 
 communicated to others, for the necefTary afliftance 
 of the afflidlcd, according to Jefus the fon of Syrachy 
 who faith, Of the Lord cometh healing. Nor was the 
 knowledge hereof only confin'd to mankind, but even 
 the brutes were endu'd with a fhare, as appears in the 
 Hippotamus, or fea-horfe, an inhabitant of the river 
 i^ile, who upon his difcovery of a plethory, or ful- 
 nefs of blood, opens a vein, by rubbing his thigh a- 
 gainft the fharp fands on the bank-fide : Nor is the 
 pradice of the goat lefs remarkable, who, upon the 
 diminution of his fight by films, cataradls, ^c. ftrikes 
 his head againft the thorny bufhes, whereby the caufc 
 is removed, and his fight recovered. 
 
 But Fliny tells us, that Podalirius and Machaon, the 
 two fons of jEfculapiuSf purfuing their Father's ftu- 
 
 diea^ 
 
ne British Apollo. 833 
 
 dies, were the firfl and chief regulators of that art* 
 and were thence accounted the inventors thereof. 
 Q^ Since matters jocofcy 'with fej-ious you jumble. 
 Pray anfvcer this trifiing demand from your humble, 
 Q^ / am by trade a coffee-man, a punch-maker, it 
 harber, u tooth-drawer, a fidler, a gimcrack-coUeSior, a 
 game-keeper, and as you may perceive, a Grubftreet- 
 dabler, No^v, as there ivas once an accumulative traitor, 
 f) I fancy fnyfelfan accumulative Vertuofo, and am in- 
 clined to addrefs Dr. S n, in order to be admitted a 
 
 brother of that mofi ingenious fociety ', but Jianding nicely 
 upon reputation, Ifhouldbe damnably baulked at a refufaL 
 Therefore in treat your learned junSlo, 
 T advife me as a man ofpunSo ; 
 iVo matter vohat thought nonxi prevails, 
 *Tisyou, Gallants, mujl turn the fc ales ^ 
 Whether your moji obedient fo, fo. 
 Be coxcomb, or a Vertuofo. 
 ^. Since matters ferious will not always pafs 
 With th* grave, we divert 'em fometimes with an 
 
 afs. 
 An accumulative Vertuofo ! why you are an accu- 
 mulative one in the moft fuperior fuperlative degree. 
 Never any dignify'd by that title, was mailer of fo 
 many acquifitions, to qualify himfelf forone. Firft, 
 Your dealing in contemplative coffee, whofe aduft pro- 
 perty reduces the body to a philofophical conliftency. 
 Then fpeculative punch, which dihtrfat mixtio, leads 
 you into the Arcana of fympathies, and their won- 
 derful efFefts. By barbing, you bring rude matters 
 into form, and obvious to perfpedion. Your dratv- 
 i7ig teeth gives demonftration of that axiom, that 
 pain which is great mull be Ihort ; by twitching 
 them out. Yomfdling fhews the harmony bf fcience. 
 A gimcrack colleSIor is a Vertuofo^ true badge. Your 
 game-keeping inilrufts you in the locomotive faculty : 
 And a Grubjireet-dabler is ofien the conclufion of the 
 matter. Therefore, upon the whole, if Dr. S" n 
 refufe you, we fhall fufpeft he is not ver&*d in all 
 thefe qualifications himfelf. 
 
 Th^' 
 
^54 ^^ British Apollo. 
 
 The learned Vertuofos tell us. 
 
 And they, you know, (are fubtle fellows) 
 
 Extremes point at the fame by turns ; 
 
 Thus ice, they fay in Greenland burns ; 
 
 And thus a modern Vertuofo, 
 
 And a notorious coxcomb, fo-fo. 
 
 May both be really the fame. 
 
 And only difi«r in the name. 
 Qj^ Tell me, ye 'worthy fons offuch ajlre. 
 Who <WGS the man thatjirji he did infpire. 
 In charaBen oh/cure to i-ent his mind. 
 And by mvjlerious Jlrokes did iKords define ? 
 Whojirji didJhackPd'-words in ^erfe controul. 
 And nvith harmonious nmnhers charmed the foul: 
 And hftly fing, AyoWd's darling fon. 
 Who has 'vjith moftrefplendent glory Jhone ? 
 
 A. From what orig'nal metre firil arofe. 
 None but xhQ /acred oracles difclofe. 
 For e'er the infancy of time begun, 
 Unmeafur'd yet by the created fun. 
 The forms of entities from Chaos fprang 
 And at their births coeleflial feraphs fang. 
 The GREAT Creator's artifice and praife. 
 Perhaps in models of immortal lays : 
 Whence Hated meafures and proportioned feet, 
 Firft facred hymns made regular and fweet. 
 Then ancient Patriarchs harps and organs form'd. 
 Which devotees with zeal and ardour warm'd. 
 Thus fmgs the man oiUz in lofty powers, 
 Th' Almighty rod ; y&t e'en that rod adores, 
 Amidft aiflidions of uncommon weight. 
 Obdurate patience filencing regret. 
 
 Nor can I lefs the noble ftrains admire, 
 Rais'd by the touch of the Jeffean lyre ; 
 Whether his lays enchant bewilder'd kings. 
 Or to the King of heaven the prophet fings : 
 Whofe fon, with fupernatural vvifdom fraught. 
 Ballad of ballads t'infpi ration taught : 
 Tho' with a feeming wantonnefs of ftyle. 
 Enough to make an am'rous reader fmile, 
 
 And 
 
Th€ British Apollo. ^'^^ 
 
 And e'en old age to clofe endearments move. 
 With a vivacious energy of love. 
 So foft his fpoufe's breafts, her eyes To bright. 
 Her cheeks fo fair, her downy neck fo white. 
 Her lips fo fweet, with fuch a graceful air. 
 Wave the curl'd ringlets of her golden hair. 
 
 Hence Heathen poets, to abuife mankind, 
 A fort of a collegiate farn ly feign'd ; 
 Where a wingM horfe, fpringing aerial flight, 
 SpurnM up a fountain on Famajfus height. 
 Then a young God o'er nine fair Ladies plac'd, 
 (Who a too v/anton regency embrac'd) 
 Call'd God of mufick, foetry, and hnje. 
 The ftrongeft charms that can our paffions move ; 
 Who learn'd thefe nymphs to fing poetic fongs. 
 And to his harp conform their warbling tongues. 
 
 Hence other poets t' imitation taught, 
 Of fair Eurydice and Chyfeh wrote ; 
 And of th' Orpheian lyre vaft wonders tell. 
 How it flruck dumb whole colonies of helL 
 How rapid rivers, that had long obey'd 
 Progreffive motions of their fountains head, 
 Queftion'd that power, which drove the current OB, 
 And would ftand ftillto liften to his fong. 
 How he made brutes of flones, and ftones of brutes. 
 At leaft both feem'd reciprocally mute i 
 For whilft he play'd, the brutes like ftones appeared. 
 And ftones, b'exchange of ears, attentive heard. 
 
 This was Jpollo's iirft and eldeft fon, 
 Who ftiackled words in tuneful meafures fung. 
 Then Grecian gen'rals, fwoln with pop'lar fame, 
 Ow'd to blind Homer an immortal name. 
 Which elfe had been induftrioufly forgot. 
 As deftin'd tvith their carcaffes to rot. 
 
 Next thefe the Mantuan bards, and 'venufine, 
 Demonftrate their originals divine, 
 Since they not only uncorrupt furvive. 
 But immortality to others give. 
 
 Waller^^ 
 
Z^S 57?^ Bri T ISH A POL LO. 
 
 Wallers by them judicioufly polite, 
 
 Tho' Co^Kky feems an aboriginal wit. 
 
 And thoughtful Dryden^ by laborious toil, 
 
 LearnM fweets to breed, or glean from foreign foil. 
 
 Whilft fublime Milton on aerial wings, 
 
 Flutt'ring fufpence, melodious numbers fings. 
 
 Befides fome poets of the prefent age, 
 
 Whofe charming mufes Jloicks would engage; 
 
 Bards of found wit, and folid fenfe approv'd. 
 
 Who, when extinft, will be admir'd and lov'd. 
 
 Therefore, kind Sir, your inquifition fpare, 
 Apollo has his darling every where. 
 All nations under him fome favourites praife. 
 To whom they give defervedly the bays : 
 Some for one end, fome on another fcore. 
 Apt as the charader each writer bore. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, tell me^ fine e you are di'viney 
 Whether or no in hea<ven I Jhall Jhine ? 
 Refohe jne this, and then Vd quickly know. 
 By your next an/hver, if you're fo or no. 
 
 A. If in your life no virtue brighter fhines. 
 Than the dim fancy in your clouded lines. 
 There's little, very little hopes, alas ! 
 To thofe illnjirious realms you'll ever pafs. 
 Q^ Apollo, lay doixn this your trading in *uerfe. 
 For by that the mojl ivifdomyoulljho'w. 
 And fuch paltry quejiions no longer rehearfe. 
 
 With your anf-ujers as infolent too. 
 For your papers degrade the bright name they ajfume. 
 
 By their mean and ifnpertinent Jirain, 
 Atui your notions are perched on the tonjoring plume^ 
 
 Where a fprightUer genius Jhould reign. 
 From indifferent at firfi, they divindled to dull. 
 
 And norw to infipid are gro<vjn. 
 They exadly delineate the depth ofyourjkully 
 Therefore deemed as the drug of the totvn. 
 And the prober b^s in<vaUd as plainly you JhQ<vj, 
 
 (Tho' in impudence fill you' re the bolder) 
 That the longer they lime, fill the 'wijer they grow. 
 For Apollo p-rMv/ older and older. 
 
 * A. When 
 
ne British Apollo. 837 
 
 A. When blockheads rail on, without one pretence 
 
 At what, nor obferve any rules. 
 All that can be gueft by their delicate fenfe 
 
 Is, that they are but ill-natur'd fools. 
 Did ever yet nizey, in any difpute, 
 
 'Gainft notions in numbers lay down ; 
 E'er hope his poor ftock of dull brains wouM confute. 
 
 When he never durft touch upon one. 
 The wife, the well-bred, and the leam'd (not a few) 
 
 Approach with their praifes our Ihrine; 
 We want but fuch clouds to oppofe us as you. 
 
 To make us the brighter to fliine. 
 But you have been bit by a former reply. 
 
 On which, with thefe iharp lines youVe tilted ; 
 The glorious revenge, to which always fly 
 
 Bilkt whores, and their bullies, when jilted. 
 
 Q^ Why the tvord Selah is put at the end of fever al 
 fverfes in the pfalms ? 
 
 A. Selah is either a mufical note, and according to 
 Kimchi imports the elevation of the voice, as though 
 it were irregularly derived from Salal, to elevate; or 
 it iignifies a common paufe. 
 
 Q^ The uneafinefs that a late accident has brought 
 9n me, is the author of this addrefs to you, The accident 
 fwas this : 
 
 Some months Jince, through the excejs of drinking, 1 
 njuasfei^d ivith a very high fe'ver, and in the delirium, I 
 ga<ve my ^fe a hlovj upon her left breaji, (asjhe nvas of- 
 fering me Jfomething to drink) <vjhich (in the judgment of 
 her phyficians) produc'd a cancer, ofiMhichJhe lately dy d, 
 
 No<vj I dejire to knonx) nvhether I am accountable for 
 any a£lion committed ^without confcioufnefs, altho^ ifs th^ 
 confequent of a crime committed <with. 
 
 A, Where there is a melancholy confequence of 
 any crime we have been guilty of, which is intirely 
 accidental, and could not poffibly be forefeen, we are 
 chargeable with no other guilt, than that of the 
 crime it felf. But drunkennefs is attended with many 
 terrible confequences, which ftrangely aggravate its 
 iinfulnefs, and render it the more exceeding fmful. A 
 
 fever 
 
838 27?^ British Apollo. 
 
 fever frequently proceeds from drinking to excefs ; a 
 confequent delirium from fuch excefs, and unac- 
 countable a<^ions from fuch delirium. Whence we 
 become the more flridly bound religioufly to abftain 
 from thofe offences, of which we know not what 
 may be the difmal illue. And therefore you do well 
 to be uneafy, fo you be but careful, that your uneali- 
 nefs advance not to any, the leait degree of unwar- 
 lantable defperation. For you muft not look upoa 
 your felf as a murderer, but as a kind of inadver- 
 tent acceflbry. And indeed all drunkards are equally 
 guilty with your felf ; fmce, however they might 
 have been more happy than to have met fo fatal a 
 confequence enfuing from their drunkennefs, yet 
 they could no more than you, warrant to themfelves 
 fo undeferved an happinefs. Not but that you are 
 yet oblig'd more feverely to bewail your drunkennefs, 
 fmce the tragedy that enfued muft have given yott 
 a more lively fenfe of fo dangerous a fin. And upon 
 the fame account you are under a ftrider obligation 
 never to repeat the crime, never more to be /irunk 
 <ixith ivine, nvherein is excefs. 
 
 Q^ Sin, Jama cauntry-bred young creature, not knonu- 
 ing the nfjays of that <wicked ttywn, ivas foon draruon into 
 the fnares of lo^e by a young man, after a little ^whili 
 keeping company, nAihof^ore by all that nxas facred and di- 
 njim, he ijuould marry me, if I 'would ajfure him, I lov^A . 
 m man in the njoorldfo 'well as himfelfy^which I boundiuith 
 as fer^uent oaths, andjincere protejiations, as this ^wicked 
 nuretch did to me. 7he night before the marriage iv* 
 met at a tavern, njohere he fhenx)^d me a ring and licenfe, 
 and that nxse <vjere already man and 'wife in the fight of 
 God ; and by that time a pint had gone round, nothing 
 nvou/d keep his bafe hands from under my petticoats, of- 
 fering fuch things as nry modejiy njoill not allaiv me to re- 
 peat ; upon 'which I fle'w out of his arms, and made a 
 refolution ne'ver tofpeak to him again. No^w the piejiiou 
 is, 'whether I commit a fin in not marrying this man, or 
 ^whether htsinfufferabk rwknefi b( not a fufficiint reafon 
 to part for i'Vir ? 
 
 A. Madam 
 
72?(? British Apollo. 839 
 
 A. Madam, the rudenefs which your Lover was 
 fo unhandromly, as well as finfully guilty of, difen- 
 gages you from your former obligation, fince it gives 
 you at leafta juft fufpicion, that he defignM only to 
 fatisfy his brutal lull, and then to have bafely left you 
 in the lurch. And tho' from the tenor of your que- 
 flion we may probably colledt, that he is ftill will- 
 ing to engage in a nuptial Hate, yet you may con- 
 fider, that there are too many in the world, who 
 are fo inflam*d with love we dare not fay, but with 
 a bafef paffion towards the obje£ls of their luft^ 
 as to be willing to fubmit to matiimony, if they can- 
 not obtain their fatisfadlion in the way of libertines. 
 As therefore his willingnefs to marry cannot acquit 
 him of fo ungeiserous a defign, fo it fuggefls too 
 what fort of a hufbandyou have reafon to expedt. 
 
 But after all, in fo tender, in fo nice a point, we 
 are of opinion, that you wou'd aft the part of a dif- 
 creet, of a prudent Lady, not to be too hafty in your 
 final determination, in your lail refclvc ; but to wait 
 patiently a while, to examine the condud of his life, 
 to make a narrov/ fcrutiny into his future deportment, 
 and at lad to determine your refolution, agreeably 
 to the nature of the obfervation you Ihall have made, 
 
 Q^ In the tjland of Borneo, there is a ri<ver call d 
 Banjarmaffeen, njohere the 'En^\^ fa^ory nvas fettled, 
 and it's afrefh v:atet river ^ and the ivater very good and 
 fwholefom to drink excepting tnvo months in the year (viz.) 
 Auguft «»^'Sep: .:ber, dwingixihichtime^ there is a 
 doleful groaning in the ivater, and then the nxaters are 
 unnvholefom to drink, and yet going but five or fix miles 
 farther up it is good: Novj I defire yotill give me the 
 reafon vjhy the viater makes Juch a doleful noife, and 
 its being fo prejudicial to drink ; for the natives differ 
 in their opinions concerning it ? 
 
 A. The unwholefomnefs o£ thefe waters does in 
 all probability proceed from fome noxious and poifo- 
 nous vapours arifing at that time from the earth, 
 under that place of the river ; and the doleful groan- 
 ing that is heard is nothing elfe but the noife thefe 
 
 vapours 
 
S40 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 vapours occafion, as they break out of fome fubter- 
 raneous cells, and are making their way through the 
 water. 
 
 Q. A Gentleman ivas faying, that he had read of a 
 certain place in Italy, luhere there is a ca^e, and a lake 
 near adjoining, ivhich are of fo njery different a nature, 
 that if a dog be put in the ca've, he is nofooner in, but he 
 falls donvn dead; but if he be immediately taken out, and 
 put in the aforefaid lake, he comes to life again. 
 
 Query, Whether the dog be really dead, if not, njuhat 
 may be the caufe of his feeming to be fo? 
 
 A. If the dog was really dead, you may be fure he 
 would never come to life again, but he may be fo in 
 all appearance, the motion of the blood and fpirits be- 
 ing at that time very inconfiderable and impercepti- 
 ble, tho' not quite ceafed ; as has been oftentimes ob- 
 ferved in fome ftrong hyfteric, or apopleftic fits, 
 which have been the caufe of fome people being mi- 
 ferably buried alive. 
 
 Qj^ The reafon 'why fome people, ivhen marry* d for 
 Pwenty-three, or more years (njohen young and healthful) 
 hafve no children, and after that time expired, they (per- 
 haps) breed apace ? 
 
 A. The caufe of that we take chiefly to lye in the 
 0'variu7n Muliebre, the eggs, of which it is made 
 up, being at iirft unfit to be impregnated by the fpi- 
 rituous parts of the Semen Virile, but in procefs of 
 time they may grow ripe, and well difpofed to be 
 fecundated by them. 
 
 Q^ Gentlemen, pray tell me the meaning of that ^vulgar 
 ixprejjion, viz. a Canterbury Ilory ? 
 
 A. The frequent pilgrimages, which in Fopifh 
 times were made to Canterbury, gave this ancient fay- 
 ing birth, by reafon of the tedious ftorics which 
 were told by pilgrims, with defign to divert each o- 
 ther as they walkM along, and thereby leflen the fa- 
 tigues of the journey. 
 
 Q^ Soine children are horn nuith cauls (not unlike 'vail 
 cauls) o'ver their faces, nvhich are accounted <very fortu- 
 nate to them. And ^tis faid, that mafen of (hips nfjill 
 
 give 
 
ne British Apollo. 841 
 
 give conjlderahle fums of money for thofe cauls to carry 
 to fea ijoith them. I nvould beg the fa^vour of you to af- 
 Jtgn the reafon, nvhy fome children only are hern <vjith thofe 
 cauls y and the occafeon thereof? Whether you think they 
 bring any particular fortune to fuch as are horn nx:ith 
 them^ and 'uuhy they Jkould he fo defrd by the feamen ? 
 A. The ancients were very fuperftiticus in their 
 opinion of fuch being fortunate, who were born 
 with cauls about their heads ; not only fo, but that 
 Ihou'd fuch perfons lofe them, the good fortune 
 would attend the finder, and great fums were given 
 to midwives for thena. Balfamon affirms, that Pr^etus, 
 a clergyman, bought fuch an one through expefta- 
 tion of being fortunate thereby. Advocates purchas'd 
 them at great rates, expedling fuccefs and applaufe in 
 their pleadings by virtue of them : nay, fome fan- 
 cy'd, that fuch who poffefs'd ^them were not fubjedt 
 to the miferies and infelicities of human life. We 
 fuppofe this fuperllition arofe from an obfervation of 
 the fuccefs of fome, who happen'd fo to come into 
 the world, as 'tis related of Antonius, who arriv'd to 
 the fovercign dignity of the empire, in the manage- 
 ment of which, all things fucceeded according to his 
 defire. But fmce fuch eiFe<^s would make a coi»- 
 fulion in the fettled chain of natural caufes, we look 
 upon them as idle fancies and groundlefs conceits. 
 
 Q, The queriji //, in all appearance y of a found and 
 firong conftitutioHy and has been ufed to li-ve nxelly and 
 this day is 3 7 years of age. But for thefe ten years 
 paji hath not eat any fort of butcher's meat for fupporf, 
 alt ho' drejl after the beji manner, viz. BeefJiakeSy mut- 
 ton-cutletSy 'veal, &c. but he certainly anxiakes about three 
 of the clock in the morning, and continues fo tiMO hoursy 
 nxjhilft no fort of fi(h or poultry has phat efeSi upon him^ 
 although the former is liked as 'vjell. Tour full anfuuer 
 is defred as- to the reafon of the cafe ? 
 
 A. This difturbance which affiids the querift, arifes 
 from indigellion : Beef, mutton, veal, l^c. being 
 more grois, and confeqaently more difficultly con- 
 codled than fifh, poultry, ^c. 
 
 Vol. Ill, Oo Q, T/ 
 
^42 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Te fons o/* Deli us telly ivhy fying fame, 
 yAdded the Great to Alexander'; name ; 
 That title only te a Prince belongs^ 
 Who by juji njoar fight i to revenge his nvrongs ; 
 Whofe iyinjcard <vtrtue teaches him to ufe 
 With heanienly reafon <uihat the hea'vens produce, 
 Whoy nx;hen <vi^oriQuSy ^weighs the common good, 
 Rejlrains the nuanton njcajie of human bloody 
 Negle^s the ferpenty and infiiSs the rod. 
 Such ijcas not hey for mafjacre and fame, 
 Enfud his conquejis nuherefoe'er he came, 
 Till OH the pinnacles of pride he trody 
 And calPd his mother njuhore to be a Gad. 
 Nor nvas his lujl inferior to his pride y 
 His God/hip nothing to his tajie denfd. 
 Wives, whores, and eunuchs nuait on his dejire. 
 So hot the God, Jo ^vigorous his fire ; 
 So ivonderful prof ufe, that for a kifs, 
 Hefir'd the palace of Perfepolis ; 
 Murder'' d his nearefi friends, ^wholedthe ivay^ 
 And brought him fafe to uninjerfal fway. 
 Confider, ivife Phoebeans, then relate 
 Whether ^tivas vice or virtue nanid him Great ? 
 A. Were he the God he vainly wifh'd to be. 
 He might have liv'd from human frailties free. 
 But tho' the height of glory's fpire he knew. 
 E'en in that height he was but man like yoa. 
 E'er then you blame his vices, learn to be 
 Lord of as many virtues as was he ; 
 Then will you own thofe monarchs to excel, 
 Jn whom more virtues fhine, than frailties dwell. 
 Q^ At lafi he is found, 
 
 The boy 1 ha^ve houndy 
 And fend him to you for corredion ; 
 
 Pray be not fi'vere, 
 
 To my poor little deary 
 As- you 'value his mother's affedion: 
 
 Tnjoice the child has been fir ip'd, 
 
 NoiAj in doggrele^uip'df 
 
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 tilt 
 
The British Apollo, 84^ 
 
 T've fent him his fortune to try^ Sirs ; 
 
 Tho^ I cannot but doubt. 
 
 He ivillbe kept outy 
 By fome of your proud fuper<vifors. 
 
 No<w ecoutez mon ciier \ 
 
 Methinks 1 appear ^ 
 Like the €ipe ^with her mimicking babies. 
 
 Who imagined that Jove 
 
 Would their beauties approve. 
 And ejieem ''em infallible rabbies. 
 
 If (oVs not a Jloic, 
 
 (In ejfay heroic. 
 E'er long I moft fleetly iajHI warble) 
 
 He'll then not refufe, 
 
 7o encomium mymufe, 
 XJnlefs his hearths harder than marble. 
 
 The cafe is mo/i plain. 
 
 Id his favour obtain. 
 But if, after all, Im not able ; 
 
 Then Malheureufe me, 
 
 / furely fhall be 
 Drub^d like the poor afs in the fabled 
 
 But nvhile at this rate. 
 
 Like a coquet I prate, 
 1 lead you anvay from the text. 
 
 Whence fay (on infpeSiion) 
 
 Why moft fairs their affehion. 
 Unto the priefs goivn have annexfl 
 A. We give you much joy. 
 
 On the finding your boy; 
 And fmce he's arriv'd to our arms. 
 
 We'll be kind, never fear. 
 
 To your poor little dear. 
 For the fake of his mother's bright charms. 
 
 We're glad he's been ftript. 
 
 Since he's better equipt, 
 His mein, and his Oir, and his drefsy 
 
 A dignify'd birth. 
 
 From parents of worth, 
 ^^ a frank education conft^fs. 
 
 Oo i Cmmm 
 
844 ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Comment dite% <vous 
 Will Jo've fmile at you ! 
 The honour you're likelier to gain. 
 That he will much rather. 
 Believe himfelf Father, 
 And that the boy fprang from his brain. 
 Already /oh heart. 
 Is toucht by your art ; 
 But if in heroic you fing. 
 His Daphne no more. 
 He'll court as before. 
 But to you his offerings bring. 
 And can you importune. 
 What as his bell fortune. 
 With eagernefs he wou'd embrace, 
 I ^elBonheur! That he. 
 
 Thus favour'd fhou'd be. 
 When Jonje might be proud of his place. 
 But now we come next, 
 To the point of your text ; 
 The priejis for their parts are admir'd. 
 And which they you know. 
 Have advantage to Ihow, 
 And by what can the fair more be fir'd ? 
 Qj^ Pray tell me bright Phcebans, that is if you. can^ 
 Why TCitnJhould court women, fl»^ women not men ? 
 
 A. That man by prerogatinje might make his choice. 
 And ijoomen have only a negative voice. 
 Q^ Pyayy refohve me, Apollo, 
 If •joiid ha've me to follonx) 
 [ ToUy for your ivifdom and tarts \ 
 
 What is the true re a/on, ,.,.,, 
 
 Why nettlesy in feafon, \ 
 Do caufe fuch 'violent /marts. 
 My de/ire and reque/i 
 
 Is, yoiid make this no je/t, " . "^ 
 
 But return me an anpwer, certe. 
 In njohich I pre/age. 
 You'll e'ver engage, 
 Mtt your mo/l humble ftrvant, R. T. 
 
 ^. From 
 
^he British Apollo. f 45 
 
 A. From their genuine flame, 
 Macer gives them the name, 
 Which Urtica the latini ft renders , 
 And fuppofes that heat 
 Does thofe fymptoms create, 
 Which make them fuch painful offenders. 
 But 'tis plain to the view. 
 As all Microfcopes fhew. 
 That with prickles three pointed they vex us ; : 
 Which occalion that pain. 
 We by touching them gain, 
 And the tumors wherewith they perplex u?. 
 Q^ T^he Je^ijh Rabbins fa-y^ that ^when Jofeph nvas 
 /oldy Ifaac 'was yet lining, ^iery, honv can it be, Jince 
 nuefindin Genefis, the death of Ifaac anterior to the/ale 
 g/^ Jofeph ? 
 
 A. The reafon which you alledge, is not fuffici- 
 ent to confute trte Jewifh Rabbins, fmce all hiftorians 
 take the allowed liberty to invert the order of time, 
 and relate fubfequent occurrences before their antece- 
 dent ones. But what irrefragably confutes them i?, 
 that at the firft verfe of the Chapter, where the fell- 
 ing oi Jofeph into Egypt is related, Ifaac is mention- 
 ed as already dead. Befides, we might conclude a 
 probability againft them another way. Ifaac wasthree- 
 fcore years old when jfacob was born, and died at an. 
 hundred and fourfcore. Whence Jac-oh mufl have 
 been but an hundred and ten at his father's death. 
 Whereas he was an hundred and thirty at his defcent 
 into Egypt. Whence it follows, that Jofeph muft have 
 been, according to the Rabbins, at leaft twenty years 
 in Egypt before his father. But the two years of fa- 
 mine, which were already paft, the feven years of 
 plenty, and the two years after the pardon of the 
 chief butler, to Pharoah's dreams, added together make 
 But eleven. Which being fubtrafled from twenty, 
 nine remain. As therefore he was but two years in 
 prifon after the delivery of the chief butler, fo the 
 time of his imprifonment, and of his being in Poti- 
 phar's houfe, mult have been confequently eleven vears- 
 O03 ' B^it 
 
^4^ 71?^ British Apollo, 
 
 But this is what, from the tenor of the hiflory, we 
 think to be improbable at leaft. 
 
 P Q^ Pray explain the lafi 'verfe of the laft Chapter of 
 St. John; And there are alfo many other thinge which 
 Jefus did, the which if they fhould be written every 
 one, I (uppofe that the world itfelf could not con- ■ 
 t in the books that fhould be written. 
 
 jJ. Origen interprets the word ycwe^ria-my not to fig- 
 rJfy contain, as does our tranflation, but to import 
 rccel-ve or admit qf. And therefore according to that 
 great man, the fenfe is, thefupendiousgreatnefiofthe 
 *worh to he recorded in the books that fhould bt nvritteny 
 nvoiiU make them feem to the n^^orld AS IDLE TALES. 
 !But as Origen was full of errors, fo we beg leave to 
 add this to the number, for the following reafons : 
 
 1. According to this interpretation, the greatcft of 
 our Saviour's miracles are buried in obfcurity, and 
 tliofe only of a lefs magnitude recorded in the four 
 Evangelirts : But to remark occurrences of a fmaller 
 import, and overlook thofe of a greater ; this is {o 
 contrary to the method of hiftory that we dare not 
 lay it to the charge of thofe divine Hiftorians. 
 
 2. We cannot think, that the Son of God, who ne- 
 ver did a miracle but for great, for important ends, 
 would ever have performed his greateft miracles, 
 A^'ould ever have fuperfeded the Hated laws of nature, 
 have inverted the fettled order of the Creation in the 
 moil furprifing manner, unlefs he defigned it to be 
 of ufc to the generations that nx' ere yet unborn. 
 
 3. The Scriptures very plainly acquaint us, that our 
 Lord's refurredlion was the greateft of all his maracles. 
 And can we think, that he v/ould have a greater mi- 
 racle publilh'd to the world, as the main pillar of his 
 religion, and yet defign to have lefs miracles fup- 
 prels'd left they ftiould be look'd upon as romantic 
 and fabulous ? But the publication of thofe other mi- 
 racier, which were neareft in degree to that of his re- 
 furrciflion, could probably have had no other effe<5l 
 than the advancing the credibility of his rifmg from 
 the dead. 
 
 [4. They 
 
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T/6^ B R I T I s H Apollo. 847 
 
 4. They who believed the miracles, that are ac- 
 tually recorded, would have believed greater miracles, 
 had any fuch been done. For fince the miracles al- 
 ready written cannot otherwife be accounted for, 
 than by a necefiary recourfe to a fupernatural agency ; 
 fb fuch an agency mufthave confequently filencedali 
 our fcruples concerning the moft ftupendious miracles, 
 fmce we cannot but confefs with our bleffed Lord, 
 that woith God all things, are pojjtble, 
 
 5. The very expreHions in this memorable palTage 
 dired us to number, and not to magnitude. Js Jiijl, 
 There are aljoVlAlsY other thin(Ts, ^uohichjefus did. idlj. 
 If they jhould he ^vritten EVERY ONE. And ^dly, £ 
 
 fuppofey that even the ~a;orld itfelf^juouldnot contain l^^Wdi 
 BOOKS that Jhould he ^uuritten. The books, not the 
 works ; which plainly intimates, that the books which 
 fhould be written wou'd be many in number. When 
 therefore we behold fo many charafters of number, 
 
 . and not fo much as one of magnitude, reafon fure 
 will bear us out, if we expound the pafTage of the 
 former. 
 
 But to leave Origen^ and give you the fenfe, in 
 which moft interpreters are agreed, the expreffion is 
 
 ■ accounted for by a rhetorical figure, call'd Hyperbole, 
 which by fomething literally incredible couches fome- 
 thing elfe very wonderful and extraordinary. And 
 
 \ this is a figure frequently made ufe of by all forts of 
 writers, whether facred or profane. The meaning 
 therefore of the pafTage, as hyperbolically reprefented, 
 is, that if all our Sa-jiours anions nxiere to he committed 
 to 'Writings <very many nvould be the books ^ that of necejjt- 
 ty mujl he ^written. 
 
 But if any are better pleafed with Origetis inter- 
 pretation of the word ;^6'^>jtr«», they may yet apply to 
 number inftead oimagnitude. And then the fenfe wou'd 
 be, that if all our Sa-viour^s miracles nvere recorded, they 
 ^vjoiid befo numerous, as tojeem incredible to the nxorld. 
 
 But we would propofe another expofition as mat- 
 ter of conjedlure, and leave it to the reader to choofe 
 it, orrejei^ it. The hooks that Jhould hi 'v,ritten, ivould 
 O o 4 ^tf 
 
848 7he Bri tish Apollo. 
 
 befo many that they nxjouU frighten mankind from reading 
 them, and be the caufe of their rejtiiion njoith the n^jorld^ 
 iioho are generally better ■pleajed'withjhort narrations ^ than 
 voluminous accounts. 
 
 Q^ Some time ago I had an affeSiionfor a young Lady, 
 andjhe^ I atn <very nx:ell affured, had the fame for me \ 
 but my friend Jeeming njery much againfi it, 'we had a 
 p-i<vate correfpondence : but my friend happening once to 
 fifpeB it^ and charging me ivit,h it, lonvnedit, but fay- 
 ing in a pa fion, I nx'ij/j I might never prcfper^ if enjer I 
 had her, not confidering njuhat 1 faid ', ^Ach as foon as 
 utter d, nxas a great trouble both to me and. my friend. 
 Nonx^fnce that, there is a ^very great probability of all our 
 friends agreeing to it. And that I hanse alfo, for thrfe 
 ele^cen years, lived in the houfe ivith a young Lady ivho is 
 novu about fe-venteen years of age. Since Iff knen»her, 
 1 ahv ays fancied her for a pretty tempered child, and for 
 that reafon, *we alivays called one another hufba7id and 
 nvife. She alvuays feemed uneafy, though fo 'very young, 
 fuohen I luas abfent, and Iha've al-ways,fnce I knenio her, 
 tarried it 'very kind to her, and ha<ve told her that I 
 ixouldnot hanje any body but her. Within this little time, 
 feme body has told her, that I am going to be tnarried, 
 luhich as foon asjhe heard, Jhe burf into tears, and e-ver 
 ftnce has feemed fvery difcon folate. 1 muf needs onun I 
 really refpeSI her, Jhe is <very handfom, and a fortune every 
 njcay anfixerable to mine, and both her, and my friends, 1 
 knctv, ixould be fverynxiellfatisfed, nay, extremely jleas'd, 
 if it nt'as a match. Nonu, Gentlemen, in the \f place, I 
 begyeur opinion, ^whether I might expeSI a curfe tofollonx) 
 we, if I had the firf, according to my rojh v:ijh. And 
 zdly, ixhether I can leave thefecond Lady, and if I mar- 
 ry her, the frf tells me, lfi>all make her miferable. 
 
 A. You have omitted fome particular circumftances, 
 which are abfolutely neceffary to the determination 
 of the cafe. But we (haJI propofe the folutions, that 
 naturally refult from thofe fuppofed circumftances ; 
 whence you may readily feleft thofe particular ones, 
 which your confcioufnefs of the feveral circumftances 
 will enable you to choofe as the moft pertinent. 
 
 li 
 
The British A pol lo. 849 
 
 If" you made a promife of marriage to the firlt 
 Lady, neither your rafh willi, nor any promife to the 
 fecond, can fuper fede your former promife. For the 
 nature of the thing evidently Ihews, that prior obli- 
 gations muil neceffarily cancel all fucceeding ones. But 
 we wouM in treat you to obferve, that you might have 
 engag'd your felf to her without a dire£l verbal pro- 
 mile : For marriage may be adlually concluded with- 
 out the vulgar exprefTion of the affirmative Tea. And 
 indeed, fince words are no other than the indications 
 of the mind, whatever words are fo (how diredl fo- 
 ever) they are equally binding with the moil pofitive 
 terms. Nay, an obligation may become valid by a 
 mere tacit compliance or confent. 
 
 If you were not engag'd to the Eril: Lady, but are 
 at perfed liberty, you Ihould then confider, whether 
 you made any promife to the fecond, whether the 
 expreifions, which you us'd, were defign'd feriouflyy 
 or jocularly only. For in cafe you promisM the fe- 
 cond, and not the 'iix^, then your ra^ wiih, and the 
 promife v,'hich you made, both of them concur to 
 oblige you to a compliance with her reafonable de- 
 fire. But here alfo you muft obferve, that tho' your 
 exprellions were intended only as jocofe, yet if ihe 
 took them in a ferious acceptation, and you, notwith- 
 ilanding you were fenfible that (he did fo, proceeded 
 to repeat them, common equity will inforce thofc 
 exprellions v/ith the obligation of a promife. 
 
 \{ you are at liberty, with refped to both, yet^ 
 iince the f.rii Lady, in cafe of your refufal, may, ac- 
 cording to what ) ou fay, poHibly expire with the o- 
 verbearing concern of fo fatal a misfortune, but pro- 
 bably be for ever rniferable, your rafh wilh can no^ 
 ways hinder the performance of fo charitable an ac- 
 tion, as that of refcuing a Lady from either death or 
 mifery. Nay, fmce your addreiies to the Lady are 
 the unhappy caufe of Vvhatever ihe may undergo, if: 
 is abfolutely your duty to prevent the confequence. 
 And fare a rafh wifli can never be allow'd to interfere; 
 %ich an indifpenfable, a neceltary duty. 
 
 O 5 But. 
 
850 Tl:e British Apollo. 
 
 • Bat then, in cafe (as is faid before) you are at per- 
 fed liberty with .refpe*5t to both, you mufl: yet take 
 it into your farther confideration, whether your re- 
 fufal may not prove as fatal to the fecond as to the 
 firft. For, on condition that it will, your rafli wifli 
 will entirely turn the balance in her favour. 
 
 As for the confent of friends, you fay that there is 
 a probability of their approbation of the firft Lady. 
 Bat if that probability ihould fill, you muft apply it 
 to thofe of the foregoing circamftances, which you 
 know to be your own cafe. For it is too tedious 
 for us, who are igrorant of the true circumftance?, 
 to apply it to all. But we muft remind you to con- 
 fider, whether they be fuch friends as have an autho- 
 rity over you ; and that, tho' they be fuch, they have 
 only a negative, not a pofitive vote. 
 
 But if you hnd your felf at a lofs to make a proper 
 application of the aforefaid point to your real circum'- 
 llanccs, acquaint us with thofe real circumflances, 
 and we ihall endeavour a foluticn. 
 
 But if by virtue of the premifes you fhall deter- 
 mine in favour of the iirft Lidy, we muft advife yon 
 fmcerely to repent of the rafhnefs of your wifh, hear- 
 tily to bewail fo indifcrect a procedure, and implore 
 your oif€nded Maker with an humble fervency, that 
 he would hz gracioufly pleas'd to avert the confequence. 
 Nay, tho' you fhould never marry her, and therefore 
 not become obnoxious to the import of your wifh, 
 yet you muft not omit to intreat a pardon for fo 
 rafh, fo unwarrantable an imprecation, ior /peaking fo 
 unadvifedly ^with your lips, 
 
 Q^ Genthnen, ixihere Jhould unguarded innocence apply 
 for dire^ion, but to Apcllo'j Jhrine F Here ther$forc I 
 addrefsy and beg you iof.'i'vour me iviih a fpcedy a7:fn:er, 
 1 am nonjj ahicji eighteen ; a Gentleman has been in lot^e 
 <uith me (as he pretends) about a year. 1 dnx^n I ha've nfed 
 him illy naj( I may fay J rudely. But he not<=wilhflaridirg 
 fill pur fues me nvith his addi tjfes, 1 can'' t fay I ha-i'e any 
 a^Oerfon to his perfon or circumfames, hut having Jo lon^ 
 perfified tn my iapricious bumatr, 1 a?n really aft aid to 
 
 entertain 
 
^e B Ri T I s H A po L L 0. 851 
 
 entertain my fparJ^ s pajjion, fearing he purfues me on this 
 fnaxifn (luhich 1 am told is general among ji the fex) of 
 gaining me, if but to be re^oen^dfor my former carriage: 
 Jf fo, and Iconfent to entertain his lo-oCy tho^ honourable y 
 I muji be miferable. 
 
 J. Forbear, ra(h Lady, to entertain this your un- 
 charitable opinion of a Gentleman, who, by your 
 own confeffion, hath been a captive to your charms 
 fo confiderable a feafon, and ilill rejoices in the fuc- 
 ceflion of his flavery. Love, Madam, cannot admit 
 of that fallacious maxim, and it is beneath its de- 
 votees to ftoop to the practice of fuch an ungene- 
 rous revenge. Nor can your capricious humour fig- 
 nify any other than a Grata Proter^itas^ which is a 
 general promoter of the growth of admiration, and 
 confequently proves the ftrongeft attractive. Our ad- 
 vice is therefore, that you would yield to the purfuit,, 
 and compenfate the author of fuch a generous affec- 
 tion, with the poiTefiion of your perfon ; fo may 
 you both become partakers of that extatick unioa 
 JHention'd by the Poet, 
 
 Felices ter i^" amplius 
 
 ^os irrupt a tenet copula 
 
 Thrice happy they, whofe nuptial yoke 
 Can ne'er by any means be broke. 
 Q^ Apollo, / kno-w. 
 Wife reafcns do Jhonxi 
 To probhns fublime and reclufe : 
 And therefore 1 jiand. 
 With ?ny cap in my hand. 
 For an anftver to cofne from your inufe,- 
 Fray, tvhy is it that 
 Proof brandy kills cat. 
 Since men take the fame as pJyyJick? 
 Prnftre it is true, 
 Pray anfxver me Jo, 
 Afpoonful or lefs docs the trick t 
 I ferioufy ask. 
 And fet no hard tasky 
 So he not j£ve!% nor fatyrick, 
 
 O 6 Jr SincC' 
 
852 ^he BRiTisnApoLLa 
 
 J. Since you feem fo exact,. 
 
 In the matter of fad, 
 And fo faithful appear in your query ;•' ^ 
 
 Some reply we fhall fhew, 
 Be't a falfe one or true, 
 Kor Ihall reafons fatyrical fcare you. 
 Then Apollo prefumes, 
 ' ris the volatile fumes 
 Of that lii^uor, which caufe fuffocations : 
 Whole extravagant heat 
 Does the fpirits defeat. 
 And engender fuch Grange alterations. 
 Q^ // ii a co7nmo}i receinJ'd opinion ^ that a fe-vetith foa 
 hy one nxoman^ ^ticithout any daughters betixeen, has the 
 po^wer of healing fei'eral difeafes. Nonv, Gentlemen^ lam 
 a ftienth fan,. SiC. but ne^verthelefs, the de*el a difeafe 
 tan I healy not fo much as the tooth-axh ; <ivhich is a great 
 vneafinefs to iney that I alone, among all the other fe-ven 
 fens, Jhould be fo unfortunate. I fould be extrcfnely oh- 
 lig'd toyoUy if you ^uwuld find cut fome reafons for it. 
 
 A. Be not difcourag'd that you can cure no difeafes, 
 for you are much more happy than thofe feventh fons, 
 who believe they can : Since they, in reality, are fo 
 far from being able to cure others, that they are not 
 able to releafe themfelves from the complication of 
 diilemperf, both of body and mind, they labour un- 
 der, as the Hippo, Vapours, Vanity, Jfectution, ^Z, 
 which are the ingredients that compound their faiUi. 
 Q. God Cupid his dart 
 Has fix'd deep in my hearty 
 ^hro^ the eyes, of an innocent fair, 
 Whofe charms are as bright 
 As the fu7i^s da'x.ling light, 
 .And cf goodnefs has. an equal fare. 
 I ha^c tempted, V'-veiryd, 
 And as oft been denfd. 
 Whenever my kindnefs I mention :. 
 She refohing to die. 
 Rather than to comply. 
 Or gi've eafe to my lufful intention.^ 
 
 Far 
 
The British Apollo. ^^'^ 
 
 For fie telli me in brief y 
 That there is no relief 
 To be granted, excspt that I'll marry j 
 For alt ho' /he is poor, 
 And r^ve riches in fore. 
 For an honeft one longer fhe' II tarry. 
 Now your mind quick difpatchy 
 Shall I make up the match. 
 For better for njcorfe, andfo take her ?. 
 Since (he^s not ta y obtained. 
 And no othernAjife gaijid^ 
 Tour ad-vice 1 ivill follonx\ ' Eob. Tay— r. 
 
 A. Can you think ftie is poor, 
 Tho' of wealth* file's no liore. 
 Who fuch a bright jewel poflelTes, 
 h-^chaflity, which 
 You cannot bewitch. 
 By either your gold or addreffes? 
 Since you have in vain, 
 Endeavour'd to gain. 
 The fa^jour wou'd be her undoijig^ 
 Your nvorih muH: be great. 
 And large your efate. 
 To atone your attempt on her ruin. 
 Then fairly importune 
 The n)'mph as a fortune 
 Much greater than you have deferv'J : 
 For virtue out Amines 
 The produdl of mines, 
 And merits a nobler regard. 
 
 Q^ Califto and Belinda are certainly the moft charnt' 
 ■ ^"S ^O'^^P^^ ^f ^^'^ ^S^i andfo abfolutely refol'v'd againf the 
 facred tye of matrimony, that they can't fa much as enr 
 dure the cowverfation of any of the mafculine gender, Noiv, 
 Gentlemen, it has been ?ny haplefs fate to be one o/'Calil- 
 to'j admirers, and I defire to knon\) ho-xv to make her 
 capitulate, and convince her of her abfurd fupidity ? 
 
 A. Stupidity ! oh no, It is rather a fort of policj', 
 which the fa-ir fex frequently puts in pradice to ac- 
 compliQi their defigns, Chear up then, difconfolate 
 
 Iwain^ 
 
854 ^<^ British Apollo. 
 
 fwain, rally up frefh forces, and refolve with the 
 Poet, 
 
 Nil par<vum, aut hum'di modoy 
 
 Nil moi-tale loquar^ 
 
 I'll fcorn-a mean, a vulgar line, 
 
 I'll nothing fpeak but what^s divine. 
 The force of eloquence is very great, and there is 
 no doubt but that the energy of yours will reduce the 
 exorbitant power of CalijWs charm. It is the plea- 
 fure and pride of that fex, to tyrannize over their 
 admirers, and. bring them to the fubjedion of the 
 xneaneft vaffals : But if, after all thefe repeated onfets, 
 the confequence proves unfuccefsful, we mull at lall 
 recommend you to the old remedy, njiz. Patience, 
 not forgetting Horace's petition to Venus on the like 
 occafion. 
 
 Regina^ fiihhmi jiagello 
 
 Tangc Chloen Jemel arrogantem. 
 
 Goddefs that does o'er Jove prefide. 
 
 Let Chloe for her faults be try'd, 
 
 Scourge her, and make her curfe her pride 
 Q^ 1 read in Proverbs tke ^\th, Tkere is that feat- 
 tereth, and yet increafeth. 
 
 A. The perfon that fcattereth, and yet increafeth, is 
 the liberal, the charitable man. Such the promifes 
 annext to the duty of charity ; fuch the bleflings that 
 frequently attend it ; that while we give away a por- 
 tion of o^r fubftance, fo we do it with prudence and 
 d i"cretion, we enlarge our ilore. And therefore (the* 
 a feeming paradox) divifion is equivalent to multi- 
 plication here, and fubtradion, in contrariety to its 
 nature, becomes addition. If wc deal our bread ta 
 the hungry, and in imitation of our charitable Lord, 
 beftovv , as it \vtxt,f've loa'ves upon the needy, the faint- 
 ing multitude, our provifions will increafe by diminu- 
 tion, and t\it fragments that fliall remain to us, will be 
 t--welve hajkets full. We need no longer to wonder at 
 the widow's 'crufe, at her miraculous fupply.. For the 
 riches of the tender-hearted man, whofe bowels of 
 compaffion will nok buffer him to forget the poor and 
 
 medyy 
 
 } 
 
ne BritishApollo. 855 
 
 needy, not only not diminifli, but multiply, by his ge- 
 nerous donations. And therefore the cov^etous, tlie 
 ficraping wretch, is not more covetous than impoli- 
 tick, while his very petjuriouftiefs is little better than 
 frofufenefs, and reduces him to tiiat beggary he fo much 
 dreads. For there is (as the wife man immediately 
 fubjoins) thai 'withholdeth more than is meet, hut it tend'^- 
 eth to po-oerty. 
 
 But if Solomon'^ obfervation be not always literally 
 true, while fome of us /cattery and yet not increafe,. . 
 we fhall yet be fure to experience the truth of it in 
 a figurative, fti a better fenfe. For the fweet, the 
 comfortable, the ravifhing reflexions upon what we 
 give to perfons in diftrefs, will afFord us a more pleaf- 
 ing content, a more delightful fatisfadlion in what 
 we have, than if our corti, and <v:ine, and oil were ta 
 ing-eafe. And indeed, he only enjoys his wealth, who 
 views himfelf under the notion of a fteward, and is 
 therefore careful to make provifion for his mailer's 
 houfhold, to give them their bread hi due feafon. 
 
 Q^ / ha've been engag' d to' a young Lady fome years ^ 
 afidivhen 1 came out of my time, 1 acquainted my friends 
 nvith it, and ufed my utmofi endeavours to gain my de- 
 fire, butjn njain ; her friends being ?nuch againjl it, made 
 mine of the fame mind. We neither cf us having any 
 thing but ivhat our friends pleafe to give us, and they 
 feeming on both fides to have an averfion againfi it, vue 
 both agreed together to appcini a time in ordsr fo releafe 
 each other ; and vjhen vje met, all that fhe [aid concern- 
 ing my di [charge, nvas, that fhe vjciid never be my hin- 
 drance if Ivjere to marry another, and that if fhe fee me 
 go into the church f^e v:ould not ft ir one bit to forbid it,, 
 ^ery, vohether or no I may take this as a difcharge from 
 her, and marry another v:ith a fafe confcience ? 
 
 A. Thofe expreffions of -your miftrefs are no man- 
 ner of difcharge, but rather a demor.ilr.ition of her 
 refentment. For though ftie feems unwilling to dif- 
 charge you, yet we hope you entertain not fo mean 
 an opinion of one, whom you thought worthy to 
 be the object of your aftetlions, as to imagine, that 
 
 upon 
 
856 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 upon your marriage with another, fhe would ftoop 
 fo far below her fex, as to forbid the banns, as ta 
 take fo much notice of one, who was fo ungenerous 
 as to forfake her, and force you to marry her, whe- 
 ther you would or no. And therefore by her referv'd 
 reply, fhe plainly intimates, that your prefent proceed- 
 ings are v.hat fhe no ways expected at ycur hands, 
 that her former fentiments of you were quite of an- 
 other llrain ; that fhe always look'd upon you as one 
 of fo conflant, fo generous a temper, as wou'd ne- 
 ver defire to be difengaged, but would rather wait 
 with patience, till providence might put it in your 
 power to difcharge your obligations, to perform your 
 promifes. 
 
 Q. An acquaintance of tninCy *who is apprentice to a 
 
 furgeon\ a friend of his had the misfortune of a C p, 
 
 and applying hivfelf to this young man for a remedy, he 
 agreed <zvith him for a price, and is cured. I dejire your 
 vpinion, ivhether it be lanxful for the apprentice to keep 
 the money for his o-jon ufe, or nvhether he ought not to give 
 it his mafier ? The per/on ivho had the misfortune njcould 
 not ha-ve gone to the mafer if his friend had not been his. 
 Jervant. 
 
 /I. As the whole time of an apprentice is his ma- 
 iler's jfroperty, fovvhiitever he earns during 'his ap- 
 prenticefhip, is his matter's gain. But to end the dif- 
 pute at once, in fuch cafes, why do not apprentices 
 ask their realkrs leave ? For if they reply, That they 
 are under apprehenfions, leil: their mailers fhould re- 
 fufe them ; it may be readily retorted, whether they 
 do not look upon themfelves as under fuch obedience 
 to their mailers will, as not to oiFer at any things 
 which they imagine their mailers would not allow 
 them in .? 
 
 Q^ Blef once '■uAih eafe and f^eet recefs. 
 With pzrfeSi peace and happinefs ; 
 In rural huts and lonely plains, 
 adhere t) uc content in triuniph reigns y 
 And free fro?n guilt had no defence^ 
 Hut tie Jli^ht guard of innocence :. , 
 
The British Apollo. S57 
 
 No da/hing difcord then could fee. 
 
 But Mujic all and harmony : 
 
 Jlllfeernd in confort to con/pire, 
 
 The gro^oth of fimpathetic fire . 
 
 Thai unco7ifind, did eafy roll 
 
 Thro' all the channels of my foul : 
 
 Which feer/i'dfecure from every fnare^ 
 
 And thought the nx:orld beneath her ^are. 
 
 But to comprife in one the refi : 
 
 As much as mortal e*er njcas hkfi ; 
 
 Which Cupid, that infultivg hoy. 
 
 With envy favu, and grudg d the joy : 
 
 He fix* d his aim, then drenv his hovj. 
 
 Let fiy a dart, andfhot me thro' : 
 
 It peirc'^dmy veins in e''ry part. 
 
 And fen t th'* infedion to my heart. 
 
 In vain Ifirive to vorench it thence. 
 
 In vain to freedom claim pretence : > 
 
 In vain Ivjifh but fill defpair^ 
 
 Itfiicks-and clifigs^ and rankles there : 
 And novu involved o^r in fire, 
 I burn and languifh vjith deftre : 
 Grief, hope, and fear poffefs my mind. 
 And difcontent in all I find. 
 
 A. When man lyes all involv'd with eafe. 
 And each acceffionilrives to pleafe ; 
 When pains, nor want, nor grief controul. 
 The foft recefTes of his foul ; 
 Indulgent heav'n, leil he forgets. 
 The fource of all his benefits. 
 And lazinefsfupine deftroy, 
 (Refgn'd thereto) at lafthis joy, 
 Difturbs the quiet of his breaft. 
 The falfe delufion of his reft. 
 
 To make him better thoughts attend, /' 
 
 Of joys more folid in tlie end : 
 Some he'll with pains, and fome chaftlfe 
 With lofs of friends, and flowing eyes; 
 With difappointments fome, and want. 
 Till their falfe notions they recant ; 
 
 And 
 
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 858 The British Apollo. 
 
 And fome he fufters to defpair, 
 
 Seduc'd b' allurements of the fair. 
 
 Rouze then your foul with thoughts fubllme, 
 
 And fhake off each ; which fliews a crime 
 
 Beneath its glorious felf, let nought, 
 
 Be into cogitation brought ; 
 
 So all attacks you'll foon defpife, 
 
 Whether from cares or grief they rife, 
 
 From difappointtneHtSy or fair Sylvia' j eyes. 
 
 Q^ Pray, <ivhat is the difference between the firangury 
 and jlrangulion, they being both mentioned in the bills of 
 Mortality ? 
 
 A. Both thefe words bear the fame fignification ; 
 but the old women, the fearchers, ufe them in a dif- 
 ferent fenfe, underftanding llrangulion to be a fuffb- 
 cation of the lungs, which is altogether ridiculous. 
 
 Q. 1 am about tiventy years of age, and nvas neaier 
 ■lleeded (but njery apt to bleed at the nofe) and ha^ve a . 
 long time found myjeif a little fcorbutic. I de fire your [ 
 opinion, ^whether I Jhould get any benefit hy bleeding, or 
 nuhether I hadbefi to let it alone ? 
 
 J, It is our opinion, that bleedingvvill be of great 
 benefit to you, fince it appears fo plainly that a full- 
 nefs of blood attends you : Nor will it be lefs health- 
 ful in regard to your fcorbutic habit, the blood in 
 fuch cafes being generally very corrupt. 
 
 Q^ Whatjort of fludy a young Gentleman that is njery 
 folid, and hath -ivher e withal to profecufe it ought chiefly 
 to apply himfelf unto ; and ixihether the mathematics is 
 not the proper ef fudy ? 
 
 A. As a young Gentleman, plentifolly provided 
 for, fhould endeavour after a competent knowledge in 
 all the fcicnces, fo to what in a more particular man- 
 ner to apply himfelf, he Ihould feriouily confider, to 
 what fort of ftudy his genius more particularly leads 
 him. For whatever be the ftudy, which his genius 
 enclines him to, he may be fure of labouring with 
 more fuccefs, and of making mere confiderable ad- 
 vances in that than any other iludy. 
 
^he British Apollo. 859 
 
 Q;, If I do a thing, 'which I think a fin ; if it is -not a 
 fin, do not I commit a fin, in aSiing that, 'which I thought 
 a fin? 
 
 A, As to do a finfui adion, while we think it in- 
 nocent, is a fin of ignorance, fo to do an innocent 
 adion, while we think it finful, is a <wilfulfin. For 
 confcience is the immediate ftandard of good and 
 evil with refpe(5l to man; and therefore a deviation 
 from that immediate llandard mull be confequently 
 iinful. And of this you may make a proper judg- 
 ment from one man's behaviour to another. For if 
 your friend do any thing that proves offenfive to you, 
 but at the time of doing it is intirely ignorant that 
 it wou'd do fo, you never call his friendlhip into 
 queftion, never accufe him of irtfmcerity, never lay 
 the damage you receive to his guiltlefs charge. You 
 never offer to do this, if under the guidance of rea- 
 fon, under the condudl of difcretion. But if your 
 friend do any thing, that proves inoffenfive to you, 
 but at the time of doing it, is of opinion that it 
 will prove offenfive, you immediately take it un- 
 kindly at his hands, immediately refent his unfriendly 
 ufage, and expoftulate the cafe for fo unexpefted s 
 deportment. And in this, prudence will vindicate 
 your behaviour, fince it is too flagrant to be denied, 
 that however the iffue be of harmlefs confequence, ^ 
 yet your friend who is ignorant of that harmlefs con- 
 fequence, gives an evident demonllration that he is 
 under no concern for your welfare, has no regard to 
 your fecurity, but refolves to gratify himfelf, to con- 
 fult his own intereft, tho' to the detriment, to the 
 difad vantage of his friend. It is t2Sy therefore to de- 
 termine the cafe before \i^, fmce men of reafcn con- 
 ftantly take their eft i mate, of either a kind or injuri- 
 ous treatment, from the tvill, and not the deed. 
 
 Not but that Vv^e may be fometimes guilty of a 
 wilful fin, even while ignorant, that it is a fm : For 
 perhaps our ignorance is an afFeiled ignorance. Per- 
 haps we indudrioally avoid the knowledge of our 
 duty, becaufe unwiiliiig to perform. Perhaps we en- 
 deavour 
 
B6o The British Apollo. 
 
 deavour NOT to kno^M our majier's ay///, left we fliould 
 be beaten with many ftripes: NOT to knoxv hh^willy 
 that we may be beaten with few (that is, with no) 
 flripes^ 
 
 But tho' our ignorance be not afFeded, yet it may 
 be theprodudof a guilty careleffnefs. Perhaps we arc 
 not fo diligent as we ought, to examine the nature of 
 the anions we are ready to perform : to bring them 
 to the touch-ftone of impartial reafon ; to fpy either 
 the nakednefs, or ih^fruitfulnefs of the land. Perhaps 
 we do not ufe our fincere endeavours to know how 
 to refufe the evil, and choofe the good, to acquaint our 
 felves with our Maker's pleafure, to learn 'vohat the 
 nvillofthe Lord is. And therefore though whatever 
 be not of faith, is fin, yet the terms are not conver- 
 tible ; yet it no ways follows, that whatever is of 
 faith, is not fm. Whence we are indifpenfably oblig'd 
 to make an indullrious ufe of reafon, that candle of 
 the Lord j to ftudy, in proportion to the opportuni- 
 ties we enjoy, the lefs obvious diftinftions between 
 virtue and vice ; to read, to ponder, to digeft the 
 Bible, that day /prang from on high ; frequently to per- 
 ufe thofe inftrudlive writings, in which we are fure 
 njce ha<ve eternal life. This we are indifpenfably oblig'd 
 to do, that we may be thofe bleffed, thofe ever blef- 
 fed fervants, who both kno'w their Lord's 'will, and do 
 it too. 
 
 Q^ Sirs, Tou are defred hy a nvell ivi/her to your ho- 
 murable Jbciety, to acquaint your fubfcriher, <vjho has a de- 
 fire to learn the art ofdraimng and limningy tvhat book is 
 moft convenient for a young beginner ? 
 
 A. All we can gather from moft books we have 
 met with on that fubjeft, is, that the authors knew 
 little of the art themfelves, nor can the colouring part 
 be demonftratcd, but by example as well as precept. 
 Therefore, if you wou'd be a proficient in that moft 
 ingenious art, we advife you to truft to no books 
 (by which you may gain only i.ll habits, hard to be 
 relinquifh'i^) but obtain the inftrudions and directi- 
 ons of fomc able artift. If the^e be any particulars 
 
 you 
 
!r^<?BRiTiSH Apollo. $6t 
 
 you would be rcfolv'd in, either relating to draughty 
 proportion, colouring, perfpeSii've , ordonnance. Sec. per- 
 haps we may give you more fatisfadion therein, than 
 you will meet with in any authors. 
 
 Qj^ tVherein, and hoiv far the fpleen may be /aid to 
 be defeSii've, and from <what caufes doth hypochondriac 
 melancholy arife f 
 
 A. The ufe of the fpleen remains as yet difputable, 
 but it is agreed on by moll, that it ferves in fome 
 wife or other, to the perfedlion of the blood ; fo 
 that according to its degrees of obllrudion, or inabi- 
 lity of performing its office, it may be faid to be de- 
 fective. And though the learned Dr. Highmore hath 
 derived the hypochondriac paffion from the vicious 
 ccnftitution of the ftomach, yet it is imputed by 
 moll phyficians, to the vices of this bowel, whence 
 the blood becoming degenerate, and tainted with me- 
 lancholic faeculencies, is continually communicating 
 its aduft recrements to the brain and nerves, cauling 
 that variety of fancies, and fymptoms which occur 
 in this malady. 
 
 Q^ When njuas London-flone/r/? ereSled, and ijohat 
 nvas the defign of its ereSlion P 
 
 A. London-Jione was firll ereded in the year 1414, 
 and was then defign'd to mark the eallern bounds of 
 this great city. There are other little niceties re- 
 lating to the hillory of the Hone, all which you'll 
 find in Sto^j, and feveral later authors. 
 
 Q^ I am a furgeon, andha<ve cured, Ihelienje, loo 
 per fins affli^ed nuith the venereal difeafe, yet freely ac- 
 kno'wledge, 1 am not acquainted <with the true original 
 caufe of that dijiemper. I ha^ue read many authors on 
 that fuhje6i nvithout any fatisfa&ion : It not being fuffi- 
 cient, in my opinion, to fay, that the caufe is malign hu' 
 mours, poifonous falts, &C. nvhich being by heat 
 put in motion, 8cc. infect, &C. fince that does 7iot account 
 for its real firji principle, or Jhe'w ho^iv generated, Sec. 
 nuhich is nvhat I ivant to kno^w : Therefore if you can 
 iftform me, or recommend me to any rational treatife that 
 'will, I Jhallefeem it as a 'very great faijour ? 
 
 4 A. It 
 
862 ne British Apol lo. 
 
 A. It being altogether improper to treat of fuch a 
 diftemper, in fo public a manner, we refer you ta^ 
 the works of Dr. Sydenham, Monfieur Blegny, the laft. 
 edition, and lAoii{\t\Jir Blankardy where you may meet, 
 with ample fatisfaftion. 
 
 Q^ Why is a great coat caltd a Jofeph ? 
 
 A. From the doaky or upper coat, which the chafte^ 
 Jofeph left behind him, in the hands of FQtiphar'% 
 wife, when he withliood the ihock oi fo amazing »i 
 temptation. 
 
 Q^ Whence proceeds that 'which they call kihy heels? " 
 
 A. It is a fort of inflammation in thofe parts, ^ 
 which proceeds from the entrance of cold atoms, 
 attracting the blood and humours thither, and 
 caufing a tumour both painful and itching, which aC 
 length breaks and ulcerates. 
 
 Q^ What is the reafon, that if a looman and a man 
 of equal bignefs be put into a pair of Jcales, the ivoman 
 jfhali iveigh more than the man? 
 
 A. We know but one way you have to take the 
 cxaft bignefs of each, which is, to put a man into a 
 vefTel full of water, then weigh the water exadly 
 which ilows over as he finks into it ; after fill the 
 fame veflel full of water, and let down the woman 
 into it ; then weigh the water which flows over 
 when ihe is in it. Repeat the experiment, till you 
 find a man and woman which occupy the fame room, 
 which you will find, when the two waters weigll 
 the fame to a fcruple. If you find after (upon fuch 
 proof) that the woman weighs more than the man,, 
 we will give you our judgment upon it. 
 
 Q^ Iha've heard that nvhilji Paris nx;as a Jimple fmoamt, 
 he difobligd tivo GoddeJJes, in alimjing Venus to he the 
 fair eft, fhe bribe Jhe offer'' d, I fuppofe, pleas' d him beft ; 
 you knonv nvhat he nvas thought for his pains. Then 'what 
 excufe can thofe ha-ve nvho pretend to be heirs to the God 
 ofnAjity to make tnvo Ladies their enemies in hopes to pleafe 
 one ? Is it, that they 'would pretend that nvit^s the great efi 
 perfeSlion ? Should 1 allo'w that (as Celia'j compliment 
 *was the leaf) yet 'Vjhyjhould the author 'wifh for an en- 
 
 4 creafe 
 
7^-6^ British Apollo. S6^ 
 
 crea/e of that ^which can allonx) of none : n^hy Jhould he 
 ivijh the countenance of a thing he doubts is not ? 
 
 A. How can we difpleafe the Ladies, by giving 
 our opinion on the lines of another perfon. The re- 
 fledions are his, not ours. As to the queftion, Ho^ 
 fi^ould the author ivijh for an encreafe of (hat ^which al- 
 locs of none? His lines anfwer it, 'viz. by miracle. 
 As to your fecond quellion. Why Jhould he ivify the 
 continuance of a thing he doubts is not ? It is not its 
 being he doubts of, but the continuation o^ it. To 
 conclude, your dejire to pleafe tavo rather than one, is to 
 pleafe neither of them \ the Ladies are no more 
 pleas'd with rivals than our fex. 
 
 Q^ Pray ginje me your opinion, if it be not nvholefom 
 to get drunk no=w and then ? And if a njomit by claret, 
 be not as good as any the man-killer can gi<ve F 
 
 A. It is our opinion then, good Mr. Bacchus, there 
 is very little 'difference between your remedy and a 
 difeafe, unlefs that the former be the worli of the 
 two. And whatever the operation or efreft of your 
 man-killer's vomit may be, that of your own, we 
 doubt not, will exceed it, as not only putting a Hop 
 to all diflempers, but alfo converting a man to a 
 monfler, according to Lucretius, 
 
 ■ • — —Cum vini vis penetravit, 
 
 Confequitur gravitas membrorum, prrepediuntur 
 Crura vacillanti, tardefcit lingua, madet mens. 
 Nam oculi ; clamor, fingultus, jurgia glifcunt. 
 
 ■ When nvine's affaults pre^uail^ 
 
 ^he languid limbs are tfd, the members fail: 
 
 ^he tongue, eyes, mind, their regulations ceafe. 
 And nought but fwearing, noife and hiccoughs phaje. 
 
 Q. Apollo, pray tell me a reafon. 
 Why mutton's ne<ver out of feafon ; 
 When pork and <veal, and all other meat^ 
 At fome times are not fit to eat ? 
 
 A, Though, Sir, it has not reached your hearing, 
 'Tis faid, when fheep are near their Ihearing, 
 Their flefh is rank, which is one reafon, 
 Why muUon's fometimes out of feafon. 
 
8^4 27?<? British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Te fins o/' Apollo, 
 
 Whom Jo many do folioiVy 
 Tllajkyou a quejiion that's civil ; 
 
 Pray tell if you can^ 
 
 Who nxas the firjl man, 
 'That ga've nahie to the ta'-jern old devil ?j 
 A. Puzzling cramp queriji. 
 
 Who fo <wittify jeereji. 
 And fay'ft, 'tis a queftion mofl civil. 
 
 To ftiake Phoebus fly 
 
 From his throne in the fky. 
 And fetch you up news from the de'viL 
 
 We'll make you to know. 
 
 That with eafe we can ihow 
 Both effedts and their primitive caufes ; 
 
 Which we do to improve 
 
 The good people we love. 
 Without aiming at mortal applaufes. 
 
 Know then that of old, 
 A plump fellonv did hold 
 The tavern next bar o' the Temple, 
 
 He was bleft, as fame goes. 
 
 With a jolly red nofe. 
 And his name it was Jeremy Kempfe, 
 
 'Twas plaguy cold njueather. 
 
 He was nwzzled together 
 With a doxy, call'd Elizabeth Keller ; 
 
 And thefe two, as 'tis faid, 
 
 Caufe they wanted a bed. 
 Made ufe of a but in the cellar : 
 
 Mean while it fell out. 
 
 In the ftreet was a rout. 
 The coaches could fcarce get along, 
 
 And a parcel of fheep 
 
 Driving by chanc'd to creep 
 Clofe up to the wall from the throng. 
 
 Full wide were the grates. 
 
 Which made the Sun-gates, 
 
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ne British Apollo. 865 
 
 To let his light into the cellar. 
 
 And down fell a ram. 
 As black as old Chamt 
 While Kemple was toying with Keller. 
 
 You may judge the furprizc. 
 Made the play-fellows rife, 
 111 luck this difgrace had defign*d 'em. 
 
 Up half naked they ran. 
 
 Both woman and man. 
 And fwore they'd the devil behind *em. 
 
 Now the wags. Sir, d* ye fee. 
 
 As wags there will be. 
 Being pleas'd with this pleafant adventure^ 
 
 Gave the tavern the name. 
 
 To poor Jemmfi (hame. 
 By which you at prefent muft enter. 
 Q^ r<ve chofen a mate^ 
 
 To enter the ft ate 
 Of marriage y lubich is fuch delight i 
 
 But that 'vjhich doth ^veXy 
 
 And us fo perplex y 
 Is ixjhat 1 hereafter Jhall nurite. 
 
 My maidenhead ftill I retain^ 
 
 My 'Wife does njirginity claim^ 
 that this ftory my courage does cool, 
 
 Tljat 'when maidenheads meetf 
 
 And each other greet , 
 'Thefrfi child is ahways a fool. 
 
 So Apollo, I pray you 
 
 To fay y if *tis true. 
 If not y I durft for to venture 
 
 With a njirgin thafs chafe, 
 
 Who is not in hafe, 
 ' Till I ha'vefulfilTd my indenture. 
 A. Whether ideots we owe 
 
 To fuch contrails or no. 
 To live fmgle we warn you the rather. 
 
 Since your brood may take ftain 
 
 From default of your brain. 
 And referable their ijifipid father. 
 Vot. III. Pji ' Q^'Tis 
 
} 
 
 S66 TJoe British Apollo. 
 
 Q. "Tisfor the lon)dy H h that I burn, 
 
 *Tisfor the jkveety the 'virtuous B me I mourn, 
 
 And nuouldjouy Sirj, advife me thus to die, 
 And ne'ver tell the nymph the rcafon ixhy ? 
 
 ""Tis true, her merit far excecdeth mine. 
 
 And that'^s the reafon nuhy 1 do decline. 
 
 To let her knoau to itshat degrees I pine. 
 Say, Jhalll go, andjiammer cut fny grief. 
 Or in foft numbers fend to beg relief', 
 Orfhall I fill indulge my humble fears. 
 And like a hermit fpend my days in tears ? 
 
 A. Since fhe excels in merit, 'twill not be 
 An equal match, or jufl attempt in thee ; 
 To flammer out thy grief will never do. 
 For they delight in paffions fmoothly flow : 
 Thy numbers promife lefs, thy tears but prove. 
 Thy head is full of rheum, but not of love. 
 The fureft proof of paflion thou canft give. 
 Is firil to fend the caufe, then ceafe to live. 
 
 Q^ If 1 am a founder by trade, and take an appren- 
 tree, his indenture obliges me to teach him the myfery 
 of my trade. 'No'w, Gentlemen, fuppofe 1 fpend a great 
 deal of money in the inventing any thing nenv in my 
 trade, am I injufice and duty bound to communicate the 
 in'vention to my fer^vant, fince, lohen I took hitn, I onfy 
 promised to make him a mafter of his bufinefs ; nvhich I 
 can do, ivitkout communicating this to him, fince no man 
 of the bufnefs can teach him more than I hai'e taught 
 him, in'ithout my teaching him this ; fnce, if he fhenjos it 
 to one, and another to another, that 'which 1 might ha've 
 got by, by being common, becomes ufelefs to me P 
 
 A, As indentures fpecify, that a mafter muft teach 
 his apprentice the myftery of his trade, fo the word 
 myfery fignifies no more than what other mafters are 
 generally acquainted with : And therefore no inden- 
 tures, as ufually drawn up, can lay a mafter under an 
 obligation of making to his apprentice any farther dif- 
 covery. But maugre this, it may be ftill objected. 
 That if a mafter be ingenious at his bufinefs, this 
 may be the reafon .why the parents chofe to put out I 
 * their 
 
57^^ B R I T I s H Apollo. 86jf 
 
 their child, rather to him tlian to another, inexpefla- 
 tion that he wou'd teach him to be more expert and 
 Ikilful in his trade. And therefore the mailer by a 
 concealment of a fecret does confequently offend, not 
 againft any exprefs bargain, or the open tenures of 
 the indentures, but againlt a tacit kind of agreement 
 covertly imply'd. And for any one to offend, even 
 againft a tacit or imply'd agreement, this is fuch aa 
 inllance of infmcerity, as the refinM, the fublimated 
 precepts of the Gofpel will no ways juftify. But ia 
 anfwer to this objedion, we wou'd obi'erve, that fuch 
 expedations of the parents from the mailer can, in 
 equity, reach no farther than the common refults, the 
 general iiTues of his extraordinary capacity and fkil- 
 fuhiefs in his occupation. For otherwife what en- 
 couragement can mailers have to be at the expence 
 both of uncommon charge and uncommon induilry 
 in fome fingular improvements, if their apprentices, 
 as foon as from under their tuition, mull be co-part- 
 ners in the profits ? It is abundantly fufHcient, chat 
 the^ who are capable of making fuch fingular im- 
 provements, are alfo generally capable of iniiruiTting 
 their apprentices better than common mailers, in all 
 the other particulars of their trade. But to prevent 
 contentions and unreafonable expet"lations, fuch mailers 
 wou'd ad wifely and difcreetly Ihould they exprelly 
 mention fuch equitable exceptions. 
 
 Q^ In 2 7tm. iv. 14. otv rea^, Alexander the cop- 
 perfmith did me much evil, ^uerj^ IVho ~uas that 
 Alexander, and -johat harm bad be done St. Paul ; // 
 follows, the Lord reward him according to his works : 
 NoiAJ is that imprecation of the J^pofle cotijijient 'with our 
 Sa'viours golden rule of blefSng them that curfe us, 
 and praying for them that deipitefully ufe us and per- 
 fecute us ? 
 
 J. There is no other certainty concerning thi^ 
 Alexander mentioned by the Apoille, than that he was 
 by occupation a copperfmith, by inclination an 
 enemy to St. Paul. If he were the fame (as it is 
 probable he was) with that Alexander branded with. 
 P p 2 Upunxus 
 
868 fbe British Apollo. 
 
 Hymen/eus in Tit. i. 20. it follows, that he wa^ once 
 a member of the Church Catholic, but afterwards 
 excommunicated by this Apollle. For of thofc two 
 it is exprefly faid, njohom 1 hanje deli'ver'd to Satan^ a 
 periphrafis for whom I have excommunicated. And 
 if this be the perfon, from St. Pauts joining him 
 with Hytnenausy we may not improbably conclude, 
 that they were both chargeable with the fame crime. 
 And in 2 Tim. ii. x8. we thus read concerning Z^- 
 menam and PhiletuSy ivho concerning the truth ha've err''d 
 , faying the refurreSiion is paji already^ and trverthro'v^ the 
 faith of fame. Whence it follows, that St. Pau/ there- 
 fore look'd upon Alexander as his adverfary, as one 
 that had done him much evil, becaufe a broacher of 
 herefy j a teacher of falfe dodrine ; a. denyer of that 
 fundamettal article, the refurreftion of the dead ; a 
 deluder of the weak and ignorant ; an enemy to the 
 form of found ivordj ; and an oppofer of himfelf in 
 that noble work, which he undertook upon no other 
 principle than the glory of God, the honour of his 
 Saviour, the benefit of his fellow creatures, the falva- 
 tion of their immortal fouls. And therefore, fuppof- 
 ing that that expreflion, the Lord reivard him accord* 
 ing to his nvorks, was intended as an imprecation, it 
 muft be allow'd, that this at lead very much abates 
 the feverity, the harftinefs of it, fmce he means it not 
 as a perfonal revenge, but out of a fervent zeal for 
 the progrefs of fuch a faith as is pure and undefil'd, 
 and therefore doth as much as fay in that expreiTion 
 of the Pfalmift, Lord, re-venge thou thine o^>.vn caufe. 
 
 But what, tho' the injury St. PW received, be en* 
 tirely perfonal, fmce the ancient fathers unanimoufly 
 agree, and that very rationally too, that the paflage 
 before us is not a curfe, but a prediction ; is not an 
 imprecation but a prophecy, that the Lord SHOD*D 
 reixard him according to his 'uwh. And it is agreeable 
 to the prophetical ftyle, to ufe the prefent optative 
 for the future indicative. And it is very obfervable, 
 that the royal manufcript reads it not uze^Jij, but 
 itTTo^uvii ; not the Lord renvard him, but the Lord 
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The British Apollo. 869 
 
 J^all or nvi/t Tcwsird him, iffc. Here therefore the 
 Apoflle no ways derogates in his praftice from that 
 engaging, that alluring character he elfewhere gives 
 us of himfelf, and others his brethren in the faith, ^^- 
 ing revireiy 'we blefs ; being perfecuted^ n^e puffer it ; be- 
 ing defatrCd^ njue intreat. Who then fliall lay any thing 
 of malice, any thing of revenge to the charge of him, 
 who could blefs his revilers, intreat hisdefamers, and 
 meekly fufFer the feverities of perfecution ? 
 
 Q^ / dejire to knovo the meaning of the grumbling of 
 tJje guts^ ivhichfome perfons bwve almoji continually^ and 
 yet feel no pain ? 
 
 A. This noife in the inteftines proceeds from a 
 colledion of wind therein, thro' falling and empti- 
 nefs i which gradually feeking a paflage, and meet- 
 ing with little or no obilruclion, is at length dif- 
 charged without pain. 
 
 Q^ Suppofe a Hone tvas drofd donvn from afieeple^ or 
 »ny high precipice^ 'whether it falls fajier 'when it comes 
 nearer the bottom^ than <ixhen it-xvasfrji drofd? 
 
 A. As the earth is the centre of gravitation to 
 all things within the region of this atmofphere, fo all 
 fublunary bodies gravitate more or lefs in proportion 
 to their vicinity to, ordinance from the earth. Whence 
 it naturally follows, that the motion of a flone drop*d 
 from a fteeple is continually accelerated as it draws 
 
 \ nearer to the ground. 
 
 [ Q^ Where is Camphire^^ww^, and if I, that am too 
 much addiSied to the pleafuret of Venus, fhould take a 
 
 I little ofity 'whether or no it ^woiidnot he prejudicial to my 
 
 1 health? 
 
 A. Champhire is brought to us from China^ Japan^ 
 Ja^a^ Borneo, and other parts of the Eafi-Indies, being 
 the gum or rolinof a tall tree, not unlike a walnut- 
 tree. And tho' Rhafis, Zacutus, Lujttanus, and fome 
 other authors of note, hold it to be an extinguifher 
 of lull: ; yet fmce it is agreed on by the generality of 
 writers, that hemp is an eminent fpecilicin this cafe, 
 nothing feems to fuit with your conftitution fo well 
 as a -5r/V(favf//adminillration. 
 
 Pp3 Q./ 
 
870 37^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Iha've a long 'vchih dejired to kno'w the original of 
 thispro'verhy fviz. Like Hunt's dog, neither goto church 
 r;or ftay at home ; and could think of none fitter to re- 
 fche this quefion than /^^ British Apollo? 
 
 A. One HUNT, a labouring man at a fmall town 
 in Shrofjhire kept a maftifF, who was very fond of 
 following his mafier up and down: Now HUNT 
 was a religious man, and every Sunday in the after- 
 noon went to church with all his family, and lock'd 
 his maftifF in the houfe till he came back again. 
 
 The dog, itfeems, unwilling to be left alone, com- 
 plain'd in melancholy notes of fuch a difmal found, 
 that all the village wasdifturb'd by hisinceflant howl- 
 ings: This made HUNT refolve to take his dog to 
 church next Sunday. 
 
 The dog however, who perhaps had formerly been 
 beaten by the fcxton for dillurbing the congregation, 
 could be brought no farther than the church door, 
 for there he hung behind, and tug'd the firing by 
 which his mailer held him. HUNT grew angry at 
 the obllinacy of his maftifF, and after having beat him 
 foundly, let him go, and with up-lifted| hands and 
 zealous accent, cry'd half-weeping j Oh! ixhat 'vjiil 
 this tijorld come to ! my n^ery dogs hcve learned to prac- 
 tice ivickednefs^ and are neither contented to go to church, 
 nor to fay at home. Good Lord deli^oer us. The people 
 pleas'd to fee a man fo ferious upon fuch an occafion, 
 laugh'd poor HUNT and his dog into a common 
 proverb. 
 
 Q^ Whence comes Borax, and wohat are its qualities ? 
 A. Borax is imported to us from Armenia ^ Mace- 
 donia and Cyprus, and is two-fold, either native or 
 fa^litious : The native is a kind of mineral fait found 
 in filver, brafs, and copper mines; and fcarcely known 
 to us : The fii6litious, which is commonly fold in 
 fhops, is a compofition of faline bodies, and is diu- 
 retic, healing, and aperitive. 
 
 Q^ MeJJieurs, me he de Franfh Protejiant^ me come 
 over for de religion, and fine e me hanje eat de goode 
 Anglilh heuf and de mouton^ me hanje no mind for to ga 
 
The British Apollo, ^jt 
 
 any more in Normandie, /or eet de garlix^ de grenou" 
 illesy de champignon^ nor -Tear de wooden Jhoo, Me beg 
 pardon for dis trouble, and pray you for to gi've ancer to 
 diis quejiione. Suppofe dat dere <voas pece, and de Franfli 
 Kt7ig make prockmat tone for all his fubjeSs to return into 
 dare o^wn count re, and promis'' d liberte de conscience : No^'J 
 de quefiione be, <v:edar or no dey be oblig d to obey, and 
 ka^ve le land de Cinan/or Egype? 
 
 ^. Dou cairildy felf de Fraft/h Proteftant, but doM 
 feem rader to proteft againft de vooden fhooe, and de 
 garlix, den againft de Popery ; and we have great 
 reafon to believe, dat de Anglijb beuf and de mutton 
 hold you vafter by de tooths, den the Proteftant re- 
 lifhion by de art. Derevore we hope de Queen of 
 Briton vil fend you to <jy own land of Egype, with- 
 out ftaying vor de pece ; and den dere will be no ac- 
 cafion to anfar de queftione. 
 
 Q^ From Albion^i hfty tonvers, ivhere "noije confus'd. 
 Perpetual din, and re file fs clamours reign : 
 To rural folitude I did retire. 
 Where all my hours revolv'din balmy peace ; 
 From toil^ from care, and human con<verfe fret. 
 Except my faithful Covydon, a friend 
 Pregnant ^ith ^virtue, nvho/e capacious fau/ 
 Sciential knoivledge, eloquence fublime. 
 Did comprehend ^joith ^icul apian arts, 
 [Support to mortals nxihore by nature frail) 
 Our grief 'was mutual, mutual tvere our joys. 
 And Jlri6tejl harmony our fouls did join. 
 One beauteous fair did both our hearts infpire 
 With equal ardour, and njoith equal flame. 
 But I indignant, confcious of his vjorth. 
 Stifled my gronuing lo^e, to him reflgn'd 
 (What only he defemJ'd) the chemming maid'. 
 And ri=valfhip (caufe of intejiine jars) 
 Did knit the facred knot n/jithflrmer bands. 
 At length (Oh! dire re'verfe to all my blifs !) 
 The generous youth, by irrefifllefs fate. 
 And by his honour d parents dread commmands,. 
 Was fore'' d to leave the darling of his breafl, 
 
 Pp4 And 
 
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 S72 ne British Apollo. 
 
 J9nd thefe delightful grofves^ for lands remote : 
 
 7'ety the' remoijd^ fill your balfamic lays 
 
 May comfort his and our dej e Si ed fouls. 
 
 And heal the fmarting pangs tuhich abfence giwes, 
 
 Ji[fnKaging enjery anxious thought and care, 
 
 Chearing thefpirits of the drooping fair, 
 
 And peace ref ore to three, opprefi'dnjcith black defpair. 
 
 A, Where love flupendious, and fuch (hocking, 
 proofs 
 Of frlendfliip more fublime, fo mix their ties. 
 And bind affeftion in a triple knot. 
 With iirmnefs indiflbluble and ftrong. 
 Great is the happinefs which muft attend 
 Your joys inceffant ; But Oh ! Greater far 
 Muft prove the grief, produced by abfence forcM, 
 Where fouls united are by intereft's call, 
 And gain attradlive, fuddenly disjoined. 
 But Oh ! that mighty proof of love fupreme. 
 Which to your rival friend your miftrcfs gave. 
 Will fare incline you to confider well 
 That duty to his parent's will and fearch 
 Of fure advantage firft his abfence wrought. 
 Then will you eafily your peace regain. 
 For friendftiip, once fincere will fo remain, 
 His joys are joys to you, his grief to you is pain. 
 
 Q^ Whence isU that nuidonjus tnujl be <vjon^ 
 By njigoroufly pujhing on ? 
 When maids that ne'er did tafe the Jin, 
 A man hyfoiv degrees muft ivin ? 
 
 A. The maid a profpedl hath of days. 
 May give her choice and thence delays; 
 But widows liaving pafs'd their prime, 
 The value Lnow of precious time. 
 
 Q. llonjey A^poWoy^nd riltellyounvhy, 
 It is not beauty that attraSis my eye ! 
 No, that inflaming, that puijfant dart. 
 Could never nvound my fancy, left mf heart ; 
 Nor is it riches, no, that courted bait, 
 Too mean a motive is /' a foul fo great , 
 
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 Nor is it thofe phantajiick joys, *which hover 
 
 About the nuanton, unreclaimed lo^er ; 
 
 Alas ! Fruition njoill the cheat difconjer. 
 
 But Uis an aSli've, humble, 'virtuous mind ; 
 
 The/e are true beauties in the female kind : 
 
 ^Tis thefe I love, from thefe Til nenjer ftart ; 
 
 And e' re Til change my lo've, Til change my hearts 
 
 Then, lights of nature, 1 appeal to you. 
 
 If this affeSiion be intire and true ', 
 
 If this HjuHI laji nuhen crazy timers dull plough 
 
 Will paint his furronvs in the aged bro<w ? 
 
 A. Virtue is beauty always in its fpring. 
 Which every day will frelh enjoyment bring i 
 Beyond the reach of malice, or the powV 
 Of time, with teeth of iron to devour. 
 Increafe of joys with that of days it gives. 
 And when all other beauties die, it lives. 
 The noble thought then cherifh, happy fwain, 
 A blifs you'll tafte which others feek in vain. 
 
 Q^ Tou\e a blockhead, Apollo, and if ewr I meet you^ 
 By George, if I can, P II heartily beat you: 
 You're a dog in a doublet, and your fons hanje no mannerly 
 By their toughnefs 1 judge they 'were all got by Tanners., 
 With a <worldof ill-breeding, andfatyr half blunted^ 
 You the nvido^ of Ormond-ftreet bafely affronted : 
 Had 1 then been in town, as Fm now come among ye, 
 I had beat up your quarters, and thrafh^ d you to mummy > 
 For as Fm afoldier, I believe on my njuord, 
 There's not one of you all that can handle afijoord^ 
 Why, ye fools, tho' her hufband a taylor 'was knvwn^ 
 She has no'vj t<vjenty thoufand good pounds of her o'wn : 
 And 'were Jhe a finv, fincefhe's 'worth fo much money, 
 Tou'd wade thro' her dirt to come at her honey. 
 Kno'w then Ffn her louver, andjtnce yot^re a-ware on^t, 
 Tou had bejl hold your tongues, and fay more, if you dart 
 on't. 
 
 A. You call your felf foldier, indeed, by your blijfter. 
 You may be fome faggot to pafs at a muller. 
 If your miftrefs, as taylor, is but a ninth part. 
 To make up the reft, fure appointed thgu art ; 
 
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§74 ^^^ BRmsH Apollo. 
 
 And between you, one body complete will be found. 
 Since fhe has the I'ubilance, and thou haft the found ; 
 But, methinks, grenadier, you're inarching too hard 
 
 on, 
 Since, if fhe is injar'd, we muft not beg pardon. 
 Tiiat innocent maids love foft things, is no wonder, 
 But no widow's pleasM with a man who knocks 
 under. 
 
 Q^ A coney ij a things I really think , 
 Was ne'ver yet, ly any^ feen to drbik. 
 Jf there's a reafonfor^t, Apollo, Jhenjj it. 
 Why fo much urine alix;ays runneth thro' it ? 
 
 A. From greens they fuck large quantities of jtiice. 
 Which do the fame eft'ed^ as drinks produce. 
 
 (3 / am a <TJcidovj in great dijirefs, and ha've been oh-^ 
 iigtd to contra^ many debts to fupport me and my family ^ 
 nK-hich I am ne'ver able to pay. 
 
 1 haije an cffer to he a houfe-keeper to an old Gentle man:, 
 and he proniijes to pay all my dehtSy pronjidefor my family, 
 and provide for me after his death ; hut I muji comply 
 nvith him to be his bed-felloiv, I defre your advice, nvhe" 
 tier it be better to comply ixith hiniy or live fill in this 
 deplorable condition, and never be able to pay my jufi 
 debts ? 
 
 A. Tho' you may defire to do juftice to your 
 creditors, and difcharge your debt% yet you cannot 
 over-look that golden, tho' too much neglefted, rule, 
 Isct to do evil, that good may come. Bat fmce fornicati- 
 on is fo palpablaa lin, that you cannot but be fenfible, 
 that no caufe, how great fcever, can juftify your 
 compliance, you give us reafon to fufped at leaft, 
 that your fear of your creditors is more prevalent 
 with you, than your juftice towards them. But 
 what, will you ftand in awe of men, of puny mor- 
 tals, and yet not dread to offend your Maker .? To 
 deliver your felf from thofe vcho can confine your 
 body, and after that have no more that they can do, will 
 you venture to provoke the great Avenger, nKho can 
 defti ty both foul and body in hell? To difcharge one debt 
 ci un hundred pence J dare you to contra^ another of ten 
 
 thoufand 
 
ne Bri T iSH Apollo. 875 
 
 thou/and taknts ? Are you intirely fearlefs of your 
 greateft Creditor, who, MvA^hyou agree ivith him quick- 
 ly, vjbik you are in the ivay n^vitb him, will infallibly 
 caji you into prifon ? <verily (fays your tender Saviour, 
 fays even he, who came down on purpofe to pay all 
 your debts) thou Jhalt hy no means come out thence till 
 thou haji paid the uttermoji farthing. 
 
 But you fay, that hence you fhall be able to make 
 provifion for your felf and family. But, alas ! to have 
 recourfe to fo unwarrantable a method for the fup- 
 port of your felf and family, what is this but to dif- 
 claim a providence, to withdraw your confidence from 
 God, to truft in the arms offiejh, and difcard that great 
 Providitor, on whom the eyes of allivait, that he may 
 gi'ue them their meat in duefcafon. Dare therefore to be 
 innocent in fpile of poverty ; be couragious to with-^ 
 iland the Jin that does fo eafly hefet you ', commit your 
 nvay unto the Lord, and repofe your dependance upon 
 him, who is a Father to the fatherlefs, aiid an hu{^ 
 band to the widow j repofe it upon him, who has 
 promis'd, and will perform it ; d^^ell in the land, and 
 be dung good, (and therefore to be fure be doing nO' 
 evil, commit no fornication) and <verily thou Jhalt be 
 fed. 
 
 Q^ Di-vines tell us, that the foul comes from God. Norjj 
 I dtjire to kno^iv ho^uo ive can be faid to he born infn, 
 nahen our fouls derive from God ; for nothing comes fro?^ 
 Mm that is impure ? 
 
 A, From that paflage ia the 7^/wi, Behold I lAja^}- 
 &apen in iniquity, and in Jin did my another concci'ue me, 
 fome ancient heretics took occafion to pafs fentenc& 
 of condemnation upon marriage, and impioufly to 
 affert. That the knowledge of a woman is an impure 
 defilement,, and an a6t of iin ; as tho' the meaning 
 of the pafTage were. My father in begetting me, and my 
 mother in conceiving me, tverg chargeable nuith the com- 
 tnijjion of fin. And to fuch heretics does St. Paul allude 
 in I Tim. iv. 2, 3 . where he calls the prohibition of 
 marriage the doctrine of devils. But the true import 
 of die words, at once takes away one c£ the chief 
 P p 6 founda- 
 
876 ^he BritishAi^ollo. 
 
 foundations of that heretical opinion, and evidently 
 (hews, that they contain a doftrine no ways incon- 
 firtent with that affcrtion, That the foul comes out of 
 the hands of its Creator, untainted with any manner of 
 impurity. For here the Pfalmiji elegantly difplays the 
 original depravity, the primogenial corruption of our 
 nature, which we fucceffively derive from our laps'd, 
 from our finful parents. For as every thing begets its 
 like, fo it is natural for corruption to beget corrup- 
 tion. As is the earthy, fucb mull be they alio nioho ha<ve 
 horn the image of the earthy. But fmce the foul is not 
 deriv'd ex traduce, from tradition, but from immedi- 
 ate creation, it follows, that original corruption de- 
 fcends from Jdam te us, his poilerity, by the medi- 
 ation of the body, in which only we are capable of 
 partaking of our parents fubftance. And indeed fucK 
 has been the conllitution of the body ever fince the 
 fall, as ftrangely to fway the foul, that its bofom in- 
 timate, as to create averfcnefs in the will to the pur- 
 suit of good ; as to incline the afFeftions to every 
 evil work j as to caufe the paffions to rebel againll 
 the government of reafon, and traiteroufly dethrone 
 their Sovereign. Hence it is, that our inclinations to 
 fin are Hyl'd, by the fchoolmen, (p^ovnfjioc cra^xc?, the 
 concupifcence of the flefh. And therefore we may 
 very properly be faid to be concei^jd in fin, fince, at 
 our very conception, we receive from our parents 
 that material fubllance which contains thofe feeds, 
 thofe principles of corruption, which are ready per- 
 haps to exert themfelves in fome meafure and degree, 
 as foon as the foul is united to the body. And there-' 
 fore fays the Pfalmift, 7he ungodly are fronjuard even 
 from their tnother'^s *womb. 
 
 Q^ When did the method of computing time from the 
 year of our Lord firfi begin ? 
 
 A. Till the year of our Lord 284, the Chrijiians 
 univerfally made ufe of the heathen computation ; a» 
 the Roman Ab Vrbe Conditd, from the building of the 
 city ; the Grecian from the inftitution of the Olympic 
 Cfimti i the Antiochiun iiwn the icggv^rM liberty of 
 
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ne British Apollo. 877 
 
 the city of Antioch. But inafmuch as Dioclefian (Co- 
 partner with Maximian in the Empire of Rome) to- 
 wards the latter end of his reign raisM a terrible per- 
 fecution againft the Chrijlians (which is caird the tenth 
 general perfecution) and no where difplay'd his fury 
 with more fcverity than in Egypty thence the Egypti- 
 <itt Chrijiians took occafion to compute their time 
 from Dioclejian's advancement to the throne,which hap- 
 pen'd the 284th year of Chrift. And this computa- 
 tion, with fome difference, the Ethiopians even ftill 
 make ufe of in their Eccleiiaftical accounts, tho' in 
 civil matters they make ufe of the common jEra, In 
 the year 532, while Juftinian was Emperor, Ditnyjius 
 Exiguus inftituted the method of dating time from 
 our Saviour's Nativity. But as he computed it from 
 the firft year of the Cycle of the Moon, and the 47 1 3th 
 year of the Julian Period : fo Bede has fmce comput- 
 ed it from the fecond of the one, and the 4714th 
 of the other. Which computation, as thus altered 
 by Bede, is the fame with that we now vulgarly make 
 ufe of. 
 
 Q^ IVhetheror no, nvhen in bed, if covering the face 
 twith the clothes njoill make one pale, andiffo, ivhatf:>ould 
 he the reafon, and ^whether nvholefom or univholefom ? 
 
 A. The covering of the face caufes it to fweat, 
 which, thro* the difcharge of fpirits and humours, 
 renders it pale ; and it may be term'd wholefom or 
 unwholefom, according to the neceffary or unneccf- 
 fary pradlice thereof. 
 
 Q^ There being a young Lady that ivas marry' d, fome 
 lime ago, to a man that nvas majier of all perfe^ion, hu$ 
 having the misfortune of being fo deaf, that he can re- 
 ceive no intelligence but thro^ a hx)rn ', hut vchen he is in 
 bed, he can hear as voell as any body can, vnthout his 
 horn; Pray, tell me the reafon of his hearing fo vuell in 
 bed, ivhen he cannot hear fo nxell ivhen he is up ? 
 
 A. Horns are really very troublefom furniture, and 
 *tis, we muft confefs, the Gentleman's great misfor- 
 tune to be troubled with them : Yet hath he fuch 
 an advantage, as to make a virtue of neceflity, and to 
 - " make 
 
2yS ^fB'RiTisH Apollo. 
 
 make that ufcful to him, which proves no fmall af- 
 flidion to others. But it may be thro' the clofenefs 
 and rtillnefs of the place, and the vicinity of his lov- 
 ing bed-fellow, that the voice is there more readily 
 conveyM to the ear, than in other places. 
 
 Q^ If'^/jy doth fait, being throixin into the fire^ produce 
 fuch a blucyh Jlame ? 
 
 A. That blueifh flame proceeds from fome few 
 particles of fulphur, which are intermixM with it. 
 
 Q. There 'was a ti?ne <-a:}.en fair Panthasa'j eyes 
 Fiird enj^ry heart nxuth n,vorder and furprixe ', 
 Th' admiring crotvd nviih pride her lanxs obey, > 
 
 Ten thoufand capti'ves oivn her dazling fi^vay, j>« 
 
 And at her feet their folemn homage pay. 3 
 
 Jier praife alone engrofd the 'Voice of farre, T 
 
 Whilfl babling echo does her nvorth proclaim, I 
 
 Woods, hills, and dales, rejound 'iviih fair l^a.nthxSi's y 
 name. J 
 
 Amon^fi the number of her lo^e-fick fivains, 
 J l(yv^d the charmer, told her all my pains : 
 Long time I frowe her flinty heart to mo've, 'S 
 
 Long time, alas I my laboui s fruitlefs pronje, \ 
 
 Until at length (II fl found!) fhe 'ushifpcring flgh'd, J 
 / lo've. J 
 
 Who can defer ibe the tranfports fWd my foul, 
 jT^' extatic pkajiues thro my fenfes roll! 
 In fauWring accents I my thanks cxprejl, 
 Whilfl half-breath'' d fgh andnjo^js imperfed fpoke the refl^ 
 With folemn 'vjivs flje fwore fhe n.vculd be tnine^ 
 Nor to another Cer her chanr^ rcflg n. 
 
 But oh! 
 
 Who eier rightly knenx! the charming race F 
 Who can the falfe fediuing fair ones trace, 
 Thro' all the nxjild Meanders luhere they fray,. 
 Ayid lead us blind fold in a pathlefs ivay P 
 Whilfl J, enccurcg'd by her flattering fmiles. 
 Hop* d for tie bleft reivard of all my toils ; 
 The fair, regardlefs of her 'vo^jus and fame,. 
 Wholly regardlefs of my f acred flame, 
 Rcfhly, inflead of me, effoui'd difgracf and fhame. 
 
 A neigb' 
 
fhe Br I tish Apollo, ^jt^- 
 
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 ^ neighb^rir.g fvcain feduc' d the l<yvely made. 
 
 By 'vjhofe enticing treacherous arts heirafd. 
 
 She's nonu to lujl and 'vice a Jhamcfi.1 ^jiSlim Tttade, 
 
 Nonuy nO'iAi Jhe Jinks from her once en'vfd height. 
 
 Like /ailing angels clothed in fully d robes of light . 
 
 Yet mighty Bards 
 
 Your fonxerfal lays nx;hich check each liifful flame, 
 
 Thofe might e'en yet the fugitive reclaim. 
 
 Then tune, ye Delians, tu7te your nvarbling lyre. 
 
 Your matchlefs f rains the charmer fhall infpire. 
 
 Free her from ruice^ and quench each looje defire. 
 
 A. Confider, fair Panthea, e'er too late^ 
 E'^er fliame and forrow are confirm'^d, your fate ;- 
 That blots impreft upon a ground fo bright. 
 Look blacker than the Ihades of fable night. 
 That falling angels more confpicuous fhow 
 In uglinefs, than worit of forms below. 
 Conlider your fhort pleafures (purchas'd dear) 
 Make you the fcorn of all the virtuous fair. 
 That banifh'd their converfe, you'll ftalk alone^ 
 Or worfe, be only to loath 'd wretches known. 
 Confider lall the horrors of that doom. 
 Which muft, alas ! inevitably come. 
 
 Return then, whilft there is a glimpfe of hope. 
 Return, whilft yet the gate of mercy's ope ; 
 Let floods of tears wafh all your ftains away. 
 And let a Magdalene the path difplay : j. 
 
 So fliall you be reftor'd to peace again, 
 from prefent fhame releas'd, and future pair. 
 CL GWAfr. Phoebus, 
 
 In omnibus rebus, 
 So ucife and fo ^wondrous nvitty. 
 
 In defenfe of the touon, 
 
 Which you think to run douon, 
 Stand fair, for I mean novo to hit you. 
 
 You no longer Jhall reign. 
 
 Like Philip in Spain, 
 Without any right or pretenfon : 
 
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 s: 
 
88o Wtf British Apollo, 
 
 If 1 can't fomething prtnie. 
 
 That nvill make you remove, 
 Then fay ^ Pm not good at invention, 
 
 ^TiSj that you're a cheat. 
 
 Not Apollo the great. 
 Who fo kindly at Delphos did /mile ; 
 
 For he, as mojl knonju. 
 
 Run aivay long ago. 
 And left the difconfolate ijle. 
 
 Nor are you his /on. 
 
 For he ne^er had but one. 
 And he iJuas throxvn headlong by Jove : 
 
 For medling like you, 
 
 (And as moji afes do) 
 With that nvlpich they knotv nothing of. 
 
 Nor have you pretence. 
 
 For his portion of/en/e, 
 hike htm to be called Apollo ; 
 
 For your packets /o /ull. 
 
 Of Pro and Con dull. 
 Prove your crovon to be voretchedly /halhvj. 
 
 If this you confute. 
 
 And in your next do^t, 
 TU be /o /ubmi/Jively civil', 
 
 That Tllpublickly oven 
 
 To all in the tonvn, 
 Toure a match even ft for the D ■ ■ ■" ■ /. 
 A. Pretending to hit us. 
 
 You foolifhly twit us, 
 With notions affronting the town ; 
 
 Whilft in its defenfe. 
 
 You bring the weak, fenfe 
 [ Which, languiihing, lyes in your crown : 
 
 Your omnibus rebus 
 
 For rhiming to Phoebus, 
 Which hundreds have fent us before. 
 
 Shews how much pretenfion 
 
 You have to invention. 
 And how your great learning runs o'er. 
 
ne B R I T-I S M A P L L 0. 8Sl 
 
 Don Philip oi Spain, 
 Will fafely remain. 
 And eas'ly fecure ev'ry pafs. 
 If they who attack. 
 Should brains as much lack. 
 As this our bold hectoring afs. 
 That the God did remove 
 Long fmce, you wou'd prove. 
 When 'twas, but from fucii Barren ground. 
 In the fertiler foil. 
 Of this happy ifle, 
 llt's aseafy as e'er to be found* 
 
 'Tis ignVantly done, • 
 
 To talk of one fon. 
 Since of all whom the God does infpire, 
 Thofe notions which ihine. 
 Shews their birth are divine. 
 And theuce 'tis they call him their fire. 
 His Phaeton's fall 
 Did caution us all, 
 A judgment more balanced to fliow; 
 Nor doubt we to fly. 
 Till we fcarcely fhall fpy 
 TheCj a poor crawling infe^ below. 
 Q^ A certain per/on ixjho iviU not be perfuaded of the 
 necejftty of haptifniy luould not fufer his children to be bap- 
 ti% dy one of them being at age, perjifs in his father'' s opi- 
 nion, No^-yu query, njohether he can he fwved ^without 
 faith and repentance in baptifm ; and ^whether he may be 
 called a Chrijiian ? 
 
 A, The promifes of the Gofpel are made to none 
 but thofe who are admitted members of the church 
 by the facrament of baptifm. Whofoe-ver, fays our 
 blefied Lord, belie'veth, and is baptized ^ fl^all be faved. 
 Not whofoever believeth only, but wh'ofoever both 
 believcthand is baptized withal. But where anyone's 
 refufal of that facred ordinance proceeds, not from an 
 afFeded, or a carelcfs, but from a blamelefs, an in- 
 vincible ignorance, inftead of ralhly judging, of im- 
 prudently condemning him, we ihould do better to 
 
 kave 
 
882 The British Apollo. 
 
 leave him to the mercy of that God, who may par- 
 don, where he has not promis'd, may vouchfafe re- 
 miilion, where he has not obliged himfelf to do it. 
 But happy thofe, whom bap Jfm enables to challenge 
 the performance of a promife, to lay claim to the af- 
 furance confequent to an obligation. But what ihall 
 we fay of thofe, whom obftinacy blinds, whofe con- 
 tempt of that heavenly inflitution owes its unhappy 
 rife to a perverfe, to a refraftory temper ? Such men 
 would go to heaven on their own terms, expedl the 
 beatific vifion on their own conditions, and will 
 not allow the author of their future happinefs to pro- 
 pofe the metkod of obtaining it. 
 
 Perfons as yet unbaptized may be mifcallM indeed, 
 but not called Chriftians, fince, as a Chriftian and a 
 member of the Church Catholic are equivalent ex- 
 preffions, fo the Gofpel acquaints us with no other 
 way of becoming fuch a member, than by the ne- 
 ceflary, the indifpenfably neceffary rite of baptifm. 
 
 Q^ I am at prefent a Cantabrigian^ andfo Iha've been 
 thefe t%\;o years y but before I nvas ad/nitted Icaflmyaf- 
 fidions upon a young Lad)\ a clergyman'' s daughter^ for 
 beauty and education not defpi cable, tut a per/on njuhom 1 
 love intirely. J have made my addrejjes to her^ and am 
 received \ <vce have kept rip a friendly correfpondence to- 
 gether fome confderable time by letters, though privately ; 
 but as ill-luck nvculd have it vue have had letters inter- 
 cepted, nuhich has causd a great deal of unhappinefs be- 
 t-iveen us, efpecia/iy tome, voho have ij2cur''d the difplea- 
 fure of my parents and particular friends thereby. For you 
 muji knovj, that this Lady has but little or no fortune, 
 and injhort, money has been the caufe of all this d. frac- 
 tion. Duty on one fide forbids me, love on the other eggs 
 on my v:illing mind, to perfijl in my undertaking ; but 
 'ivhatto do Iknonvnot. ' Here therefore your judgment (on 
 nvhich J mightily depend) is to take place. Let me there- 
 Jore intreat you [urging that ''tvoill be a great piece of 
 charity) to haften the folution of this my demand. 
 
 A. Your affeftions fuggell to you, that your prc- 
 ient happinefs depends upon the accorapliihment of 
 
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TheBKi TisH Apollo. 883 
 
 your defire ; and your education teaches you, that 
 your future welfare will be confequent to the per- 
 tormance of your duty. But where the one unfor- 
 tunately interferes with the other, we need not re- 
 mind a member of the Univerfity, that the fufferings 
 of this prefent time are not ixorthy to be compared <vAth 
 the glory ijohich /hall he re'veaVd in us. But the bell, 
 nay, the only method to reconcile fuch inconfii^ent 
 interefls, and make them amicably unite together, is, 
 firil to confider, that your parents have no more than 
 a negative voice, and in confequence of this, to wait 
 with patience and fubmiffion, till the fcene be chang- 
 ed, till the profpeft be inverted, and providence fhall 
 gracioufly vouchfafe to crown your wifhes with 
 their defired fuccefs. But the mean while you mull 
 be careful to take refuge in thzt godline/s n.vhich is pro- 
 Jit able unto all things, halving the promife of the life that 
 non^v is, and of that ^vhich is to come. But if the Lady 
 be i in patient of delay, and not willing to prefer her 
 love for you to any intermediate opportunity, that 
 fhall prefent itfelf, you may comfort your felf under 
 your misfortunes, with the pertinent reflcdion, that 
 you were not in fo abfolute poffeflion of her heart, 
 as you might fondly imagine, and that fhc is palpably 
 deficient in one of the principal accompliihments, that 
 ihould fo recommend her to a prudent lover, as to 
 engrofs his intire afFedions, namely, that of con- 
 ftancy. 
 
 Q^ Whence proceeds a fudden farting in one'*sfcep ? 
 
 A. It proceeds from divers caufes, as frightful 
 dreams, malignant vapours offending the brain, con- 
 vulfions of the nerves, and other diforders incident 
 to fickly conllitutions. 
 
 Q. Whether or no (according to our modern method of 
 fpelling) you make lezAf and both for a note of prohibition^ 
 and the fuperlati-ve degree in quantity P 
 
 A. The word, which you are pleafed to call a note 
 of prohibition, is not a note, but a particle of pro- 
 hibition. For the word AW^, does not belong to the 
 parts of fpeech, but to what we call 5/c^j, as a note 
 
 of 
 
tSj\. The British Apollo. 
 
 of interrogation, or admiration. Befides, the word 
 Leji is a particle or adverb, not only of prohibition, 
 but alfo of dehor tation, and therefore your definition 
 is but a partial one. The word as thus, Leajiy or 
 thus Le/i fpelt, is too frequently promifcuoufly writ- 
 ten for both the particular and the fuperlative degree: 
 but fo promifcuousa ufage of the word, as compos'd 
 of the fame letters, is not fo agreeable to the modern 
 rules of Orthoepia. And therefore LeJi is the parti- 
 cle, and Leaji the fuperlative degree. 
 
 Q^ JJ'h red hair, formerly fo much admird^ nvent 
 nutoffajktony 2X\2& fancy, and nuhy black came fo much 
 in? 
 
 A. It is a miftake; it was a bright yellow, not red hair, 
 that was allowed of for a perfeftion among the poets. 
 Tho' we believe the fame colours are equally admired 
 now as then, according to the various fancies of people, 
 and the different humours of feveral countries ; what 
 might probably give occafion to the poets to diftin- 
 guifh that colour, might be from obferving that the. 
 greateft beauties have been, by the moft famous artifts, 
 painted with fuch hairj but that was only to give a 
 warmth to it (a principal beauty in painting) and let 
 any flriftly examine the works of our befl modern 
 mailers, they will find a great many yellowifh, glow- 
 ing flrokes, in the hair of fuch perfons, who natu- 
 rally have the paleft, alh-coloured hair j nor would 
 the pidure look well, if nature were exadly copy'd 
 therein. 
 
 Q^ I have made choice of a ivarthy friend, nvhofe nvorth 
 and Jincerity I am njery nuell affured of. She ivrites to me 
 after the moji affeilionate, tender, endearing manner ima- 
 ginable . But nvhen nve are in company together, Jhe is 
 a perfed contradiBion to her letters. She likes the liberties 
 J take nx>ith her, but fill continues referred to me, 
 
 Ho^j fhall 1 prenjail ivith her to fl>enx) me as much 
 kindnefs njuhen prefent, as ivhen dijiant ? or ri. uf I content 
 fnyfelf n^jith the benefit ofherfriendfl?ip, nuithout the plea- 
 fur e of it? 
 
 A. Madam, 
 
51&(? British Apollo. 885 
 
 A, Madam, we fee no reafon why you fliould th« 
 lead doubt the fincerity of the Lady's friendfliip j fmce 
 what is writ is a furer demonftration of the difpo- 
 fition of the mind, being the efFedl of deliberation and 
 fecond thoughts, than what is fpoken only : And all 
 are more cautious of what they give under their hands, 
 left it become an evidence againft them. The reafon 
 of that feeiliing refervedncfs in her in converfation, 
 may arife from an unhappy temper (that epithet may 
 moll juftly be apply*d in point of friendlhip) which 
 allows not that prefence of mind, which fome are 
 fortunate in ; and this feems the rather fo, becaufe 
 ihe is pleasM with the liberties you take. 
 
 Q^ Whyjhould Crocus, or Saffron, nuhich is of a red 
 colour nuhen boiled, or fteepedin any liquor , make ityello^w ? 
 
 A. We beg leave fo far to obje6l againft your af- 
 fertion, in relation to the colour, as to fay, that it 
 more naturally difplays a golden colour, than a red 
 one, and then it is no wonder why its infufions are 
 of the like hue. 
 
 Qj_ Learned Apollo, tell me nuhy. 
 The larks tuhich foar fo njery high. 
 On their return are ahva^s found, 
 To take their lodging on the ground : 
 Why on high trees don't they repofe. 
 Or in the hedge, as others does ; 
 As feems moji properly inclin^d^ 
 To fuit their lofty tonxi'ring mind? 
 
 A. To (hun the harfh difcordant notes 
 Of fylvan, and promifcuous throats. 
 The lark afcends an higher fphere, ~] 
 
 And joys to fmg her anthems there. 
 Till with an humble flight poflTeft, 
 She feeks the loweft place for rell : 
 As wifely judging on the ground 
 The fafeft feat is always found. 
 A moll pathetic emblem this. 
 To digit out the furell blifs ; 
 Teaching that grandeur*s moll refin*d. 
 When *tis with condefcenfion join'd. 
 
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 Q^ Dear all-kntywing Sol, fin of Laton &nd Jove, 
 
 Say^ ^whence this old proverb took bearing, 
 ^hat Jhitten-comi'Jhite's the beginning of lo've. 
 
 And a /■ ■ d in your teeth is no fivearing, 
 ^tho^ the query be coarfe, donU think that I fiout you. 
 
 By thy thundering dad in the fky^ 
 1 fhould not han)e ajk'dy could I tell it ^without you. 
 
 Nor nvould I provoke you not /. 
 
 Ch y Kn y. Vertuofo S r. 
 
 ji. Joan Pluck being catch*d at a time by her fpark. 
 
 To conceal it, fhe yielded with fpeed ; 
 Quoth he, Jhitten-cofne-Jhite's the beginning of love^ 
 
 And fo they moft fwectly agreed. 
 One Bullock was fet in the (locks for an oath. 
 
 And finding the (bame above bearing, 
 Cry'd out to the conftable, in a great wrath. 
 
 Well, a t— d in your teeth is no fwearing. 
 Q. Js late in Morpheus leaden arms I lay. 
 To my recejsy an en<voy fnatch^d his njuay ; 
 Fraught ivith the nenvs of dear Piofa'j death. 
 Who fuddenly^ it feemSy refigtid her breath : 
 Waking, and fcar'd, did I nxjith hoi'^or cry. 
 Oh fate ! had I but feen Piofa die; 
 The happy Jhe, that ga<ve Melofa birth. 
 Had I beheld her fudden fight from earth, 
 Then fatisfaSiion had o'er come my grief 
 But 7, alas ! mourn ""thout the leaf relief 
 Thus reafon nor religion can expel, 
 The grief that does my torturd bofom ftiell : 
 That f?e's fecure in blefd Elyfium'j pLins 
 Alas ! no Jhadnjo of a doubt remains 
 Then, deareji youths, fome pity nonv exert. 
 And beams of comfort to my mind impart. 
 Tell me from ^whence the boding ^vifion came. 
 That did Piofa'j fudden death proclaim j 
 And <TJuhy 1 thus lament the happy duf 
 Of her, that dfd fo Kvell, and li'v'd fo jujl ; 
 ^peak, facred oracle, my tears regard. 
 Nor longer let your gracious ears & bar'di 
 
 What 
 
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 What tho my mufe is fad and urtpolite. 
 
 Her Icroe^sfmcere, and all her thoughts are 'white. 
 A, *Twas mighty love that forc'd the dreadfal veht. 
 
 Love, that's immortal fure, the meffage fent. 
 
 For 'tis not fate, with all her pow'r, controuls. 
 
 Or bars the blifs of fympathizing fouls ; 
 
 And as your better half's entomb'd and gone. 
 
 We need not ftudy to derive your moan. 
 
 Your mufe then fummon to prepare her flight, 
 
 Let her tranfport you through the realms of light ; 
 
 Still foar aloft, through liquid fkies repair. 
 
 And fafely wing you to Elyfian air ; 
 
 If there with refidence Pio/a's blefs'd. 
 
 Then (hall Melofa be with recent joys pofTefs'd. 
 Q^ Oft hai'e I read your lines, admir'^d your iJvit, 
 
 But fill I find Tm the re^verfe to it. 
 
 And though you boldly tour it to the sky, 
 
 Honxj did you firfi your tender pinions try ? 
 
 Say, by ^what means the art I may acquire, 
 ^ofiop my houndlefs wi(h, and quench m^ infant d defire ? 
 A, I'o find your wants, is one fure way to rife 
 
 To fenfe, for none but fuch are counted wife ; 
 Boldly attempt ! it nature be unkind. 
 Denying aid to your afpiring mind ; 
 Decline (contented with your humble fete) 
 For art^ tho' it may mend, it never can create. 
 
 Qj^ Whether it be not uncharitable to curfe our neigh' 
 hour, as the office of commination enjoins us P 
 
 A. The curfes repeated in the commination office 
 are taken out of the Mofaick Law, and therefore 
 were pronounc'd by God himfelf. And when to 
 thefe v/e fubjoin Amen, we do na more than fay, the 
 will of the Lord be done, who has entail'd a curfe 
 upon each of thefe wicked praftices. And as it is our 
 duty to refign our felves intirely to the pleafure of 
 the Almighty, to acquiefce in all the proceedings of 
 our Maker, ihall we refufe to acknowledge the ju- 
 llice of the great avenger, to fay, Righteous art thou, 
 O Lord, who in the Gofpel as well as in the Law 
 hath made fin and punilhment to go hand in hand, to 
 
 go 
 
888 T^^British Apollo. 
 
 go always hand in hand, unlefs repentance intervene 
 and ward ofF the blow ? 
 
 Qj_ fVhat reajon had Cain to he afraid of being fiain. 
 Gen. iv. 1 5. 'whereas ixje do not read that there 'was anj 
 more than t^wo hefides him then in being ? 
 
 Who nxjas Cain'j nuifey for the reafon aforefaii ? 
 
 J, The' the Scriptures don't take notice of any 0- 
 ther perfons before that time, yet neither do they fay, 
 that there were no other. And fure Scripture filence 
 can n«ver be admitted for an argument without par- 
 ticular reafons to enforce it. And therefore we may 
 reafonably fuppofe, that fome at leall of thofe fons 
 and daughters, mention'd in Gen, v. to be born to 
 Jdam, were in being before that time. And this is 
 alfo a fdution of your fecond queftion. y 
 
 Q^ In thefiory of Solomoi]' s judgment i Kings xxvi. 
 27. on reading the luords nicely y to njohich nvoman do they 
 appoint the li-oing child, according to the Jlri^ rules of 
 (Jrammar ? 
 
 A. Since Solomon fays, gi've her the child, the ftrift 
 rules of Grammar, were there nothing elfe to deter- 
 mine it, wou'd refer the words to the laft fpeaker, 
 who was the woman that wou'd have the child di- 
 vided. But here we may reafonably fuppofe, that So- 
 lomon pointed to the woman, who, out of tendernefs 
 for her child, chofe rather to part with it to her 
 competitor, than have it flain by fo inhuman a divi- 
 fion : And then the ftridl rules of Grammar will refer 
 the words to the perfon he pointed to. 
 
 Q^ Gentlemen, 'tis a hard feafon, and I doubt not a 
 time ijoherein charity may be 'very jeafonable. It hath 
 tleafed Gcd to gi-ve m£ fome fubjiance in the ixiorld more 
 than f upper ts my f elf and family ; and from di'Vers other 
 confederations (viz.) no children, no poor relations, 'very great, 
 and an uninterrupted Jiate, and courfe of health. Sec, 
 From the itshole 1 cannot but from the providence of God 
 judge, but he does in an effential manner call to me to do 
 good. No-iv I am much at a lofs ivith refpeSl to the ob' 
 je£is of charity, for loth nvould I that a real objeSl 
 Jboud go anuay unrelieved, i pray, 'what mtthodfhall I 
 
 ' iake. 
 
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 iake^ feeing both the defer<ving and undefewing prefent 
 themfehes^ 'what prudent ?neafuresjhall I take^ to knonv 
 one from another^ that fo the real poor may he helped^ and 
 the laz\ idle poor difcourag^d? 
 
 A. Excellent the conclufion which you draw from. 
 your flowing circumftances, from your profperous 
 ellate, namely, that the kind, the bountiful beftower 
 of the fubftance you enjoy has appointed }'ou a llew- 
 ard of his houlhold, to fill the hmigrywith good things, 
 to make provilion for the poor and needy, to give 
 them their meat in due feafon. And we cannot but 
 think you worthy of double honour, in that you are de- 
 firous, not only to be a fteward, but a wife fleward, 
 defirous to make choice of the moft deferving objeds, 
 to relieve the undifguis'd neceffitous, hut fend pretend- 
 ing counterfeits empty a^ay. You acquit your felf <t 
 very faithful difpenfer of your mailer's bounty, while 
 you neither retain too large a portion to your felf, 
 nor yet are willing to take the children's bread and caji 
 it to the dogs. Tho' yet, notwithftanding your moll 
 cautious indallry, the dogs will fometimes eat of the. 
 meat -which falls from the children's table. We perceive 
 that you have learn'd a very ufeful lefibn from the 
 inclemency of the weather ; have learnM from what 
 of eourfe you mult have felt of it your felf, to pity 
 thofe miferable perfons who mull feel it more ; ac- 
 cording to the compaffionate Dido in the poet ; 
 Hand ignara mali mijeris fuccurrere difco. 
 But as for the worthinefs of objedts, it is an ob- 
 fervation not more common than deferving our re- 
 gard, that there are none more worthy than decay'd 
 diilrefs'd houfe-keepers, and thofe unhappy perfons 
 who cannot dig, and yet to beg they are ajham'd. And 
 as fome tradefmen have fuffer'd more particularly 
 from the feverity of the feafon, and their families been 
 reduc'd to very great extremities, fo you wou'd do 
 well to ufe an indulhious application in the fearching 
 out fuch as thefe : You wou'd do well to enquire of 
 your acquaintance, whom they can recommend, ei- 
 ther upon their own knowledge, or the well attefted 
 Vol. III. Qjl afTuiance 
 
890 TZ'^ British Apollo. 
 
 affurance of their creditable friends. But if your mo- 
 de^y will not fuffer you to be known of men (tho* 
 to be known of them with fo excellent an intention 
 is no violation of the rule of fecrecy) you may em- 
 ploy your moll intimate companions, your bofom 
 confidents, in fo commendable a fearch. 
 
 But amidll the various obje£b that unfortunately 
 abound, we cannot, we muft not overlook the new 
 ere£led fchools of charity, thofe feminaries of piety, 
 thofc nurferies of religion. Here, fmce you fay that 
 you have no children, you may yet Jijave children at 
 your defire, in that you may enable your felf to fay 
 of fome of thefe, in allufion to a charitable, to a ten- 
 der Job, they ixjere brought up nvith me as ijcith a father. 
 Here you may behold (fmce the difcovery of real 
 objefts is your principal inquifition) here you may 
 take a view of unfeign'd want, of undiffembled ne- 
 ceffities, of unafteded poverty. Here you may be- 
 come at once, both a father to the fatherhfs, a7id an 
 husband to the fwidoiv. Happy the man who thus 
 fcattereth abroad, ivho gweth to fuch poor as thefe ; his 
 righteoufnefs remaineth for e'ver, 
 "Q^ What is the nxiind? 
 
 A. The wind is a more than ordinary commotion 
 of the air, and of the vapours which it carries with it. 
 
 Q^ Injcas tnuch fur prized nuhen 1 fanjj your anpwer to J 
 the I'jord inauguration, applying it to the %th ^/^ March, -1 
 ^tuhen the <word in the Didionary gi'ves it to confecration, 
 and injiallation, and dedication. The medal Jiruck for 
 the coronation, calls the 23^ 0/' April inauguration day. 
 Dodor Heylin in his Cof?nography, page 253, fpeaking of 
 Wellminfter- Abbey, fays it is famous for the inaugura- 
 tion and fepulture of the Kings, and page 285 fays that 
 Scone in Scotland is the ufual place for the inaugura- 
 tion of the Scottifh Kings, Frankfort the place for the in- 
 auguration of the Emperors, 'with a multitude more of 
 nvitnej/es 1 find in that learned author, and many others ; 
 nay, enjen all that 1 han)e read on that fubjed. Novj 
 houo inauguration day can be the %th o/' March, and not 
 tbt l^d of April, 1 fee not the leaf glimpfe of reafon. 
 
The British Apollo. 891 
 
 Pray gi've me your opinion n»hy it is the %th of March 
 as alfo the derivation of the nxjord ? 
 
 A. Our former folution being too precipitate, we 
 beg leave to prefent you with a full difcuflion of the 
 matter. But that this may be done with the greateft 
 perfpicuity, we fhall firft: comply with your lafl: de- 
 iire, and give you the derivation of the word inaugu- 
 ration. It is a compound of the particle /«, and the 
 fimple auguration, which fimpleword is deriv'd from 
 the Latin Auguratio, which lignifies divination or 
 foothfaying. For as the Roman authors or fouthfay- 
 ers pcrform'd their fuperftitious ceremonies of augu- 
 ration,.when magiflrates were folemnly invelled with 
 public authority, fo it is metaphorically tranflated to 
 the Chriilian ceremonies made ufe of at the coronation 
 of our Kings and Queens. 
 
 If therefore the queftion be proposed, whether the 
 8th of March may be call'd inauguration-day , we an- 
 fwer in the affirmative, that it may be fo call'd in a 
 figurative fenfe, namely, with regard to that known 
 maxim in the Law, Rex Anglia nunquam moritur, the 
 King of England never dies. For no fooner does the 
 predeceffor go off the ftage, than the fuccefTor is 
 inveilcd with as complete an authority, as tho* 
 the ceiemonies of inauguration were aftually per- 
 form'd. With refpeft therefore to fo complete an 
 authority, the'Sth of March may by way of metaphor 
 be not abfurdly denominated inauguration-day. 
 
 But the literal intention of the word applies it to 
 the 23d oi April, fince on that day the folemnity o£ 
 inauguration is pompoufly performed. And therefore 
 that day is generally ftyl'd inauguration-day, 
 
 Q^ // being maintained in argument, that a place may 
 be filled ifjith nothing, is not fuch an affertion contrw- 
 di^ory both to reajon and fenfe f 
 
 A. U the word may, be put to fignify a poffibility, 
 as the tenor of the queftion feems to import it is, 
 then it muft be granted 'to be a plain abfurdity, unlefs 
 we will allow, that fulnefs and emptinefs are terms 
 equivalent. But if the place be a determinate one, 
 Q^q z " sind 
 
892 the British Apollo. 
 
 and the word may import a prohibition, then there 
 is no contradidlion in the cafe. For to fay, that fuch 
 ^ determinate place may be fillM with nothing, is the 
 very fame as to aflert, that it may not be filPd with 
 any thing. In which cafe an affirmative propofition 
 couches a negative one. For the rules of logic will 
 allow that in a propofition, where the copulative is 
 affirmative, and the predicate negative, or 'vice 'verfa, 
 thofe two oppofite terms are fo convertible, as to 
 make both the affirmative and negative propofition to 
 be fynonymous in fenfe. 
 
 Q^ Bright beams of Apollo, nvhofe right does extend, 
 fTjo anfnxier all queries that a7iy Jh all fend, 
 J humble my fclf to your rays fo extenfi've. 
 And lufring f reamers fo all comprehenfve : 
 Permit me a reafon to comprehetid quare, 
 A cup to a fool may be caiisd congelare ? 
 Aqua, nive, faleque, hoc facile fadum : 
 Nempe juxta ignera, ego vidi adaftum. 
 
 A. Hail, Sir, with your glorious addrcfles abounding. 
 That fo learned appear'll, and fo nice in propounding ; 
 Tho' the fire in fome meafure relates to this matter. 
 Yet your problem's fufficic nt to make our teeth chatter. 
 Comprehend then that fnow, when commix'd with 
 
 your fale. 
 Becomes loofe from each corpufcle call'd Glaciate. 
 Et cum ilia ^vicinis in aquis mergayitur, 
 Statim illis particulis aqua hie congelantur. 
 
 -Q. . if tears but proue 
 
 7he head is full of rheum, but not of love. 
 Tour logic does a 'jx'eeping Jefus fain, 
 /^Paui, a ?ti^x and a Magdalene ; 
 For each of them by their example fonv. 
 Where love is true, there teart in plenty fow. 
 Apollo'i forn, his pride does rather 'prove, 
 nan tears fould foiv ^vithout their fountain, love. 
 
 A. ' Tis you propJjane, 
 
 When ferious matters with a jefl you flain. 
 Our firft affertion, we with eafe can prove, 
 Tears are not always the cfFe<^ of love. 
 
 Are 
 
Ty^(?BRiTiSH Apollo. 893 
 
 Are there not tears of anger, tears of 'wiles. 
 More falfe in ivhores, than nveeping crocodiles? 
 And are they not (cho' overcharg'd with grief) 
 Such as can vent no tears to give relief ? 
 
 A noble Roman, when he'd flain hhfoti. 
 As foon as he difcover'd what he'd done. 
 Paternal lo'vt and ^r/^fwell'd to that height. 
 They preft him to the ^r«>x'f with their own nveigbt. 
 Yet not one tear efcap'd, and wou'd you prove, 
 Becaufe he fhed no tears, he had no lo^oe ? 
 Or when (as oft you may) you meet zpzmk. 
 Flowing with tears, nay, fometimes when iho's drunk. 
 Will you conclude, the rheum advanc'd its courfe 
 From love, i\\2itfacred lo've muft be the fource ? 
 
 Q. In days ihaCspaJl, free from all <worldlj care 
 Of things pre ar ions, hut injoysfuhlime. 
 And pleafures<vaft, my hlifsful hours Ifpent, 
 j^t lajl (oh fickle chance ! Oh dire re'verfe ! ) 
 j4 beauty fatal has dijiuryd my reji. 
 My heart furpri^ d, andnvith deluding lights 
 Through mazes endlefs led unaSli've 7, 
 No more thofe pleafures tajie woith grateful gufl : 
 My former quiet y hcnu Jhall 1 rejlore, 
 Refohe me this your god-head T II adore ? 
 
 A. By warm defires attack'd by love inflamed. 
 No wonder former pleafures tallelefs are : 
 The foul transfix'd by more fublime ideas. 
 Views with difdain all objeds but its love ; 
 So feemingly divine are all its joys. 
 So great is beauty's force, it boldly triumphs. 
 Over our ftrongeft reafon, and in vain. 
 Its boafted energy attempts our care. 
 Enjoyment only can our peace reftore. 
 That paft love's trifling pains can vex no more. 
 
 Q^ Dear^cA, fince you re ofxd^zt dinjine, 
 Idravjyoufor my Valentine ; 
 For knoiv, my boy, Tm one oUh^ nine 
 Ton knonxj Thalia'jy^/> and young. 
 Can entertain you wcith afong. 
 Has nvlt, . . ,^ or Phoebus {oii has none,, 
 
 Q^q 3 Ths 
 
894 in?^ British Apollo. 
 
 ^ho^ non,v you're co}' on Eafter ^ay, 
 
 JVe^ll dance and toy^ andfrijk't aixay^ 
 
 Then hey ! for Sol and Thalia ! 
 
 You then Jhall pay off former J cores ^ • ' 
 
 And get a race ^lons of^^horeSy 
 
 Shall ri<val <izA in his amours. 
 
 ^his Phoebus is the proper time, 
 
 *To choofe a lover in the prime ^ 
 
 Andfo good morrow Valentine. 
 
 But you cananf^er be ft of ally 
 
 Why Valentine my love Icall, 
 
 Since no man's thought fo ^fe as Sol. 
 
 J. Good morn, Thalia, fair and young. 
 To whom all epithets belong. 
 May fumifh SoPs immortal fong. 
 In you we've all the nine in one, 
 Whofe bright unrival'd numbers run 
 Like the {^^'ift chariot of the fun. 
 The more Thalia to regale. 
 And fhew how much her charms prevail. 
 Which like our inJTence ne'er Ihall fail. 
 We'll double in the following ^W^g-, 
 The bloom, the fweets and ev'ry thing 
 Shall fome ne^w joys untafied bring. 
 'Midft them Ihalia we'll embrace, 
 Ail nature'^ fofteft pleafures trace. 
 And propagate a ghrious race. 
 Not in the extacy of lo've, 
 Out-fhining all the Gods above, 
 And might become the pride oijove. 
 
 Q^ In Gen. v. 2. nve read of our firft parents thai 
 God called their name Adam, noijo 1 thought /^«/Adam 
 n-ijas the name ofthefirjl man only ? 
 
 A. Adam in the Hebrew fignifies man, and there- 
 f«re byway of eminence is appropiated to the pro- 
 toplaft or firft man. But it fometimes denotes the 
 fpecies of human race, and therefore is inclufive of ^j 
 both fexes. Whence the original words might have 
 been properly tranflated, he called their name mankind. 
 And therefore Adam, or mankind, is a fpecific dif- 
 ference 
 
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 ference to diftinguifh us from other fpecies of the 
 common genus, animal. 
 
 Q^ The anpwer you ga've to a quejlion concerninfr the 
 ufe of reafon in matters of faith ^ feems to me by no 
 means appofite or pertinent. The deftgn of the que ft ion 
 is plainly thisy ^johether a man coiid he obliged to belisvs 
 any propoftion as an article of faith^ ^which fjou' d be re- 
 pugnant to the clear and felfe'vident dictates of his rea^ 
 fan ; fmce fuch a contradiilion in any propfition to the 
 clear and felf-e--vident principles of reafon nvoti'dbe a clear- 
 er de7nonji ration of its fal/hood^ than any argument^ 
 that coil d be brought in proof of its divine authority coiid 
 he of its truth ? Nonju the diJiinStion ivhich you lay doivn 
 bet'vceeti things above, and contrary to reafon, does not at 
 all affed this quefion; for the propoftion here fpoken of 
 is plainly fuppofed to be contrary to reafon. 
 
 A. Tho' you are pleafed to fay, that the folution 
 of your queftion was by no means appofite or perti- 
 nent, wc beg leave to tell you, that we do not think 
 that we have reafon to recant our notion of the mat- 
 ter, fmce fome things may feem to be contrary to 
 our reafon, when the reafon of their feeming fo is 
 no other, than becaufe they are above our reafon. 
 And of this we may inflance in matters capable of 
 human demonftration. For learned men do very often 
 advance paradoxes which to others, who are unac- 
 quainted with the folution of them, becaufe unfkilful 
 in the fciences to which thofe paradoxes belong, feem 
 utterly repugnant to the didates of their reafon. 
 When therefore we meet with a doftrine feemingly 
 incompatible to reafon, we fhould confider, that if 
 the nature of the doctrine be fuch as to be naturally 
 incomprehenfible to human jntelledl, it yet may be 
 true notwithftanding its feemingly inconfiftency with 
 reafon ; and that, if it be plainly and clearly reveal'd 
 in the word of truth, it advances from poflibility to 
 certainty, and not only nuiy be true, but adually is 
 fo. Since therefore men of ingenuity and reafon 
 give up their afient to the fore-mentioned paradoxes, 
 where they may depend upon the knowledge and 
 Qj\ 4 integrity 
 
S96 ne British Apollo. 
 
 integrity of the perfons that advance them Ihall \vc 
 have a greater regard to man, who, how learned fo- 
 ever, is yet our fellow-creature, than to God our 
 Maker? Shall we demur to divine infallibility, and 
 yet pay a deference to human fallibility ? What is this, 
 but to fet the creature above the Creator, oc-^o is God 
 0%'er all hlejfed for enjcr. But as for thofe doftrines 
 which are upon a level with our reafon, there, if 
 they feem repugrrant to our reafon, we are fo far 
 from being obliged to believe them, that on the con- 
 trary, we are obliged to fufpend our belief of them, 
 till that feeming repugnancy be rationally removed. 
 In fuch cafes to believe without reafon is no faith, 
 but weaknefs, but infirmity, but credulity. 
 
 But as the myfterious doftrines of Chriftianity, 
 tho' they fhould feem to any one to have as evident 
 characters of falfhood as the arguments produced for 
 the authority cf the Scriptures can have of truth, 
 there is yet a fignal, a material difference between 
 them, fince the feeming falfhood of the one proceeds 
 from the incomprehenfible nature of the fubjeft, and 
 therefore may be otherwife, notwithftanding its feem- 
 ing falfhood, and becaufe we are favoured with a 
 clear revelation of the matter, undoubtedly is other- 
 wife ; whereas the feeming certainty of the other is 
 deduc'd from fuch particular5, as are the proper ob- 
 jedls of our reafon, as are equal to our capacities. 
 
 Q^ / hwve been born and bred msell, and ha-ce linjed 
 tenderly and handfomcly as moji Gentlemen, but by fen) e- 
 ral misfortunes, fome occafion'd by tny on.vn folly, and fame 
 hy the villainies of others, <which together hanje been my 
 ruin : And this cold <vceather I am flung into a prifon, 
 nvhere I find little butfo?ie 'walls, fear cc breadandnjjatery 
 hefides the common bafket, nor bed, nor fire, and njjhat is 
 WQorJl ill company. When I complain, I am told by the 
 jaylor, if I nvillpayfor it, I may hanje a handfotne room 
 in another part of the prifon, a good bed, good f re, chooje 
 Tny company, ha've my friends come to fee me, and my 
 i}i6luals as 2 pleafe, Noiv I ha've no money but ixhat is 
 my creditors, I ha-ve offered them it all for my liberty, 
 
 and 
 
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 and all the fuhmijfion an hneji man ought ; hut find 
 them as inflexible as the iron grates and /tone avails about 
 me.fo defireyour advice as foon as pojfible , fince they ^ill 
 not accept my offer, if I may not make ufe of their ef 
 feds in ?ny po^erfor my better and convenient fubfijience ; 
 orvjhether I ought y notvjithjianding their inexorabhzefs,. 
 give all up to them, and content my felf v:ith a languijh- 
 ing death, as fuch a miferahle condition in a little timt 
 mujl produce ? 
 
 A. Common equity allows us to have a fubfilleTice 
 in the world, to have a necefTary provifion, how 
 deeply foever we may be involved in debt. And 
 therefore tho' a court of judicature may permit him, 
 the court of confcience will forbid the creditor to 
 rifle hii unhappy debtor, when he enjoys no more 
 than a common fubfiftence, than a neceffary provi- 
 fion. And we wou'd propofe this as one of the rea- 
 fons of fuch an equitable allowance, namely, that 
 whatever a debtor fpares his creditor out of the ne- 
 ceiTaries of life, is far more valuable to fo neceffitous 
 a debtor, than the debt it felf to the lefs needy credi- 
 tor. And therefore if a creditor be rigorous in the 
 cafe before us, while he demands his own, he de- 
 mands more than his own, and becomes an extor- 
 tioner. And therefore, without the leail ihadow of 
 injuilice, you may make ufe of fuch a portion of 
 what you have, as will deliver you from fo deplora- 
 ble a condition, from the affiifting prefTure of ib un- 
 comfortable a ftate. But we wou'd willingly remind 
 you to be extremely moderate in fo rational a redrefs 
 of fuch fmarting grievances. And we think this me- 
 mento to be the more feafonable, inafmuch as you 
 make mention of a greater conveniency, nay, proceed 
 a ftep higher yet, and fpeak of the handfcmnefs of your 
 room. Tho' yet we muft allow, that die tendernefs 
 you take notice of, as to your former living, may 
 make fome things to become -neceffary to you, which 
 to others are matters of a more comfortable convenie7icr>. 
 
 Q. iVhether vjorms. in cne'^s face (that make cnc look 
 
 as if gunpo-LKidsrvjere bkiK^ed in it) be naturalyor t:':rough 
 
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 agrofs habit of bodjy and the means to be rid of them? 
 
 A. Worms in the face are generally caufed by a 
 corruption of the blood and humours, which extrudes 
 putredinous matter to the fkin, where being vivify'd, 
 it is converted into worms. 
 
 Q^ Why are not the planets prefixed to the days of the 
 nveek according to their celcjiial order ? 
 
 A. The Heathens who denominated the days of 
 tlie week from the names of the feveral planets, fu- 
 perftitioufly imagined, that each planet rul'd an hour, 
 and w as fucceeded in this imaginary empire by that 
 planet, which was next in the celeftial order. And 
 fince they lookt upon the fun, not only as a planet 
 (though the bell modern aftronomers are of another 
 opinion, and that with reafon too) but alfo as Uie 
 principal of the planets, they therefore fuppos'd it to 
 govern ihe firft hcur of the firft day, and thence de- 
 nominated the firll day of the v/eek, diesfolisy Sunday. 
 >\nd fo proceeding according to the order of the pla- 
 nets, they nam'd each day from that planet, which, 
 was predominant the firft ho'Jr of each refpedive 
 day. If therefore you compute the matter, you will 
 fnd it agreeable to fuch fuccefiivc governments of 
 ihefe hourly mcnarchs. 
 
 Q^ Why are bath n^aters fo hoty and nvhat is the rea- 
 fon that it turns Jiherf if dipt in it, to fuch a golden co- 
 Jour P 
 
 A. The heat of thofe waters proceeds from fulphur 
 with fome nitre and bitumen, frcm which laft we 
 fuppcfe filver to receive that gclden colour. 
 
 Q^ An acquaintance of mine has a friy n\:ho is ex- 
 ceedingly troubled inith bleeding at the nofe, fcmetimcs in 
 the night ivhen afieep, and ahnojl fir angles hi?n c''er he''s 
 aivaken'd, other times nuithout any agitation of body, or 
 provocation, othernxife it runs a bleeding, and continues 
 fo a long time, that his Jrievds are aft aid ktll bleed to 
 death one ti?ne or other. Phlebotomy he has found by ex- 
 perience nvill do no good. What fi.ould be the caufe, and 
 ivhat remedy ivill present the 'fining <^f fo violent an 
 tfiluvium ? 
 
 A. If 
 
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 ^. If the party concerned hath been free from cut- 
 ward caufes, as falls, blows, wounds, ^c. we take 
 this hemorrhage to proceed from a plethory, or ful- 
 nefs of blood, whereby the veins may fufFer a forci- 
 ble apertion : Or from its ill quality, namely, its 
 heat, tenuity, or Iharpnefs, dilating the vefTels, and 
 rendring it fluxile even through the coats thereof. 
 And as maladies of this kind lb frequently admit of 
 cure, fo wc are of opinion, that it is not out of the 
 power of an able phyfician to perform the fame. 
 
 Q^ To mejier poll(nv Sur yo viun km that 1 U<ve in 
 Chefhfher ivhen 1 am a njohom, hut 1 cume to this tonvne 
 about fum bifnist and I harde ivhot hra^ve foke yo n.vorne, 
 fo 1 had a minde to ax you ivon quejlion, and that is 
 ivhedder a paivnd of good fat chefh/ker chefe, or a paivnd 
 of beacon ^vjood drop mofl butter if they ^vor to be rojled, 
 yau mun make hafle ^ith a aunfer^ or elf I fhall he 
 givon nvhom agane and fo 1 remane yore losing frend 
 Tufnmos. 
 
 A.^ Roll: a pawnd of gud chefiier cheeze for yowr 
 breekfault an aufter run whom agen as faft as eef 
 you had a balee at your breech ond zo you will knaw 
 whith drops molt hog or cheeze. 
 
 Q^ Why there are more larks than torn tits, njjhen torn 
 tits frequently hatch 24 young ones at a time, and larks 
 ne'ver above 4 or 5 ? 
 
 A. As for the number of the iom tit's young ones, 
 we doubt* you are miilaken, fince nine or ten are 
 commonly found to be the number thereof. And 
 whereas the torn tit breeds but once a year, the laik 
 breeds thrice, 'viz. in M?;-, fulyy and Augitji. 
 
 Q^ Te vjife BritiHi bards, if it is your defgn. 
 To be thought Phcebus fons, and friends to the nine, 
 Tou fhould not negled, hut refclve 'very foon, Sirs, 
 Thofe perfons that civilly ask you a boon. Sirs. 
 I'm fare Ihave fent you three queflisns or four. 
 Since ixhich 1 have read full thirty or 7nore ■ 
 Of your excellent papers, but never could fnd 
 Any one of ''em anfv^crd, v^hich I vovj is unkind. 
 
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900 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 If yoiill give a good reafonfor this your negkSiy 
 
 Ijhall enjer your god/hips adore and refpeB ; 
 
 I^ay, yet Til do tnore : For I folemnly fuoear. 
 
 By the Jhrine of great Phoebus (nxihofe heirs you appear 
 
 To be) That Til itjillingly pay my half croivn 
 
 Per quarter for papers of fo much renoixm ? 
 
 A, Of feeming negled when any accufe us. 
 They ought (or we think it is but to amufe us) 
 To fend at the fame time their queftions again. 
 Or elfe muft expeft that their fending's in vain ; 
 For they might have mifcarry'd, for the publick unfit, 
 JBe anfwer'd before, or defe(flive in wit : 
 But fuppofe none of thefe, that they're fit for an an.- 
 
 fv\er, 
 ^Jo wonder if thirty before we advance, Sir, 
 Since rarely one comes, but an hundred before. 
 Are plac'd on our files, which folution implore. 
 Q^lamfadlydifluryd, 
 And by my wife curh'd, 
 Which makes me juji out of my ^Mits^ 
 I took pen and ink^ 
 Endeanj ring to think, 
 "Being no>vj in my frejifcal fits : 
 To ijorite to you Apollo, 
 Whofe judgment Vllfollouo, 
 Which if to vie you II pleafe for to grant y 
 Thro'' England and France, 
 Tllfing and fll dance. 
 And encomiums e^vry if.here chant. 
 A cup of good aky 
 Neither nenx> nor too fiale. 
 My wife hves, and is like a good fellow. 
 
 She'^s as chafe as a dove, "! 
 
 She fwears by aho<ve. 
 But Jhe lo<ves to drink, rant and to lellonx, 
 IVhenfuddTdJI^e'llcome 
 From the de^l to my home, 
 She fits doixin and doth prefentlyfcoldf Sir's; 
 If I fqueeze a njoord in, 
 V ho as Jmall as a pin, 
 The houje is too little to hoU her^ f^A 
 
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 ' 7he kni'ves njoith the handles. 
 Nay the candlejiicks and candles 
 Jit my heady Sify Jhe frefently flings , 
 Then jhe laughs and fits donvn. 
 When Jhe' s crack' d my/oft cronvn. 
 And recalls my hve hack <vjhen Jhe fings. 
 I prejefitl^ go, 
 And Jay hon,v coud''Ji do Jo 
 To thy husband, my deareji dear ivije ? 
 Then Jhe flings, Jcolds again. 
 And infli£is me more fain. 
 That Tm truly quite njjeary of my life. 
 No-lV fain ivoud 1 knoiv. 
 That is nuhat IJhall do. 
 For to life thus I cannot endure. Sir ? 
 If yoiCllJhenjo me the ivay 
 To tame her, that day 
 Reivard you I •will to be Jure, Sir. 
 A. Alas ! thou poor wretch. 
 It were better to flretch. 
 Than endure fuch a terrible life : 
 Nor can we procure 
 A remedy fure 
 Againft fuch a de'elofa Hjoife, 
 Yet fomething we'll tell. 
 We hope may do well. 
 When filPd up with ale (he's grown mellow ; 
 Strait put her to bed. 
 Then thruft in inftead 
 Your felf a large hog for hery^//<7w^ 
 Perhaps the furprize, 
 When ihe opens her ^yos. 
 May make her the foul njice decline i 
 Befides the difgrace. 
 Which will fly in her face. 
 Whenever fhe looks on a fnvine. 
 Q^ Since enjery day fuch 7ionJenJe you rehearfe^ 
 And anfnxer trifling fools ifi doggrel Hjerfe, 
 Tell me, ye bards, (for 'tis an openjhamej 
 Why you prefume to uje ApoUoV nama^ 
 
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902 The British Apollo. 
 
 Vile fans ^Fleckno, (for had Fleckno/f« 
 Tour papers y fure his heirs you all had been.) 
 
 ! fajy ivkyyou ahufe the Delphic k God, 
 And publijh in his name your iL'oris abroad ? 
 
 A. Eternal dulnefs only to repeat. 
 The naufeous reliques of a former treat ; 
 To rail in grofs^ but not one notion name. 
 To which the blockhead can ohjeSfion frame ; 
 No wonder you were never bit before, 
 'Bove notice of fuch fnarling curs we foar. 
 
 (^ Apollo, thou' rt fure the moji lucky at ivritifig. 
 As ever ivas blefi txith the art of inditing : 
 Thou pleafeft all people, nay each oppofite. 
 In thee (tho' they hate one another) delight. 
 Nay, the gra've^ the religious, morofe, nay, the fonxPr, 
 Whore abonje all mankind do acknowledge thy ponxJ'r ; 
 And at the fame time both the airy and young. 
 Are charm d by your numbers, and pleased n.mth your 
 
 Mi- 
 The church, the dijfenter, and e<ven the quaker. 
 Do o'vcn thee an honefi andjuft undertaker ; 
 Nay, thou pleafeft <vjhat never nvas heard of in ftory, 
 The rigideft whig, and the furlieft tory : 
 
 1 hear but four forts nuhich objeii to thy rules. 
 
 They're the rakes and the atheifts, the kna^ves and the 
 
 fools ', 
 Becaufe often Icfht, and nothing but Jhame 
 Expos' d to the ivorld, can the fcoundrels t eclaim ; 
 O / fay by vjhat myfteries thus you engage, ^, 
 
 The njoijeft, moft learned, and bcft of the age. 
 In <v:hich your fne notions fo brightly do f?ine, 
 They prove thy great skill, atid confefs thee divine. 
 A. The ruie for a principle firft we laid down. 
 Was to feek to improve and not anger the town j 
 AW faSlions we fhun, and all parties difown. 
 To probity making our refuge alone ; 
 As knoVking invcdives will never reclaim. 
 The authors of fuch always lofing their ai?n ; 
 And malice, tho' ^itty, will never engage. 
 Much lefs ever tend to improving the age. 
 
 Thofc 
 
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 Thofe fcurrilous blockheads, who think they provoke^. 
 When meeting a juft and fatyrical ftroke, 
 Miftake us, alas [ we defpife the abufe, 
 ^or can own an anger fo poorly to lofe. * 
 
 Q. Pray favour me n,mth the true dejinition of a mi" 
 rack ? 
 
 A. Some define a miracle by the abfolute difficulty 
 of the thing performM : But fmce all things are not 
 orAy poj/ible nxjith Gody but eafy to a power omnipo- 
 tent, the definition will no ways bear. 
 
 Others define it by a performance that exceeds the 
 power of any created being : but fince we are unac- 
 quainted with the natural powers and faculties of in- 
 vifible agents, this definition alfo may be objefted to. 
 
 And therefore we think it the moil unexception- 
 able definition of a miracle, that it is an efFed fuper- 
 feding the known Itated laws of nature. 
 
 Q^ / atn by trade a butcher, and do kill a pretty 
 many Jheep in the year. No^iv there is a fiap upon the 
 hreaft, belonging to the Jkin ivhen feed from the Jheep^ 
 wjhich I ahuoays cut off (tho" no ivays cujiotnary for other 
 butchers fo to do) ^whereof the nxsool brings me in about 
 ^oJhillingSy or 3 pounds a year. *The felmongers 'who buy 
 the skins ^ did they examine e'very individual skin, as they 
 do not, 'wou'd either expert that flap, or make an allova^ 
 ance for it. Upon this account there be feme perfons njuho 
 charge me vAth the crime of cheating thefelmongers, ivho, 
 fnce they never make an exaSi fcrutiny into the skins they 
 buy, vohich njjoud take up too much of their time, and 
 then mixing them vjith other skins, vever-knoi.ij that this 
 fiap is taken avjay, till they come to drefs them, and thert 
 can never knovj vchofe skins they vjere vohich vsant this 
 fiap. But fince they have the liberty of examining the 
 skins before they buy them, and have vjhat they bargained 
 for, 1 can^t think my f elf chargeable vji^y the crime of 
 cheating the ftlmo77gers. 
 
 A. It is an argument how little you can vindi- 
 cate your unchriliian pradlice, fince you take fhelter 
 in fo infignificant a plea as that of a careleiTnefs, in- 
 afmuch as the felmongers ufe not the liberty they 
 3 • enjoy^ 
 
904 ^ke BRITISH Apollo. 
 
 enjoy, of examining your skins. We therefore beg 
 leave to confront fo frivolous a pretext with the 
 fubfequent particular. 
 
 1 . Juftice is fo nice a point, fo tender a concern- 
 ment, fo jealous of its facred privileges, that no caufe, 
 how great foever, and therefore to be fure not fo 
 Hender a caufe as that of careleffnefs, can juftify any 
 the leaft encroachment upon its inviolable rules. Irre- 
 verfible that noted fentence, Fiat jujiitia, mat mun- 
 dus 'y nxe muji rather fuffer the fabric k of the Uni'verfe to 
 be diffohvdy than any wajs infringe the prerogative of 
 
 jujiice, 
 
 2. You fay, that you therefore defraud your chap- 
 men, becaufethro' their negled they deferve the ufage,. 
 But who made you an avenger of demerit ? Whence 
 do you derive authority to encroach upon his prero- 
 gative, who has plainly told you, that vengeance is 
 his, and he <v:ill repay it. 
 
 3. But what, tho' vengeance were yours, and you 
 were commiffion'd to repay it ? yet, what pretence 
 can you have to punilh that ncgleft, which you your felf 
 excufe } For you fay, that the examination of the 
 skins would take up too large a portion of their time. 
 And therefore you are not only unjuft, but unchari- 
 table too, in that you take advantage of other mens 
 neceffities, and make them therefore fufferers, becaufe 
 unable to prevent it. 
 
 4. But tho' their negled were not at all excufea- 
 ble, you might yet fuppofe, that they were therefore 
 negligent, becaufe they took you for an honeft man, 
 and repos'd a confidence in your dealings with them. 
 And therefore on this fuppofal you v/ould be charge- 
 able with a complicated guilt, chargeable, not on- 
 ly tvith injuftice, but alfo with that mean, that un- 
 generous, that ungrateful mifdemcanour, a breach of 
 truft. 
 
 5. Since the felmongers, when they find that they 
 have been fraudulently impos'd upon, cannot poflibly 
 be fenfible who it is that has impos'd upon them, 
 j'ou caufe the reputation of your fellow butchers to 
 
 be 
 
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 be called in queftion ; you fully the good name of 
 your innocent neighbours, and make upright dealers 
 to be fufFerers for your guilty practice . 
 
 6. The argument of carelefTnefs, if at all allowed 
 of, will reach farther than you your felf would have 
 it. For it will equally permit your own fervants to 
 rifle, to defraud you, at what time foever you are 
 carelefs of your effeds. 
 
 Unhappy Man ! yea, doubly unhappy Man ! firll 
 in the commiffion of fo inexcufable a crime, and then 
 in the allegation of fo unpromifmg a plea, as is a dif- 
 tind enormity, an additional tranfgreflion. Let there- 
 fore thefe words of Solomon be always in your view ? 
 a juji iveight and balance are the Lord's. Let thofe 
 golden words, which are metaphorically applicable to 
 every other method of difpofmg of our goods ; let 
 them be your daily, your conftant motto ; fo Ihall 
 your righteoufnefs be as clear as the light , and your juJi 
 dealing as the noon- day. 
 
 Q^ Pray refohe me, if there are, or e'ver nvere, fucb 
 creatures as pigmies ? 
 
 J. Some fkeletons, which a little refemble a man*s, 
 of fmall monkeys, have been fhewn for fuch, which 
 perhaps gave occafion for this opinion. Many fmall 
 dwarfs there be alfo in the Turkijh Seraglio, and for- 
 merly in the courts of England : but that there is, 
 or ever was fuch a diilinft nation of people, is as 
 falfe as Pliny s people, who had no Mouths, but lived 
 only by the fmell of flowers and fruits. 
 \ Q^ // there any fuch thing as the Philsfopher''s Jlom, 
 if there be, ivhat is it? 
 
 A. To anfwer your laft queftion firft, it is a mere 
 chimerical notion : never any, who pretended to it, 
 ofFer'd a reafon for it, and what has no foundation 
 in Reafon or Nature, is not worthy a controverfy. 
 
 Q^ Iha've feen a bladder hlonxjn but about half full, 
 yet being laid before a large fire, it hath fujelld till it 
 burfi. 
 
 A. The air is rarified by the heat of the fire, {o 
 there not being that compreflTure of the aimbient air 
 
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9o6 Tie British Apollo. 
 
 to reflrain the eftbrt of the included, the efFedl you 
 mention follows. 
 
 Q^ What is the reafon that marhle fvjeats [ai they 
 (vulgarly term it) before rainy ^wether ? 
 
 A. It is the nature of the air to penetrate and fill up 
 vacuities ; all bodies being porous are, by confequence, 
 receptive thereof. And as it is the nature of air to 
 penetrate, fo it is alfo to circulate, as water does, 
 but fafter, being of finer fubftance. Now in rainy 
 weather the air being more thick than at other times 
 with vapours and exhalations, it cannot penetrate the 
 marble, before it puts off its more grofs particles, 
 which it leaves upon the marble, and is that they call 
 fwiating. 
 
 (^ What is a cancer, and nxhence is it bred, and 
 nuhyfo called? 
 
 A. A cancer is a hard tumour, (of a blue or black- 
 ifh colour, fall of fliarp pain) befet with many veins, 
 (big with a black humour) referabling a crab's-claw, 
 from whence it borrows its denomination, and tak- 
 cth its original from blood, infedledwith a malignant 
 difpofition, and venenate nature. This humour con- 
 creteth itfdf in the beginning not exceeding the big- 
 nefs of a pea, and afterwards groweth greater in bulk ; 
 cfpecially, if it be enraged with fharp medicines,where- 
 by it encreafeth in acute hot pains, fomewhat like 
 the pricking of needles, derived from fharp vitriolic 
 particles, and the poifonous quality of the blood, 
 grievoufly torturing the nervous and membranous 
 parts, the fubjeft of pain in this difeafe. There are 
 two kinds of cancers, the one not ulcerated, the o- 
 ther ulcerated. The firil proceedeth from a more 
 
 fentle and lefs malignant mafs of Blood, eafily con- 
 ning itfelf within the empty fpaces of the flelhly 
 parts, without much pain. The lafl is derived from 
 a moillhot mafs of blood, (full of fierce, faline, and 
 malignant particles) which being fettled in the em- 
 pty fpaces of the vefTels parteth them from each o- 
 ther, and raifeth a tumour, arifmg from thefe fharp 
 vitriolic humours, corroding the fleihy parts and 
 
 fkin- 
 
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 fkin, whence gufheth out a thin fliarp gleet, very of- 
 feniive to the adjacent parts. 
 
 Q^ Aperfon^ <when dipt money nventj took half a cronxjn, 
 that nvanted three Jhillingi and Jtx pence cfiveight. Hoiaj 
 can half a cronjun make three Jhillingi and fix pence of 
 tueight P 
 
 A. That is nothing flrange, for we have feen an 
 half crown fo much dipt as to want a crown of 
 weight. Several half crowns, before the dipt mo- 
 ney was called in, weigh'd but nine pence apiece. 
 If three of fuch would not be the ftandard weight 
 of one, by confequence one of them wanted a crown 
 {in fuch money) of weight. 
 
 Q. TVho ^as the hejl author , that ever treated of 
 painting ? 
 
 A. Signior PaulinuSy an Italian,v/x\t the beft treatife 
 on that art, which hath come to our knowledge, but 
 *tis a very fcarce beok-. In EngUJhy a Gentleman of 
 our Society writ one fome years fince. All we (hall 
 fay of it, is, that had he feen one before in Englijhy 
 which difcover'd that the author fo well underflood the 
 art, he had not writ his. 
 
 (^ Say, Britiih Bards, ivith parts furpripng otrjr^ 
 Whofe fterhng ivit is more refulgent far. 
 Than glorious Titan'j dazling beams appear ^ 
 
 And of all nature* s bounteous gifts pojfeji : 
 If fiher f'vjans prefaging death is nigh. 
 
 With tunes melodious, on a gliding Stream, 
 
 Their parting life from death Jiri've to redeem, 
 Orfing in mournful notes their elegy. 
 
 A. The filver fwans, no more than other fowl. 
 With tuneful notes prefage impending death. 
 The notion of their dying, tuneful breath. 
 
 Was meant an emblem of a pious foul. 
 Such, whofey«/> life, njohite as their/zoro^ do^von. 
 
 Not ftain'd with the opprobrious marks of vice. 
 
 Arriving at the gates of paradife. 
 Their ^«^with joyful refigtiation crown. 
 
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9o8 ^e British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ 7o me, Apollo, pityjhovj. 
 Who am, that motion-ivork, a BEAU ; 
 In rhimes I muji my cafe difclofe. 
 For, (fiap my <vitals) I hate proje. 
 
 I courted C<£\i2i for viy^ife, 
 Kindjhe agreed to change her Ufe ; 
 The day 'wasfx'd, the ring nvas got, 
 Theparfon ajk'dto tie the knot ; 
 But, curfe on it ! my courage fail'' d. 
 
 And o'er my love d «V fear prevaiPd; 
 
 Tet, by next day I did recover, 
 Addrefs her like repenting louver ; 
 But Jhe, proud minks, nxith fcorn denfd. 
 And <vo^d /he'd he no beggar's bride. 
 
 So tell if 1, cum mente proba, 
 "May <v.-edfo?ne other bona roba ; 
 And then, good Sir, you ~j:'dl difburthen, 
 The loaded mind, o/BEAU. " 
 
 Jack N — — rdcn . 
 
 A. Cum mente probd (tho' infand) 
 We think you may e'en go to any. 
 For tho' you the aggreflbr were. 
 Yet having thus releas'd the fair. 
 And fhe again hav'ng you difcharg'd. 
 And from his cage, the oixl enlarg'd. 
 Both are free from Marriage thence, 
 As you your felf are free ivomfenfe, 
 Q^Say,^nti^ Bards,ay^f» Foreign ^edXmsJhallheary 
 The. wonder 'which began the infant year ; 
 7'i'^/ England's bands in twice two hours luaj knonvn. 
 Full double in its bulk of riches groivn, 
 Hoiv ivill they enter tain the frange report; 
 And hoiv much Great Britannia'j friendfhip court ? 
 
 A. When foreign Realms firft hear the wondrous 
 news, 
 They'll fwear 'tis forg'd, x)[i^\r judgments to abufe i 
 But this wants Confirmation, 'twill be taught. 
 And Confirmation, which will ne'er be brought. 
 That great Britannia can (uchfums engage. 
 When Wars have laftedalmolt half an age : 
 
 Then 
 
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 Then to exert fuch flrange, furprizing pow'rs. 
 
 Millions to raife, in t^ce as 7nany hours ! 
 
 But when it comes conjirtridy how will the founds 
 
 Th' atnazed 'vuorld yjilh. umbrages confound ! 
 
 How will Britannia rear her awful head. 
 
 And ftrike her enemies with fear and dread ! 
 
 What cannot then (the whole report will run) 
 
 What cannot be, by great Britannia done ? 
 
 But when it reaches to the head of France, 
 'Twill throw the frigUned Monarch in a trance. 
 To think that he hath try'd fo long in vain. 
 And with the utmoft efforts of his brain. 
 The title of a trifling bank to gain ; 
 Whilll all his fate/men did the fcheme prepare. 
 Which gave a little cracky and 'vajiijh'd into air. 
 The monarch charg'd it to his fuhjcSis crime. 
 And granjelycrfd, THIS IS A"W0RK OF TIME. 
 But, when he hears, this ^wondrous fpeech took more 
 Of time, with his great thoughts thereon before. 
 Than great Britannia took to raife the n,vhole. 
 How Will't affe6i his Mante7iontan foul? 
 
 Hail 7nighty ANNE, to whofe great Aufpices, 
 More blejjin^s, as unparalleCd as thefe. 
 We owe : Hail SENATE, wife, auguft, ferene. 
 For aiding, to your glory, fuch a ^een. 
 
 To the British Apollo- 1 think my felf 
 
 hou7id to make you T Amende Honorable for my 
 rudenefs, nvhich I lea<ve ycu to make as public as 
 you pleafe, 
 
 PArdon, bright Bard, fince Jhe with blulhes fues, 
 The tim'rous fallies of a daring Mufe. 
 Who only aim'd by her prefumptuous flight, *J ' 
 
 To add new heatns unto your dazzling light, S 
 
 •For 'Virtue, when opprefd, appears more bright : j 
 None e'er cou'd hope by fuch enervate rhimes. 
 To make you lefs admired by the times ; 
 jSince every SUN, frefh fcenes of wonder brings. 
 And all are calm'd, when Heavenly Bkoebus fings. 
 
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 Each tortur'd foul doth now with tranfport fee, 
 His doubts expeli'd, each text explain'd by thee 
 Emits to all its facred energy. 
 Whilft ■natwe's fecrets you with eafe explore. 
 Find out new mineiy and purge the ancient ore ; 
 Such thought, OhHewven! in luch expreflive terms, > 
 Shines through the whole, that every fenfe alarms, t. 
 To pay the homage due to your amazing charms, j 
 But, who can paint the foft, endearing arts. 
 You teach the fair to captivate our hearts ? 
 Whilft each fond youth, your lays do fo infpire. 
 That all arc ftrangers to a hofe dejire. 
 And only burn with ^feraphic fire. 
 None e'erprefumes to tread a path unknown. 
 But afks your leaiie before he ventures on. 
 Who can exprefs, when you vouchfafe to fport. 
 In ruftic 'verfe, among the vulgar fort. 
 The poignant ^it, that breaks through every line, 
 Unvails the radiant God, and forces him to fiiine ? 
 Then, Hea^jenly Bar d 
 
 Since confcious of your worth, no mortal dare 
 Attempt to rival your exalted jphere. 
 Forgive my mufe, and once more tune your Lyre, 
 Lure down your foftefl notes, your anuful ire. 
 Left overwhelm'd with grief, my trembling muje 
 expire. 
 
 Q^ What is the fignification of nvater in haptifm ? 
 
 A. As water is of a cleanfmg nature, fo that in- 
 ward and fpiritual grace, of which water in baptifm 
 is an outward fign, cleanjeth us from all fin. 
 
 Q, IVlr^ is the foul called ftie ? 
 
 A. Becaufe the foul metaphorically conceifves, and 
 thence bears analogy to the female kind. Whence 
 our thoughts are ftyl'd the iffues of the brain ; and 
 the writmgs of learned men, fometimes callM their 
 children. Or this diftindtion may have refpedl to the 
 nature of the foul, in that it is originally pure, like a 
 modeft and untainted virgin; but by her compliance 
 with the lufts of the fielh, with the vanities of the 
 world, ftie proftitutes her virgin hgnour to every 
 
 unlawful 
 
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 unlawful fuitor that addreffes her, and thence unfor- 
 tunately becomes a common harlot. 
 
 QJVhether fouls are all equal in refpeSi of thofe powers 
 and abilities ivith nuhich they a6l in their fe<veral bodies ; 
 or elfe are fame of them of more mhle and exalted qualities 
 than others F If 'we alloix) the former^ e'very days expe- 
 rience feems to argue againfi it, by that njaf difproportion 
 that is clearly difco'ver'd betivixt the judgment, under- 
 fanding. See. of fame men, and others. If the latter 
 be allo^uued, conftdering the circumjiances of fome men, 
 nvhat ungo'vernable bodies nxjeak inferior fouls are jdin'd 
 to, it feems to refleSl on the goodnefs of God. 
 
 A. I . The objedion, if at all allowed of, is equal- 
 ly forcible, which foever of the two pofitions be ad- 
 mitted. For it equally refle6\s on the goodnefs of 
 God, to create a foul of vaft capacities, and then unite 
 it to an ungovernable body, the organs of which he 
 has fo difpos'd, as to caufe thefe vaft capacities to lye 
 dormant, and unexerted, as to join a foul of origi- 
 nally mean capacities to fuch an ungovernable body. 
 But, 
 
 2. The objection is of no avail in either of the 
 two pofitions. For he who has fmall capacities, 
 with an ungovernable body, is probably, at prefent, 
 in a better ftate than that of non-exiftence, but, un- 
 doubtedly, if we add another life to the life that no^M 
 is ; whence it follows, that God has been good and 
 gracious to the very man we fpeak of. And what, 
 though we (hould allow, that God has not been 
 equally good and gracious to him as to other highly 
 favour'd perfons (though even this may be call'd in 
 queftion too upon other conflderations ? ) What tho* 
 we fliould allow of an unequal diibibution of his 
 goodnefs, is it not enough that God is good to all, 
 though not equally good to all ? To allude to the 
 Apoftle, may not God be allow'd to fay, / nvill be 
 more abundantly gracious, to ivhom I nvill be more 
 abundantly gracious ? Shall our eye be e'vil, becaufe God 
 is good P We may as well complain, that we are not 
 all unbodied fpirits, all of us Cherubiras and Sera- 
 phi ms ; 
 
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 phims ; we may as well complain, that we are made 
 a little lo^-er than the Angels. 
 
 Q. A certain Lady nA;as fo much addided to 'veneryy 
 that the repeated embraces of her lowers ganje her no fa- 
 tisfailion. She confulttd eminent ph\Jicians, in order to 
 correSl it ; nxsas often let bloody and took all the cooling 
 things that could be thought of to endeavour tofubdue that 
 infatiable appetite^ but all in njain. It ^was her requejl 
 to her parents y fame 'ti?ne before her death, that /he might 
 be open' d J and the phyfecians, in the diffe^lion of the ma- 
 trix y found fe'veral curTd hairs, 'which they judgd to he 
 the caufe of her conjiant defires that <way. Whether that 
 unfortunate Lady nvas guilty of Jin, in thofs repeated aSis 
 cf'venery? 
 
 A. Suppofing all this to be true in matter of faft, 
 it appears only that this Lady, from the almoft con- 
 tinual irritation caufed by thofe curled hairs, had 
 an extraordinary ftrong propenfion to venery, but the 
 queftion is, whether that propenfion was fuch as (he 
 could by no means refill ? If fo, fhe was not guilty 
 of fin, fince no adlion, but what is in forae manner 
 voluntary, can be finful. But we can hardly be 
 brought to think that God would ever put any man 
 under fuch circumfiances, as make it unavoidably ne- 
 cefTary for him to commit an ad in itfelf unlawfil, 
 and abfolutely prohibited by him. We are rather 
 apt to believe, that if that Lady had ufed her ut- 
 moll endeavours, and had not only had recourfe to 
 the phyficians of the body, but alfo to that great 
 Phyfician of our fouls, fhe might have been able to 
 fubdue that infatiable defire, which having not done, 
 if it was in her power to do it, fhe cannot at the bar 
 of ilrid juftice be acquitted, tho' fhe may fooner find 
 grace, or be beaten v/itli fewer ilripes; than any who 
 never had fo very llrong temptation. 
 
 Q^ In ho XV many years doth the church of Rome keep 
 a year of Jubilee ? Whether it is not held once in fifty 
 years ? 
 
 A. The regular, and therefore more foleran jubilee 
 15 once in an hundred years. Bat in this modern 
 
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 Rome has imitated her ancient mother. For the grand 
 fecular games were regularly celebrated but once in 
 a century. But from the folemnity under Jugujius^ 
 to that under Claudius, there were but 64 years in- 
 terval. From that under Claudius to that under Do- 
 tnitian but 41 . From thence .to that under Antoninus 
 Pius 59. From thence to the next under Se<verus 
 57. And from thence to that under Fhilip, (which 
 was the 9th and laft time thofe games were celebrat- 
 ed at Rome) 44. But prefent Rome is ftill more fre- 
 quent in the celebration of her Jubilee, namely, at 
 the expiration of every five and twenty years. 
 
 Q^ May the body, properly /peaking^ be /aid to feel pain, 
 sr the foul only ? 
 
 A, Pain is a preception or confcioufnefs of fome- 
 thing ungrateful and difagreeable. But perception, 
 or confcioufnefs is incompatible to a material fub- 
 Hance, and confequently to the body. 
 
 Q^ The Robin- Red- Brea/i being as malicious a bird as 
 ofty^ for they do not only defray one another^ but other fmall 
 birds, njohy do many account it a crime to hurt it P 
 
 A. It is a pretty familiar bird, delights us with 
 its fweet notes, therefore is in gratitude cherifhed ty 
 us. What malice foever is in its nature towards o- 
 ther birds, is nothing to us, nor a fault in its felf, 
 iince it but follows the didates of its own nature^ 
 
 Q^ Whether afcetus be capable ofrefpiration? To fup* 
 pofe it is not, is to fuppofe a life ivithout breath, to /up- 
 pofe it is, admits of the folloiving ohjeiiions, that it can- 
 not expire, becaufe there is no vacuum, the Amnion in. 
 nvhich thefcetus is contained being full of nvater. That 
 upon injpiration, it mujl at the fame time dra^w in the 
 ivater, if not to the fr angling j yet to the great detriment 
 of the foetus ? 
 
 A. We anfwer in the negative, mz. That the 
 foetus is not capable of refpiration ; and as to the 
 difficulty you take that opinion to be liable to, we 
 find none in the fuppolition of a life without breath ; 
 for fmce the animal's life does merely confill in the 
 motion of his blood, and other juices feparate4 from 
 
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 it, as long as that motion can be performed without 
 breathing or refpiration, it evidently follows, that 
 life may alfo be without it. But we fuppofe, you 
 \try well know, that in a foetus the blood not paf- 
 ling from the right ventricle of the heart into the 
 left, thro' the lungs, (as it does in a born child) but 
 circulating immediately by fome other peculiar paf- 
 fages, refpiration, which ferves chiefly to dilate the 
 lungs, is not neceflary to maintain that motion, or 
 circulation of the blood, and coniequently life itfelf. 
 
 Q^ If her mojl gracieufe Majejly ^een Ane Jhud 
 tnak de peece 'vid de tirante de la France, ivedar you 
 iinke dat dere njood retorne more refugee into de France ^ 
 like 1 define to doy or more Ji ay here ? 
 
 A. Wen dere be de peece vid France, de beft Re- 
 fugee vil prefer dere relifhone vid good mutton and 
 good beef, and deledder fhoo, to dere relifhione, vid 
 de garlick, de onion, and de vooden fhoo. 
 
 Qj^ Fray tell mey Apollo, asfoon asyou'te roomy 
 Why people fuppofe y that a man's in the moon. 
 And 'which ivay he reached to that lofty plantation. 
 Whether ridingy or fn/jimingy or by ambulation ^ 
 Or ^whether your queriji may not be afraid, 
 That madam your fijler' s no longer a maid! 
 Refohe mey great 5/>, for as I am afinner. 
 She looks a little darkijh fence the man has been in her. 
 
 A. That no mans in the moon wouM be argu'd 
 moft vainly. 
 Since terreftrial fpe£lators can fee him fo plainly. 
 And how he got there nothing tends to the matter. 
 Whether coaches he took, or went thither by water. 
 But that LUN A's a maiden we never pretended. 
 Since that liar-gazing fot to her manfions afcendcd ; 
 And that iiTue they had, is undoubtedly true. 
 Since her lunatic brood's manifefted in you. 
 
 Qj_ What IK! as the name of the place of our Saviour*! 
 baptifm. 
 
 A. The three firll Evangelifts acquaint us, that it 
 was in the river Jordan. But St. John is more par- 
 ticular, and gives us two additional marks of diftinc- 
 
 tion. 
 
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 tion. ift. That the place of our Saviour's baptifm 
 was beyond Jordan, that is, on the other fide of Jor^ 
 Jan from Judea. zdly. That it was in Bethabara ; 
 which place was fituated nn the Scythopolitan country, 
 where the y^'tci were co-inhabitants with tYitSyrs- 
 Phoenicians. The word Bethabara originally implies 
 the place where the Ifraelites pafs'd the river Jor^ 
 dan into the land of Promife. And therefore what 
 place more particularly proper, more proper than 
 Bethabara, typically to reprefent, that as Jojh'uay that 
 heroic General, led the Ifraelites from thence into 
 the land of Canaan, fo J ejus , (which name imports 
 the fame with Jojhua) Jefusy that Captain of our fal- 
 'vation, was there baptiz'd, in order to preach that 
 Word, which fhould dire£l his profelytesto the hea- 
 <venly Canaan, to the nenu Jerufakm ? 
 
 Q^My parents dyings Iivas early committed to the care 
 of my guardians and relations, 'who ga've me a njery in- 
 genuous education. When I <was judged capable thereof y 
 In.vas admitted into the univerfity. I ha've quitted that 
 kind of life, to follow njohat my inclination moji led me to, 
 viz. to ferve my ^een and country. I am no-vu going 
 abroad, and the chief eji thing that detains me is, in my 
 father's will 1 find thefe Words, As for my fon, I re- 
 commend him particularly to the fervice of God, in 
 the miniftry of the Church, and therefore do lay a 
 fatherly charge upon him, to fit and prepare himfelf 
 for it, if no impediment of nature render him unca- 
 pable thereof, l^onjj, do I difobey a deceafed parentis com' 
 mands, (nvhich I reckon as great a breach of the fifth 
 Commandment as if living) thS 1 take not orders? For 
 I affure you I ha've oftenferioufiy confidered on the duf^ 
 tnyoin'^d, but cannot perfuade my felf to undertake fo 
 great a charge as is incumbent on a minifier, and there" 
 fore in confidence fhould not attempt it, <which Ihope nvill 
 bring me under my father's lafi 'words, viz* If no im- 
 pediment of nature, l^c. and what greater can thert 
 if than a man's confidence ? 
 
 A. It is fufficient, that our heavenly Father has 
 fccured the authority of Having parents, not only with 
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9i6 TX^ British Apollo. 
 
 the guarantee ofapofitlve injunftion, but with the 
 allurement of a promife too, the promife anncx'd to 
 the fifth Commandment, ^ut that a father fliould 
 extend his commands to fuch a dillant period after his 
 difTolution, and retain a parental authority, when re- 
 turned to his primogenial duft, this feems to be more 
 than is enjoined by either natural or revealed religi- 
 on. Not but that it is very commendable, and praife 
 worthy to pay obedience to the dying words of an 
 expiring parent; and in many particulars to decline 
 it, is mis-becoming the relation of a fon. Nay, if a 
 father leaves a child an eftate of his own acquiring, 
 on condition that he obey his will, there a non- 
 compliance can be juftified by nothing lefs than a vo- 
 luntary furrender of that conditional ellate. 
 
 But as it is a cuilom, not more common than 
 imprudent, to difpofe of children in ways of living 
 not at all agreeable to their genius and inclinations, 
 fo compulfion is in nothing more imprudent, in no- 
 thing more abfurd, than with regard to th« facred 
 employment of the gown. And therefore the Har- 
 rueji muft be exceeding great, and the labourers as 
 exceeding feiv, where that command in the ftrideft 
 fenfe can be applied to the cafe before us ; compel them 
 to come in. Nay, indeed, we can no ways conceive 
 how a perfon compell'd to holy orders, can confcien- 
 tioufly make anfwer to fome particulars in the or- 
 dination-office. 
 
 Bat, after all, we beg leave to propofe a queflion 
 or two, which, we prefume, will not be thought 
 impertinent. Why would you decline the gown ? 
 Is your genius unfuitable to the function ? if fo, 
 we have nothing more to fay. Have you negleftecl 
 the opportunities you enjoy'd, to qualify, to prepare 
 your felf ? You may redeem your time by your fu- 
 ture induftry ; it may not be, perhaps, too late. 
 Do you find an averfenefs in your will to that di- 
 vine employment ? It t\ould be noble, it would be 
 generous, it would be fomething more than filial, 
 if out of regard to that earneilneS of defire fo vifi- 
 
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 biy apparent in your departing father, you would 
 ftrive at leaft to conquer that averfenefs, to work up 
 your indifferent, your reludant thoughts, to work 
 them up to an inclination, to a defire, to a chearful 
 defire of being admitted a fellow-worker in the Lord's 
 vineyard, of becoming an embaffador of C/^rr,/?. 
 
 But if after a diligent application you fhall be (Qn- 
 fible of fome deficiency (tho* a too diffident opinion 
 of your felf mull not pervert your judgment in the 
 matter) fenfible we fay of fome deficiency, which 
 renders you unable to difcharge the ofiice, you will 
 be fo far from being any ways oblig'd to a compli- 
 ance with your father, that by fo unwarrantable a 
 compliance, you will at once adl repugnant to the 
 didlates of your confcience, which is abfolutely and 
 irreftridlivelyafin, and therefore not to be fuperfeded 
 by the injundions of a parent, and alfo be no better 
 than a prefumptuous intruder, than a bold invader. 
 
 Q^ ^friend of mine had the misfortune to break his 
 leg^ and hy the unskilfulnefs of the furgeon^ or fome o- 
 ther caufe, njoas forced to hwve it cut off jujl lelcw the 
 knee, lie had upon the leaf toe of that foot a corn^ vjhich 
 'gwve him a great deal of pain, tfpecially againf had 
 nveather. He is nonjo as fenfible of pain as ea^er, and finds 
 eafe by rubbing or knocking againfi the bottom cf the "jjoc den- 
 leg nxiith his cane. Whatfi^ould be the reafon he is fo fen- 
 fible of the pain, nvhenthe caufe is taken aivay? 
 
 A. Tho' this cafe may appear very ftrange to many, 
 yet there is nothing more common among thofe who 
 have had the fame misfortune to have any limb cut 
 off. However, the reafon of that odd P>^^w/?:^«o« is 
 not obvious to every one's underllanding, fmce to 
 give any reafonable account cf it, it mull firll be ac- 
 knowledged, that we are miflakcn when we judge 
 pain orpleafure to be in the body, and that they are 
 a modification of the foul occafioned by fome motion 
 made in any of the nervous parts of our body, and 
 communicated to the brain, without which commu- 
 nication we cannot be fenfible of any pain or pleafurf^, 
 as appears in dead palfies ; but on the contrary, if 
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 the filaments of the brain, which are as it were the 
 roots of all the nerves come to be (haken, as they 
 were when that motion was communicated from the 
 limb, it will occafion the fame fenfation of pleafure 
 Of pain in our foul, as if the motion was really begun 
 in that limb, and that only by virtue of God's wife 
 inftitution, when he firft made and eftablifhed that 
 wonderful union of body and foul. 
 
 Q^ In f he nvoo J of Bologne, in the neighbourhood of 
 that cityy fever al trees of the largef grcnvth nverefplit by 
 the extreme Jharpnefs of the cold: 1 dejire you to affign 
 the reafoHt '^h ^^^ extreme frigidity of the air JhouH 
 (aufe the folid trunks of the large fl trees tofpiit afunder ? 
 A. The extreme coldnefs of the air feems to be 
 owing to fome very ftiarp and piercing nitrous falts 
 difperfed in it, which infmuating themfelves in great 
 quantities into the wood of fome trees, like fo many 
 fmall wedges, may be able to fplit the biggeft of 'em, 
 and efpecially thofe whofe pores are fo configurated 
 as to admit them, but not to give them a free and 
 eafy pafl^ge. 
 
 Q. Ho^ came the nx'omen to take the upper- hand of 
 the men in England, above all other countries y andivhe- 
 ther the chronicle yOr any other hijlory gives thereafonfor it? 
 A, There is no chronicle, but will inform you of 
 the mighty valour of Queen Boc^dicea^ and the fervice 
 done againft the Danes by female courage, one of 
 which occafions gave that fe:i the honour you take 
 notice of. Tho' 'tis no wonder that our Englijh Ladies 
 are refpeftcd more than thofe of other countries, fincc 
 fuperior nvorth may juftly chimfuperior dignity. 
 
 Q^ Aftronomers a£irm, that the Sun takes a diurnal 
 tourfcy and pretend to knovo hovo many miles in ity it 
 fetchethy vchichy if it he truey pray inform me hovj the 
 follovjing happens ? 
 
 Suppcfe, Ifet out of London/or apart of England, 
 direSily contrary to the Sun^s courfe, [as they ojffirtn) 
 J have tie Sun to my imagination juji over my head at 
 frf fctting out, and if I ride tvoo or- three hours y IJhall 
 perceive the Sunju/i impending oner me. 
 
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T'i?^ Br I T I s H Apollo. 91^ 
 
 A. In anfwer to your quellion, we would obferve, 
 
 1. That fince we are fituated feveral degrees of la- 
 titude from the neareft vicinity of the Sun, namely, 
 from the northern tropic of Cancer \ we therefore 
 beg leave to tell you, that in no part of England^ at 
 no time of the year, no not on St. Bamahas day, 
 and in the moft fouthern part of Cornivali, you can 
 perceive the Sun to be juft over your head. 
 
 2. That in fo great a fpace as the foremention'd 
 degrees of latitude, confidering withal the vaftdiftance 
 of the Sun to that part of the earth, to which he is 
 at any time perpendicular, fo fmall a journey as that 
 of 2 or 3 hours riding can make fo fenlible difference 
 to the eye of the traveller. But, 
 
 3. The bell modern aftronomers are fo far from 
 allowing the diurnal courfe of the Sun, that they 
 deny his annual courfe, and maintain him to be im- 
 moveably fix'd in a center, as we have more than 
 once obferved in former papers. But the refult of your 
 queftion is the fame, whether the Earth or Sun be 
 the center of the world. And fmce there are fo great 
 a variety of the very fame PhanomenaSf whichfoever 
 of the two be fuppofed to move, they, who fub- 
 fcribeto the Copernican fyftem, may gften in accom- 
 modation to the vulgarly received opinion, (and in 
 feveral particulars they generally do fo) exprefs them- 
 felves in the Ptolemaic ftyle. 
 
 Q^ Pray render into Englifli fJtrfe thefe fwofollo'wing 
 nvhich are found in Raphael the painter's life, 
 
 lllehic eft Raphael, timuit,quofo/pite, <vinci 
 Rerum magna parens, ^ moriente mori. 
 A. This he, whom nature fear*d ; loth to hit art 
 In's life to YIELD, and at his death DEPART. 
 Q. The anf-weryou gave to thofe jocular fellows ^ 
 Ofo\6, Rofe*s fmging and burning the bellows, 
 Wasfo 'very ingenious it gained you re^ionxjn. 
 In cottage f in palace, in country and toton : 
 Wherefore, I, tho" a ruftic, ha've dar''d to make bold, ^ 
 The meaning to afi of a faying thafs old, t 
 
 That the origin caufe ^the iJUordsyoiCd unfold, J 
 
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 Which often are us'd^hen nve jit tittle tattle. 
 O'er afot of good ale, at the jign of the hottle ', 
 Of this happy pair that 'were as/Cd in the church, 
 Jind of that forlorn maid that nvas left in the lurch, 
 j^nd fuch like difcourfe, nAjhich all the plain kno^vs, "7 
 But 'when nxe 'with caution a. fecret difclofe, ^ 
 
 We cry, be it fpoken. Sir, under the rofe ? 3 
 
 A. You fhall meet with an anfwer as true as had 
 thofe. Sir, 
 Of burning the bellcwSy and Jinging old rofe. Sir; 
 And fince thou fet'ft up for the jocular trade, 
 Ee it known that we love fuch a jolly old blade. 
 You mull know. Sir, the Rofe was an emblem of 
 
 old, 
 Whofe leaves by their clofenefs taught fecrets to hold, 
 And 'twas thence it was painted o'er tables fo oft 
 As a warning, left when with a franknefs men fcoft 
 At their neighbour, their Lord, their fat prieft, or 
 
 their nation. 
 Some amongft 'em, next day, Ihou'd betray converfa- 
 tion. 
 
 Q^ Iha've a Welch rival, goat fplutter a nail ? 
 My miftrefi doth make his chaps nvatir, 
 ^ho" his noddle be gray, his lenxsdnifs don't fail. 
 
 And earnefly longs to be at her. 
 Whoei'er beholdeth her delicate fhape. 
 
 With taffy' J and my punch^anel kelders. 
 Will fixear from us three ivas copy^d the rape 
 
 0/"Sufan attack'dby the elders. 
 *Ihe dam fe I is <virt''ous, moji prudently fhy. 
 
 And of fuch a cunning beha'viour, 
 Sometimes 1 think he, then again he thinks 1 
 
 Am gotten moji into kerfa'vour. 
 Apollo, Tllfick to thy fhrine like a bur. 
 
 Until you do fend us fome rules. Sir, 
 Honv ive may difco'ver 'which Jhe does prefer. 
 
 Or ifjhe makes both of us fools. Sir P 
 A. To make you both niz,eys, it never can be. 
 
 Since nature hath made you fuch tools, 
 Jieftor'd you your childhoods, then certainly y^^ 
 
 WiWiiGver of children m^iktfoo/s. To 
 
^/^^ British Aplolo. 921 
 
 To tell, in her favour which o^ you moft are. 
 
 Is hard, fmce by either harangu'd. 
 We've reafon to think that fhe did not much care. 
 If both the le^d elders were hangd, 
 Q^ If a do£ior thou art. 
 Tour ad'vice pray impart 
 to me a poor miserable creature,. 
 IVho by poxes and claps. 
 And other miJhapSy 
 Am reduced to a /career on^ in feature. 
 
 For my nxjaifs but a f patty ■ •.-> 
 
 Altho' Tm a tall man. 
 My eyes are funk into my head. 
 With long lantern janjjs. 
 Fingers like to bird''s clangs, 
 And a colour as pale as one dead? 
 A. By the image here meant, 
 You almoll reprefent, 
 A juft inftance of heaven's difpleafure,. 
 For your terrible phiz, 
 As fcarce human it is, 
 Seems to favour old ISebuchadnezzar^ 
 Tho' his vices were great. 
 Yet his woes were complete, 
 And whatever the quacks may affure yc,. 
 Such a diet as his, 
 Tho' you think it amifs, 
 Is the means that may probably cure you. 
 Q^ What is the import of thofe luords in I Cor. 
 xvi. 22. If any man love not the Lord jefus Chrift, let 
 him be Anathema Maranatha ? 
 
 A. Anathema is a Greek word, and primarily fig- 
 niiies an execration, but metonymically, a perfon de- 
 voted or accur(^ed. 
 
 Maranatha is Syriack, and fignifies the Lord comes, 
 that is, to the utter extirpation of fo profligate a 
 wretch, or let him be referved to the dreadful com- 
 ing of the Son of God, to the terrible appearance of 
 the Judge of all the earth. Since therefore Maranatha 
 is of the like import with Anathma, the Apoftle 
 K r 5 jnakci 
 
922 *r;&tf British Apollo. 
 
 makes ufe of both the words to reprefent, that To 
 blafphemous, (o execrable a perfon, is worthy of a 
 double curfe. 
 
 Q^ Idefireyou to gi've an explanation of Gen. iv. 26. 
 Then began men to call upon the name of the Lord ? 
 
 ji. In the former part of the verfe we read that 
 Seth had a fon whom he call'd Enos. Now the word 
 in Hebreixj fignifies a man, and is deriv'd from a radix, 
 which imports to htfickly and iveakly. And there- 
 fore Sethf by converting that appellative into a proper 
 name, and impofmg it on his fon, feems at that time 
 to have more particularly confider'd the weaknefs and 
 imbecillity of human race, of which every day's expe- 
 rience prefented him with more pregnant and lively 
 inftances. And from the confideration of fuch de- 
 plorable weaknefs, fuch lamentable imbecillity, he 
 might be naturally induc'd to perfuade his family to 
 be more ferious, more folemn than men had generally 
 been before, in the duties of piety, in the exercife of 
 religion. And it is no uncommon mode of fpeech, 
 to couch the comparative degree under that of the 
 pofitive. 
 
 Q^ Why fU'as a nefw married luoman among the Ro- 
 mans obliged to touch Jire and ^water ? 
 
 A. The cuftom fpecified cannot with any flri£l 
 propriety of fpeech be faid to belong to new married 
 women, becaufe it was part of the nuptial folem- 
 nity. Upon the bride's entrance into the bridegroom's 
 houfe (after which there were feveral ceremonies 
 performed ) the keys of the houfe were firll deliver'd 
 to her, to denote that fhe was the miftrefs of the 
 family (cho' indeed there are too many husbands a- 
 mong us Chriilians, who ufe even their prudent and 
 difcreet wives more like menial fervants than mi- 
 ftreffes of the houfe, fo ready are they to forget that 
 marriage-promife, njoith my goods I thee endoivj and 
 then the bridegroom prefented her with two veffels, 
 the one of fire, and the other of water. And as thefe 
 two veflels were intended for emblematical reprefen- 
 tatives, fo one of thefe two different fjgniiications is 
 
 aflignd 
 
"Tfje British Apollo. 923 
 
 afiign'd to them ; either, as fire is of a purifying, 
 and water of a cleanfing nature, fo the cuflomary ufe 
 of them we are fpeaking of may figure but that un- 
 tainted purity, that inviolable chaftity, that becomes 
 the wife of our bofom : Or thofe two elements may 
 be defignM as a pledge of the bride and bridegroom's 
 adhering to one another in their greateft neceffities in 
 their utmoft needs. And therefore this pledge is cor- 
 refpondent to thofe mutual and becoming promifes in 
 our matrimonial office of keeping one another in Jtck- 
 nefs and m health. And fire and water may reprefent 
 fuch a ftrid adherence upon a twofold account ; ei- 
 ther, becaufe as they are fuch ufefal, fuch neceffary 
 elements, fo they may be metaphorically fignificant of 
 all the neceffaries of life ; or, as that common faying 
 may expound it, I fwill go thro' Jire and ^ater tofewe 
 you. 
 
 But as either of thefe two reafons is affign'd, fo 
 we cannot fee, why both of them at once might not 
 have been intended by the cuftom. 
 
 Q^ The meaning of that exprej/ion, no peny, no pa- 
 ter nofter ? 
 
 J. No peny refers to the Petir*s pence, a tribute 
 which our ancefrors, before the reformation, paid to 
 the Pope of Rome. And as pater nojier are the two 
 firll words of the Lord's prayer in Latin, fo they are 
 us'd for the title of the whole. And therefore the 
 meaning of that expreffion is, no moneys no prayers, 
 
 Q^ Why is the female fex attributed to ajhip ? 
 
 A. Becaufe a ftiip carries burdens, and therefore re* 
 fembles a pregnant woman. And this refemblance is 
 more remarkable with regard to the modern drefs, 
 fince the fails of a ftiip are fomewhat agreeable to a 
 woman's toppings. And perhaps the author of this 
 denomination might defign it as a fatyr upon the fex, 
 as thinking that a wavering {hip that is tofs*d up and 
 down by every wind, was no unfuitable emblem of 
 their reputed inconilancy. 
 
 Rr 6 ^Wl^ 
 
€)24 ^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Q. M'^hy the greateft admirers of mujick are generall 
 great devotees to love ? 
 
 A. Becaufe love is the harmony of the foul, and 
 therefore fympathizes with that which affects the 
 enfeA 
 
 Q^ Whence came the faying^ that London-bridge is 
 built upon wool packs ? 
 
 ji. An impoft laid on wool maintain'd the charge 
 when that prodigious pile was rais'd. ^ 
 
 Q^ Te Britifti bards, co'ver'd ixjtth glorious bays. 
 The juji renxiard of your melodious laySy 
 WhoJ'e eloquence polite y and ivit divine y 
 Like Dryden, Wallcr'j, and the mojl fuhlime* (j* Milton 
 Improve the prefent age', lAiill blefs fucceeding^ 
 
 time : 
 Permit a youth njuith anxious care opprejl, 
 To Vent the jarring pajfions of his breajl : 
 J love, hut dare not, tnuji not love declare, 
 Leji to my friend Ifhould unjuji appear, 
 li'ho being forc''d to leave his darling fair, 
 CompeWd me to attend, to foot h her care. 
 And keep her tender foul from plunging in defpair, 
 i overt d I long had lov'd the charming dame, 
 jtnd that her converje ivould revive my fame. 
 Begging to he excusd, but he rejoin' d. 
 He anevo I lov'd, and therefore vcould be kind, 
 That if I gaitidher heart, he nxculd the nymph refgn. 
 Yet voould I rather juji and faithful pro-ve 
 Unto my friend, and fern invading love. 
 But Oh! Her perfect form ! Her melting eyes ! 
 jind tender accents do my foul furprize. 
 What Jhall 1 do, ye oracles divine, 
 Dire^ my youth, guide my unfahle mind, 
 That long has vjith alternate pafjionsfro^e. 
 So that I may our friendfliip more improve. 
 And if it can be done, love ijoith platonic love r 
 A, Moft gen'rous youth, that woald'll at once im- 
 prove, 
 1 he tics of friendfbip, and the blifs of love, 
 
 If 
 
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^he British Apollo. 925 
 
 If (he poffefs'd appears with thoughts refin'd, 
 Defpife external forms, infpedl the mind : 
 Let fond alarms no more your breaft controul^ 
 But learn to prize her hx'ight. feraphic foul. 
 So fhall you lo-^je and friendfhip too purfue,. 
 And fo Ihall both their centre fix in you, 
 Q^ Pray, tell me, God Apollo, nxhy 
 
 Philander, '■ojhen alone. 
 Firmly refolves his fate to try^ 
 And make his paJ/io?i knonjon. 
 Yet njohen he to his Chloe goes. 
 
 He feems <ivithout dejires. 
 Says nothing to the purpofe, boivs. 
 And decently retires ? 
 
 A. From difPrent caufes this may light, 
 
 The/xvtfzV? may in his mind. 
 Form an idea far more bright. 
 
 On <viJion much declined. 
 Or not up to her pow'rful charms. 
 
 So when he makes hisy?«/. 
 The energy of brisk alarms 
 
 May Itrike the lo'uer mute. 
 Q^ Ye fons of dark Pluto, and not cf Apollo, 
 Wr.om none btit knaves love, and none but fooh fclHikv, 
 J defy you to tell me the reafon, (don^t fail) 
 Why one dag doth fmell at another dog^s tail? 
 
 A, For th' reafons aforefaid, you follow us thu?. 
 With queftions yourfelf the more fit to difcufs ; 
 For fuch {hallow judgments they being moft At, 
 Since the foolilliell puppy the reafon may hit. 
 Q^ Pray tell me, Apollo, 
 Why it is ivhen I hollo^M, 
 1 hear the found over again ? 
 Jf this you do anfuoer. 
 You II greatly ad-vance. Sir, 
 The nvit of a country /wain ? 
 A. The noife moveth round. 
 Till fome matUr is found. 
 
 Whence 
 
926 7^6^ British Apollo. 
 
 Whence it may rcpercujjion obtain. 
 Much like to a ball. 
 When 'tis ftruck to a wall. 
 
 It returns to the Jinker again. 
 
 Q. Who ^as Melchiiedeck ? 
 
 A, Melchifedeck was King of Salem, and priejl of the 
 high God. And as he was a prieft, To he was a greater 
 one than Aaron, in that when another priejl aroje, even 
 the Son of God himfelf, he wr.s call'd after the order 
 of Melchifedeck, and not after the order of Aaron, He, 
 who was the hrightnefs of his Father'' s glory, and the ex- 
 prefs image of his perfon ; he, in whom the fulnefs of 
 the Godhead dzvelt bodily ; ei'en he was a prieji for e^er, 
 after the order of Melchifedeck. 
 
 Q^ Whether the nvagers that n,vere laid concerning the 
 breaking of the great frojis ^jcere not faulty? 
 
 A. It is to be fuppob'd, that fuch wagerers as 
 thefe look no farther (with regard to their prefent 
 thoughti) than to neceifary efte£ls, than to natural 
 productions, than to fecond caufes. For would they 
 but look up to the firft, to the direfting caufe ; would 
 they but confider, that it is God who giirth fnow like 
 nx;ool, and fcattereth the hear froji like ajhes ; that it is 
 God who caftcth forth his ice like morfels, fo that none 
 are able to abide his frofis ; that it is he who fendeth 
 forth his <v:ord, a7jd melteth them ; who hlo'weth ivith his 
 Kvind, and the ixaters flo^uo ; would they but confider 
 this, they would out of modefty forbear to play with 
 an over-ruling providence, to fport with the defigns 
 of their Almighty Governor, and adl fo ludicrous a 
 part in any thing that concerns the proceedings of 
 their Maker. If therefore they would but Hate their 
 wagers, as they juftly might ; were they but to fay, 
 / ivill venture fo, or fo, that God nxill remo-je the froji 
 by fuch or fuch a time, they could not choofe but blufh 
 at To unwarrantable a pradlice. 
 
 Q^ / had tnxienty pounds left me hy my uncle, njwhich 
 money nvas to be paid me nvhen 1 nxas eighteen y njuhich I 
 noT-v am. The money luas put in my father s hands, nvha 
 ii a'very fubjlantial marty and Iha^vt hii bond for itj but 
 
 hi 
 
7^/? Br I TisH Apollo. ^27^ 
 
 he refufes to pay me the money. Therefore Idejtre to kno-vj 
 nuhether it be lanvfulfor me to take the money contrary to 
 his kno-Mledge, if I do not exceed 20 1. 
 
 A. As it is your father that detains your right, fo 
 the leail you owe, to fo near, fo dear a relative, is to 
 receive your due by no other method, than that of a 
 dire£l, if not a voluntary payment. And therefore 
 we may addrefs you in the very words of an Apoftle^ 
 Why do you not rather fuffer nvrong? Why do you not ra- 
 ther fuffer your felf to be defrauded? But what, tho* 
 the perfon that would injure you were a ftranger to 
 you ? If juflice permit you to feize your own, yet 
 fo fraudulent, fo clandeftine a feizure is no ways fuit- 
 able to the candour, to the fmcerity of a Chriftian. 
 And therefore, tho' by fo crafty a procedure you may 
 claim one part of a true Chrillian's character, may- 
 pretend to be as ivife as a ferpent, yet we cannot fe- 
 cure to you the other, nay the better part, cannot 
 acknowledge you to be as harmlefs as a do-ve. But con- 
 fider too, that you know not what unhappy differ- 
 ences, what melancholy difturbances, fo treacherous a 
 jaflice may unfortunately produce ? Where is then 
 your compliance with tliat admirable precept, fcllo'w 
 after tie things that make for peace. But allowing that 
 no confiderable differences, no great difturbances en- 
 fue, yet innocent perfons may be caird in queftion ; 
 you may caufe a blemifh to that good name, which is 
 better than precious ointment i to that lonjing fa'vour, 
 which is rather to be chofen than fiher and gold. And 
 therefore we perfuade our felves, from that tendernefs 
 of confcience which the intention of your queftion 
 feems to manifeft, that you will not be fo ungene- 
 roufly warpt by a felfifh love, as to be unjuft to others, 
 in order to do juftice to your felf. 
 
 Qj_ Why thejoulofman^ at fome times appears fo lifvely^ 
 ingorous and aSii've, pregtiant and apprehenjive^ capable of 
 exerting its fe<veral faculties in their genuine order, and 
 yetjhall in an infant be re'vers'd; that life that difplayed 
 it felf fo ingoroufly. Jinks to the loxvef ebb of anxiety ; and 
 that pregnancy, that facetiQufnefs 'which before fo plentifully 
 
928 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 Jia-du'J, lyes dormant and unexerted. Therefore^ Geutleniefiy 
 your reafonsy nvhy the faculties ofthefoulJJ:ouldbefubject 
 to Jo J'udden a tran/pojltiorty Jince not occaJio7id by ap- 
 proaching fear of danger. Sec. or by an inaufpiciousfurprize ? 
 A, '^1 hat the foul of man, in her prefent ftate of 
 union, does very much depend in her operations 
 upon the difpofition of the body, hath been feveral 
 times inculcated in fome of our former papers. Hence 
 it evidently follows, that when any fudden alteration 
 happens in the body, the fame may, and does often 
 adtually happen in the foul. Eut to be a little mpre 
 particular, we mull farther obfervc, that no conlli- 
 tuent part of the body may receive fo quick an alte- 
 ration, nor fo nearly afFeds the foul, as what we call 
 the animal fpirits, that is, that fubtle liquor feparated 
 from the blood, in the cordical part of the brain, and 
 which actuates the fame, and the nerves derived from 
 it. Now when that liquor is duly qualified, and 
 confifts of fuch volatile and balfamic parts, as it is 
 naturally made of, and moves regularly, then the foul 
 is chearful, vigorous, and capable of exerting well all 
 its feveral operations. But when, on the contrary, 
 thefe fpirits confift of too grofs and fluggifh parti- 
 cles, or have contraded fome other ill quality, and 
 fall into diforderly motions, then the foul mufl like- 
 wife grow dull, or anxious and uneafy. Whatever 
 then may caufe fuch fudden alteration in thefe animal 
 Ipirits, may or docs likewife produce one in the foul. 
 And there are feveral things may do it ; but we think 
 there is none fo common and univerfal, as the diffe- 
 rent conilitution of the atmofphere, or circumambi- 
 ent air, which according to the different vapours and 
 exhalations with which it is filled, or according to its 
 greater or leffer weight, hath a ver)^ different influ- 
 ence on the fpirits, and the brain or nerves in which 
 they are contained. Next to the air, We believe no- 
 thing is more apt to caufe that fudden change in the 
 difpofition of the animal fpirits, than a troublefom 
 weight upon the flomach, from fomething of hard 
 djgellion, or fome grofs humours gathered there. 
 
 Ci^What 
 
The British Apollo. 929 
 
 Q^ IVhat isjieep ? IVhere is the fpirit of a man 'when 
 he's ajleep ? Honxj is it employed then ? Some are of the (y- 
 pinion, that it goes from him, 'which I can hardly credit, 
 
 A. Not to take notice of that prepofteroua tenet, 
 that the foul takes its leave from the Sleeping body, 
 we would obferve, that it is a controverted point, 
 an animafemper cogitet, whether the foul always thinks. 
 They who maintain the affirmative, account for our 
 non-confcioufnefs of what we thought of, while we 
 were alleep, unlefs we were in a dream, by the plea 
 of non-reminifcence. But we think the negative ap- 
 parent, in that we may obferve when we fall afleep, 
 not all at once, but by advances and degrees, that even 
 while we are confcious of our thoughts, thofe thoughts 
 approach continually nearer to inadvertency. We are 
 therefore of opinion, that from the intimate union of 
 the foul and body, our faculty of thinking lyes unex- 
 erted in our fleeping bodies, as being impeded by 
 that particular dilpofition of the organs. 
 
 Qj^ Why doesfno"jj and fait mixed together <with ivafer, 
 wake it freeze? 
 
 A. The fmall and infenfible particles of which wa- 
 ter and other fluids are compofed, are ia a continual 
 motion and flux, Aiding like fo many fmall eels one 
 upon another, and when that motion comes any ways 
 to be ftopt, the fluid mull lofe its fluidity, and be 
 thickned or congealed. It is then to be fuppofed, that 
 out of the mixture of fnow with fait, there arifeth 
 fuch a compound, as is apt to infmuate itfelf into 
 the pores of the water, and fo entangle its particles, 
 that they can no more move as they did afore, nor 
 continue in the fame flux. 
 
 Q^ Why does fno-w melt fooner upon Jlone than upon 
 fujood? 
 
 A. Snow melts fooner upon ftone than upon wood, 
 becaufe the moiHure of the air Hops and gathers more 
 upon the furface of the ftone, its pores beingclofe-r 
 and fmaller, than^ upon that of the wood, whofe 
 pores are bigger and loofer. 
 
 Q^ Whether or no^ it freezes in the air nvhen it fnoivs? 
 
 A. Snow 
 
930 ^f^^ British Apollo. 
 
 * A. Snow being nothing but water or vapours con- 
 gealed, we may confidently affirm, that it freezes in 
 that.place from whence it comes. Befides, fmce when 
 it fnows it is always very cold here below, and fmce 
 experience, as well as reafon teaches, that it is ill 11 
 colder in the middle region of the air, where the 
 meteors are formed, we may very reafonably con- 
 clude, that in fnovvy weather it is cold enough there 
 to freeze. 
 
 Q^ Is it pojjibkfor a Gentleman to be in Icnje ivith a 
 Lady, and not to be uneafy if he knoivs he has a ri'val? 
 
 A. We believe it is not only poffible for a Gentle- 
 man to be eafy when he has a rival, but that he may 
 alfo receive fatisfaftion from thence ; we mean if he. 
 has an afcendant over him ; but if his rival be fa- 
 voured, it will try his utmoll philofophy to retain a 
 fcrcne mind. 
 
 Q;^ / dejire you to favour me nvith the method of fcatt' 
 ning the undemm-itten *verfe in Lilly*^ Grammar, 
 Pro falto falio falui, & amicio amicui dat. 
 
 Hellenifmus. Synalaepha SynarreJtS' 
 
 A. Pro Sal to Sali o Salu i eta miciami cui dat. 
 
 Q^ Bright oracle of truth, confine' d by thee, 
 
 That man commijjtoti' d by Almighty pow'r, 
 Recei'v'd the precepts of di'vinity, 
 
 Tranfmittedfrom an unexhaufted ftore. 
 By hea<ven^s omnifcient wuifdom thus infpir''d. 
 
 In chambers itidelible he pend, 
 [Thus ivith celejlial zeal of hrightnefs fir'd) 
 
 Thefacrednorit^ and uohat therein s contain'' d. 
 Con'vinc''dofthis, but more than this P've read, 
 
 Hoiv that the Chrijiian's God from realms aboi'e. 
 To earth, from thofe delightful manftonsfled. 
 
 All o'er compajjion, and all over love 
 
 Tofave mankind 
 
 But here my faith, my infant faith" s confus'd. 
 When I refleii on th" manner of his birth. 
 When providence his mercies thus diffui d. 
 
 In fending of his darling Son on earth. 
 
 If 
 
STy^^f Br I T isH A poLLo. 931 
 
 Jffrom thofe regions of eternal light. 
 
 Almighty fovjer did his offspring fetid y 
 ''Tisjirange, nxjhen from thofe orbs he took his fight, 
 
 Angels t hem fe Ives did not the godhead tend: 
 And thoufandferaphs ivarbling forth his praife. 
 
 Rejoiced that they cou'd in his pre fence njoait, 
 Whiljl the celejiial choir their ^voices rai/e, 
 
 With hymns of joy his njuorth to celebrate. 
 Since eaftern monarchs, ^when theyrefeen abroad, 
 
 Thoufands to them a dread obedience pay. 
 With adorations treated as a God, 
 
 Injiruded thusy their ^vaffals thus obey . 
 If then to monarchs herefuchpoiv'r is ginjn. 
 
 Omnipotence may fure require much more, 
 ^Tis this thatjhocks my faith to think that heav'n, 
 
 Whom all the potentates on earth adore, 
 Shou'd fend his darling fo obfcure 
 A, Why Angels did attend the infant God, 
 
 And heav*nly chorifters proclaim'd his praife : 
 Of pardon fang, (not judgment's dreadful rod) 
 
 And uihcr'd in his birth with tuneful lays, 
 ** Eternal fame to majefty above ; 
 
 " Melodious charms of peace on earth below : 
 ** Mercies declarative of boundlefs love, 
 
 " ne tree of life to banifh'd mortals Ihow. 
 But wou'd you aik, why fo auguft a King 
 
 Chofe not to feize proud Rome\ imperial feat j 
 Why feraphims 2i fabled monarch fing, 
 
 And tell poor Ihepherds his obfure retreat ? 
 GodV thoughts are not as man's ; our Maker'/ 'ways, 
 
 Reflrain ambitious nature's tow'ring wing: 
 Th.tn/hepherds firllefpy heav'n's flirouded rays. 
 
 And feraphims a fabled monarch fing . 
 'Tis God's delight to raife the humble foul. 
 
 And mount the lonjoly to a nobler fphere : 
 He loves the vain afpirer to controul. 
 
 And make the comets blaze to difappear. 
 This! This I Ah! This the humble virgin's theme. 
 
 Who, tho' an unknown maid, enclos'd her fire ; 
 
 But 
 
932 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 But fcarce cou*d think it other than a dream. 
 
 When queens wou'd gladly to her fame afpirc. 
 Efaias fearch, that chriltian prophet read ; 
 
 And there th' unpitied man o/forronvs view : 
 Behold the monarch pre-ordain'd to bleed. 
 
 And King MeJJiah to his grave purfue. 
 Had Chriji appear'd with radiant Iplendor dreft, 
 
 While cherubs thro' the world his namerelound, 
 The prince of peace had left mankind unbleft. 
 And Jin ^ that rebel, no atonement found. 
 But to a meeky a loivly King we owe. 
 
 The King by Zachary defcrib'd of old. 
 That we, bleft mortals ! fhall in raptures flow. 
 
 And in thofe flarry orbs the angelic choir enfold* 
 Now the forlorn refumes his fplendid beams. 
 
 Encircled in his primogenial light ; 
 Angels revere his emanating ftreams. 
 And faints adore the beatific fight. 
 Thus they, who this fubmijjive God fhall trace. 
 
 Content to bear the poignancy of fhame. 
 Shall fhine as foremofl in their chriHian race. 
 And greater lights fuperior glory claim. 
 Q^ To your father I'm toU, 
 By the learned of old y 
 The good fellonvs ivere nvont to repair. 
 When their cattle ixerejiray'dj 
 Ought ivas lojl or mifaid^ 
 And hed tell nvhen they d find ''em, and ijohere* 
 Noiv my mijlrefs is fie d, 
 (Oh! the thought fir ikes me dead!) 
 And has left a fad lo'ver behind her j 
 But your dad having made 
 All you heirs to his trade. 
 Pray tell me, great Sirs, ivhere tofindher P 
 A. Such cattle as yours, 
 Are out of our pow'rs. 
 They'll turn into fo many fhapes,. 
 They'll flip your hands here. 
 And you mifs of them there. 
 So fwiftly the phantom efcapes. 
 
 Nay» 
 
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f/6<? Britisji Apollo. 933 
 
 Nay, did not our dad^ 
 Find his cafe full as bad. 
 When on Daphnis he cou*d not prevail ; 
 Then pray foolifh Ralph, 
 Ne'er think your felf fafe, 
 WhUft you hold a njuet eel by the tail. 
 C^. We read in Gen. v. 28, 29. thefollowoing nx^ords. 
 And Lamech lived an hundred and eighty two years, 
 and begat a fon ; and he called his name "Noah, fay- 
 ing, this fame fhall comfort us concerning the work 
 and toil of our hands, becaufe of the ground which 
 the Lord hath cur fed. Your expofition of the fenje ? 
 
 A. It was ufual with the patriarchs, when they 
 gave names to their children, to turn appellatives into 
 proper names, and that agreeably to the circumftances 
 of times and perfons. And therefore thofe expreffions, 
 the fame Jhall comfort us. Sec. are a paraphraftical in- 
 terpretation of the word Noah. For the Hebrenjo ap- 
 pellative ni3 fignifies refrejhment. 
 
 But to fhew you how Noah was a comfort [(or 
 refreihment to the then prefent generation, concerving 
 the 'work and toil of their hands, becaufe of the ground 
 njuhich the Lord had curfed, we muft confider, that af- 
 ter a curfe was paft upon the earth, for the fin of 
 our firll parents, ihe who was before an indulgent 
 mother became a fevere ftep-mother, and in furnifh- 
 ing her fons with neceffary food, fhe verified thofe 
 words denounced to Adam, in the fiveat of thy face 
 Jhalt thou eat bread. Then ceafed that golden age, of 
 which the poet fpeaks ; 
 
 Max etiam fruges tellus inarata ferebaf. 
 Nee reno^atus ager gravidis canebat arijiis'. 
 A plenteous crop arofe from unplowM earth ; 
 And fields untill'd, cou d boall a num'rous birth. 
 But as we read in Gen. ix. 20. that Noah began to 
 he an hufbandman, (which laft word in the Hebreiu 
 original, is by way of periphrafis, expreft, a man of 
 the earthy and therefore gave birth to that poetical 
 fidion of Saturn and Rh^a) fo Lmsd feems to pro- 
 
 phefy. 
 
934 '^^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 phefy, that Noah and his pollerity fhould make fuch 
 improvement in the methods of agriculture, in the 
 art of hufbandry, ihould invent fuch proper inftru- 
 ments, and other neceffaries for that employment^ as 
 that the fatigue, the drudgery of husbandmen fhould 
 be abundantly lefs than it had been before. 
 
 Or the words may be a predidion, that Noah fhould 
 plant a 'vineyard. For fmce ivine make th glad the heart 
 of man^ fo what more proper than wine to comfort 
 husbandmen in all the nfjork and toil of their hands. 
 
 \i the word refped the curfing of the ground by 
 an univerfal deluge, (tho' this conflrudioh feems not 
 to us to be altogether fo natural) then it neceffarily 
 follows, that Noah is therefore foretold to comfort 
 or refrelh mankind, becaufe defign'd to be the reflor- 
 erof the poll-diluvian world, 
 
 Q^ In the philofophical tranfa^ions of]\int 21. 1 669, 
 they gi'-ve a chronological account ofthefe^ueralincendiums 
 or fires of mount ^tna, and afterixards proceed thus. 
 Nonv ivhether thefe eruptions are caufed by actual fubter- 
 raneous fires^ lighting upon a conibufible matter ^ or by 
 frefruck out of falling and breaking jione 5 y ivhofe fparks 
 meet ivith nitro-fulphureous, or rather infammable fubjian- 
 cesy heaped together in the bonxels of the earthy and by the 
 expanjive violence of the fir By forced to take more roomy 
 andfo burfiing out ivith the impetuofity tuefeey may not 
 be unvaortl:^ of a philofopher's Jpeculation. 
 
 Noiv, Gentlemeny the query y nxjhat in your judgment 
 is the caufe of thefe eruptions ? 
 
 A. We think thefe eruptions may be caufed not 
 only thefe two ways, but alfo, that the combultible 
 matter contained in thofe bowels of the earth with- 
 out the help of any adual fubterraneous fire, or feme 
 accidentally lighted by the falling and ftriking of 
 flones, may take fire of it felf, merely by the intef- 
 tine motion of its particles, as we fee that a heap of 
 hay, or fome other matter will fometimes do. 
 
 Q^ Tour opinion is defiredy to inform houo the ixjord 
 Doctor ought to be f pelt according to the true orthogra- 
 phy thereof. One of the parties contending holds ^ that the 
 
 I (yllabki 
 
ns British Apollo, g^^ 
 
 fyllahles Jhould be di'vided thus, viz. . Dsc-tor, the othtr 
 thusy VIZ. Do-Sior, and both refer themfehes to your deci- 
 fion? 
 
 J. It is a general rule in Profodia, that where two 
 confonants in a derivative proceed from one only in 
 the primitive, there orthography places both the con- 
 fonants in the fame fyllable. Since therefore the two 
 confonants Si in the word Do3or, are derived from 
 the confonant c only in the word Doceo, the £1 mull 
 not be disjoin'd, but Dodlor muft be thus writ Do- 
 Slor. 
 
 Q^ Iha've often heard people of <very good experience in 
 Collieries difcourfe, ^whether or not the coal once nxrought 
 does not from the pillars that are left to keep up the earthy 
 in time groiv, and come to its former greatnefs and ex- 
 tent ? 
 
 A. If we do not millake your meaning, you feem 
 to intimate, that in a Colliery, the large concavities 
 left after working the coal out of it, may in time be 
 filled by the growth of thofe pillars which are left to 
 keep up the earth, but as we do not hear that it was 
 ever found to be fo by experience, fo neither do we 
 think it confonant to reafon that minerals Ihould 
 grow like, or rather much more than the organiz'd 
 bodies of vegetables or animals. 
 
 Q^ / am one that commonly njoater 1 2 or 1 8 times in 
 a day, for I cannot contain my urine long, Noiv Idejlre 
 to knonxjfrom ^whence fo large a quantity of urine Jhould 
 proceed, Jince I drink as feldom as any perfon njuhate'ver, 
 and then but little, I like^juife pvceat 'very much all the 
 fummer, nvhetherljlirornot, night and day, and fome- 
 times in the 'winter. I am alfo lery much fubjeSi to bleed 
 at nofe all the nvinter, --whether I fir or not, but n)ery fel- 
 dom or ne^ver in the fummer, I fhould be 'very glad to 
 knonx) from <whence the caufe proceeds, and whether all 
 thefe enjacuations "joillnot be prejudicial to my healthy if 
 they Jhould continue fomereafoncible time, and whether it 
 njoouldhe proper tojlop any of thefe e^uacuations ? 
 
 A, Tho' you mention frequent difcharges of urine, 
 jet you don't give us any account of the quantity, 
 
 whicli 
 
93^ TJje British Apollo. 
 
 which renders the queftion dubious j but fuppofing it 
 an excefs in quantity, we take it to proceed from 
 the loofe texture of the blood, whence great quanti- 
 ties o^heferum become precipitated, which by their 
 continual coarfe through the ureters into the bladder, 
 promote thofe frequent evacuations. And from fuch a 
 train of fymptoms, doubtlefs the body fufFers great 
 prejudice. 
 
 Qj_ Apollo's fons, ot^o cav reveal 
 
 Myjierivus things ixith eafe. 
 Who from your father' s di5lion Jiea /, 
 
 What all the tonjon doespleafe. 
 Expound ye critic cotifring Sirs, 
 
 (And may ye ne'er nxant fack) 
 ^;6^/ hieroglyphic don /»/^rj 
 
 From Oxen's almanack. 
 Something the author fur ely meant 
 
 Was wondrous, none need doubt. 
 And nvhat increafis his content^ :'* 
 
 The ionxm can't find it out. 
 But ye, 'who wifdom's rudder are. 
 
 May jump on <vjhat he thinks. 
 Unfold 'vjhat be conceals ifjith care. 
 
 And foil the Britilh fphinx. 
 A. In truth good querift, tho' we like 
 
 The briiknels of your wit, 
 At fuch a mark we dare not ilrike, 
 
 Y or not hingh feldom hit. 
 What tho' we nvifdom's rudder were. 
 
 And cou'd her leflbns teach, 
 So over-bold we feldom are. 
 
 To aim above her reach, 
 Q. Tell me nvhence the proverb Jprung, 
 Happy as the day is long ? 
 Whether 'tis a vAnters day, 
 'Or vuhether "'tis a fummer^s, fay ? 
 
 A. Both ^winter days, ^Xi^fummtr too, * 
 
 Will metaphorically do. 
 For as the light which forms the day. 
 Till ev'ning comes, feels no decay, 
 
 4 But 
 
} 
 
 ^>&^ British Apollo. 937 
 
 But free from darknefs brightly Ihines, 
 While Phcehus gallops thro' the figns^ 
 So doth your proverb wilh to man, 
 {Whether his life be yard or fpan) j 
 
 A conflant courfe of gliding joy. 
 Which intervening cares can ne'er deftroy. 
 
 Q^ Hail tuneful bards y nuhofe moruing eloquence^ 
 In numbers fvotet, infpirits e'v'ry fenfe : 
 Whene'er you condefcend to touch your lyre^ 
 With fouls tranfported ^we confefs our Jire, 
 The more <voe feel the nuarmth, the more ivefilldejtre. 
 
 Such healing njirtiie from your lines dijiillsy 
 Whilft e'v'ry thought nvith recent pleafure fills ; 
 Tour pleafing flrains refine our intelle^s, ^ 
 
 Clear up' mifiakesy and cancel all defers. 
 Since thus ive tafie, and feel the ponxi'r di'vine. 
 And reap fuch nurture from each nervous line ; ^ 
 Unlefs ive feared your anger and your rodsy 
 We'd raze out Phoebus, and ave'd Jiyle you Gods. 
 
 Of Would you like the old prophetic fire. 
 Gently impofe your rod, and me infipire. 
 With thoughts fublime my Jlupid mind endue. 
 So Jhould I thinky «Wfpeak, and v/ rite like you. 
 
 J. Your fate propitious to your ivi^es feems, j 
 
 The God already vifits you in dreams, 
 Fill'd with the facred numen foon you'll wake. 
 And wondrous things, and wondrous numbers fpeak. 
 Such pregnant hopes your flowing lines import, 
 You need not court a mufe, for Jhe her felf will court. ^, 
 
 C^ My fiature's about a yard and a half, ]> 
 
 My body in bulk's as big as a calf ^ 
 
 That^s brought to toivn in a Rumford uoaggon, k*;f 
 
 And my legs are as long and as thick as a fiaggon : W 
 
 7 hen fince to your God/hip comes nothing amtfs, 
 1 requefl you njuill give me an anf^wer to this : 
 Admit on the crofs of St. Paul'i I tvas mounted. 
 Which all folk fince finiftPd, for height haus aUimtett 
 A firuSlure prodigious ; 
 But I moQn't be tedious, \ 
 
 Vol, III. Sf " *TU 
 
 \ ■ / 
 
938 ^e British Apollo. 
 
 *Tts this 1 nM>iidkno<vjy 
 Of your Gadjhipy and fo 
 Halving told you my fize and proportion : 
 To thofe nuh^re hehnjj, 
 Honjj big I may /ho^v. 
 Tour opinion's dejird. 
 And quickly required. 
 By one that njoill call you by the name of a nvhorfon ? 
 If thus you refufe an anfiver that's ci'vil, 
 '[hen he'll fend Mr. Phccbus and his ivorks to the d — /. 
 J. Your corpSf at that height^ wou'd moft certainly 
 (how 
 More fixM to your foul, and your fenfe, than beiow : 
 But not to be long, 
 (The hefl of your fong) 
 In anfwering frains, 
 (Vile iffue of brains) 
 This fervcs for an anfwer at lead. 
 
 The calf mounted there, * 
 
 A ^w/^ would feem here. 
 If not juji to art. 
 
 We care not a f 1, 
 
 Which has the advantage, the goofe, or the beajl. 
 Q^ Pray, Apollo, unfold 
 This proverb of old. 
 And no'w to nty queftion pray hari, 
 Honv came it to be faid, 
 Joan the jolly cook-maid 
 Is as good as my Lady in the dark ? 
 j^. When the clouds of the night, 
 EcHpfe from our fight, 
 Even fenfes that might blow up defire. 
 Four fenfes of five 
 Being ftiil kept alive, 
 We enjoy what we cannot admire. 
 
 Q^ In I Cor. XV. 24. are thefe mcords, (Then COm- 
 fth the end, when he fhall have delivered up the 
 kingdom to God, even the Father.) Pray, *what 
 end u meant there, etnd alfo fwhat kingdom ? 
 
 A A, The 
 
ne Bri T iSH Apollo. 939 
 
 A. The end is the time of the general refurreftion, 
 or the day of judgment, Tke kingdom is that fpiritual 
 kingdom of Chrijly whereby he rules thofe whom the 
 Father hath put under his feet, and is the head the 
 governor of the church. But when the church mi- 
 litant (hall be tranllated to the church triumphant, 
 when the judge of all the earth Ihall have difpatch*d 
 the univerfal audit, when the kingdom of grace ihall 
 be fwallowed up in the kingdom of glory ; then will 
 Chrijl\ mediatorfhip, and confequently his kingdom, 
 ceafei then will the Son himfelf be fubjeft to the 
 Father, that God may be all in all.' 
 
 Q. Halving had a great difpute 'with one^ (a Jingle 
 ferfon as lam) njchether drunhnnefs or fornication are 
 Jim of an equal degree^ I dejire you therefore to inform 
 piey niohich is the great ejl before God? 
 
 A, They are both fms of fo deep a dye, as to be 
 fligmatized in the facred oracles with the fevereft 
 cenfures. But tho* each of them is inclufive of io 
 peculiar a turpitude, that fornication in fome refpe£ls, 
 and drunkennefs in other, may feem chargeable with 
 the higheft guilt, yet from that memorable paflage 
 in I Cor. vi. from the 1 3//^ nierfe, to the end of the 
 chapter, one wou'd be apt to conclude, that fornica- 
 tion, in the general, were the mod aggravated fin. 
 And {ince the forefaid paffage includes very powerful 
 and perfuaiive arguments againft fo enormous a tranf- 
 greffion, you would do well to perufe it with an at- 
 tentive ferioufnefs. But if it be objeded, that by 
 fome other unlawful actions we fm alfo againft our 
 own bodies, we anfwer, that the Apoftle, in the cited 
 paiTage, intends not the argument as utterly exclufive 
 of all, but moft other fms, and perhaps with regard 
 to drunkennefs, inclufive of a more eminent degree. 
 It muft be confeil that drunkennefs is attended with 
 a large train of very fatal confequences, that balance 
 many arguments on the other fide. 
 
 But after all, in fins of fo great a magnitude, and 
 
 at leaft very nearly equal in their guilt, you ihould 
 
 not make it matter of concern, nicely to diftinguifti 
 
 Sf 2 which 
 
p^o ^he British Apollo. 
 
 which of them is the greateft, but rather with equal 
 care, with equal folicitude to avoid them both. 
 
 Q. What is meant tyGtn. i. 27. njuhere mentioning 
 man's creationy it fays, male and female made he them f 
 nxihereas ^ce do not read of ivoman being made till after 
 thefirjlfahhath ? 
 
 A. That man as well as woman was created after 
 the firft fabbath, fince his creation too is related after 
 it, namely at njer. 7. oi chap. ii. But for clearing of 
 the whole, we would obferve, that the divine hillo- 
 rian in the \Jl chap, gives us a ftiort and general ac- 
 count of the formation of our firft parents, and then 
 proceeds to the fandlification of the feventh day, but 
 in chap. ii. he refumes the relation in a more particu- 
 lar method. 
 
 Q^ Whether it is not more according to the propriety of 
 the Engliih tongue^ in comparing one thing luith another, 
 to make ufe o/^than, than then ? 
 
 A. Than is more agreeable to the Orthoepeia of mo- 
 dern Englijh: And it muft be alfo allowed to be mod 
 agreeable to reafon, becaufe it diftinguifhes the con- 
 junftion of comparifon from the adverb of time. 
 
 Q. Whether hair nvhen po-ixdered 'vcith common poiuder, 
 may be commonly called coloured?.^ 
 
 A. The reafon we fuppofe, why you doubt of it, 
 is, becaufe white is vulgarly reputed no colour. But 
 the incomparable Sir Ifaac N£<v;ton has demonftrably 
 fhewn that white is compofed of a due proportion'd 
 mixture of rays of all forts of colours. 
 
 Q^ From nvhence arofe the cujiom of allowing the be- 
 72efit of the clergy tojome condemned criminals ? 
 
 A. When knowledge was reduced to fo low an 
 ebb, that he was accounted an admirable fcholar, who 
 was able to read Latin^ the benefit of the clergy was 
 allow'd of, as a proper method for the encourage- 
 ment of learning. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, Pray inform z//, njohy a man (ijoho immo- 
 dejilyjhe'ws his backfide through his pocket-hales) is termed 
 a Heathen Fhilofopher? 
 
 A, Becaufe 
 
The British Apoll o. 94 1 
 
 A. Becaufc the Philofophersof old defpifing wealth, 
 and all the vanity of gaudy habits, contented them- 
 (tUts with fuch poor drefTes, as have given occafion 
 for the proverb you have mentioned. 
 
 Q^ Whether the conjunSiion [or] be copulative or dlf- 
 juncii<ve? Becaufe a learned many in a late argumerit 
 ajferted the former ? 
 
 J. The conjunclion (or) is a disjanftive. Bat 
 becaufe there is a disjunction in all copulatives, and 
 a copulation in all disjunftives, (but with this difix-- 
 rence, that a copulative joins the words, but disjoins 
 the fenfe ; but a disjunctive disjoins the words, but 
 joins the fenfe) thence we fuppofe, the Gentleman's 
 miftake to have taken its rife. 
 
 Q. Why fome people 'Very frequently talk to'themfelves, 
 ivhen fitting alone ^ nay, e-ven njohen they 'walk in thejireets 
 it is ohfer<vable ? 
 
 A. It is no other than the produft of an ill hablt^ 
 and therefore is of the fame nature with thofe vari- 
 ous cuftoms, which different perfons f^re differently 
 affedled with. 
 
 Q^ Whether it impair i young perfom health to lye *with 
 dd perfons ? 
 
 A. It is an advantage to the one, and a difadvan- 
 tage to the other. And this is oceafionM by that at- 
 tra<ftive force fo prevalent in human bodies. 
 
 Q^ Pray tell me ^vhat is the true intention of plays? 
 
 A. To inftrudl mankind by ih&\r morality ^ and di- 
 vert them by their humour. At Icafl it ought to be 
 fuch. 
 
 Q. Can joy y pleafure y and fatisfaSion recover ivhat 
 grief farroiAj and trouble has loft ? 
 
 A. They never can abfolutely recover the former 
 condition in all refpefts, becaufe they muft alfo re- 
 tover what time haslofl; and rarely recover what 
 thofe griefs have loft, by reafon (if violent) they of- 
 ten vitiate the blood, humours and juices of the body ? 
 on which confideration, all ought to fummon their 
 utmoft reafon to oppofe thofe fatal enemies to an 
 happy being, and not give way to them. 
 
 S f J QJVhii» 
 
94^ ^e British Apollo. 
 
 Q. IVhenfcuh accurji forfake their eartfjy clay, 
 Afid by ivfernal chains ai e dra£d aivety: 
 When they by hcav'n are docni'd t"* eternal ncoe. 
 Say, nxhat''s the torturing rack they undergo ? 
 T>Q they the rage of li'vid fames fufain, 
 U' ith cndlefs anguijh, and ince[fant pain ; 
 Or ar e fn (h fangs for ever but begun, 
 With confcious hitrrorsfor thofe crimes thef-ve done ?" 
 
 A. 7'he rebel body, partner in the fin, 
 Will fhare the woes which fliall in hell begin ; 
 *7'will fmart for guilt to dreadful tortures doom*(J,, 
 Whilll always burning, and yet ne*er confum*d. 
 It dares not hope, its pains (hall e*er expire, 
 Immcrtal fuel to immortal fire. 
 But, O! the rackings of a confcious mind f 
 Confcious of fins, in hoflile club combinM ? 
 To plague the man, they once with Judas kifs, 
 V/ith artful fmiles, with falfe delufive blifs. 
 And treacherous embraces flily lur'd. 
 To deathlefs torments not to be endurM. 
 The blazing glory of eternal light, 
 Exchanged for difmal fhades of endlefs night, 
 "With keener poignancy will pierce the heart, 
 Enhance the pangs, and fublimate the fmart 
 Exclufion from the rapt'rous fight of God 
 V/iJl add frefh torture to the galling rod. 
 To think that he no leG than heav'n has loft. 
 While unmixt ix;oe {odcTiTdibleJJing coft ; 
 Tliat he, than Efau more with folly fraught, 
 Kia birthright fold, nor yet xht pottage bought ; 
 ^ Twill urge his foul condemn'd with fiends to dwell ; 
 * Twill crown his anguifii, and complete his hell. 
 
 Q^ Could Ibelie've Philander only mine, 
 And that his love for me nxjou'd ne'er decline, 
 Jijuofoon ivould Sylvia then her yielding heart rcfign ? 
 
 But tjchen I think howo oft the hajiy maid, 
 Bf man, deceitful man, hath been betrafd. 
 Ah I then my blood fhrinks hack, then Sylvia is afraid^ 
 
 Tien nxit^s triumphant vigors , ycu nvho Jho-VJ 
 Tcafons for all things that are done belong, 
 Ucvcjhall 1 my PhilanderV pafjion knonx: ? A. A 
 
the British Apollo. 943 
 
 A. A ftrong and vigorous defenfe commends 
 The brave befieger's gallantry and tends 
 To prove that his attempts were all for glorious ends^ 
 
 Oppofe then all th'addrefTes of your fwain. 
 Give him no hopes^ but give him no difdain. 
 Let him nvijh on, yet let him not too much complain* 
 
 His conftancy in time, \i\% faith may prove. 
 And that (with reafon) your compaffion move, • 
 And then yo^fighing may confe/syou love. 
 Q^ Since you^ re pleas' d for to Anfwtr^ 
 Boys, nxsomen and men, Sir, 
 Iprefume too to fend ycu this query ^ 
 Which is, I don t doubt. 
 In your potur to make out. 
 Or elfe Iijjouldtier ha've come nearye» 
 I cun healthful andjirong. 
 Brisk, jolly, andyoung. 
 Yet nxjhene'ver my mfe 1 do bl(rw, 
 Tm ready to tumble. 
 Which makes me to grumble, 
 I'he reafon of t fain I in'ould knon/j ? 
 A. Two ways it may come. 
 By o'erpoifing your bum, 
 Whilft your brains with your ftraining you jumble; 
 Or your nofe by lewd jilts 
 May be loofe in the hilts. 
 So the pain may incline you to tumble. 
 Q^ Te Delphics, if ye ivere but true men. 
 You'd ne'er ajffume the name o/'Numen ; 
 When like fly priefls, behind you lye, 
 To prompt the belching deity ; 
 But ifyou^re of immortal race. 
 Why d'* ye your pedigree difgrace. 
 When to your f elves you incenfe kindle, 
 Whilft other 'votaries do dwindle. 
 Thus in your blundering metre lyric, 
 Yejpreadyourfulfom panegyric^ 
 Pretending that your booth is full. 
 When none comes in, tbeplafsfo dull. 
 
 S f 4 O'vjn 
 
544 ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Own then for fijame you heads of loggers. 
 You're priefsi and quacks, and pettifoggers. 
 That at your o^vn trades farming nxere, 
 ^oiu bubbles fell for belly cheer ; 
 Feignhigyouie got the learned'* s votes, 
 Sefpraijttig bards in petticoats. 
 (Vhilji 1 tofanje abjierging Manus, 
 Clap your performance to my Anus. 
 
 A. 'Tis plain, your trade has been to cobble. 
 By under-laying lines which hobble : 
 But mark, what for a proverb paft, 
 Prefume not futor 'yond your laft. 
 Vnthought of thing thou'rt in a maze. 
 To hear that others merit praife -, 
 And 'caufe thou art a ftranger to it, 
 DgH fondly think that we muft wee it. 
 We plaudits evVy week decline, 
 Wou'd make thee like a pageant (hine. 
 Until the unregarded elf, 
 Thus furbilh'd, wouM forget its felf. 
 
 Like Mjof% toad with poifon fraught. 
 To be an ox's rival thought, 
 Thou fweiril with envy, but beware, 
 Thou doft not his misfortune (hare, 
 To burft, and fo inftead of fenfe. 
 Vent but negledled noife and llench. 
 
 But moft v/e find thou doft engage. 
 The blunted fatyr of thy rage, 
 To fee a female's thoughts out-fhine. 
 That glimm'ring, glow-worm light of thine. 
 Thy cold cajiration, ne'er alas ! 
 Will for 2. female vigour pafs ; 
 What lines canft hope then to produce. 
 Who has nofrength to force a mufe ? 
 
 Is it not ftrange fuch an infanus, 
 Shou'd ufe our papers at his anus. 
 Since in his head, his writings (how. 
 He has no more brains than below. 
 So there as proper, may be faid. 
 To be apply'd, as to his head, 
 
 Q^ I. Which 
 
^^ British Aplolo. 945 
 
 Q^ I. muh is the mojl ancient, the Church of 
 Rome or the Church of England ? 
 
 2. Horiu long after Chrijly and nvho nvas it , mojl fra- 
 hably, that firfi preached the Gofpel in this ijland ? 
 
 3. Were not nve an efiahli/h' d church long before thi 
 Popes of Rome had any authority iv, this ijland ? 
 
 4. What''s the meaning cf the nvord catholic, andnvhy 
 do the Church of Rome ajfume that name to thetn- 
 
 felves ? and do not -doe feem to alloiv of it, by calling 
 them Roman Catholics ? 
 
 5 . PVhat author treats beflon the antiquity of our church? 
 
 J fieedy anfxver ^jould be the great ef kindnefs ima- 
 ginable^ a dear friend being about to apofatize to that 
 churchy on an opinion of its being the ancient Catholic 
 Church, and that ive ^ere firfi con^verted by her. 
 
 A. An anfwer being of fpeedy confequence, we (hall 
 fay fo much to ihe prefent cafe, as may be fufficient 
 to reftrain a reafonable perfon from fo fatal an apoi- 
 tafy, and give a more diilind reply to the feveral 
 queries in their proper courfe. 
 
 The firll queaion is of the fame nature with that 
 common query of the Romanics, <vihere "was your reli- 
 gion before Luther ? to which the general anfwer is 
 in the Bible. For we therefore feparated from the 
 Church of Rome, becaufeA had forfaken the old reli-^ 
 gion, the religion begun by Chrift, finifh'd by his 
 Apoilles, carefully preferv'd by the fril ages of the 
 Church. Whence our reformation, however f ilily 
 accus'd of noveltj', was yet no other than primitive 
 Chriilianity reviv'd : whereas the Roman was an up- 
 ftart, was a novel Church, Rovel with refpecl to the 
 antiquity of ours. • 
 
 Whatever objedion may be ftarted in favour of the 
 CJmrch of Rome, this one obfervable is fufficient to con- 
 found them all ; namely, that we cannot poffibly com- 
 ply with her propofals without incurring the guilt of 
 fin. And fure pofitive inftitution mud always allow 
 the preference to moral redlitude, which eternally and 
 irreverfibly obliges. And to inflance in that prepollerous 
 do^lrijie of tranicbHantiation, we cannot poffibly com- 
 
946 T'i^^ British Apollo. 
 
 ply therewith, without at once pretending to believe 
 what our reafon will not fufFcr us to believe, and 
 committing that enormous, that notorious fm, the 
 fin of idolatry : the fin of provoking 2i jealous Goci, of 
 gi^^'ing his glory to another. And therefore, a permiflion 
 to go over to the Church of Rome, is without the li- 
 mits of Omnipotence it felf, which cannot difannul 
 the very loweil of moral precepts, cannot repeal fo 
 much as one of the leaf of thefe ComrKandments. 
 
 Q^ Ho'vo do you reconcile thofe t^jco feemingly different 
 relations gi'ven us 0/" JudasV deaths in Mat. xxvii. 5. and 
 Adls i. 21. In the former njoe ready he call down the 
 pieces of filver in the Temple, and departed, and went 
 and hanged himfelf: and in the latter^ and falling 
 headlong he burll afunder in the midfi, and all his 
 bowels gufli'd out ? 
 
 A. Dr. Hammond izkc% notice, that aVay^^y lignifies 
 to frangUy as well as to hang ; and ir^Y,vr,i yevcfji,ivo(;, 
 falling on ont'^sfice, as well as headhjg. And therefore 
 by the former pafTage he would have us underftpnd, 
 that Judas was fo overwhelmed with grief, as to be in 
 a manner ilrangled with it. Bat he thinks it doubtful, 
 whether the latter pafTage fl:ou'd be rendred headlong, 
 or upon hisfucey fmce we know not whether he expir'd 
 immediately after he was fo overwhelm'd with grief; 
 tr fome tiine afterwards, when his melancholy was 
 arriv'd at a crifis, threw hifpifelf down a precipice. 
 Upon which we v/ou'd obfcrve, that if fuch a ftran- 
 gulation be admitted, it is more probable that it was 
 not imir.ediattly previous to his death, fmce this will 
 furriiih us with a reafon why St. ^Jattheav omits fo 
 remarkable an occurrence, as that of Judas bivfiing 
 ajundtr in the tnidf ; for if there were fome interval 
 between, tiic evangclift might think fit to relate only 
 what irr.mcdirtely became 0^ Judas. 
 
 A later commentator alledges many inflances to 
 prove,' that aVayxw fignifies tp hang ; but becaufe it 
 has that fgnification, does it therefore follow that 
 it has no ether ? may not dixdyxuy as well as other 
 words, be equivocal in its import ? and indeed, Liba' 
 
 niui 
 
The British Apollo. 947 
 
 nius ufes it in the fenfe of iufFocating or flrangling. 
 And the pafll^ge cited by Dr. Hammond ^vom St. Chry- 
 fojiom, mud be allow'd to fix this fignification upon 
 the word, unlefs a man may properly be faid to be 
 hing'd with the terrors of confcience. 
 
 If we admit of our tranflation, the pafibges may be 
 reconciled thus. Judas might endeavour to hang him- 
 felf, but by the jerk of his body, when removed from 
 what had before fupportedhim, break the haher, and 
 falling headlong on the ground^ or upon his face, 
 might burll his belly. And if any think either the 
 breaking of the halter, or the burfling of the belly^ 
 to be any ways in its (tU improbable, we may add 
 the judicial concurrence of a vindidlive providence, 
 
 Qj^ PVhat is the meaning of the ^word faculty, ^Mhen 
 applied to karning ? 
 
 A. As the word faculty, fubje(^ively confider'd^ 
 imports the capacity or genius of a man ; fo objec- 
 tively confider'd, it fignifies the feveral arts and 
 fciences : as Th£Qlogyy LaiVy Phyfic, Phihfophy, &c. 
 
 Q^ Whether there be any fuch thing as fusion ? 
 
 A, Suftion, if alIow*d of, is no other than a fpecie* 
 of attraction j fo attradlion is acknowledg'd by the 
 beft modern Philofophers to be an obfcure term, and 
 is cali*d by Sir Jfaac Netoton a tendency of one bod/ 
 to another; which tendency, he fays, is in all bodies, 
 but more intenfe in fome bodies refpedlively to other 
 particular bodies, whence he folves the flowing of 
 the tide by fuch a tendency, and not by prefTure. But 
 it is unimaginable that there fnould be fo powerful a 
 tendency in the water to the fucker (a word framed 
 agreeable to the vulgar notion) of a pump, as to rife 
 to fo great an height ; but the inllances of what is vul- 
 garly caird fudion are clearly folvM by the preffure 
 ©f the air : for when the fucker (to ufe the vulgar, tho' 
 improper word) when elevated in the pump, protrudes 
 the air before it, and leaves the bore below it in a man- 
 ner deftitute of air ; the air, that prefTes the furface of 
 the water in the well round about the pump, makes 
 the water naturally flow to that part where it meets 
 S f 6 nQC 
 
948 ^e British Apollo. 
 
 not with an equivalent reriftance,whence it confequenc- 
 ly rifes in the pump. And of the nature and the prel- 
 fure of the air, we may frame a very eafy conception 
 from the milance of a barrel of beer ; for the air in and 
 about the foffet prefllng upon the beer reftrains its flow- 
 ing, unlefs by a vent at the top the there circumam- 
 bient air be a counterbalance to the aforefald preffure. 
 But to this it may be perhaps objeded, that how 
 can the rifmg of the fmoke of tobacco thro' a pipe 
 be otherwife accounted for, than by the prevalence of 
 fudlion ? to which we reply, that this Phesnomemn alfo 
 is produc'd by preffure ; for what we call the draw- 
 ing of our breath, is a diftention of the lungs. Whence 
 the air in the pipe, our mouths, and other intermediate 
 parts, have immediately recourfe to fuch vacuity? 
 and therefore the air that preffes on the furface of the 
 bowl protrudes the fmoke upwards, where it finds 
 not a proportionable refiftance. And this folution is 
 equally applicable to all other inftances of a fimikr 
 nature, as the blowing of a pair of bellows, ^c. 
 
 Q^ '77j '■ixell knonjon^ that njohen a per/on has any pain, 
 viz. as pain in thejide, Jlomach, gripes, &c. njohik they 
 hold their breath the pain ceafes, 
 
 J. We do much queilion, whether what you affert 
 be true of all pains in general ; but as to any pain in 
 ihe fide, ftomach, or guts, it is not improbable but 
 .that the holding of one's breath may caufe fome al- 
 teration in it , becaufe during that fhort inter-- 
 val of time, the fucceiTive motion of contradlion and 
 relaxation, which is continually performed for expi- 
 ration and infpiration, not only in the perioral and 
 intercoflal mufcles, but alfo in thofe of tne abdomen, 
 IS fufpended, and by confequence the pain that is moft 
 felt in the time of the aforefaid contraAion is taken 
 away, or at leaft fomewhat alleviated, 
 
 Q. Whence is deri'v'd the nxord Bards, for Poets ? 
 
 Ji. The word is deriv'd from the Bardi, the moft 
 
 ancient order (and very reafonably believ'd a religious 
 
 order) of perfons among the old Britaim : they were 
 
 be(<;rc the Druids, tho' afterwards cclips'd by them in 
 
 point 
 
The British Apollo. 949 
 
 point of authority and reputation. They are taken 
 notice of by feveral ancient authors ; as Straho, Hejy- 
 chius, Sec. they were wont to fing the praifes, in words 
 fet to mufic, of eminent and renown'd perfons ; 
 whence they are cali'd by the fore-mcntion'd authors. 
 Poets, Songfters, Compofers of verfes, and the like. 
 They were employM in the apotheofis, or deification 
 of diftinguilh'd heroes. They receiv'd their mode of 
 the finging from the Phcenkiansy who were the firft, 
 that by the neceffity of their affairs, and their extra- 
 ordinary Ikill in navigation, under their great leader 
 HerculeSy not the Grecian Hercules, but fon to the king 
 of Tyre, traded with the inhabitants of Britain, but 
 more efpecially with the more Southern parts of it, 
 where there are ftill feveral remarkable relics of Phcs' 
 nician antiquity, Nor is it anyobjedlion to this, that 
 they were cali'd aci^ot a Greek word for Poets, as de- 
 rived from diQo), to Jtng. ¥oxx.\\tGrecians therafelves 
 receiv'd the method from the Phcenicians ; from 
 whom, when they had learn'd to traffic into thefe 
 parts t^^y inipos'd the foremention'd name, aoi^ot, 
 upon the Bardi, in order to deceive pofterity, and be 
 reputed among the future Britains as authors of the 
 method. And this is but agreeable to their ufual 
 cullom of arrogating all inventions and antiquity to 
 themfelves ; of which, among a thoufand more^ 
 Deucalion's flood is a memorable inflance. 
 
 Q. I having lately been in<vited to an acquaintance'' s houfe 
 to dance country-dantes, one of the company began /-^^ new- 
 fegaries ; 1 being a Jlranger to moji of the company fat 
 douon, and dejird to be excus'^d for that dance, fo all the 
 Company faid it 'was 'very ill breeding to ka^ve off" fo. 
 
 A. We would believe you were fo well latisfy'd in 
 the conduft of your acquaintance, that, they would 
 admit none but civil company ; if fo, it was not a 
 very agreeable temper, to be the only perfcn that ex- 
 cepted againft that dance, it being a tacit refledtion 
 on the rell of the Ladies. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, tell me, tell me nx}hat is love. 
 Lave, the grand fpring by ^jjhich the. luorld does tnove, 
 
 Wha$ 
 
950 The British A poll a. 
 
 tVhat is its ponver fevere experience Jhonxjs, 
 
 But 'what's the real fubjiance no man hto'ws. 
 
 Is it a phantom only of the brain ? 
 
 "Phantoms Ifee can then ^^a/i conquefts gain. 
 
 Is it the darting rays of ladies eyes ? 
 
 ^hen dees the earth oiit-/hins the glittering Jkies, 
 
 ^hen^ Phoebus, hide thy heady put out thy light y 
 
 And ewer all things ^vjith the 'vail of night . 
 
 When thcu art fed, thy ivfuence too decays. 
 
 But beauty lea<ves behind more lafing rays : 
 
 The farther off, the greater force it darts, 
 
 *The farthef from our eycs^ the nearef to our hearts, 
 
 Tell me but n.vhat this is, and then Til cnjon, 
 That thourtf Apollo, ivorthy of the cronvn. 
 
 A. Lofve, that harmonious hinge, on which we're told 
 This Ghh firft motion had, and fmoothly roll'd ; 
 Th' Almighty fiat was the iK:ell-linli d chains, 
 Firft ufher'd forth by {oh feraphic firains, 
 "Which ever fince in tuneful order move, 
 ExpretTive all of harmony and love. 
 And lGH;e which ftrikes us mortals here below. 
 From unifons and notes concordant flow ; 
 Subordinate to ih?.t firf moving fri?tg. 
 Which tunes our fouls whilll we its praifes fing. 
 
 It is no phantom cf an airy brain. 
 Nor eyes ncrfmiles, theyVe all too weak to reign ; 
 No, 'tis a f^mpnthctic note v/e find 
 In others, tun'd exactly to our mind. 
 Which mull ally a//r<^i?,ard to //7r<7//r«/^ are inclin' 
 Q^ When lufful Apollo 
 
 Fair Daphne did Jollyw, 
 0/i-Peneus, fi)e beggd to defray her ; 
 
 And he, Ovid fays, 
 
 Tranform'd her to bays, 
 Rather than the hct fparkf'Oiid enjoy her. 
 
 Since a poor God of nxater 
 
 MetamorphoCd bis daughter^ 
 And Sol ix>as fo eager for rape. 
 
 Why a God of fuch pcvoer, 
 
 The maid to deflonx;er, 
 Vid not change her again to h(r Jhafe ? A, Tho' 
 
 
frt^^BR I TIS'H A POLLO. 951 
 
 A, Tho' Soti> pow'r is greater, 
 Than the weak God'^ oi nvater. 
 Yet 'virtiu fo ftrong bound the charm. 
 That Apollo, not Jo^e, 
 Did he equally Itrje, 
 CouM have offefd the nymph zny harm* 
 Q^ Toung guid meajier Pol^ 
 Touen feather dud 'vollo^jj 
 Kevw keeping 'what earnd en a dait 
 For as njohds a zinner 
 Beside keal at dinner 
 Ife tut keaf a iejier vor pate 
 
 Tour lovin friend Bumkin Clumfey* 
 A. Ife am Polio's herdfman 
 Vor beater rewards man 
 And wot ere his feather dud vollow 
 His zon has more wit 
 Vor greatur things vit 
 Vor Jove was an afs to wife Polio. 
 Q^ By th"^ advice of a friend to Enf — d I-^ent, 
 To fee Cloriann, and gained her confent -, 
 She''d every charm I coud fwijh to behold. 
 But the chief of all charms, thai of plenty of gold i 
 Which 'Lvhen I difco-verd, my lo-ve gre~uu as chilly 
 *S if a quotidian ague hadfeiz'don my njuilL 
 Then tell me, Apollo, if you can tell ivly 
 Gold^s fuch a jenjoel in any mail's eye ? 
 
 A. *Tis 2LJexv£l to none of a generous nature, 
 ComparM to the nt:07-th of a charming ycung creature'. 
 And thofe earth lorn fouls, who to prize it are faid, 
 'I'ho' theiry^^jrr^ is for geld, yet their brains are of lead ^ 
 Q^ Apollo, i7?formme, (for^t feems fomething odd) 
 }i(rjo chances, or comes it 10 pafs. Sir, 
 That fame times your anfivers pro/efsyou a God, 
 
 And fometimes you're dull as an afs. Sir. 
 Tour paper Jhallfuffer, if you are not citil. 
 
 For daily to fames Til allot it ; 
 But if you refohe, ^without playing the d- "" /, 
 * Tis probable I may promote it, 
 
 A. When 
 
952 'The British ApoLLa. 
 
 j1. When you have the Jpleen, then you think we 
 are dull. 
 
 Or your duinep which pafTes for fpleen, 
 Suppofes us emptyy when we are moil fullf 
 
 And dark, when we're bright-^ and Jere7je. 
 But we mull entreat you decline our promotion^ 
 
 Which we wouM not owe to fuch tooli : 
 For fhou'd it be thought that you have a true notion 
 
 Of our nvritingSf we fhouM be thought fools. 
 
 Q^ Great Oracle, a fuppl'iant at your feet 
 Doth projirate lye, your God/hip to intreaty 
 To eafe his doubtful thoughts and troubled mind,. 
 Which long the myjiic reajoris fought to find^ 
 Why the ladle ''bo^je all others is ejieem^d 
 The fpoufe's weapon, and is la'wful deem d. 
 
 A. Againfc the cuflom little can be faid,, 
 Since empty nj.eapons fuit an empty head": 
 For none but fuch the better weapon fhun^^ 
 Accept the ladle, and decline the tongue, 
 
 Q^ I little eat, and yet Tm fat and great. 
 My ftomach fuited to my fmall ejlate : 
 I little ha^'e, and yet a merry fcllo-iv, 
 I^ay, nvhen I am fiber too, as ixsell as mellow. 
 Sry honx) fo much arifes from fo little. 
 Or elfe, 1 fay, Apollc'j but a ^joittal? 
 
 A. You're merry, 'caufe your ftomach is fo fmall^ 
 And your expence on't next to none at all ; 
 You're fat, becaufe mirth makes digeftion good. 
 Extra fling all the virtue of your food ; 
 And if one little were but added more, 
 A little brains, you'd known all this before. 
 
 Q^ What is the proper meaning of the nxord. Martyr ? 
 A. The word is of Greek original, and fignifies a imit- 
 nefs. Bat becaufe thofe truly heroic perfons, who rea- 
 dily part with their very lives, in fure and certain hope 
 of the ^Wmzfat'our, njohich is better than life itfelfdiiQ. 
 the moft unexceptionable witneJfTesto \h2X faith, nvhicb 
 ijuas mce deliver d to the faints, thence the word by way 
 of eminence is particularly applied to them. And 
 therefore St. John, tl^o' he died a natural death at 
 
 Ephefus, 
 
The British A po L-l o. 953 
 
 Ephefus^ is yet not improperly ftyl'd a martyr/a mar- 
 tyr in intention^ (which diftinguifhes his otherwife un- 
 diftinguifhed bravery from martyrdom infaSi) fince 
 he gave as unconteftable an evidence to the Gofpel- 
 truths, as either of his two companions in that bleft 
 triumvirate fo peculiarly favoured by their gracious 
 Matter, inafmuch as he chearfully f^bmitted to the 
 fery trial of the boiling oil, hov/ever miraculoufly 
 refcued thence by the wonderful interpofal of an un- 
 expeded providence. 
 
 Q^ We read in Ifaiah, chap, xxxviii. verfe 5. Be*^ 
 hold I will add unto thy days fifteen years. 
 
 Had any man po<vuer to murder hiiriy or had not he to 
 commit afelf-murdcr ? If fo, it is againji the 'word of 
 Gody if not againji the free-^ill of man ? 
 
 A. God who foreknew all the feveral accidents of 
 life, might therefore know, that no man wou^d at- 
 tempt to murder him ; and that fo horrible a fm as 
 felf-murder wouM not gain admittance in his thoughts. 
 Other particulars might be fuggefted, but this is fuf- 
 ficient to folve the doubt. 
 
 Q;_ What is the reafon of that affertion of Solomon'/ 
 in Ecclefiaftes the yth, 'verfe the zd. It is better to go 
 to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfe of 
 feafting ? 
 
 A. The preacher intimates the reafon of it in the 
 latter part of the verfe ; For that is the end ofallmen^ 
 and the lining nx)ill lay it to heart. We muft all of us 
 go, fooner or later, to the houfe of mourning in a 
 ftrifter fenfe; For it is appointed for men once to die., 
 and therefore it is ufeful. Jt is neceffary for us to be 
 prefent at the melancholy folemnity of a funeral, fmce 
 nothing more proper to read us a le£lure of morta- 
 lity, to remind us of our diffolution, and prefent us 
 with that famous Macedonian motto, M/|xvt?<7o av^fw- 
 itu<i m. Remember that thou art mortal. The houfe 
 of mourning correds the levity of our minds, checks 
 our ambitious thoughts, reflrains the fantaftic fallies 
 of our fond imaginations, and teaches us to knoav that 
 'we are but men. The houfe of mournings as it fea- 
 
 fonably 
 
954 ^^ British Afollo. 
 
 fonably remembers us of our latter end, of that great 
 debt we are all of us to pay ; fo it confequcntly in- 
 ilruds us fo to number our days^ as to apply our hearts 
 unto ivi/dom; it inftrufts us to invert the epicurean 
 fcene, to neither eat nor drini, to do neither to ex- 
 cefs, becaufe to morroav nve die. The houfe of mourning, 
 it obliges us to refled upon thofe mifcarriages, which 
 reprefent death in fo terrrible a form ; for the fling of 
 death is fin : It both prepares us and reminds us too 
 to bewail our finfulnefs, to lament the evil of our do- 
 ings ^ and thence entitle our felves to an ineftimable 
 blefling ; bleffed are they that mournt for theyfhall ht 
 comforted : Comforted, as was Lazarus m Abrahait^t 
 bofom. 
 
 Bat the houfe of feafting is reverfe to this ; it di^ 
 folves our minds, enervates our thoughts, efFeminatci. 
 our fouls, and makes us to be altogether vanity ; yea, 
 to be lighter than vanity itfelf. The houfe of feafting, 
 it puts the evil day far from us; it flatters us as it 
 were with a prefent immortality, as though we were 
 feafting on the tree of life ; it fays in another fenjfe j 
 than the Pfalmif means it, it treacheroufly (zyStYe an 
 Codsy and ye are all the children of the mofi High : For 
 ^efhall not die like men^ ye (hall not fall like one ofthi 
 princes. Well therefore does the preacher add, the heart 
 of the voife is in the houfe of mourning \ but the heart of 
 fools in the houfe of mirth. 
 
 Q. Your opinion is defired of Apollonius Tyanseus, 
 that pretended vjonder-wuorkery ivhom fame men are fo 
 nxiilling blafphemoufly to oppofe to our bleffed Lord? 
 
 A. Tho' fome perfons are ftrangely fond of their 
 mighty darling Apollonius^ they have yet been fuffici- 
 cntly baffled by learned men : But for the fake of 
 thofe, who have not the opportunities of books, we 
 fhill endeavour a clear di feu (Hon of the matter. 
 
 Since Philofiratus is the man, upon whofe authority 
 
 the ilory is fo eagerly embracM, let us examine the 
 
 charadter of fo authentic a perfon. Were Philoflra- 
 
 /us a judicious, a grave hiftorian ; were he a Plutar- 
 
 \lus Rediviuus ; had his life of Apollonius difcovered 
 
 thofe 
 
^Jyd Br I T isH Apollo, g^^ 
 
 thofe charatlers of fincerity fo eminently confpicuous 
 in Plutarchh lives j this might have given fome coun- 
 tenance to his relations, tho* othcrwile built upon a 
 flender foundation : But when we meet with nothing 
 of all this ; when inftead of an hiftorian we meet with 
 a rhetorician; with a flouriiher; with one who 
 £eem*d to prefer pleafure to profit, elegance to truth ; 
 with one who feems to have chofen rather to have 
 diverted the fancy, than inform'd the judgment of his 
 readers. When we obferve that he corapofed his 
 book of wonders at the command of y«//« the Ro- 
 man emprefs j a Lady, who as he himfelf confcflesy 
 took wonderful delight in rhetoric : a Lady, who 
 feems to have been a ftanch Athenian^ to have been 
 pleafed with nothing more than to hear feme ne^ thing ; 
 when we consider the perfon who wrote the book, 
 the Lady he wrote it for, and the age wherein he 
 wrote it (for romances were then in vogue ;) when 
 we confider thcfe concurring circumilances, we 
 may well look upon his relations ai idle tales^ un- 
 lefs otherwife confirmed by ^ cloud of Ruitneffes ', or if 
 by fewer, yet unqueilionable evidences. But fince 
 Fhiloflratus was later than Jpollonius, by an intermedin 
 ate century, he muft neceffarily refer ua to former 
 tellimonies. And here he tells us, that a friend of 
 one Damisj who had wrote commentaries on the life 
 of his companion Apollonius, prefented thofe commen- 
 taries to the emprefs Julia. But this is but the evi- 
 dence of a fingle perfon, and that of a friend withal* 
 who out of fondnefs for fo intimate an acquaintance, 
 nay, and for himfelf too, that he might boafl of the 
 honour of a familiarity with fo wonderful a perfonage,. 
 might be tempted to forge fuch blazing wonders, as 
 are the nvords o/" neither truth nor febernefs. Nay, tho* 
 Damis were a credible perfon, yet we mull depend 
 upon the bare word of his acquaintance, that he gave 
 him thofe commentaries afterwards made ufe of. Nay, 
 tlw* his acquaintance were a credible perfon too, we 
 muft yet rely upon Philojiratus and Julia^ whether fo 
 aauch as one lelatioji taken notice of in the commen- 
 taries 
 
95^ The British Apollo. 
 
 taries of Damis is inferted in Philojiraius's romance. 
 But may he not appeal to a general tradition of won- 
 ders, but a century before perform'd? Alas! he has 
 himfelf prevented fo much as the bare fufpicion of 
 fuch authority, while he makes it matter of melan- 
 choly complaint ; that while lefs deferving philofo- 
 phcrs were for fo many ages in admiration, yet the 
 memory of Jpollonlus fhould fo foon expire. But that 
 the very memory of a man fo famous for furprifing 
 miracles, Ihould in fo fmall an interval be intirely 
 eras'd out of the minds of men, is a miracle as great 
 as any of thofe, which Apolloniui is fabuloufly re- 
 ported to have wrought. And therefore we cannot 
 but acquiefce in the conclufion of a learned man, that 
 there is almoft the fame certainty, that the miracle^ 
 of Apollonius are fiftitious, as that the miracles of our 
 blefTed Lord were adlually performed. 
 
 But the foregoing argument may be confiderably 
 confirmed by another confideration of great impor- 
 tance. Since the Chriftians made daily profelytes to 
 Chriftianity, by the perfuafive argument of pur Sa- 
 viour's miracles, the Heathens would undoubtedly have 
 confronted them with thofe of Apollonius^ had they 
 been fenfible that any fuch were done. And therefore, 
 as the Chriftians were continually infilling on this 
 perfuafive argument; fo this muft have necefiarily 
 perpetuated among the Heathens, the daily revived 
 memory of their great champion Apollonius. Upon 
 which account we cann«t choofe but think, that thofe 
 learned men draw no precipitate conclufion, who de- 
 mur, not only to ApoUonius\ miracles, but to his very 
 exiftencetoo. Reafon therefore warrants us to fay, that 
 if any give credit to fuch incredible legends, they/ollotv, 
 devised indeed, but not CUNNINGLY de^is'd fables. 
 
 Tho' what has been faid fufficiently deflroys the 
 credibility of Philojiratus^s relations, and we are there- 
 fore unwilling to be any farther tedious ; yet at the 
 defire of any who (hall read thi?, we fliall be ready 
 to offer fome farther particulars, which may not per- 
 haps be unworthy of regard. 
 
 Ci, Whether 
 
ne British Apollo. 957 
 
 (^ Whether it be a Jin to eat black puddings, in Lev. 
 chap. vii. ver. 27, it is /aid, Whatfoever foul it be 
 that eafeth any manner of blood, even that foul fliall 
 be cut off from his people ? 
 
 J. The Le'vitical inftitution was a reftridive one, 
 and as far as not inclufive of the moral law, which 
 is of eternal and univerfal obligation, concerned none 
 at the very time of its delivery, but fuch as were 
 members of the commonwealth of Ifrael. And as 
 the law has been fmce repealed by the fame authority 
 by which it was enaded, fo now it is no ways obli- 
 gatory 10 the Jeivs themfelves. But whereas a more 
 plaufible argument is drawn againft eating blood from 
 the folemn determination of the great apollolical coun- 
 cil at Jerufalem, you may find a confutation of it in 
 a former paper. 
 
 Q^ Pray, honv do you reconcile thefe nxjords in the Ca- 
 techifin (The body and blood of Chrift, which is ve- 
 rily and indeed received by the faithful in the Lord's 
 fupper) <with a protejlant'' s denial of the real prefence ? 
 Gentlemen, I do ajfure you, I am a protejiant my felf, 
 and hope I Jhall die fa : But this Catechifm being de- 
 fign'd by the Church for the inJiru£lion of children, and 
 J or people that go no farther for their religion, it feems 
 to me to favour too much of tranfuhftantiation ? 
 
 A. It were indeed to be wifhed, that this pafTage 
 of fo excellent a Catechifm were more cautioufly ex- 
 prefsM, fmce intended for the inftrudlion of children, 
 who muft be allowed to be incapable of nicedillinc- 
 tions. But our mother Church has abundantly de- 
 monllrated in her canons, in her articles, in her com- 
 munion-office, that fhe intends not by the words to 
 inculcate fo prepofterous a dodtrine as that of tran- 
 fubftantiation. When therefore fhe fays, that the body 
 and blood uf Chrift are ^verily, and indeed taken and rt- 
 cei'vedby the faithful in the Lord's Supper, fhe means no 
 more, than that the faithful, by partaking of the con- 
 fecrated elements of bread and wine, do as 'verily and 
 indeed ipsivtdke of all the benefits and advantages of our 
 Saviour's paflion, as though they had actually partaken 
 
 of 
 
^5^ ^^ British Apollo. 
 
 of his very body which was broken, and his very 
 blood which was fhed upon the crofs. 
 
 Q^ I /f)it up a great quantity of phlegm y attended 
 nuitb a cough not painful^ my ufual time is at ten in 
 the morning and five in the evening. The phlegm is 
 thick and nuhitijhy and nearly refetnbles Che/hire cheefe 
 thaii chenjced. I/ometimes have the head-ach, tho other- 
 *u}ife am ^^ery healthy y fkepfoundy and eat hearty y yet 
 never thelefs am voorn to a mere Jkeleton, 1 have been 
 three years in London, and four years ago voas fick of 
 ^ fever in the nerves. I fmoke tobacco, and amy ami 
 €ver njuas very moderatCy none of my family fubjed t9 
 confumptions . 1 defire that you' II inform me in your next 
 paper vjhat may he the occafton i a?id if I am in a con- 
 fumption, vjhether the fmoking of tobaccoy or living in 
 tovony or either he pernicious y and vjhat may be conveni- 
 ent to eradicate my malady ? 
 
 A. The firft occafion of this your indifpofitlon was 
 (probably) cold, , which binding up the pores threw 
 back the ferofities, which fhould have perfpired into 
 the mafs of blood, and were thence depofited into 
 the lungs, where at length putrifying this phlegma- 
 tic matter was bred : And if you are not already 
 confumptive, we have reafon to think you are very 
 near it, and would therefore have you to confult with 
 fome of the more learned in phyfic for your farther i 
 prefervation. * 
 
 Q^ A Gentleman of my acquaintance being contrasted 
 to a young Ladyy arid fhe to him: But fome time after 
 the contrail (for vohat reafon is unknoivn) fent him a 
 halter and a nofegayy telling him fhe vjifhedbim a. good 
 journey, Viith feveral other affronts fhe put upon himy too 
 long to infer t, and vuithal defires him to releafe her of the 
 contraSi pafd betvueen themy as fhe did him for ever, 
 nK)hich voas accordingly done on both fides . Some time after 
 the Lady, repenting vohat Jhe had donCy requejied the Gen- 
 tleman to make good the proinife he had made her for- 
 merly^ vohich he refufed to do. I defire to knovj vihether 
 the Gentleman is not at liberty to makt the fame offers to 
 another ? 
 
 J, li 
 
ne British Apollo. 959 
 
 jf. If the releafes were as formally made as the 
 contraft, he would have been abfolutely at liberty to 
 addrefs another, had no fuch affront been given ; but 
 (hould he accept her repentance, after fo rude, fo 
 grofs an affront, ( if unpro^ok' d to it) we fear he would 
 have more occafion for repentance himfelf after, 
 when it would be too late. 
 
 Q^ JVky has man only of all living creatures his face 
 lifted up to'wards heaven F 
 
 A. As fuch an eredlion of the countenance to 
 heaven is more noble and magnificent than a de- 
 mifiive afpeft, fo it beft becomes that creature, 
 whom the God of nature intended to be Lord of the 
 Creation, and therefore vouchfafed to grace with a 
 majeflic ftrudure of body, as well as with fuch a ca- 
 pacity of foul, as fhould befit for empire. And as 
 man of all fublunary creatures is the only one capa- 
 ble of religion, fo what more proper, than that the 
 very pofture of his body fhould remind him of his 
 duty J remind him to contemplate heaven, to adore 
 the author of his being, the preferver of men. And 
 to this the poet may feem to have an eye, when he 
 elegantly fays ; 
 
 Os homini fullime dedit, ccelumque tueri 
 JuJJity l^ eredos ad fidera iolkre vultus. 
 A lofty afpeft God on man beflowM, 
 (To teach him njohat he to his Maker onxPd) 
 And bad him view the flars, the place of his abode, 
 Qj^ There is a certain man, that ivhenever 1 fee him, 
 2 fall a tremblings and look as pale as death. The more 
 I jlrive againjl //, the njoorje I am : I cannot imagine 
 the meaning of it, therefore deftre your opinion ? 
 
 A. We cannot, Madam, entertain fuch an uncha- 
 litablci opinion, as to think either malice or antipa- 
 thy can find a feat in your breafl ; and therefore 
 conclude, that this mighty Deliquium mufl be the 
 effedl of fuch an irrefiftible power, fuch a fovereign 
 paffion, as that mentioned by the ^QzxMantuan: 
 Ludit amor fenfus, oculos perjiringit^ i^ aufert 
 Libirtatem animi, mira ms fafcinat arte. 
 
 Through 
 
9^0 ne British Apollo. 
 
 Through love the fenfes fail, the fight's confinM, 
 
 And love like wondrous magic fways the mind. 7] 
 Or as it is more pathetically exprefled by Horace : 
 
 Turn nee mem mihiy nee color 
 
 Certd fede manet ; humor i^ in genas 
 
 Furtim labilur, arguenSy 
 
 ^am lent is penitus macerer ignilui. 
 
 My courage fails, my colour fades. 
 
 And through each trembling member wades ; 
 
 The drops which down my temples roll. 
 
 Declare the paffion of my foul. * ; 
 
 Q^ Whether a man has more ribs on one Jide, than> 
 tn the other ? 
 
 A. The number of the ribs on each fide are natu- 
 rally equal. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, Fray fohe me rights Sir, 
 If eating onions fpoils the fight. Sir, 
 And if it does, the reafon ivhj, Sir, 
 And Fm your fir'vant Thomas Hyefir, 
 
 A. That onions, honefl Thomas Hyefir, 
 When eaten, indifpofe the eyes. Sir, 
 Is true, becaufe they fend, 'tis plain. Sir, 
 OfFenfive vapours to the brain. Sir. , 
 
 Qj^ / ha've a relation grie^oufiy affliSled <with the 
 gout, and has been for feveral years. Pray inform me 
 from ivher^ce it proceeds ? 
 
 A. To pafs by Faracelfus'^ tartarous mixture with 
 the Synovia, Helmont^ acid inftdlion of the Archaus, 
 and many other caufes here too tedious to enume- 
 rate ; we Ihall think it fufficient only to offer, that 
 the gout proceeds from a vicious dyfcracy of the blood, 
 whofe acid and faline recrements, nature, in defenfe 
 of the more principal parts, protrudes to the mod 
 remote ones, 'viz. the joints of the hands, arms, legs, 
 and feet. 
 
 Q^ A young man of my acquaintance of zz years of 
 age has been for thefe four years as gray upon the head 
 as mojl men of fourfeore, he halving had no mifehance 
 upon it, neither ^Mas it e^ver fore 'when he nvas a child P 
 
 4 
 
 A^ Authors 
 
The British Apollo. 961 
 
 J. Authors give us feveral inftances of perfons 
 whofe hair hath turned white and hoary in a night*s 
 time, ,nay, as it were in an inftant, through fome 
 great fear or extreme paffion, which perhaps may be 
 your friend's cafe. Scaliger fays, in Exercitation. 312. 
 that Gonzaga having imprifoned a near kinfman m a 
 ftrong caftle on fufpicion of treafon, that he might 
 receive the reward of his demerits, news was brought 
 him next morning that he was become all white and 
 hoary. And Schenkius, Lemnius, Hadrianus, Junius^ 
 Lud(yvicus Fives, Ccelius Rhodoginus and others, give 
 more examples of this kind. As to the reafon hereof, 
 we take it to be, that whereas the blood and hu- 
 mours, which doubtlefs npurifh the hair, are rendered 
 chilly by fear, fo the nutriment of the hair may per- 
 haps be fo far vitiated, as to caufe this alteration ; 
 and they, being of a diaphanous fubftance, are con- 
 fequently fubjeft to bear a fudden change of colour. 
 But for your farther fatisfaftion, fee Diemerbroeck^ 
 Anatom, Corp. Human, p. 559. 560. 
 
 Q. If nuhilji in blifs, your happy hours you Jpend, 
 An ear to human pain you' I deign to lend, 
 Bieji youths, fvouchfafe /' ajftfl a nuretched fwain, 
 With your ad'vice, and mitigate his pain. 
 Love o'er my heart, an empire ne'er coitd boaji ; 
 Nor have J ever yet my freedom lojl. 
 No nymph coiCd e'er fuch povj'rful charms impart. 
 As cou'd prevail o'er my vuell-guarded heart. 
 Until the povSrful little God of love. 
 To be r evened, frji JhevSd me in a grove 
 The charming Phillis, in vchofe fparkling eyes 
 His nvhole artillery in ambujh lyes. 
 When frji I faw the fair, a pleajing praim 
 Foffefs'd my heart, and ran thro' ev'ry vein ; 
 / never thought my heart to love inclin'd. 
 But beauteous Phillis fill vjas in my mind. 
 Whenever I laid me dovon to take my reft, 
 \ Her lovely image fill vuas in my breajl ; 
 \ Methought I held her melting in my arms, 
 \ Poffefd of all, and revelling in her charms : 
 \ Vol. III. Tt Bi,t 
 
962 ne British Apollo. 
 
 But nuhen I eager iveftt to grafp the fair, 
 
 I found but ttnpty arms and fleeting air. 
 
 My dying reafon yet did faintly try, *s 
 
 To keep the feld again/i her enemy , C 
 
 But love triumphant got the 'vidory. ^ 
 
 At laji 1 let my charming Phillis knonio 
 
 The pain, nuhich 1 for her did undergo. 
 
 But Jhe, alas ! my bold addrefs difo'vuns. 
 
 And I can nothing meet but /corn and fronvns | 
 
 Although my birth and fortune equal are. 
 
 And perfon not uncomely does appear. 
 
 Tell me, ye fages^ honv her lo-ve to gain. 
 
 Or ho'w I may my liberty obtain ? 
 
 A. To be (hock'd at \itx frowns, becomes your faulty 
 *Ihe fort is /lighted, gained by one affault ; 
 Renew attacks, nor give her any rejl. 
 Till you have made imprej/ion on her breaft ; 
 Nor hope a kind furrender to oblige, 
 Till you have gain'd it by a formal iiege. 
 Vour conllant ^vigorous efforts may be 
 Means of that blijs, you now defpair to fee. 
 If after all fhe will relentlefs prove. 
 And deaf to all th' addreffes of your love. 
 Then her ingratitude perhaps may cure. 
 And you her /corns may with negleSl endure, 
 Convinc'd that /he has not that /oft, that /'weet 
 Engaging /oul, you coveted to meet. 
 
 Q^ Tell me, oh ! tell me, /ons of art, 
 What is the cau/e of found of f-^^t, 
 Andiuhy, as nve ha've cau/e to think. 
 Some do much' more than others ft — k P 
 If this you an/'wer, learned fvains. 
 The next 1 let, take for your pains. 
 
 A. Inteftine winds do f — ts create. 
 And thus infpire your rattle pate : 
 The ft—k? attending fuch defcents 
 Spring from the foetid continents. 
 The hogoes thus, which guard your ftrains. 
 Speak them the iffuc of your brains. 
 
Ti6^ Bri T isH Apollo. 963 
 
 Q;^ T^'o Genth'women in great dijirefi dejire your 
 tid'vice. Their father being dead about 20 years ago, 
 their mother married again, a minijier of the church 
 c/'England, nvho, before his marriage ivith their mother, 
 told them both fe<veral times they might live tuith him, 
 and he nvould have nothing of them for their diet ; 
 nuhich promife he hath re-iterated fince he hath been 
 married, till both of them being come to about 22 years 
 cf age, and having received from one of their uncles a 
 fmall fum of money for their fortune, he hath picked a 
 quarrel vnth them, and threatens to arrejl them, if they 
 don^t pay him forthwith for their diet. When they de- 
 jire him to remember his promife, he anfvoers, "'tis a ver- 
 bal one that fignifies nothing at all. Sofne people advife 
 them to pay him ^without any delay, others fivould have 
 them go to lavj, either of vjhich advices voill ruin them, 
 and fend them a begging ? 
 
 A. Though your cafe may appear hard at firft iight, 
 yet it is not really fo, farther fhan thus : If you any 
 way promoted your father-in-law's marriage with your 
 mother, and the match anfwer'd the charge he took 
 upon him ; or if he exadled more for your board than 
 you could elfewhere be boarded for ; or if your de- 
 pendance on his promife prevented you from taking 
 other methods for your fubfiftence: if either of 
 thefe, he has done unjuftlyby you, and difhonourably, 
 in infringing his word in any point. But however 
 it may be, they are extremely in the wrong, who ad- 
 vife you to go to law with him ; for tho' we will not 
 fuppofe your father-in-law will be forfworn, yet the 
 Chancery will exaft a valuable confideration in fome 
 kind for the charge he hath been at. All the relief 
 we can propofe is, to obtain of fome friends to per- 
 fuade him in the bed manner they can, and to urge 
 the fanftion of his word, and your dependance thereon. 
 Q^ / happened to be in fome perfons company one eve^ 
 ning, 'who refeSfedvery much upon a certain young Lady, 
 a neighbour of mine. Novj Gentlemen, your opinion is de' 
 fired, vuhether it vuas proper for me, as being a neighbour, 
 tofpeak up in the Ladys behalf, Jhe not being there to an- 
 fvjer for herfelf? T t 2 A, 
 
9^4 ^fhe British Apollo. 
 
 A. Not only a neighbour, but (hould you hear 
 ftrangers abus'd by refledions behind their backs, you 
 are oblig'd by Chriflianity and humanity to vindi- 
 cate them. 
 
 Q^ Whether the enjoying of outnx:ard thi7tgSf or the 
 contemning of them be the mojl defirahie ? 
 
 A. To evidence the preference of the latter to the 
 former, we fhall not infiil upon the uncertainty of 
 outward things, fmce the ftrift purport of the quellion 
 has a neceffary regard either to the prefent enjoyment 
 of them, or to a permanent continuance in fuch an 
 enjoyment. But yet we may confider thofe four 
 ingredients, thofe allay'd mixtures, which even the 
 very leaft allay'd, the moll unmingled of all worldly 
 happinefs is conftantly, infeparably attended wit^.^^„. 
 Though a man be not made rich, but be always fo ;' 
 though the glory of his houfe be fuch as not to need in- 
 creafe j though according to the meafure of human 
 felicity, he has all tMngs at his dejire ; yet he will 
 fometimes meet with fuch bitter potions, yet gall 
 and wormwood will fo intermingle with his honey 
 and his honey-comb, as to give abundant teftimony to 
 that divine aphorifm, man is born to trouble as the 
 [parks fy upward. Though an Haman be the happy 
 man that is honourable, not only as was the Syrian ge- 
 neral nvitb his majler, but with his fellow fubjedls 
 too ; though able to fay in the words of Job, When 1 
 mjent out of the gate through the city, 'when I prepared my 
 feet in thejireet, the young men faiu me, and hid them- 
 fehes, and the aged arofe and food up ', though thus 
 able to boafl of the homage that is paid him, yet a 
 clownilh, an uncourtly Mordecai fhall damp his joy, 
 imbitter his delights, and balance the bended knees of 
 maTty with the undifinguifhing behaviour of a fingk 
 perfon. But a difpofition that heroically contemns the 
 foothing infinuations, the flattering addrefles of tem- 
 poral enjoyments, is liable to no allay, obnoxious 
 to no dependencies, fuperior to all contingencies, to 
 ^11 events. He who has learnt to defpife a defpicable, 
 though gaudy fcene, of him we may be allowed to 
 
 fay. 
 
The Br itish Apollo, 965 
 
 fay, though a thoufand accidents befall him, and ten thou- 
 fandzxt. at his right hand, yet they can not come nigh 
 him. To him we may apply that expreflion of the 
 poet^s : 
 
 SifraBus illahatur orbis, 
 Intpa'vidum ferient ruinee. 
 The very world's foundations tear. 
 And fearlefs he the fhock will bear. 
 
 T^he fpirit of a man, when it can thus fujlain his in- 
 fiymity, when it can laugh at the treacherous pageantry 
 of fublunary happinefs, is a never-failing balfam, 
 fhail we fay, againft the fmarting evils that aflault us ? 
 Yea-, it is more than fo ; it is as much preferable to 
 
 .^^j^bf^ of Gikad, as it is better xo prevent than 
 
 ' ^«r|^^P&tid. Aij4 -therefore fo excellent a fpirit, 
 is not a cure, but ■a. pre/er'vqti've, riot a remedy 
 but an antidote. To morali^ the n£lion of an in- 
 vulnerable Achilles, here we may apply the ftory, with 
 one additional reftriftion only ; namely, that the brave 
 contemner of outward things has not fo much as an 
 unguarded heel. 
 
 Tranfitory pleafures are fo difproportionate to the 
 vaft capacities, to the boundlefs appetites of our crav- 
 ing, our immortal fouls, as fufficiently to verify that 
 general obfervation, th^it fruition is unequal to expeSia- 
 tion. And therefore, while we expedl a fubftanee, 
 we grafp a fhadow ; while we expedl a Jitno, we em- 
 brace a cloud. But he, who can contemn the ^orld, 
 and the things that are in the ivorld, centers his happi- 
 nefs upon adequate, upon proper objefts, the very 
 contempt of that, which others with fo much eager- 
 nefs purfue, afford him an inexhauftible fpring of 
 flooding joys ; afford him fuch fubftantial comforts, 
 as pafs all widerjianding ; fuch ravifhing delights, as 
 the world can neither give, nor take away. 
 
 Thofe outward things which feem to have the leaft 
 of emptinefs, are yet, alas ! impaired by a contrary 
 extreme. They no fooner regale than cloy ; no fooner 
 pleafe than fatiate ; no fooner fatisfy than furfeit. 
 But he, who can overlook fuch vanities as thefe, 
 T t 3 knowa 
 
966 ne British Apollo. 
 
 knows how t^ be regal'd without being cIoyM ; to be 
 pleasM without fatiety ; to be fatisfied without a furfeit. 
 
 Q^ Whether it be a Jin for a man, after he hath pro- 
 mifed to ha've a certain Lady, and aftemxiards Jhouid 
 have more mind to another , to marry the latter, hecaufe 
 he thinks if he had the former, theyjhould not live hap- 
 fily together, tho' the former has the moli money ? 
 
 A. As we fuppofe yourfelf to be the perfon concerned, 
 fo we are oblig*d to tell you, that you fhould have 
 maturely examinM the temper of the Lady, ihould 
 have made a ftrift fcarch into the qualities of her 
 mind, before you had proceeded to the inviolable 
 folcmnity of a matrimonial promife, to that non re- 
 frediendum eft, that prohibited liberty of making a re- 
 treat. For the promife you made her was for better 
 crforivorfe, unlefs other particulars, than that of barely 
 thinking that Ihe will not make you happy, could 
 juftify a difengagement. Tho* yet a reafonable fufpi* 
 cion of your future unhappinefs will warrant you to 
 make folicitous application to the Lady, that (he 
 would be pleafed to be fo kind, or rather fo con- 
 fiderate, (for fince a man and his wife are no longer 
 two while one fle/h, their interefts cannot pofiibly be 
 divided) would he pleafed to be fo confiderate for her 
 own fake, as well as yours, as to give you a difcharge. 
 
 Qj_ Why any man keeping himfelf in one pofture (in 
 an airy plaice J and anvake, Jhould not catch cold as foon 
 as Jleeping in the fame place and poflure ? 
 b A. Becaufe in the time of fleeping there is a re- 
 tra«^ion of the natural heat ; whereupon the circum- 
 ambient air enters the pores, and confequently the 
 external parts muft be rendered chilly. 
 
 Q^ 1 dejtre you to inform me by nuhtm the Epiftle to 
 the Hebrews it«; njcrote ? 
 
 A. Some have attributed this admirable Epiftle to 
 St. Luke ; fome to Barnabas, and others to St. Cle- 
 mens. And the reafon that gave occafion to fome to 
 rob St. ?aul of this incomparable treatife (for a trea- 
 tife it has been thought by fome, rather than an 
 epiftle) is, becaufe the name of this Apoftle is not pre- 
 
 fixt 
 
^/[?^ British Apollo. 967 
 
 fixt to it. But St. ?««/ might pertinently omit his 
 name, becaufe he was the apoftle, not of the Je<vjs, 
 but of the Gentiles ; and becaufe (as Clemens Alexan- 
 drinus excellently adds) he had fuch an awful reve- 
 rence for his Lord and Mafter, who was the very great 
 apoftle of the Uehrevos ; / am not fent (fays the bleffed 
 Jefus) but to the lojl Jheep of the houfe of Ifrael. 
 
 We learn from St. Jerome^ that all the Greek fathers 
 and eaftern Churches entertain'd this celebrated com- 
 pofure as St. Paul\ ; and in this they were followed 
 by the Latins, But fmce the argument eafy to be 
 deduc'd from 2 Pet. iii. 5, 16. is fo forcible to any 
 ordinary capacity. What need ive any farther teftimmy ? 
 
 Q. Since "'tis the general opinion (and it maybe clearly 
 proved) that our bleffed Saviour nvas in the gra've, or 
 fate of the dead little more than one ivhole day and 
 iivo nights } Hotv are nve to underfand ihofe nxiords in 
 Matt. xii. 40. nuhichfeem tohofve been prophetical of the 
 time Chrift njuas to continue in the fepulchre ? 
 
 A, Since our Saviour, notwithftanding your aflertion 
 be acknowledged true, was part of three days in a 
 ftate of death, it is no unufual figure to reprefent 
 fradlions under the integers of the fubjeds they 
 are fraftions of. 
 
 Q. Tou gave an ingenious poetic querif yo^r opinion a^ 
 bout predefination to eternal mifery^ luhich does not fully 
 fati.fy me. Pray, did not God from all eternity forekno'w 
 that man nvould fn, forfeit his favour thereby and be an 
 eljeJl of his ivrath ? did he not like<vjife foreknotju hejhould, 
 and determine to fend his Ssn to die far Jtnners ? did he not 
 alfo forektionjo thofe certain individual per fons^efven by nctmt 
 (and the number of ''em) that njoould clofe nxith Chriji, and 
 thereby become heirs offahation upon his terms ? did he not 
 likeivife forefee, that none of thefe nvould be able to comply 
 nvith theGoJpel terms ^without his affijiance^ and at thefami 
 time f if 1 may fo fpeak) determine to grant it ? granting 
 thefe, pray, luhat did God do luith refpeSl to the ref of the 
 'world? I think J he pafs''d''em by,\,t. did not purpofe togi^ve 
 "* em that grace, ^without nvhich they can't perform the termsi 
 thereby they are left to final fen; 'wbichGodforefeeing alfo, 
 T t 4 did 
 
9^8 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 did he not purpofe to punijh them njuith eternal damnation ? 
 fwhich amounts to the Jame thing as the other : for 1 quar- 
 rel not about ivordsi pardon the lengthy and gin} e a can- 
 did anfwer to a lonjer of the truth. 
 
 A. The whole thread of the argumentation cen- 
 tres in this J that God did not propofe to give to thofe, 
 whom he predeft!»ated to damnation, that grace,with- 
 . out which they <^n't perform the terms of falvation. 
 •But that God did not thus unconditionally land.'ngd- 
 "roufly^redeftinate any to damnation We appeal even 
 to him, who predeftinated thofe to falvation whom he 
 foreknew ; the Lord is not flack concerning his promife, but 
 is longfuffering to us-woard ; not ivilling that anyJhouM 
 perijh, hut that all [oh ferve the note of univerfality) 
 htf that alljhould come to repentance. 
 
 Qj^ Pray, nvhat is the meaning of the ivords ^Solo- 
 mon, Ecclef. X. and the later part of the 20th 'verfe — 
 for a Bird of the airjhall carry the voice y and that niohich 
 hath toingsjhall tell the matter? 
 
 A, The meaning is, that we fliould religioufly ab- 
 ftain from the mifdemeanor fpeciiied (as indeed from 
 every other fin) and nottruft to the fecrecy of the com- 
 miffion, {mcQ there is nothing hid, but nvhat Jhall he 
 made manifcjiy nothing done in fccret, but njohatJhaU be 
 proclaim^ d%pon the houfe top. For the time will come, 
 when the thoughts 0/^ all (as well as oi many) hearts 
 fhall be r ensealed. 
 
 Q^Markxvi. \(i. He that helie'ves, and is bapti^ d^ 
 Jhall be fanjedi but he that belienjes not y Jhall be damn'd, 
 
 Jfnone are fanjed but fuch as belienjeyhoiv can infants 
 he in ajiate of Jahvationy Jince they are not in a capacity 
 of believing ? or if according to the received opinion of the 
 anabapti/is^ they can't be baptized unlefs they believe y hovj 
 muji children free themfelves from original Jin committed by 
 their frji parent Sy Jince they are not of years to underjiandy 
 •what a covenant of grace means? but if adults are only 
 to receive the benefit of this covenant, and children ex- 
 empted from baptifm are in ajiate of falvation ; then the 
 evangelifts muji be fuppofed to fay, he that believes y and 
 he that believes not. Jhall be faved. 
 
 A. Some 
 
T^e British Aplolo. 9% 
 
 J. Some general fentences carry with them fuch 
 fteceflary and natural reftriftions, that we cannot for- 
 bear to wonder, that any fliould overlook fuch obvious 
 referves. And what encreafes our wonder is, that the 
 moft illiterate in their common converfation do both 
 imply and allow of fuch eafy limitations. Strange ! 
 that one man fhould fo readily underftand another, and 
 yet be fo very apt to miflake his Maker, though he 
 accommodate himfelf to his own mode of fpeech, and 
 condefcend to a level with his capacity. When our 
 Saviour therefore fays, He that helieveth not, Jhall be 
 damr^d one would think that the very infants you 
 alledge, could almoft know, that the meaning of the 
 paifage is, he who is in a capacity of believing, and yet 
 believeth not, lliall be damn'd. St. P^«/fays, if any 
 man 'will not nxork, neither Jhall he eat. And yet who 
 of us will fuppofe that fuch perfons, as through weak- 
 nefs and inability of body arc incapable of working, 
 are by that apollolical injundlion condemn'd to flarve.? 
 
 Q;, What fort of fruit did the forbidden tree bear? 
 
 A. To pry into a matter which can be learnt no 
 where but in the Scriptures, and which yet the Scrip- 
 tures give us no account of, is in a manner to imi- 
 tate our mother E've'% curiofity, and, as it were, to 
 tafte of the forbidden fruit. 
 
 Q. Hon^j old nvas Adam nvhen Eve nfjas made F 
 
 A. All that can with certainty be colleded is, that 
 he was not a day old. But how much fooner on the 
 fixth day he was created than E^ve, the Scriptures ac- 
 quaint us not, tho' indeed we read of fome inter- 
 vening occurrences. 
 
 Ci, Tou hold the fun to he an immo'veahle center, and 
 the earth to be elliptical; nvhich opinions feem not to be con- 
 fonant to Scripture or reafon, 
 
 ^Tisfaid, that in the days o/'Jolhua the fun nuas fop'' d 
 in its courfe for fame time', nvhich Itake to be an argu- 
 ment to prove the fun 7iofx'd body ; if it is, all times of 
 the Tear ivou'd be alike to us, if the poles of the earth arc 
 fx'd, as none doubts but they are, 
 
 T t ^ Again^ 
 
570 y^^^ British Afollo. 
 
 Jgatn^ if the fun he fix'd, honv nvas it placed in the 
 firmament (as nxje read in Genefis) for figns and fea- 
 fonsy for days and years ? 
 
 If the earth be ellipticaly the city o/' London and all 
 other places on the globe muji be fometimes elevated, and 
 fometimes deprejfedj to make good your opinion. 
 
 A, The fcriptures were never defign'd to teach us 
 a fyftem of allronomy, and therefore accomodated 
 themfelves to the capacities of men,who in thofe early- 
 times underftood nothfhg of the earth's motion. And 
 this is but a common mode of fpeech, fmce thofe 
 great aftronomcrs, who defend the Copernican fyftem, 
 do yet commonly fay, that the fun is fet ; which is 
 yet no other than a compliance with the vulgarly re- 
 ceived hypothefis, and this is as warrantable as 
 cuftomary, unlefs where we are profefTedly treating of 
 the matter in an aftronomical way, fince the in- 
 tention of the fenfe in the common way is the very 
 fame under both expreffions. 
 
 As for your fecond objeftion, the Copemicans affirm 
 ftot, that the earth moves round the equator, but round 
 the ecliptic, which is all one as if the fun moved 
 round the fame elliptic figure ; the fame with regard 
 to the different feafons of the year : but becaufe (as 
 you intimate) fuch a motion of the earth round the 
 ecliptic would change the fituation of its poles, the 
 Copemicans have happily found out a third motion^ 
 which they call the motion of inclination, or decli- 
 nation, which motion holds fo conftant an analogy 
 with what they call the fecond motion, as continually 
 to defledl the axis of the earth from a parallelifra 
 with the axis of the ecliptic. 
 
 * As for what you fay, if the earth be ellipti- 
 cal, l^c. it concerns us not at prefent to fay any 
 thing to it, fmce we afferted not that the earth was 
 elliptical, but th .t it mov'd round the fun \ii an el- 
 liptical figure. 
 
 * Whether the fun or earth moves, it is yet the 
 hect and light of the fun that divides time into years, 
 and thofe again into days and feafons. 
 
 Q^Ohl 
 
fhe ^R^f rsH A POL LO. 971 
 
 Q^ Oh ! great Apollo, to thy /acred Jhrine 
 7, your Jincere adorer^ loivly honv ; 
 There ^ projirate on my knees nvith anxious thoughts, 
 ^J^ait the folution of my Jhort requeji, 
 
 Tell me, great God of vjifdom, how 1 fhall 
 The nvay to perfe5l happinefs attain : 
 Long ha've I ivander d in a gloomy path. 
 Hoping at lajl fome faint and glimmering ray 
 Might reach ajtd lighten my opprejfed foul ; 
 But oh ! the fun of all my hopes is fet. 
 And 1 am left in e-ver-during dark. 
 
 A. In vain you'll travel round the fpacious globe. 
 In fcarch of what this world can never give : 
 Could you the height of evVy fenfe enjoy. 
 Expand in eafe, a flranger to all pain , 
 Dull repetition foon would cloy your foul. 
 And fudden, fure privation, damp the blifs : 
 
 No 'tis ivithin, this tranquil flate is found. 
 
 A confcience clear and 'void of all offence 
 
 With fure fuccefs will crown your ardent wifli ; 
 
 Smooth ev'ry rugged, path, give peaceful days. 
 
 And with foft downy reft indulge your nights } 
 
 Nay, what exceeds by infinite degrees. 
 
 It will enfure a future endlefs ftate. 
 
 In fields of light, where floods of pleafures flow. 
 
 And one eternal Jubilee goes round. 
 
 Q. What fort of iwod n.vas it, ^wherifwith Elifha 
 caus''d the iron to fivim ? 
 
 A. As we cannot poffibly be Informed what fort of 
 wood it was, fo neither does it concern us to know 
 the fort, fince not the wood, but a fupernatural powe/, 
 was the efiicient caufe of fo wonderful an efFeft. 
 
 (^ Who ivas the firft King ? where and ^whendid hi 
 begin his reign P 
 
 A. Nimrod, the mighty hunter was the firft mc-- 
 narch. In Gen. x. 10. we read, that the beginning 
 of his kingdom was Babel, Sec. and as Babel was ren- 
 dred Babylon by the Septuagint, fo this comports with 
 that probable opinion, that Nimrod is the fame with 
 Beliis, who (as prophane hiftorians inform us) was 
 Tt 6 ~thg 
 
9/2 The British Apollo. 
 
 the founder of the Ajf^rian monarchy. 
 
 Q^ When men that are born blind do dream ^ they gene- 
 rally dream that they fee things perfeBly ; and though they 
 ne'ver had any adnjantage of the reflexion of the light y yet 
 theyfhallgi'veyou a ^very li<vely account ofivhat they dream, 
 diflinguifhing the colour betiueen cornfields, meado<w and 
 paflure fields ; and if they dream off re, they kno^w <vohether 
 it be fmothering, clear without fmoke, or flaming ; and 
 nvhen they aivake, can give as linjely an account of it as 
 mofl men <who ha<ve their fight can do. 
 
 A. We mull beg the querift's pardon, if we cannot 
 be perfuaded of the matter of fad, for it has been the 
 common obfervation of all thofe who have been con- 
 verfant with men born blind, that they cannot by their 
 moft accurate defcriptions imprefs upon their mind 
 any manner of idea of light and colours j whereas if 
 they were reprefented to them in their dreams, they 
 would in a manner have a perfeft conception of them : 
 but we would underftand colours with refpedl to op- 
 ticks ', for men born blind have been obferv'd to di- 
 Itinguifh colours by the difference of the touch. 
 
 Q^ Suppofe I buy a houfe, afiable, and a horfe, as fol- 
 lows. For the fable I game 6 times as much as far the 
 horfe, and for the houfe lo times as much as for the fl able ; 
 the fum I pay in all is a looo 1. i\W; / deftre to knoiu 
 nvhat each fiands me in, and the method ofwoorking it by 
 vulgar Jrithmetick ? 
 
 A. Since the liable cofl 6 times as much as the horfe, 
 and yet the houfe i o times as much as the ftable ; it 
 follows, that the houfe cofl lo times 6 times, that is 6o 
 times as much as the horfe ; allotting therefore i for the 
 horfe, 6 for the liable, and 6o for the houfe, the whole 
 amounts to 67, and confequert'y the horfe mufl coft 
 ^y, the flable ^7, and the houfe f f-, of 1000/. and this 
 at once acquaints by way of aliquot parts with the price 
 of each, and direfts you to the method of the arithme- 
 tical operation. 
 
 Q. Some years ago my body ivas 
 
 So corpulent and fat, 
 J might ha<ve pajs'dfor one o'tbgiants race, 
 
 had I be(n blefi with a propQrtiQn\d height : But 
 
T/^(?British Apollo. 973; 
 
 But noiUy thro' hve, that killing grief, 
 
 Tm gronjQti fo lean and thin. 
 My fiefh-ftar'v^d hones ereSl their heads, as if 
 
 'Theyfcorn'd to lye intprifon''d in my Jkin, 
 Inform me then, ye fans of fame. 
 And njoith found reafons Ihoiv, 
 Whether my body Jiill remains the fame. 
 And <what''s become of my fat collops nonv ? 
 A. You boaft your former corpulence. 
 But now bare bones declare : 
 
 The greateft reafons then arife from hence. 
 To make your alteration plain appear. 
 
 But how, through love, youVe thus opprcfl 
 Is clear, fince ftrong defines 
 
 Inflame the regions of your fickly breaft. 
 And kindle in your heart confuming fires. 
 Q^ Whiljl tivo months or more 
 With your file nee I bore, 
 1 flattered my felf 'with an anf^er,- / 
 
 Belie'ving your God 
 Might he taking a nod. 
 Or pumping for ^wit to ad'vance. Sir. 
 But Oh ! hanje a care 
 Hvw you anfduers prepare. 
 With neither folution, nor meaning i 
 For Unjoill make the <voorld laugh. 
 To be pos'd by a calf. 
 After tnvo or three months nice defining ; 
 For if in thofe lines 
 One ray of ixiit fioines. 
 Where Apollo his anfnjoer imparts. 
 My cahes may as ijoell 
 Put in for the bell. 
 And njie ^with his fons for bright farts^ 
 Then let your next tell 
 Why mutton and'veai 
 Recei've their nenv names from the fiaughttr % 
 Since to both, nvhen ali've. 
 We other names gi<ve. 
 And you' II hear no more othis matter. 
 
 A. Whatr 
 
574 The British Apollo^ 
 
 J. What ! the calf come agen 
 With his iracund pen. 
 
 To propofe us more bull-elocation ; 
 Tho' his ruftical ilrain 
 Docs inform him fo plain, 
 
 That he'll ne'er er-rn a better folution,- 
 And fince in your thought. 
 Etymology's naught, 
 
 For your viduals take this our conclufion ; 
 'Tis a notion of things 
 Which from foreigners fprings. 
 
 That occafions this verbal confufion. 
 
 Q^ Tf^hat ijuill be the exaSi length of the fide of a 
 fquare^ njohofe nvhok Jhall be equal to the contents of a 
 eirck? 
 
 A. That is, you defire us to fquare the circle. 
 
 Qj^ Why is the fun \ 87 days in faffing from the 
 equinox of IVIarch to the equinox of September, and hut 
 178 days in paj/ing from the equinox of September to 
 the equinox of March, the difance being equal F 
 
 J.Thd' you proceed upon the old Ptolemaic fyftem, 
 yet the difference is the fame with regard to the an- 
 nual motion of the earth ; and the reafon of that dif- 
 ference arifes from the elliptical figure, which the 
 earth defcribes round the fun ; for that part of the 
 cllipfis, which i3 intercepted between the equinox of 
 September and that of Marchy is not fo large as that 
 between the equinox of March and x\i2iX.Q{ September y^ 
 and hence it is^ that the fun in winter is nearer to 
 the earth in general, than it is in fummer. 
 
 Q^ 1 hanjefotne time fince married a nvife njuith a 'very 
 confiderable portion, 1 having <very little to begin the nvorld 
 imthal before I married her : nve li'ved for tivo years and 
 upijuards as comfortably as man and ^Lvife could li^ve ', but 
 noiv of late, nx-hether or no the D — / is in her, I cannot 
 tell, for <voithout the leaji pro-vocation in the fworld Jhe is 
 perpetually a jarring or fcolding yfometim-esjhe tells me,that 
 before fye married me Ihadfcarce ajhirt to my back ; nvith 
 this and a hundred inore pro'vocations jhe is perpetually a 
 plaguing vie* I defire to knonjo the fpeeditfi andfafefi 'way 
 
The British Apollo. 975 
 
 to cure this D / of a nuife. 
 
 Since good ivi've'i they are gronun fo fcarce, 
 A man had better he 
 Without a Jhirt upon his a 
 
 Than Ifve a life like me. 
 yf.Thou unreafonable man, to enjoy four and twenty 
 honey-moons, when one is fufRcient for others, and 
 not be contented f but before you proceed in your in « 
 veftives againft your wife, confider whether you have 
 made yet full retaliation for the fortune fhe brought yoa 
 when you had nothing of your own ; if not, it is the 
 pooreft fatisfadlion you can make her, to give her the 
 liberty of her tongue : nay, pofhbly in return for her 
 taking you without a Ihirt, you are in a way to leave 
 her without a fmock, and then with good reafon. 
 
 This fermentation of her blood 
 Being very like to lafl, 
 
 E'en be content to chsnu the cud 
 Of pleafures which are paft. 
 
 Q^ In this cold and unfriendly climate^ mohither /, poor 
 American, i^/i)^ malei'olency of the far s, am thrmvn {like 
 a fmoking hot toaf into a pot of ale in January) from 
 the glorious beams of the enli-jening fun, to the gnojhing of 
 teeth in Dorea*j duf-j territories ; finding neceffity compels 
 me to array the out=vcard man njAth thrice the common load 
 of'vejiments^ to prefer<ve and defend it from the injurious 
 in fait s of the inclement iveather, do humbly in treat your 
 unerring Jhips to ad'vife nvhether it'*s hcf to <rvear a flannel 
 ^vaiflcoat next my fiin^or not ; 1 halving attempted to ^wetitr 
 one, but finding it makes my parchment car cafe always in 
 humid fudorification, I have defifled till I had conjulted 
 the oracle: ivho may likenvife be 'very fer<viceable to your 
 eivn nation, in anf^wering this quefiion ta oblige a ftranger. 
 
 A. Since your application of this fleecy tegument 
 to your buckram cuticula, hath been the procatarac- 
 tic caufe of hydrotic evacuations, thereby occa- 
 fioning a gradual feparation of your cadaverous pri- 
 des, we hold it more falubrious for you to tranfmo- 
 grify the premis'd tunic, and contrive one which may 
 be fufpended over your chilly ftioulders, and furni(h 
 
 yoa 
 
97^ The British ApoLLa. 
 
 you with fufficient ihelter againft northern blafls, and 
 equip you according to the diilinguifhing mode pro- 
 per to fuch countrymen. 
 
 C^. Apollo 1 Can the fair 
 
 In cautious charms their inivard jiames declare ? 
 If you allcnv they can, then pray relate ^ 
 HoiJU in their phix. to read my future fate ? 
 
 A, — Their fpeaking eyes will tell. 
 
 The hidden flames within their bofoms dwell ; 
 Which a quick-fighted lover cannot mifs, 
 But thence with eafe may learn his future blifs. 
 Qj^ In luiin poor Strephon daily lyes 
 
 Aprojirate at my feet \ 
 When all his pleading looks and jighs 
 But cold indifference meet \ 
 Thd' gentle pity oft perfuade my breaji, 
 That pains like his Jhould furelyhe redrefsd i 
 But foon all tendernefs retires^ 
 
 And, as by fome decree. 
 My heart rejijis all foft dejires, 
 The God's no ponu'r on me ; 
 Thus 1 all lo'vers fiy ivith equal f corn y 
 And /mile to fee the cringing ideots mourn. ] 
 
 Tell no-iv, you Apollonian waits profound. 
 What fecret panders my heart environ round?. 
 A. No fecret pow'r, Sempronia guards 
 
 Your yet unwounded heart. 
 The God of love alone retards 
 The miffion of his dart : 
 As fure as death it felf, he once llrikes all. 
 And makes thtm vidiras at his altar fall. 
 Then pity your imploring fwain. 
 
 And fend him quick relief. 
 With pleafmg fmiles return his pain. 
 With balmy words his grief; 
 Or elfe we prophefy, you may too late 
 Repent the caufe of his untimely fate. 
 Another fwain as deaf to you may rife. 
 Who may revenge the conqueil of your eye?. 
 
 (^Pray, 
 
The British Apollo. 977 
 
 Q. Pray, honu can le^ve, fince all alloiv he'sblmdy 
 The 'way for / tting others eyes out find ? 
 
 A. When mortals his tyrannic influence find. 
 It is not they^ but he'm. them is blind. 
 Q^ I'm tir d of my life 
 With a fit of a nuife, 
 Whofo conjiantly drunk is, Apollo ; 
 That ril afk your ad<vice, 
 ''Caufe 1 kno>-w you arenuife, 
 ■And your counfel (\\i(XiQ\xn(\yiiQrilfolloiM. 
 Quaque node fie eft, 
 Whether- 'iirefHd or undrefs^d. 
 Nay, up or a bed. Sir, it's idem f 
 I<voould not fay fo, 
 Were't not certainly true, 
 Preh Deum atque hominum fidem. 
 Whatfhallldo? 
 Scio non, fed fcis tu, 
 ^hall Ifcourge her and afternxjards fait her v 
 For 1 think ilia meret. 
 Nee ivhite-nvine, nee claret. 
 But a hemp-neckcloth (alias an halter.) 
 A, Since a riot each night 
 Is your madam's delight. 
 Ne'er with beadle or hangman confront her, 
 But comply with the punk. 
 And each morn make her drunk. 
 For Simlia ^fimiliis curantur. 
 (* Our licentia poetica fro fimilibus .) 
 Q^ If a Gentleman afk 
 (y Apollo a task, 
 I hope ffis good manners and breeding 
 Will clear up the doubt. 
 And th' uneafinefs put out. 
 If he thinks the caufe njjorth the heeding} 
 Tho'' the lines that I ivrite. 
 Are not ^worthy his fight. 
 His pupil njuilltak't as afafuour,. 
 If the bad he correiis^. 
 And mends the defeSis 
 With his mighty Pennn&'us' s fiawur : " PFhtn 
 
978 The British Apollo. 
 
 When nvater I drinky 
 
 Which mojl people think 
 Is a liquor as fiber and quiet. 
 
 As coffee and tea, 
 
 // ne''er njjill a^ree 
 With my brains y ivhich it fets in a riot. 
 
 Some ^wit then bejiovCy 
 
 With <vihich you fi Jlo-iv, 
 To infiru5i me, and anfn.ver the quejlionr 
 
 That in time I may gain, 
 
 Ihd' ivith Jiudy and pain. 
 For your precepts a better digsjiion. 
 
 But if you refufe 
 
 To encourage my mufe, 
 With'ivine r II enliven my ~jjit. 
 
 And pray to the nine. 
 
 Who n.v ill certainly join 
 My ri'venge to make you fuhmit ? 
 
 A, That your brains fhould decline 
 
 For want of good wine. 
 And your mufe that appeareth fo vvhty 
 
 Should furnifh her themes 
 
 From fuch infipid ftreams, 
 We confefs is a very great pity. 
 
 Then from henceforth ne'er lack 
 
 A full bumper of fack. 
 Or of good red, or njjhtte, 'tis no matter r 
 ; For the learned have told, 
 
 And the fame we all hold. 
 That there's no dithyrambic in water. 
 
 j Q,. If Icve has ivings, Hx:hy Jlays he in mfhreajl, 
 Confyid clofe prisoner, fure he cannot fly ? 
 If he's all blifs, <zvhy am I thus dijlrefs'd. 
 
 Can I he blefd, and yet each moment die ? 
 Say, learning's God, fwljofe beams of n/jifdom flnnt 
 More bright than all your filar rays dinjine ; 
 Teach me fome Way to change my blifs to fmart. 
 Or drii'e the conqu'ring captive from my heart ? 
 
 A. Hi 
 
ne B R I T I s H A p o L L 0. 979 
 
 A. His ivings they were cenveyM him to your breaft, 
 Not prisoner there, but you he holds in chains j 
 He's not all blifsy nor are his fubjeds blefs'd 
 
 Entirely, fince their joys are mixM with pains. 
 In vain to us your fufFerings you impart, 
 Since we couM not retrieve our captiv'd heart v 
 Love is the pow^rful'll deity above. 
 And often hath triumph'd ev'n over J<yve. 
 
 Q^ A young Lady of my acquaintance had given her 
 by another Gentlenvoman, about a year ago^ as a prefent^ 
 fourfioiMen j they are 'vety like a camomile Jionjoer, hut de- 
 Jiitute of any manner of f me II : their Jlalk is about t'-j:ict 
 the length of o^te' s finger \ the root <voas not brought ivitb 
 them : the Lady has never put them in voater fince they 
 nvere given her^ and yet they continually bud and gron,{j. 
 Novo I beg the favour of you to ajfign any reafonfcr this 
 grovjing^ fince they have no root, neither is it pofiible for 
 any moifiure to he novo in their fialk ; they were brought 
 from Madera, and /he has novo about 20 full as long and 
 as big as the firft four. If your fociety have not faith 
 enough to believe it, Ivoilly if you defire it, appoint a 
 flace to meet any of you, and Jhevo you them novo viiih 
 the buds on feveral ? 
 
 A. If the matter of faft may be depended on, the 
 Phaenoffienon may not unfairly be accounted for. For 
 the flowers may be of fuch a nature, as to-condenfate 
 the air they receive within the pores ; and we fup- 
 pofe you cannot be ignorant that air may be con- 
 denfated into moifiure ; as the fweating pillars in 
 Wefimitifier Abbey are a vulgar inftance. 
 
 Q^ Whether //^f ovor^fomething, voithout anyvoord 
 joined to ity has any fignificationf 
 
 A. If the word has no fignification it is nothing ; 
 but we hope you won't allow fomething to be nothing, 
 and yet nothing it felf has a fignification too, tho' by 
 way of negation only ; but the word fomething im- 
 ports the firfl predicament of being ; and when other 
 words are join'd to it, they may leem to determine 
 It ^ generical fignification to a fpecifical one i tho' in- 
 deed 
 
980 ne British Apollo. 
 
 deed, we rather think that they change its fignifica- 
 tion, and make it an equivocal word. 
 
 Qj_ What cools fooner than fealing-njoax? 
 
 J, The affedlions of the fickle. 
 
 Q^ Ifnve divide the people'' d 'world in hahes. 
 And one part fools, the other pafs for knaves ; 
 If this be true^ duvine Apollo, tell ^ 
 Where the woife herd, and nvhere t^e honeji dive II? 
 
 A. Your dividend won't hold by modern rules. 
 Since now one knave can make an hundred yoe/f > 
 Allowingyo//^ then but half fupplies, 
 ' There's room enough for th' honeft and the •^ife. 
 • Q^ Your reafon -why men's beards do gro^w 
 frJn {ummer faf, in winter yiow? " . _M 
 
 A. 'Tis moifture feeds the hairy (lores', 
 Which heat extrudes, and folves the pores. 
 
 Q. There ivas a certain doctor in Paris, 'who dfd about 
 the year 1060. At the interring ofnjohom^ ivhen thepriejl 
 in the form then us'd came to the nxjords^ Refponde mihi^ 
 the corps fat upright upon the bier^ and cryd out, Julio 
 Dei Judicio accufatus fum, lying prefently do^jcn again \ 
 the attendance being afionifh''dy defer d the funeral till 
 next dayy mohich being comey they nxjent again to officiate 
 the duty for the deady njohich at the fame n.vords rofe a- 
 gai»y and more hideous than before crfd, Juflo Dei Ju- 
 dicio judicatus fum. They then defer d this fir ange bu- 
 rial till the next day, and fill at the fame ivords the thirci 
 time rofe up and crfd, Julio Dei Judicio condemna- 
 tus fum. Whether this nvas the real man that [poke y or 
 fome infernal fpirit through his organs ? My opinion is, that 
 it nvas Sat any woho thereby might think to drinje others ints 
 defpair ; for all kno-voing him to live a godly life, as Bruno 
 faithy ivho nvas eye-Tvitne/s to this, andfeems by his 'words 
 as if he thought it to be the real man that fpoke ? 
 
 A. You fay, that Bruno (who was profeffqr of di- 
 vinity at Varisy and founder of the Carthufian order) 
 was an cye-witnefs to the prodigy of the Parifan doc- 
 tor, who has been fmce call'd Raimond Diocree. Anto- 
 ninus (archljifhop of Florence) does indeed affirm it ; 
 but as he quotes no authority, Camis (a famous monk) 
 
 alTures 
 
ne British Apollo. 981 
 
 affures us, that he made no ftridl fcrutiny into mat- 
 ters of fad. Gerfen (chancellor of the univerfity of 
 Paris) prefents us with the firft written accoimt of 
 this Itrange ftory j but we have a wonderful deal of 
 reafon to give credit to an aftonifhing event, which 
 the very firll relator recommends no otherwife than 
 by report ; but tho' other authors have fmce treated 
 of the matter, yet they foift in fuch additionary 
 circumftances as are deilruftive of one another, and 
 are flagrant forgeries. 
 
 They, who fay that Bruno was prefent at the dread- 
 ful fpeftacle, acquaint us withal, that this was the 
 occafion of his retreat from Paris to Calabria in Italy. 
 But Bruno himfelf in a letter to Raoul k Verd (provoft 
 of the church of Rheims) prefents us with a different 
 reafon of his choofmg a monaftic life, without tak- 
 ing the leaft notice of fo wonderful an occurrence : 
 and Guibert, abbot of Nagent (an ancient and credit- 
 able author) in his life of Bruno, fays nothing of the 
 matter, even where it had been proper to have done 
 it, had the thing been true. And what is very ob- 
 fervable, Peter (firnam'd the venerable) wJio was con- 
 temporary with5ra»o, is iilent in this affair, even 
 where he cou'd not have avoided the relation, had the 
 account been agreeable to matter of faft j nor do we 
 meet (as is pertinently obfervM) with this melancholy 
 tale in any author for near 240 years after the infli- 
 tution of the Carthujian order. 
 
 Thefe are the arguments fome eminent Romanijli 
 bring againfl the ftory ; and therefore, tho' it be mat- 
 ter of debate among feveral of them, Et adhuc fub 
 Judice Lis eji^ yet furely we Proteftants cannot choofe 
 but join ifTue with thofe who defend the negative, 
 fmce a faithlefs, doubting and tranfubftantiating 
 one, can never bear a compliance with fo ground- 
 lefs a relation. 
 
 Q. / think "'tis agreed on all hands, that extortion is a 
 fin ; hut njuhen one commits that crime, is not fo clearly 
 defind as fome could n^jijh ; Jor to take enjen legal inte- 
 rejiof a poor man (fome fay) is extortion. Jiid I defire 
 
 you'd 
 
9^2 ne British Apollo. 
 
 you'd pkafe to inform the public, if "'tis any Jin to take 
 more than the lanv allonjoi, uuhen the per/on that gives it 
 ftot only prefers ity but is certainly a gainer by it, and 
 fwoud be a lofer <v:ithout it ? 
 
 A. If the man who offers you more than u-fual in- 
 tereil for a loan of money be a poor man, it is no 
 fufficient plea to fay, that he will be a gainer by it 5 
 for Itill you take advantage of the man's neceffities, 
 and raife illegal profit to your felf from the fweat of 
 another's brow ; and what is this but in fcripturc-' 
 language to grind the poor ? 'Tis true, if you can make 
 an equal profit of your money in another way, and 
 yet let it out to a poor man at a legal interelt, you 
 make him a free gift of the intermediate difference. 
 \i therefore your own fcanty circumftances will not' 
 allow you to be fo charitable, we can fee no reafoh' 
 why your more than ordinary demands, which will 
 be yet advantageous to the voluntary borrower, fhouM 
 be included within the notion of extortion. 
 
 Q^ Which hath the mofi reality in itfclf the height 
 of pleafure or the height of pain F 
 
 A. The height of pain ; fmce the height of plea- 
 fure is generally only a releafe from pain, as in eating 
 and drinking, after the pains of hunger and thirft ; 
 reft after the pain of labour, l^c. Befides, pleafure 
 fickens with continuation, and dieswith habit; where- 
 as pain is rather increafed thereby in rendring the 
 party more infirm and unable to fupport againft it. 
 
 Q. Honx) can death be any terror to perfons not con' 
 n;inc^d of a future fate, and yet it is generally obftw^d 
 to be foy enjen to profefs'^d Atheifis ? 
 
 A. Becaufe it is impcffible for any of them to be 
 convincM of the contrary, and the mere doubt of be- 
 ing nve kno^u not wohaty lue kno'w not nvherey carries 
 terror in it felf. 
 
 Q. Beijig in company ivith fome Gentlemen, a difpute 
 arofe amongji us about painting and carving, fome of- \ 
 firming y that thofe two arts nxjere effedlually the fame, ' 
 'which others denyd ; but neither being con'vinc'd by the 
 other's argujnentSy a ivager iva: laid, and the matter re- 
 
 fer'd 
 
The British Apollo. 983 
 
 fer'ci to Apollo, ^tb mutual confent to abide _ by his 
 judgment in the matter ? 
 
 A, It is a general rule, What agree in a thirds agree 
 :bet^veen theinjehes ; if it be objefted, that a havjk and 
 a houfid are the fame, becaufe both living creatures, 
 it follows not ; for tho' they agree in the generality 
 of being living creatures, yet they differ in the fpe- 
 uality of kind : And as there is no ejfential difference 
 .between two particular men, both being rational 
 creatures f fo there is not between painting and carfv- 
 ing, for both tend to the fame end, by reprefenting 
 individual fubilances ; and both muft obferve the 
 fame geometrical quantity in what they reprefent. 
 
 Suppofe 2i painter and carrier were to counterfeit the 
 fame perfon, doubtlcfs both wou'd conceive the fame 
 idea of him, proceed in their minds with the fame 
 xlifcourfe of reafon and art, and obferve the fame^^o- 
 metrical quantity, endeavouring to make it as like the 
 perfon they reprefented as they could : and fo the 
 draught expreffing the idea*s of both workmen wou'd 
 agree in expreffing the true refemblance, which is the 
 effence of the art. *Tis true, one painteth, and the 
 other carveth ; but this is a material difference only, 
 which argues no fpecifical difference in art or fcience^ 
 and 'tis the effential difference alone that maketh a 
 diilinftion of fpecies, and diverfity of fcience. If it 
 be objedted, that the career maketh more of the /"- 
 gure than the painter, it is anfwer'd, more or lefs 
 makes no fpecifical or proper difference ; therefore it 
 is the defeft of matter, and not of art. 
 
 Q^ Why ha<ve men breajis, ejpecially nipples, fince they 
 nfver gi've fiick ? 
 
 A. As nature gave them to the women for ufe, 
 fo did fhe bellow them on men for ornament. 
 
 Q^ Why does the horizon appear plainer in a cloudy 
 day, than in clear ^weather ? 
 
 A. To the quell ion, why the fitn, when near the 
 horizon, appears bigger, than when near its meridian? 
 the ufual folution was, becaufe the atmofphere is 
 £iore condenfe in its lower than in its upper regions ; 
 
 but 
 
984 '^he British Apollo. 
 
 but fince Dr. Wallis has confuted the folution, your 
 quellion is thence deducible in the negative. 
 
 Q^Siry 1 deftre to kn(yw nv here the bird nve call field- 
 fare re/ides all the fummer ; and alfo the bird caltd 
 wheat-ear (that are only feen and caught on the downs 
 in Suffex in the month <2J^ Auguft) ii^ve the remainder of 
 the year y andnuhy they are only feen about that time? 
 
 A, It is our opinion, that the fieldfare feeks colder, , 
 and|,"the ^wheat-ear hotter countries, as was before 
 mentbn'd, concerning the n-vood-cock and fivallonv. 
 
 Q. Jt telling folks fortunes fo famous you^re grown^ 
 And for folving of doubts you<ve the 'vogue of the toivn ; 
 To your anuful feat, 
 The little, the great. 
 The airy, the gra-ve, 
 The conjjard, the brave, 
 Jn clujiers do merrily ho-ver : 
 The amorous maid. 
 The toothlefs old jade. 
 The lonjer that''s crofts 
 And the lafs that hath loft 
 What Jhe no more can recover : 
 Since to thefe and to others you ginje your ad^vice, 
 Tray, tell me your thoughts of my muorks in a trice. 
 From Parnaifus juft pop'd, 
 I carCt fayT've hofd. 
 But 'willing to knoix) 
 My fortune, and fa 
 From the reft of the bards Tm dfec ended. 
 
 To come to Apollo, 1 
 
 Whofe ad-jice I nuill follonjo. 
 And do wohat he fays. 
 
 So I merit the bays, _ ^j 
 
 And frotn him I hope to be friended. ■ 
 
 Then nvithout hums and haiMS pray fend me an anfijoer, 
 Whether thus, if fill in my rhiming ad'vance. Sir, 
 I maynt for the laurel in time ha've a chance. Sir ? 
 A. The man, that defires to overcome in a race, 
 Muft exert alibis forces to quicken his pace: 
 
 But 
 
iT/^^f B R IT iSH Apollo. gSs 
 
 But hope will not do 
 
 From Parnajfusy or fo ; 
 
 Nor the call of our iyre 
 
 Will a flrippiing infpire. 
 Nor claims of alliance with mufes ; 
 
 It if? merit alone * -, 
 
 Makes the genius well known. 
 
 Without any regard 
 
 To your rife from a bard. 
 And 'tis flattery the laurel abufes. 
 Till your labours encreafe then, and diligence more is. 
 We Iliall place you amongfl the Foeta Minores. 
 
 Q^ With bird-bottled nofe, 
 
 CobbtdJhQes and torn hoje. 
 If Apollo, addrefs your leartCdJhrine ; 
 
 Nor could lexpeSi 
 
 Ought but flight and negkSly 
 Were not you as good as dinjine. 
 
 Tm too great nuith that God * * Bacchus. 
 
 That makes potentates nod. 
 When he has enter' d their Os Cribriforme ; 
 
 Soy lo here 1 come 
 
 With both trumpet and drum j 
 And 'vjith full refolution to jiorm ye , 
 
 I ha've a Saracen's y^zr^ , 
 
 Which proves my difgrace^ 
 Anithe boysy Sir, of me make a game ; 
 
 Hoi/j fhall lit cure. 
 
 For 1 cannot endure 
 To be hifs*d, and calPd Saracen Sam ? 
 
 A. Since the famous difguife 
 
 Of a Saracen''s phiz. 
 Through Bacchus^ indulgence thou vvcareil;, ) 
 
 At the gift ne'er repine. 
 
 But ftill worlhip that fhrine, 
 Whilft his votary thus thou appeareil. 
 
 And as Bacchus could fight. 
 
 And informs you delight. 
 
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986 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 Charge the French then, and battles declare *em : 
 But if courage fhould fail. 
 Still your looks may prevail. 
 
 And your bulk (like Goliah's) may fcare *em. 
 
 Q^ Whether it is ^jjibk to hmjt the fmall-pox fwtce 
 er fiot? 
 
 A, We are of opinion none have it twice, and 
 have given our reafons thereof in a private anfwer, 
 they not being proper for public view. 
 
 Q^ Suppofe I procure a certain damage to he done to 
 ajnany and after that 1 procure an equal benefit to he 
 done htm\ query. Whether I may non-u account this bene- 
 fit as a refiitution for the injury ^ altho it ixas not the 
 duty of refiitution that nuyijd me to procure it him ? 
 
 A. Reftitution, with refpeft to damage only, im- 
 plies no more than an equivalent j if therefore the in- 
 jur'd perfon has received a benefit adequate to the da- 
 mage (whatever might be the motive to the former) 
 he cannot be faid to be the worfe for you ; and this 
 mull be allow'd fufficient to. denote a reftitution. But 
 then you muft confider, that the cafe is otherwife with 
 fcfpeft to God, whom we injure as often as we in- 
 jure »7«».* For then we make reftitution to our in- 
 jured neighbour out of a godly motive, fo excellent a 
 fruit of fincere repentance, not only the confequencc 
 of the fm, but In a manner too the very fm it itfelf ; 
 and therefore you have reafon to be afraid, left God 
 Ihould not accept of your accidental reftitution, un- 
 lefs you (hall be ready to embrace the firft opportunity 
 that ftiall prefent itfelf, of procuring to the damag'd 
 perfon fome other benefit with purpofe and defign. 
 
 You fliouM confider too, that you injur'd your 
 neighbour, not only in the damage he received, but 
 alfo in exerting the very reverfe of that good will, 
 which was your neighbour'^ due\ if therefore you 
 wou'd make an unexceptionable reftitution, you muft 
 reftore him both. 
 
 Q^ Apollo, Prithee inform me nvhy any mortal man 
 Jhould he called My Lord ?• adly, ^fom 'whence it is de- 
 rived; 
 
ne Bri T isH Apollo. 987 
 
 riv'd? and 3dly, If thou dojl allonju of that title, ^why 
 Jhould it not be aho've Earl, Duke, or King ? 
 
 A. As words are arbitrary things, fo before we 
 condemn any particular ufe of them, we mull confix 
 der the different acceptations under which they are 
 recommended to us j and here it is obfervable, That 
 the word Lord, even when applied to men, has va- 
 rious fignifications with us, as I/)rds of the parliament. 
 Lord Chief Juftice, Lord of the manor, Landlord, ^f. 
 
 If therefore we were to apply the title of Lord m 
 the fame extenfive fenfe as we do to God, the ufagc 
 would be unwarrantable and idolatrous. 
 
 The word Lord is derived from the old ^dxon Hla." 
 ford, from giving bread ; for as Hla ficnifies breads 
 fo ford is the fame with afford ; and tnerefore the 
 title was given fui table to the nature of the perfons 
 that enjoyM it, (ince great men were anciently fa- 
 mous for hofpi tali ty and munificence. 
 
 Your third queftion is anfwer'd from what is faid 
 above, namely, that words are arbitrary things. 
 
 Q^ Pray explain the (^th 'verfe of the l6th chapter of 
 St. Luke. And J fay unto you, make to your fehes 
 friends of the mammon of unrighteoufnefi \ that ivhenye 
 fail, they may receme you into e'verlajiing habitations ? 
 
 A. We beg leave to explain the paflage by way of 
 paraphrafe. 
 
 Make fo right an ufe (in a£ls of charity and bene- 
 ficence) of thofe earthly treafures, which the childreK 
 of this fujorld are fo eager to obtain, (tho' by unright- 
 eoufnefe and falfhood) that when your departure ftiall 
 approach (for fo the Greek original fuggefts) thofe 
 very earthly treafures, while expended upon proper 
 objeds, may be the happy occafion of your advance- 
 ment to an heavenly refidence, to e'verlajiing habitations • 
 
 Q. IVhen a couple are ajked in the church, the mini' 
 Jier fays. If any of you know caufe, or juji impediment^ 
 Sec. Pray inform me ixjhat the impediment is ? 
 
 y^.There are feveral jufl impediments, which may 
 
 forbid the banns ; namely, fuch as follow • If the 
 
 iiiiirriage be intended without the confent of parents 
 
 U u s or 
 
^88 516^ British Apollo. 
 
 or guardians ; if either of the perfons alk'd be pre- 
 engaged to another ; if the couple to be married be 
 within the forbidden degrees of confanguinity ; if ei- 
 ther of them have fuch natural infirmities, as unfit 
 for marriage. When therefore a couple are aik'd 
 in the church, if any of the perfons prefent are con- 
 icious to any of thefe impediments, they are under 
 an indifpenfable obligation of declaring it. 
 ^ Q. Pray ajjign the reafon, ivhy minijiers children of 
 all perfuafions prove generally njAlder than others, Jtnce 
 they may he /aid to have the great eji opportunity of a vir- 
 tuous education, as nuell as an exemplary pattern in 
 their parents? 
 
 A. The fubjeft of the queftion is more common 
 than true : And the principal rcafon, why the perfons 
 fpecified are thought to be generally wilder than 
 others, may be perhaps, becaufe the wildnefs is more 
 particularly remark'd. But if the fa<!^ be true, (tho* 
 yet we mull confine it within narrower bounds than 
 is ufually fet to it) we may attribute the misfortune 
 to their enfnaring circumflances, in that fo many of 
 them, after their father's deceafe, are thrown upon the 
 world, and expofed to the infults of the moll violent 
 temptations. 
 
 Q. V ray favour us voith a familiar explication of the 
 1 3//?> of the \s'\\\th chapter o/Ifaiah, If thou turu avfay 
 thy foot. Sec. <with your opinion, Whether from that text 
 fill manner of recreations on the Lord's day, after the 
 public fervice is over, as taking a ix.-alk in the fields, or 
 the like, he ahfolutely finful and forbidden ; and nvhat 
 liberty a man may albvj himfelf, fo as to avoid the tvuo 
 extremes of fuperllition and prophanenefs ? 
 
 J. In anfwer to the queition, with regard to the 
 cited text, we beg leave to obferve the following 
 particulars. 
 
 I. The very rigour of the Jevoifh law allow'd its 
 votaries to travel to a limited diflance, whence we 
 read in Scripture of a fabbath dafs journey ; which, 
 fay the f evos, contains two thoufand cubits; that is, 
 about eight furlongs, or a mile. 
 
 zdly, The 
 
The British Apollo. 989 
 
 2cily, The exprCiTion in Ifaiah of turning our feet 
 from the fabbath, or of doing our pkafure on that holy 
 day, they imply not how ftriclly the fabbath ihould 
 be kept, but only forbid the J en.vs to depart fronv 
 the ordinances enjoined concerning it. 
 
 "ydly. If the y^^a//^ law had forbid all manner of 
 refrefhment on the fabbath day, this could be no far- 
 ther obligatory to Chriilians, than the nature of the 
 thing required : For I'^e are called, not unto bondage ^ 
 but unto liberty. Tho' yet we fhould have always the 
 Apoftle's caution in our view: only ufe not liberty for 
 an occajion to thejiejh. 
 
 ^thly. The primitive Chriftians (and who are we, 
 that we fhould blame a pradtice "io familiar to thole 
 heroes of the ancient Church r) were not fo ri- 
 gorous in their obfervation of the fabb:ith. Whence 
 fome have millaken the fathers in their argument 
 concerning it, and fancy they maintain that the Pa- 
 triarchs before the law obferved not a day of reft : 
 Whereas they no more than prove from the pra6lice 
 of the Patriarchs, that a Jenvi/h rigour was no ways 
 obligatory. 
 
 $thly. Moderate refrefhment (fuch as walking in 
 the fields after the public duty of the day is over) is 
 not only convenient, but even neceflary to thofe, * 
 whofe daily bufinefs will not allow them the recrea- 
 tion their very health requires. And fure we cannot 
 forget what the Lord of the fabbath has vouchfafed to 
 fay ; the fabbath nvas made for man, not man for the 
 fabbath. 
 
 But fince our gracious Mafter ^^/ dealt fo louinlgy 
 nvith us, let us ihew our gratitude, by making no en- 
 croachments upon the bufinefs of the day ; by not 
 neglefting the care of our families at home ; by our 
 moderation in the refreftiment we fhall take ; by tak- 
 ing occafion from the creatures we {hall view, to a- 
 dore the great C;ra/(3r ; by making religion the prin* 
 cipal objed, if in company, of our difcourfe ; if a- 
 lone, of our feafonable meditations. 
 
 U u 5 Q^Do 
 
990 na British Apoll o. 
 
 Q. Do you take the tree o/*life, and the tree o/^know- 
 ledge ^/'good cff^evil, to be the fame tree -y tfnot me- 
 thinks Eve pre'varkates before the f ally for God's prohibi- 
 tion extends only to the tree o/" knowledge of good and 
 evil ; wohereas Eve tells the ferpent, it was the tree in 
 the midfl of the garden, nuhich ivas the tree of life? 
 
 A, We fee no reafon, why that expreffion, in the 
 midfi of the garden y may not refer to the fubfequent as 
 well as the preceding fentence. And if fo, both the 
 trees were in the midfl of the garden. For we hope 
 there is no neceflity, that the word midfl Ihould fig- 
 nify the very centre of Eden. And indeed, the reafon 
 of the thing may readily perfuade us, that both the 
 trees were fituate together ; for this might be don© 
 with a merciful defign, that the prefence of the one 
 might guard from a temptation to the other ; and 
 thus God might, as it were without a metaphor, 
 have faid to our firll parents, / had fet before you life 
 and death, bleffing and curling ; therefore choofe life. 
 
 Q^ Do me the fa<vour to reconcile the latter part of 
 the "ifid verfe of the x\th chapter of St. Mark, 'with the 
 ^gth and \oth 'verfes of the xxiii. chap, of St, Luke^ 
 ^he ixords ofthefirjl being thus ; And they that vjere cru- 
 cified ^joith him reviled him ; and the latter being thus, and 
 one of the malefaSiors nvhich avere hanged, railed on him ; 
 fayingy If thou be the Chrift, fave thy felf and us ; But 
 the other ^ anfwering, rebuked him, fayingy Doll not thou 
 fear God, when thou art in the fame condemation? 
 
 A. The paflage in the former is a figure] (called 
 Synecdoche) which ufes the plural number for the fin- 
 gular, and 'vice 'verfd. 
 
 Q. Itvas lately in company 'vAth fonie paint ersy ifihert 
 a difpute happened about the true definition of draughty 
 nvhich occafionedfome ivagers ; at laji 'fwas agreed, that- 
 each fhould lurite d(nun his oivnfentimentSy and then refer 
 themfehes to the mofi ingenious fons o/" A polio, and that 
 if their definition Jhould jump nvith that of either of the 
 'wagerers, that perfon 'vjtth luhofe definitii/k theirs agreed, 
 fhouldhe the luinner ,* /o ^whicb therefore nKt intr eat your 
 fpeedy an/we r? 
 
 A. Gentlemen, 
 
ne British Apollo, 991 
 
 Ji. Gentlemen, we will give you the truth of the 
 matter, whether or not it may agree with the judg- 
 ment of either of the wagerers. Draught is a phyfual 
 line or lineal demon flrat ion ^ and hath always fome di- 
 menfions how flender foever : And ferves to repre- 
 fent bodies according to their forms, afpe£ls and fitua- 
 tion ; limiting and determining the furface of an ob- 
 ject, and marking out the feveral parts therein ; fbr 
 no fuperficies can exift, without being terminated by 
 lines, ftraight, circular or mixt. 
 
 Q;_ / ha've lately fomething conjtderahle left me hy nvill, 
 ivhich the adminjlrator refufes to pay, and 1 am not able 
 to go to lanvy unlefs it be under forma pauperis ; / there- 
 fore humbly beg your ad'vice hovj to begin, for 1 am riot 
 able to fee a counfel? 
 
 A. \{ your cafe be as plain as you reprefeat it, get 
 a copy of the will out of Do&on commons, and apply 
 your felf to a clerk in Chancery, there will be feveral 
 Gentlemen there of fo much honour, as they will 
 readily embrace ajufl: fuit tho' from 2l pauper. Be- 
 lides, their intereft will incline them, for the* they 
 have not their fees, ^c. on commencement of fuch 
 fuits, yet the law grants them on recovery. What 
 has brought many reflections upon thofe Gentlemen 
 in matters of this kind is, that great numbers of liti- 
 gious people have troubl'd them with their cafes {on 
 the eafmefs of their profecution) when there has been 
 no right really on their fides. 
 
 Qj^ A^cAWsfons, pray tell me ijuhy 
 Is gaping catching P Tour'*s Tom Gye. 
 
 A. Gape Tom, on numb, elem^n you'll find. 
 How gaping does afFed the mind. 
 
 Q^ A churl for a mafter I have. 
 Ill-natured, morofe, and a kna've. 
 And one luho has hufinefs good for e. 
 And often heals many bad (ore ; 
 
 Jiefwaggersandfnjuears 
 
 frets, iurfis and fares, 
 
 U u 4 Uh 
 
992 72?^ Br I T isH A poLLo, 
 
 Like in Bethlem ^7 mannvho is mad ; 
 
 When his neighbour he's kifs'd. 
 
 As long as he liji, 
 He comes homey and looks penjrve and fad: 
 To his prentices prcmifes fair y 
 And tells themy he'lljhen» them iheirjhare 
 Ofhujinefs'i btitallisin'vainy 
 For he thinks of nought elfe but his gain. 
 
 He ^wearies me quite. 
 
 By day and by night, 
 The Jla'very huftnefs to 'vie^v ; 
 
 Tour counfel I cra^ve. 
 
 Which I hope- Ifhallhanje, 
 That is, to kno-iv nvhat Ifhall do ? 
 
 A. Whatever his vices may be. 
 They fignify nothing^to thee, 
 Except (what may turn to good ufe) 
 To teach thee to Ihun the abufe. 
 
 If he fwaggers and fwears. 
 
 Frets, curfes, and ilares. 
 So odious the objed appears ; 
 
 It may teach thee to fhun, 
 
 To be nx^orfe than undone, 
 And the check will increafe with thy year?. 
 
 Tho' fla very now you endure, 
 Twill teach you the better to cure. 
 And gain you experience, which 
 (Tho' pains now) will after enrich : 
 
 But if any part 
 
 Ke denies of his art, 
 A juft fuit you then may adventure ; 
 
 The law will engage, 
 
 (Howe'er he may rage) 
 That he Ihall perform his indenture. 
 Monjteur Apollo, 
 
 Q^ To fee to de 'Varrs, 
 Fitt onar and fcarrs, 
 En pleafeyou Je Long ha've ent ended i 
 But here's de cafe fill. 
 To get tode Brill, 
 Bfdfis may Rino's expended, Nou 
 
f?^^ B R I T I S H A P L L 0. 993 
 
 Nou monjieur Jevous priee^ 
 
 V ill you pies to lend me 
 Dixjhilling to carr me from Dover y 
 
 Vich J e folomly J'waref 
 
 As fare's you'<v dare. 
 To remit back asfoon as Tm o-ver» 
 A. Dix fhiiling we'd lend ye. 
 
 If dat voud befriend yc ; 
 But if you chance dare to htflain, 
 
 Oeji apropos to know, 
 
 Vare 'tis your heirs grow. 
 To return us our Rino again. 
 
 Q^ Your anfnjoer to my quejiion, concerning the pigeon's 
 fying from Edinburg to London feems inconfjient ivitb, 
 the rules of re af on : for ho-iv can nve fuppofe there caji be 
 any Effluvia or emanations of thetigeon's body in the air, 
 'whenfhe is carried perhaps in a pocket , bag^ or the like. And 
 beftdeSy if there nxjere, the circum<volution of the air 'vjould 
 quickly dijperfe the track off cent thatfhe had left behind her, 
 efpecially 'when perhaps (he is 9 or 10 days a going. And 
 by obfer'vationy they don't return according to the courfe of 
 the road, as a dog does of a hare, but in a dire5i line. 
 
 A. To what is here objeded, to fhev/ the incon- 
 liftency of our account of this matter with reafon, it 
 may be replied, that tho' the pigeon Ihould be carried 
 in a pocket, bag, or the like, it would noways hin- 
 der the effluvia or emanations from its body to ex- 
 hale and be difperfed in the air ; fcarce any thing but , 
 a glafs hermetically fealed could do that, and if it were > 
 poffible to make the experiment by putting her in fuch ' 
 a glafs, we durft almoft be pofitive, .that ihe would 
 never return to fo great a diftance as Edinburg is from: 
 London. We own, 'tis likely that the circumvolution 
 or any other agitation of the air may fcatter fome of 
 thefe effluvia ; but we may very well iuppofe, that 
 they were not fcattered fo far» or that there remain 
 Hill enough of them, to make a fenfible imprelfiuii 
 upon the extremely nice organ of the pigeon. As to 
 what is alledged, that they do not retura according to 
 the courfe of the road, but in a direct line; it dees net 
 U u 5^ fceni 
 
594 y^^BRjTisH Apollo. 
 
 feem neceflary for them cxadlly to follow every turn- 
 ing and winding of the way, but only to deviate very 
 much from it, fince in all probability thefe effluvia 
 are not confined in the air within fuch narrow bounds, 
 tut are extended to fome latitude. 
 
 Q. What is the meaning ofP.S. and N. S. that nut 
 cften read in the Poll-man ? 
 
 A, P. S.fi^nds {oTpofi-fcript yZnd N. S. fornew-fy/e. 
 
 Q^ Hmv came monkeys and hahoom firfi into the nxorld? 
 
 hy that Ijhall kno^v the original ofyourfociety. Tour rujly 
 
 and rugged fac' d fiwant D- mnM V ns. 
 
 A. Juft as Bearsy which our rufly and rugged fac'd 
 ferrant may explicate, if he keeps by him the original 
 of his genealogy : tho' this no more difcovers the ori- 
 ginal of our fociety, than his wife queflion does his 
 imdcrftanding. % 
 
 Q. Whether it he a crime tojtng modefi fongs : and if it 
 $e, pray refohe me honvfar it is criminal ? 
 
 A. If you fing fo much as to bring yourfelfinta 
 a confumption, it is a crime ; and fo far fuch, accord- 
 ing to the hafte you make thereunto. 
 
 Q^ Why do mules and moyles ne'ver generate ; andmuhat 
 Tea/on can you afcribe for nature" s f opting there? 
 
 A. Tho* it is generally reported and believed, that 
 thefe animals do not generate, yet fome have been of 
 opinion, and among them Varro, that learned Roman^ 
 who hath writ, that in feme parts of Africa it is as 
 common for fhe mules to generate, as it is for mares 
 in Europe. But fuppofing they never do, it muft be 
 afcribed to fome defeft in fome of the parts fubfervi- 
 «nt to generation in the male, or in the female, or in 
 both ; but 'tis more likely the imperfeftion is in the 
 Ovarium or the female, lince none can be difcovered 
 in any other, and thehe may be fome fecret undifco- 
 verable in that, which yet may be very material. 
 
 Qj^ What i: the re a/on that fometimes thejky is full of 
 Stars, and other times there is not one to be feen? 
 
 A. Where the cloud pafTes from ofFyour brain, you 
 will apprehend the rcafon why a clear fky difcovers 
 the ilars. 
 
 3 Q^ lam 
 
The British Apollo. 995 
 
 Q^ lam acquainted ^ith a gentieivoman, nvhoisfub- 
 je5i (in my opinion) to a ^very flrange misfortuney asfoU 
 hvjs : fwhene'verfie fees a dead dog, or cat, or any other 
 beajij Jhe [ai if enchanted) cannot go by them 'without look- 
 ing earnejily on them for four or fi've minutes, and then 
 falls do^wn in a fa/coon. 
 
 A, In all probability that muft proceed from fome 
 great fright or farprize, fhi?, or her mother being bfg 
 with her, has had formerly by fome fuch dead creature. 
 Which has left fuchadeep impreffion in her brain, that 
 upon any fuch fight again, the motion of the animal 
 fpirits is for thofe few minutes almoft fufpended, and 
 that of the heart being alfo thereby interrupted, or 
 much leflen'd, flie becomes incapable of altering the 
 pofture fhe is in, till a greater fufpenfion of the fore- 
 laid fpirits occafions the fwoon, or fainting fpecified. 
 
 Q. In an old manufcript of the art of pa inting, I found 
 thefe three nxords, Anoptica, Optica, and Catoptica j 
 pray, ivhat may the meaning of them he ? 
 
 A, Anoptica is the real and upper line, by the help 
 of which we confider all the parts of the objeft above 
 the Horizon, and thereby bring them to the inter- 
 feSiion, or line o^Jhortning j whence, according to the 
 fituation of the body, the hinder parts are made to run 
 downwards, and the nearell parts to rife upwards ; and 
 from hence the declinings and arijings, x\it fhortnings 
 and increafings of the parts of the body are caufed.This 
 line hath it» original from X^atcentrey or the beginning 
 of the diftance, which is the eye-, So it returns to the 
 fame thro* the midft of the beams, which couple all 
 the extreme limits of the ^fz/^^^o^'. 
 
 Optica is thefecofid real fight, and direSi line, and is 
 that which is nearefl the objed -, fo that the upper parts 
 of the ohje6i belong to the forementioned line, and the 
 lower to catoptica ; this is that therefore which prin- 
 cipally touches all parts of the objeft both above and 
 below, and therefore is Z2XV^\\itdirea line. For the 
 beams parting themCslves ftrongly at the eye, and fal- 
 ling on the neareft part of the 3}jea, and there cauiing 
 the upper and lower parts to be fhorten*d and dimini ih'd,, 
 U u 6 and 
 
99^ ^e British Apollo. 
 
 and the eminences to hide the concavities, and the 
 larger parts to cover the narrower, making the objedl 
 to increafe and diminifh , according to their refpedive 
 liiflances from the perpendic ular. 
 
 Catoptica is the third fort ofjighty whofe beams touch 
 all the lower parts of the ohje^, conducing them to 
 the point of interfeclion ; fo that when the objedl is be- 
 low the eye, the fartheft part feems to rife, and the 
 neareft to decline downwards. 
 
 Q^ Good Sir, leanje off your news,, 
 ^Q poll-boys and reviews, 
 Poft-men and quaint obfervators, 
 ^To flying polls, «W remarks. 
 And to fuch kind of /parks. 
 Leave them to tranflate foreign letters. 
 Gi^e us more of your wit, 
 7hen our fancies you 11 hit. 
 In one njoord, you II oblige all the tonvn ; 
 With highefi delight. 
 We read nvhat you 'write. 
 Your njoifdom and learning all o^'n, 
 O, exalt then your njoice. 
 And make battles jc«r choice : 
 Sing, Sing, honv great Maribro' thunders j 
 In memorable fi rains, 
 Proclaim Oudenard'j plains, 
 Andhoio the bold Britons did wonders. 
 Thai the Dauphin'/ y&»j twain 
 Were afraid of being flain, 
 Denoting their true Bourbon blood, 
 That fo hot nvas the fire, 
 They nxjere glad to retire. 
 And hid themfelves both in a wood. 
 Tell the nKorld, ^oxu Vendome 
 Shall re infc6la go home. 
 To acquaint the old B — lly his mafier. 
 That La Motte run atuay. 
 That brave Webb nxion the day,. 
 And that Liile hvas taken fion after. 
 3 
 
 l:hai 
 
T^^Briti&h Apollo, 9.97 
 
 T'Wy^^rw Boufflers /^tf peer,, 
 
 Whom the monarch holds dear. 
 The clt2idel ca»»of fecure : 
 
 Thai the hrwve^xiii^ lads. 
 
 Valiant fans of their dads. 
 Will force him, as once at Namure. 
 
 In your fong too repeat y 
 
 Homo Tallard luas beat, 
 ^/Blenheim, and hra^vefi commanders : 
 
 That, VU'roy and Bavar, 
 
 Thd" fo dreadful in %uar. 
 Were fwingedjbon after in Flanders, 
 
 That young Philip in Spain 
 
 Muji return home again. 
 And leanje Charles togonjern the land: 
 
 That Marlbro' and Eugene 
 
 Will march to the Siene, 
 Nor Paris their zrm5 Jhall ivithjiand^ 
 
 That the afpiring Gaul 
 
 Shall like?h^tX.onfall^ 
 For troubling the 'world's repofe j 
 
 Shall his Empire refign 
 
 To a princefs dluine. 
 The avenger of^iitovCsfoes, 
 
 In melodious lays. 
 
 Re found ANNAV highpraife. 
 Set her deeds in eternal light.; 
 
 Marlbro'i battles declare, 
 
 Hii toils, condu(5l and care. 
 And that none can equal him in fight. 
 
 Sir, this freedom excufe. 
 
 And blame not the mufe. 
 Who does to advife thus pretend: 
 
 Take all in good part. 
 
 Since it comes from the heart. 
 Of your faithful fubfcriber and friends, 
 A. Your notions are right. 
 
 And would be our delight. 
 
99^ 7*^ British Apollo. | 
 
 Did the town but accord in the voice ; i 
 
 But we put it to vote. 
 And could eafily note. 
 That numbers oppos*d to the choice. 
 They urge, they'll not take 
 Oihsx print i for our fake ; 
 If we'll but a breviate admit 
 Of news, which fo fhort. 
 None well can retort, 
 "Bex ior gratitude rather admit. 
 Yet when we Ihall find 
 A bright theme to our mind, 
 (Declining all thoughts of evafioii) 
 We will gladly exert. 
 All OUT f re and our art. 
 And catch at the noble occafion, 
 (^ Apollo, het^i angry. 
 But reafon tellnahy 
 Itich folks are fimetimes ca^J iaSi6im% -, 
 Jf an/wer J ha*ve. 
 Content you nuill gpve, 
 Voyeur humble fervant. Jack Adams. 
 ji. Madam is my lady, 
 And therefore this may be, 
 Becaufe in attire they appear. 
 As rich and as fine, 
 I As the ladies, who fliine 
 
 In a nobler and loftier fphere. 
 r Q^ Ho^ many ingredients are rehired to make a 
 kna've an honeft man ? 
 
 A. One confideration will do it without other In- 
 gredients, do asyou nmuld be done by. 
 
 Q^Happening to mix an ounce o//pir it o/haittborn'with 
 the like quantity o/]^/>?/g/^SaI- Ammoniac, although they 
 nvere as clear as rockiuatery and feemingly free from JaUs^ 
 yet immediately upon mixing, almoji allfeem^d to he changed 
 Jo a fait i but after four or five days fianding, I found 
 about three drachms of volatile y&// fettle to the bottom , 
 ^ndihefpiritis as (leer as it was before mi jeing. 
 
 Idejtrt 
 
72>tf British A POLL o. 999 
 
 IJeJire tokmnjo the reafon of the faWsfubfiding, and 
 from 'which of the fpiriU it feparated? 
 
 I have often exferiencedy that nuater, or milkporridgi, 
 nvill boil a confiderable time, and yet the out-fide or bottom 
 efthefauce-pan, in ^hich it boils, Jhallhardly be kkewoarm 
 till it has flood a confiderable time off from the fire, I would 
 defire you to inform me hoi/j it is effe^ed ? 
 
 J. 'Tis very well known, that thefe fpirits, though 
 fcemingly free from all falts, yet in reality are nothing 
 but the volatile falts diflblved in more or lefs phlegm, 
 according to their different ftr^ng^h and goodnefs. Na 
 great wonder then, that falts fhould be feparated from 
 them, as well by precipitation, as by fublimation. Now 
 the caufe of that precipitation in the prefent cafe, is 
 the coalition and union of the two falts, by which, be- 
 coming too bulky and ponderous to be bom by Uie 
 phlegmatic parts, they muft needs by their own 
 weight link to the bottom, and fo conftitute compound 
 fait feparated from both fpirits. 
 
 The reafon is, becaufe the igneous or fiery particles 
 find a free and eafy paffage through the bottom of the 
 fauce-pan, but are ftop*d and entangled in the liquor 
 contained in it, and raife it up in fmall bubbles at the 
 bottom as long as it ftands boiling over the fire ; but 
 when it is taken oflr, the liquor, being no longer fo^ 
 laifed in bubbles^ in every part clofely touches the 
 bottom of the fauce-pan, andfo communicates to it 
 more of its heat. 
 
 Q^ I am a young man, ivho ha^ve engaged myfilf to a 
 *oery pretty fenfible nvoman, and cannot be eafy one moment 
 out of her fight, mrflse out of mine ; if I marry her, J fear 
 IJhall lofe vv) bufinefs ; and as I am, 1 can no 'way enjo^ 
 Tnyfilf. Gentlemen, J beg affiftance from you in my laby^ 
 rinth of mi for tunes y and 'will do nothing till I hafveyour 
 good ad'vice, 
 
 A, We are often authors of oar own unhappinefs,. 
 by making a wrong judgment of things, or taking 
 them by the wrong handle. If you enjoy not your full 
 'wiJh,you are the unhappiefi creature living. Priiy con- 
 fider, if your miilrefs were- falfe, loft her reputation,. 
 
looo the British Apollo. 
 
 or happened under fome misfortune, by which fhe fuf- 
 fered extremity of mifery, and to which all mortals 
 are daily liable, whether (comparatively to fuch cir- 
 cumftances) you are not now really happy. The befl 
 advice we can'give, is, fmce you are in danger of 
 lofmg your bufmefs if you now marry her, to double 
 your induftry, that you may raife your felf above the 
 danger of fuch injundions, and to become abfolutely 
 matter of your own occafions -, the confideration that 
 all your|pains will tend to the advancement of her you 
 love fo dearly, will mitigate your fufFerings in the 
 mean time. 
 
 Q^ TiuQ friends of mine [nvhich ive nvillname Philander 
 and Alcidon) laid a nxjagerfome time ago, nuhich nvas this, 
 viz. Philander laid that Lifle ^as taken by fuch a day, 
 and Alcidon laid it nvas not : nonv the next po/i brought 
 advice, that the to^n furrendred before thefaidday, but 
 in regard Philander did notjpecify Town and Caftle, but 
 only faid hide ; Alcidon infijisthat he has nxion theivager, 
 fince the Citadel ('which is part o/* Lifle) nxjas not then 
 ^aken. 7hey have confulted fome prof efs'd'wagerersj'who give 
 if for Alcidon, but Philander [ixiho isfomething litigious) 
 *willnot hearken to their decifions, but ivill have receurfe to 
 the lawyers y vcho fay he has nvon. Novjjince Exchange - 
 Alley <z«<^ Weftminftcr-Hallfl'oyo cla_fi? in their fentiments, 
 they have refohed to appeal to you, en dernier refort, ««^ 
 dejire your peremptory decifionin your next paper, ^whether 
 barely faying Lifle, implies both Town «W Caflle, or 
 Town only, upon ivhich thejirefs of the nvager lyes ? 
 
 A. Since the town of Lijk was Lfle before any 
 Citadel was built, and fmce that was only intended, 
 for the defenfe of Life^ we think it may be properly 
 faid, that Life was taken, though the Citadel held 
 out. 
 
 Q. Why Owls and Batts are only to befeen flying a^ 
 bout in the evening, nxihen all other birds are taking thiir 
 ref, and you vcill oblige a nevj fuhfcriher ? 
 
 A. Becaufe their fight is not ftrong enough to bear 
 the light of the day j and alfo becaufe their prey 
 comes abroad not till thea. 
 
 Q. Man. 
 
The British Apollo, igoi 
 
 Q^ May not death he properly /aid to he preternatural 
 •when occajioned byjirange accidents ? 
 
 A. No death is always natural to all, though the 
 caufes may be preternatural. 
 
 Q^ Ton <voould 'very much oblige your fiihfcriher, in ex- 
 plaining Pfal. li. ver. 5. Behold I nxjasjhapenin iniquity, 
 and in Jtn did my mother cone e I've me. 1 dejire to knonA) 
 njohatfin a nvoman is guilty oj' in conceinjing a child? 
 
 A. The paffage does no ways imply that the mo- 
 ther commits a fin in the conception of her child % 
 but that the child is tainted in its very conception 
 ' with traditionary guilt. 
 
 Q^ / once courted a young Lady, and being very amo- 
 rous, the more to engage her affeiiions, I nxiijhed a dread- 
 Jul mifchafrce might hefalme, if I e'ver married any o- 
 ther. But noio Jhe proving a bafe 'woman, lam going to 
 marry another ? 
 
 A. We fuppofe a provifo to have been included in 
 the wi{h you made; and that you made it on a tacit 
 fuppofition, that the perfon to whom you made it, 
 would prove faithful to you. And therefore you have 
 the opinion ofthatjudiciouscafuift, bifliop.S«««^(?r/&/r, 
 that you are at liberty to marry. But we cannot for- 
 bear advifing you to abftain for the future, not only 
 from imprecations, which are finful, but alfo from 
 vows, which are often dangerous. 
 
 Q^ A Gentleman and Lady being in company, prO' 
 pofed jocofely to marry each other, and accordingly they 
 dreiv up a ^writing to the fame purpofe, and they both fet 
 their hands to it, but no day I'jasjixed, Quere, Whether 
 this ivill be any obligation to either of them ? He infjling 
 upon the note under my hand, ^whether it he any obliga- 
 tion, it being but merely accidental in company ? 
 
 A. Madam, (for you have unwittingly difcover'd 
 your felf to be the Lady) we think it not proper . 
 to rob a lawyer of his fee, and therefore beg your 
 cxcufe, if we only acquaint you, that in point of 
 confcience you are under no obligation to the Gen- 
 tleman. But we would advife you for the future, to 
 be more difcreet in your jocofe behaviour; for that 
 
 common 
 
1002 Tbg BritishApollo. 
 
 common faying is worthy of your praftical obfervtnce, 
 JBe merry and njoife, 
 
 Q. Who has 'Wrote the plainejl Aftrommyy and nvhere 
 may their nvorks be had? 
 
 A, LuWi Afironovtica Inftitutio, (which may mod 
 probably be had in Duck Lane) is as eafy a treatife of 
 Aftronomy as you can well defire. 
 
 Q^ Hokv muji thefe <verfes he reconciledy viz. The 1 0th 
 chapter of Genefis, 'verfe 5 . hj thefe (meaning the gene^ 
 rations of the fons ^Noah) nx)ere the ijles of the Geiitilci 
 divided in their lands ^ e<very one after his language ^ after 
 their families in their nation^ (it feems to me to imply 
 more than one language) in the follouoing chapter, andtht 
 firji <verfe ; And the nxihole earth 'txas of one language^ 
 and of one fpeechy before the confufon of languages at 
 'BdhtVs building? 
 
 A. When the divine hiftorian acquaints us, that 
 by thefe ^were the ijles of the Gentiles divided, it is not 
 neceflary he ihould mean that they were at that indi- 
 vidual time, but afterwards fo divided ; namely, after 
 the confufion of tongues. But we may obferve with- 
 al, that Mofes mentions thofe who lived after the de- 
 ^lU^ionoiBahel, 
 
 Q^ By troubles of life. 
 
 And plagues of a wife. 
 
 My brains confufed myve. 
 
 And are fubjeSl to rove : 
 
 Sometimes to defray, 
 
 The dc'v' I vQo'uld decey ; 
 
 Opprefi by a dark thought y 
 
 To defpair I am brought ; 
 
 And no ivhere canfnd 
 
 True eafefor my mind. 
 
 When from my houfe come, 
 
 I dread to go home ; 
 
 Not only for fear, 
 
 Jfurelyffall hear, 
 
 A perpetual motion, 
 
 (Tyhich ii nofalfe notion) 
 
 But 
 
iT^i? BrI TISH ApOE LO. 1003 
 
 But hlonxjs of the ladle, 
 Andfqualh of the cradle. 
 With bsttk of brandy. 
 And njjhite fugar-candy. 
 She fiti luith herfpark 
 In light, or i^tU dark ; 
 Nor caret fhe ivho feti, 
 Sofhe her felf fleafe ; 
 7hus keeping herfation, 
 Negk£is reputation. 
 
 Noiju, deareji A^dWo, 
 Tour couvfel TllfollorM, 
 
 Whatever you Jay, 
 Tour advice then Ipray ', 
 Hovo (as *tis my aim) 
 I may her reclaim F 
 A. If your cafe is fo grievous. 
 That you're grown mifchievous. 
 And are teas'd out of life. 
 Both by devil and wife ; 
 It is hard to adminfter, 
 But by methods finifter. 
 Since Jove with his thunder 
 (And fure that's more wonder) 
 Can't flill Juno^ tongue. 
 So immortally hung ; 
 What mortal can hope. 
 With that member to cope ? 
 
 But as to her brandy, 
 'Stead of fugar-candy, 
 SornQJallap convey. 
 Such ain (he'll difplay. 
 Will fcarce in the dark 
 Be born by her fpark. 
 
 The ladle with eafe. 
 You may quell when you pleafe ; 
 Tough crahtret will doit. 
 And make her to rue it. 
 
 If ftill worfe you find her. 
 Then gag her and bind her. 
 
IC04 ^he British Apollo. 
 
 To Bedlam convey her. 
 
 With orders to flay her ; 
 
 Till cured by the fmart. 
 
 Or that's broke her heart. 
 Q^ L the brain of a cat poifonous ? 
 A. Some authors have given out, that the cat''s 
 brain is poifonous, caufing madnefs, ftupidity, and 
 lofs of memor)' : But we can fcarccly give credit to 
 it, fmce the flefh of thofe creatures hath been eaten 
 with fo much fafety, and accounted an excellent difh 
 too in fome plentiful countries. 
 
 Q^ About \o years fmce y I contraSled an acquaintance 
 nvitb another man's ivfe, nvhich in a 'veryfhoyt time grenx} 
 to fuch an intimacy, that 2id\i[tQry foJlovS'ci, and in that 
 *wickednefs 'we continued for about tivo years ; nvhen gro'w- 
 ing njoeary of each other, nx)e parted', e'ver Jince Jhe hath 
 li'ved honefly nfjith her hufhand, andfo continues. About 
 three years fence 1 contrahed a fecond Acquaintance njoith 
 another man^s tvife alfo,andha<ve li'ved in the fame woick- 
 edne/s <vcith her till her hvfband died, and almofe to this 
 time. To each of them, in order to the obtaining my nvill, 
 I have falfy and ^wickedly /worn perpetual confancy, nxiijh- 
 ing, in the ^very face of hea'ven, damnation to my felf; 
 and particularly, that nothing that e'ver I took in hand 
 might thrinje nvith me, if I e-ver forbore lo-ving either of 
 them, they each doing the like. I haue obfer'ved, tbat ever 
 Jince my frji perjury I have been fo very unfortunate in 
 every thing I have undertook ^ that according to my voicked 
 vcifoes, nothing hath fence thrived voith me, vjhich I firmly 
 believe to proceed immediately from the jufe judgment i of 
 the Almighty, <whom I fencer ely and heartily praife for 
 fcourging me in fo peculiar a manner, according to my 
 ivi/hes, in that it hathjhook me in my continued vjicked- 
 nefs, and made me beg advice of you, hotv, and in nvhat 
 manner to behave myfelf under fuch unhappy circum- 
 feances, and particularly hovjfar I am obliged to keep my 
 oaths to the fecond vjoman, fhe being novj a viidovj ? 
 
 A. The chaftifement that God has been pleafed io 
 fevercly, but yet fo mercifully to afflift you with, 
 proceeded not from the breach of your oath, for you 
 
 were 
 
'The Br itish Apollo. 1005 
 
 were indifpenfably obliged to break it. But you mull 
 conclude it to have proceeded, firll, from your re- 
 peated afts of fo heinous a tranfgreffion as that of a- 
 dultery ; (for 'whoremongers and adulterers God Jhall 
 judge ;) and fecondly, from your bringing upon your 
 felf the abfolute neceffity of becoming a peijur'dper- 
 fon. 
 
 Since the fecond adulterefs is now a widow, and 
 at liberty to become your bride, the oath of fidelity, 
 you were formerly fo wicked as to make her, will 
 not difpenfe with your indifference in the matter. 
 But your barely marrying her will not fatisfy your 
 confcience, unlefs you endeavour alfo to make her fen- 
 fible of her former bafenefs, and to excite in her con- 
 verted mind fuch a godly forronjo, as nxorketh repentance 
 not to he repentedof. And you mull endeavour alfo to 
 make your other adulterous companion equally fenfi- 
 ble of, and forrowful for her deftable procedure. 
 
 But you mull not forget to do your felf, what you 
 would prevail upon them to do, to exercife a very 
 fevere repentance ; a repentance proportionable to 
 your horrible, your repeated crimes ; leji nvhile you 
 preach (as it were) to others, (to the fharers in your 
 guilt) you your felf become a caji-anvay. 
 
 Q^ Whether a Proteflant may allo^ the difiinElion of 
 mortal and venialy;« ? And houo the querifls anfwer? 
 
 A. Seeing all venial fm is venial not in its nature 
 but through mercy ; and mortal fin, through God's 
 mercy is pardoned ; this queflion is, what difference 
 here may be found out between the one fmand the 
 other, as will ferve for allowance of fuch a diflindlion. 
 
 For doing ivhich, the mercy of God (^voe muji kno'-wj 
 in pardoning [in is difpenfed by ni:ay of co'venant ^ nvhicb 
 requires repentance in order to pardon, and <we muJl di- 
 fiinguijh therefore cf repentance, and of fins requiring it. . 
 
 There is a general and particular repentance, and there 
 are fome fins accordingly requiring the one only, and fome 
 requiring both, There are fins nvhich pafi us often <without 
 our notice; fins alfo of infirmity, fins of daily incurfion^ 
 
 ifjhtch 
 
too6 7^^ British Apollo. 
 
 lubich are pardonable on our general repentance^'when there 
 are other fins^ knonvn 'wilful gr of s Jim, luhich are not par- 
 4bnedvjithout particular forrviu for themt and amendments 
 
 And hereby nwi may the dijiin^ion of szmsX andmoT' 
 taXJrn be made out and allo^wed : A venial fin being 
 fuchfor fwhich a general repentance [through God* s good' 
 nefi may fuffice ; but a mortal, fuchfor wuhich a par- 
 ticular repentance, e<ven by the covenant of grace, is ne- 
 cejpiry, as the condition to the forginjenefs of it. The one 
 is, the other is not pardond 'without it : Secundum legem: 
 ordinarium Ifpeak. 
 
 To give fo judicious a querift the commendation, 
 which his merits fo juftly claim, we cannot but al- 
 low, that he has ingenioufly diflinguifhed between 
 fins 'venial and mortal. But we hope he will not take 
 it amifs if we make a particular rellridlion. 
 
 As for what you fay of fuch fms as efcape our no- 
 tice, it is unexceptionable. But yet fome may think 
 it liable to a plaufible objedion. For they may be 
 ready to fay, that fmce fuch finful actions, as fly our 
 fcrutiny, cannot poflibly be avoided by mere huma- 
 nity, how can we magnify the grace of God in the 
 comprehenfion of them under the imputation of ve- 
 nial fms ? But to this obje<^ien we reply. 
 
 1 . Who of us can fay, that we are as cautious as 
 we Ihould be, in the obfervance of our anions ; that 
 we 'watch our goings as narrowly as even humanity 
 will permit ; that we fufFer as few fins as poflible to 
 efcape our difcerning notice ? Happy therefore is it 
 for us that we have to do with fo mild a law-giver, 
 that is fo gracious in the cafe before us, as to admit 
 of a general repentance, as an atonement of his wrath; 
 There is mercy -with thee, therefore Jhalt thou he feared. 
 
 2. It perhaps is owing to our being formerly ha- 
 bituated to a fmful courfe, that even now (while re- 
 pentance and amendment have put us into a ftate of 
 grace) fo many lefler fms pafs without oblervance. 
 If therefore God is pleafed fo eafily to pardon, of 
 what we ourfelv^s vs'ere originally fuch guilty caufe.% 
 
 Ihall 
 
in?^ British Apollo. 1007 
 
 jfhall not we readily cry out, O give thanks unto the 
 Lordf for he is gracious, becaufe his mercy endurethfor 
 enter ? 
 
 3 . The mortal fins that the very beft of men too 
 frequently commit, may be the unhappy caufe, that 
 fo many venial fins are overlooked by the y try faints 
 that are in the earth. We may therefore be allowed 
 to fay, Singpraifes unto the Lord, O ye faints of his; and 
 give thanks unto him for a remembrance, not only of bis 
 holinefs, but of his mercy too. 
 
 As for fms of daily incurfion, we fhould endeavour 
 at our daily examination, (for daily fhould we exa- 
 mine the tenor of our adions) to recoiled as many 
 of them as we can, and to the recolleftion of each 
 fubjoin a fhort petition ; fuch as, Lord forginje , And 
 yet fuch fins are diftinguifhable from greater fins ; ar« 
 diftinguifiiable with refpedl to the terms, mortal Mid 
 tvenial, in that we afe not {o flridlly obliged to a bur- 
 thenfome remembrance of them againft the next exa- 
 mination of our felves ; in that, while we are under 
 examination, it is not neceflary we fhould be as nice 
 in the recolleftion ofthofe as of other fins, in that, 
 when we have clearly recollefled fome, they require 
 not fo particular a repentance of them. 
 
 Q, lam fatherlefs and motherlefs, left to the care of 
 
 an old uncle ^ ^jom my father alivays found to be ajujl 
 
 many therefore conflituted him guardian over nuhat he left 
 
 me, during my minority ; but nfjith this provifo, that if I 
 
 matched contrary to his mind, he had the povuer of difpojtng 
 
 of it to the next relation. Noiv coming home late one night, 
 
 (Bacchus being a little predominant) I made the maid a 
 
 ftri£l promife that I ivould vjed her, {hoping to hinder her 
 
 from purfuing her skimmington like difcourfe, ^whichjhe- 
 
 had begun) really intending no fuch thing ; and not con- 
 
 Jtdering ivhat mifchief vuould come after. No<vj my unckle 
 
 often folicites me to place my affeBions on a young, rich, 
 
 and handfome <vjido^~M ; vjhich 1 could njoiUingly do, but the 
 
 cook exclaims againft me, and vovos IcanUdo it 'without 
 
 perjury tovoards her, fo I alvjays put her off, ivith telling 
 
 pf her vuhen time and opportunity permit, itfball be done, 
 
 for 
 
ioo8 The Br itishApollo. 
 
 for fear Jhe Jhould rep07-t it to my uncle : For nonju recol- 
 leSiing my felfy if 1 take her, I fhall not only incur my 
 Muck's difpleafure^ but alfo invohe us both in mifety, by 
 being depri'ved of my father s patrimony ^ nvhich is alllha<ve 
 to depend upon j if the other, lam afraid of breaking my 
 twws. Nonv, if your fpeedy anf^wer nvill make it appear, . 
 tvuhat luay is beftfor ridding myfelfoiit cf all this trouble? ^ 
 
 A. Though it may be difputed, whether a rafh pro- , 
 mife made by a drunken man, who is not mafter of 
 liis reafon, be of any validity, yet this is of no con- 
 cernment to your cafe, fince you frequently repeated 
 the fame promife, while fober, and capable of com- 
 manding your own proceedings. 
 
 Nor will it at all avail, that you never really in- 
 tended the performance, fince the admittance of fo 
 unaccountable a plea would deflroy all mutual confi- 
 dence and dependance upon one another. We beg 
 leave therefore to remind you, that fo deceitful a pro-, 
 cedure is an uncommon ftretch, even beyond the 
 praftice of Jefuitical refervations. The validity of a 
 promife confifts in the tenor of the verbal expreffions, 
 unlefs where the perfon that promifes happens to mi- 
 ftake in the external fignifications of his inward fenti- 
 ments. But that rule of equity, which will relieve the 
 miftaken perfon in fo particular a cafe, will no ways 
 difengage you from that gordian knot you have been 
 fo unhappy as to tie fo faft, that no remedy can be 
 found, unlefs with y^/?A'«»4V/-*s fword, (that is, with 
 the juftly detefled breach of promife) you perfidiouHy 
 cut it afunder. For you defign'd, that the words 
 you fpoke fhould be taken by the perfon you fpoke 
 to, in their natural and obvious fenfe : For otherwife 
 you could not have accomplifh'd your defign ; namely, 
 that of deceiving her for a time. 
 
 You cannot plead the inconveniences that may at- 
 tend your fidelity, fince the Pfdmiji has long ago pre- 
 vented fo feeble an excufejwhilefpeaking literally of 
 thofe who Ihould be admitted to the hill of Sion, (the 
 place of public worlhip) but figuratively of thofe 
 who fhould be admitted into heaven, he excellently 
 
 fubjoins ; 
 
ne British Apollo, 1009 
 
 fubjoins ; He thatfweareth unto his neighbour, and dif- 
 appointeth him not, though it be to his onvn hindrance. 
 
 Not that you are oblig'd immediately to marry 
 her, when fuch inextricable incumbrances vvi II una- 
 voidably enfue. But you muft wait with patience, 
 till providence ihall prefent you with anopportunity of 
 performing the obligation, you have drawn upon 
 your iilf. 
 
 We hope, Sir, that you will ferioufly refledl upon 
 the PfalmtJTs words, hate the Jlns of unfaithfulnefs ; 
 and be thence prudently, as well as pioully provok'd 
 to an equal hatred of fuch abominable crimes. 
 
 Q^ Why they nenj&r take the texts, nor the lejfons for 
 the fnorning or e^vening fer'vice, out of the Apocrypha. 
 
 A. You fliou'd have added on Sundays, to what you 
 fay of the morning and evening fervice, fmce the 
 Apocrypha is read on the other days of the week. But 
 the reafon why neither texts nor Sunday lelTons arc 
 taken from the Apocrypha is, becaufe it is Apocrypha. 
 The word fignifies an hidden or fecret thing. For 
 we cannot be affured of any one book in the whole 
 Apocrypha, that it is the word of God. 
 
 Q!_ Why can a Camel, abo've all other creatures, en- 
 dure upon a journey to go three or four days tvithout 'wa- 
 ter in thofe hot countries. 
 
 A. We may either fuppofe a Camel to have a 
 greater quantity of radical moifture than other ani- 
 mals ; or that the clofenefs of his pores prevents fo 
 violent a perfpiration ; or that both the reafons ma/ 
 at once concur. 
 
 C^ Apollinis fir 
 One query I n.vill, 
 "^ T* unloofe me a knot that Tm fwift in, 
 ^Tis only you d fay. 
 Whether yea, or nay, 
 
 Simon Magus njjas e'er a good Chrijlian ? 
 ■', / han}e ahvays helieued the negati^je, hut this de^ 
 reading Banting^s travels of the Patriarchs, p, 5 14. 
 fpeaking of Philip, his <^Lxjords are thefe, at which time 
 he converted Simon Magus, Afts viii. 
 
 Vol. III. X X A. The 
 
loio The British Apoilo. 
 
 A The paffage you refer to no ways implies, that 
 Simon Magus was ever a good Chriftian. For to fay, 
 "that he was converted, may fignify no more than 
 that he made an open profeflion of Chriftianity. And 
 you cannot but be fenfible that there are too many in 
 the world, who confefs Chriji iviib their mouthsy but in 
 their ivorks deny him. 
 
 Q^ Whether jcu think it difcreet for a young Lady fa 
 anfnjoer lonje letters P 
 
 J. Not, except fhe has* a better fecurity of the 
 Gentleman's honour and conftancy than it is almoll 
 poffible to have. For fhe mufl confider the contin- 
 gences in amours, how often the moft determined 
 engagements have been infringed, and in fuch cafes 
 what advantages they may give againll her. Should 
 his paffion turn to prejudice, moll things have two 
 handles, and he will take them by the worfl ; nay^ 
 fmce difappointcd lovers often grow malicious, he 
 may fubvert the fenfe by addition of, or expunging, 
 a word ; may counterfeit her hand to contrivances of 
 his own, which llie never thought of; all which will 
 be out of his power, whilft he cannot fay, he ever 
 received a letter from her. Nay, even whilft he keeps 
 conjianty he may mifconftrue fome words to her dif- 
 advantage, which a flip of her pen ^ay give greater 
 opportunity to. On which confiderations the well- 
 bred-Ladies of this age have prudently avoided fuch 
 returns as were more cuilomary formerly, and think 
 zfmile orfronjcn fufRcient a^ifwer to all ih^ paper attacks 
 of their humble fei-vants. 
 
 Q^ Hoxu came Elizabeth {^>.hen yi?iTy lijfttd her ) 
 to fay, Honx) comes it to pafs, that the mother of my Lord> 
 fhould come to 7ne, ivhen as yet Mary nvas not the mo- 
 ther of her and our Lord, nor had Jhe told her of her 
 being nvith child P 
 
 A. Mary had already conceived of ourbleiTed Lord, 
 and therefore might not improperly be even then ilyled 
 his mother. As to your fecond query, Elizabeth 
 fpake^ as Jhe otw nio'vedhy the Holy Ghojl, 
 
 CX^Idefre 
 
ne Bri T I SH Apollo. loir 
 
 Q^ I dejire to kno^w. If a father reafmably command^ 
 a fan ne>ver to do a certain things the thing in itfelf be- 
 ing nofn againji God^ nnhether, after his father is deady 
 he is obliged in duty to him nen;cr to break that command? 
 
 A, If the command be a reafonable one, and fuch 
 as comes within the jurifdicflion of a parent, the fon 
 is under an obligation to fufFer his obedience to fur- 
 vive his father. 
 
 Q^ / kno^Aj a young man living in the country ^ ivho 
 fanding by a relation making cheefe^ of a fudden pitch'' d 
 his head into the tub of curds, andjiood nj:ith his heels 
 uppennojl : his relation being affrighted at this fpeSacle, 
 immediately run for help, but in the interim, her Maid 
 coming in, pulled him out [fuppojing him dead) ivhen 
 help came, they endea^voured to bleed him, but could mt^ 
 afternMards put him into a •warm bed, but psrcei-ving him 
 gro^ colder, laid him out, and prepared e^very thing for 
 his interment y but on the third day, as they ^were pro- 
 ceeding to Church, the bearers heard a confufed noije in 
 the coffin, and taking it donjun and opening it (to their 
 amazement) they found him alive, no 'ways (perceivable) 
 changed. Novo 1 defre to knovi the caufe of this fudden 
 ft i as likevjife the reafon of his lying fo long v:ithout any 
 perception of vital motion in him ? 
 
 J, This mull have been a flrong apopledic fit, 
 arifing from a fudden and almoft total interruption of 
 the influx of animal fpirits into all the parts of the 
 body, and chiefly into the heart, by which means his 
 motion, and confequently that of the blood became 
 imperceptible, though not utterly aboliflied. For elfo 
 it could never have been recovered without a miracle, 
 which we need not fuppofe in this cafe, fmce we ars 
 not without feveral inftances of the like nature, re- 
 lated by eminent authors of phyfic, who therefore 
 advife not to be over-haily to bury men feemingly 
 dead of that diftemper. 
 
 Q. In a late difpute betvjeen myfelf and my friend^ 
 it fwas debated, vohich ivas the greateftfin, to turn vtjhore, 
 if I Cannot get a young husband, than to marry an old 
 ^.an, and cuckold him vjhen it is done P 
 
 4 Xx2 /f. The 
 
10 1 2 TJoe British Apollo. 
 
 J. The queftion returns to this, whether adultery 
 or fornication be the greater fin ? And there furely 
 can be no room for doubt, finee the former is a com- 
 plicated fin, and includes the latter in the fatal 
 mixture. 
 
 Q^ Pray tell me the caufe of njapourSy nvhether it he 
 <i dijhmper of the hody^ or mind? I am apt to belie^oe 
 of the mind ; if of the body, nxtljy not curable^ as nxjell 
 as other difeafes ? 
 
 A. The vapours cannot be faid to be a difeafe of 
 the mind, though they are often caufed by mental 
 diforders ; but it is a diftemper of the nerves, occa- 
 fioned by an infe£lion of the animal fpirits with vi- 
 tiated and heterogeneous humours, whence they be- 
 come obftruded in their wonted manner of influence 
 and a<ilion, and acquire a convulfive difpofition, yield- 
 ing the variety of fymptoms commonly obferved in 
 ■fuch cafes. Nor can we allow with you, that they 
 are incurable, fince they are frequently feen to give 
 place to ijroper methods. 
 
 Q^ Mojl nxnfe Apollo ; I mean, if you can gi've fatis- 
 faction to my demand : Be it km^wn to you, that I am 
 <ihout threefcore and ten years of age ; But thaCs all one , 
 or fomething better, for the older the wifer. / am alfo 
 tvery poor, nAjhich is better ftilU fence fortune favours only 
 fools ; / am aljo crooked, nvhich is hefl of all, fence it 
 tiatwally di^rnifees and diftin^ui/hes me luith a title, not 
 to be cancelled by a prince'' sfroivn. No^w fo it is, that I 
 am fallen in lo've, mofe defperately in lo<ve, enjen to the 
 danger of reducing my dry old car cafe to ponxider ^yy the 
 flames thereof and nxiith nvhom Jhould this be, but a 
 beautiful young Laay of a fvafe eft ate, and nxiho hath ah' 
 folutely determined to entertain none for an humble fer- 
 Vant, but an handfome young fello-nj of a fortune equal 
 i9 her oijun. 1 nonjo demand of h'^oVio to inform me, by 
 nvhat methods I fhall compafs this Lady, 1 nvill promife 
 . patience, both as to time for managing the affair, and 
 in undergoing any penance for completing thereof. Were 
 I young, handfome, and of an efeate, e^ery blockhead 
 cou^d tut me into a ivay, and my approaching Apollo'/ 
 
 Arine 
 
f^^ Br I T I s H Apoll o. 1015 
 
 mm 
 
 Jhrine in fuch cafe nvou^d not demon/irate I thought h, 
 any thing better ; but if you can inJiruH me under thefe 
 difficulties, you n.vill defer-ve all the fine epithet i the learned 
 and ^ivitty <world gi've you ? 
 
 A. Alas! Such matters as thefe are no difficulties, 
 but mere play for Apolh. We fuppofe, if we can in- 
 ftruft you how to become youngs handfome, and rich, 
 it will fatisfy all your doubts, which we fhall the 
 more eafily compafs, fmce you havepromis'd patience, 
 both in refped to time for the operation, and for the 
 undergoing requifite penance, ^c. As to the firll, it 
 is but ftaying a few years longer, and by courfe of 
 nature you will become a child again, and fo have the 
 advantage of her in point of youth. As to recovering 
 your perfon to a proper ihape, and regular features ; 
 there is a certain Gentleman Hill living, who fome 
 time fmce invented an art, whereby he cou'd reduce 
 as very a block as yourfelf to powder, and after, by 
 the help of a cement, caft it in a mould of any form, 
 and it Ihou'd appear as perfedl mootd after as before. 
 Now a very little of his alfiftance would do your bu- 
 finefs, fince you are almofl reduced to powder already 
 by the flames of your pafllon; and then, as to eftate, 
 it is but fhewing your felf after this metamorphofisf ^ ■ 
 and you will foon be the richeft man in the kingdom ► 
 Q. Whether it is not really a lie, to Jay, your humble 
 fervant, Sir, your devoted fervant. Madam, nxjhere ns 
 fer<vice is really defigned or intended ? 
 
 A. No, fince it is neither given or taken, accord- 
 ing to the ftrid fenfe of the words, but only ufed as 
 a compliment of civility. All civilizM nations tife 
 fome ceremonies as different from the latter ; nay, we 
 fh^U find many inftances thereof in the Scripture it 
 felf, St. Paul faid, Moft noble Fejius. Abraham waS' 
 caird Lordhy 2i free people, over whom he had no au- 
 thority. Abigail to Da'vid exceeded the compliment 
 oi your fer'vant , in faying,. 2i fernjant of his fer<vants. 
 Daniel to Darius, O King, li'vefor e-ver. And what is 
 i^ill more wide, both from the fpirit and letter, you 
 know who is cali'd themoji Chriftian King. 
 
 XX3 Q^?;-*'^ 
 
10 14 ^^s British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Pray let me knoiu the etymotogy of the nvord^2iX2L» 
 dife? Tor I take it to mean a different Jl ate of ha^ine ft 
 from hca^ven^ viz. Paradife to be the abode of the de- 
 parted fouls of faints before the refurreSlion ; and heanjen 
 to be a cofnpletion of that felicityy by the union of the body 
 and foul j // not being fo fully capable of its reivards as 
 nvhen united to the body. * Teni\\\id.n njuas of opinion, 
 that Paradife "Joas a fate for the reward of the foul in 
 particular, for the good things it did luithut the concur- 
 rence of the body. 
 
 A. They who derive the word from the Greek, de- 
 rive it from Ila^a, Juxta, near ; and AtJw P-igo, to 
 water ; For the pleafantnefs of a place is not a little 
 evving to delightful %)rings. The neareft radix in the 
 Hebreiv is either one that fignifics to be fruitful, for 
 the Paradife of the protoplail was a fruitful garden, 
 or one that fignifies to feparate ? for pleafant gardens 
 are never without inclofures. But Xenophon inforrosf 
 us, that it is a Perfic word, and imports a garden or 
 orchard. But from the delicious pleafantnefs it is me- 
 taphorically put to fignify an invifible place of happi- 
 cef3. 
 
 As for the opinion of the fathers concerning the 
 determination of this place of happinefs, we have in 
 a former paper difcufs'd the matter. But fmce the 
 Scriptures are filent in the cafe, who can pretend to 
 certainty in fo doubtful an affair ? Tho' this douht- 
 fulnefs concerns only the time antecedent to the Af- 
 cenfion of our Lord: For the Scriptures (as we have 
 elfewherc fliew'd) very clearly intimate, that fmce 
 the afcenfion of our Lord, the foul of the depart- 
 ing faints advances immediately to heaven. 
 
 But we cannot omit, what a learned man ofFers m 
 proof, that Paradife before the Gofpel difpenfation 
 was a place feparate from heaven. For from that 
 text, this day thoujhall be ivith me in Paradife, he ar- 
 gues thus : Paradife, in the Jewifli notion of the 
 word, was diftinft from heaven. Our Lord us'd the 
 
 * De Refurr, Cirn. Cap. 17. 
 
 word 
 
T27<? Br I T I s H Apollo, ioi^ 
 
 word to a Je^jo, and therefore may be reafonably fup- 
 pofed to intend it in a jewifli fenfe. But with fub- 
 miffion we beg leave to offer this reply : As Paradife 
 fignifies a place of happincfs, fo our Lord might not 
 think fit to correfl the notion of the Je<vcs, and there- 
 fc^e might accommodate himfelf to their expreifion. 
 And fuch an accommodation is of the fame nature 
 with that in y^«^, Sun J^and thou /till. If therefore 
 the argument be allowed, we muft vindicate the old 
 Ptolemaic fyllem againft the modern Copernican, 
 which yet the bell aitronomers wou'd be unwilling to 
 do. 
 
 Q. Honv thefe 'words of the, ift. ver. of the 1 4th Pfalm, 
 The fool hath faid in his heart there is no God, are 
 to be explained^ many di<vimi and philofophers pretending 
 there he no true Atheijli ? 
 
 A. So great is the corruption of human nature, fo 
 ready to comply v,ith the moll prepofterous abfurdir 
 ties ; and withal, fo willing are fome men to break 
 thro' all the barriers that would flop their career in a 
 vicious courfe ; to remove all the impediments to a 
 free indulgence of their fmful luils, that pleafure (if 
 fenfuality may deferve the name) that pleafure and 
 immunity may go hand in hand : So corrupt we fay 
 is nature, and To willing are fome men to corrupt 
 even corrupted nature, that we think, it poffible for 
 them fo to tamper with their reafon, as by advances 
 and degrees to warp and biafs it to fo moderate a 
 compliance with their impious attempts, as to vindi- 
 cate the PfalmiJTs faying, The fool hath /aid in his heart 
 there is ?io God. But nnce he cannot look, either 
 within him or without him, but he beholds a God; 
 fince, if he look upward, the hea-vens declare the glory 
 of God y and the fir77ia7nent Jhe^veth his handy "xork: If 
 h« look downward, every fpire of grafs points out 
 its Maker ; fmce he can no where (unlefs he cou'd 
 return back to his primitive non-exiilence) no where 
 withdraw himfelf from the vifible chara6lers of an 
 invifible Creator (for the iwvifihk things of the Creation 
 are clearly feen by the things that arc made] he there- 
 X X 4. fore 
 
10 16 The British Apollo. 
 
 fore cannot maintain an unfhaken fteadinefs in his fa- 
 crilegious, in his bold invafion ; no, the impreffions 
 of an almighty Agent will frequently recoil upon a 
 doubting wretch, will interrupt his pleafures, will di- 
 fturb his jollily, and imbitter his debauch with the 
 melancholly view of an hand writing, not indeed «/>o« 
 the "jcall^ but as a more intimate tormentor upon his 
 heart. The impreffions of an almighty Agent will be 
 fure to mix with his more fober hoars, will interferre 
 with his neceffary repofe, and force him againft his 
 will to imitate the Pfalmfft, and think upon God in 
 the night -feafon. And therefore, tho' the fool may fo 
 banifti from his thoughts the opinion of a Deity, as 
 to fay (tho' yet very often, if not always with fears 
 and jealoufic.^) to fay in his heart there is no God \ yet 
 fuch frequent recoiiings of llartled reafon may war- 
 rant us to fay, tliat there is no true, no thorough 
 Atheiil in the world. 
 
 Q. T^he reafon nvhy our Sanjiour Chrifi isfyled the fon 
 of David, // not appearing h^ the Scripture-genealogy^ 
 that the Virgin Mary ifjas of the lineage c/'David, but 
 only Joffph ? 
 
 A. In the firft chapter of St. Luh we read, that 
 while the Angel is acquainting Mary^ that (he fhou'd 
 conceive of the Holy Ghoft without the alTiftance of 
 a man, and therefore cou'd have norefpecEl to Jofeph^ 
 he yet calls Da^id the Father of the child, that fhou'd 
 be born in fo miraculous a manner: And he fhall he 
 great, and fhall be called the Son of the Higheji, and 
 Cod /hall gi've him the throne of hii father David. 
 
 Had not Mary, as well as Jofeph been of the houfe 
 and lineage of David, the fe^s^ who were whetted 
 with malice and revenge, wou'd never have been 
 wanting to cppofe Chriilianity with fo formidable 
 an ob)edion. But that they never offered at any fuch 
 objeftion, we may fairly gather from the filence of 
 the Scriptures ; for the objedions which they made 
 are very ingenuoufly recorded there. And indeed, were 
 any fuch objedion made, we muft have found in 
 ibmc of the Epi files, fome offers at a confutation, or 
 
 at 
 
ne British Apollo, ror? 
 
 at leaft the apoftles wouM have been wholly filenf 
 concerning the pedigree of our blefTed Lord. But 
 inllead of filence, they fpeak of it with afTurance,. 
 with confidence, as a thing granted, as an undoubted 
 truth, as an uncontroverted point. And indeed the- 
 very largum (that Jewifh oracle) a book, that blaf- 
 phemoufly traduces the blefTed Jefus, acknowledges' 
 Mary to be of the feed of Daqjid. 
 
 A learned man h of opinion, that Luh 1.21. might 
 be rendred thus j to a virgin of the houfe ofDaijid, ef- 
 poufed to a man <whofe name 'uas Jofeph^ and the 'virgir^s- 
 name nvas Mary, And to account for the fymploce 
 (a figure that mifplaces words in an irregular order 
 of conftrudlion) he brings many inflances from fcrip- 
 ture. But we fhall not infill upon the pafTage, fmce 
 the admittance of the conflrudlion fuppofes, and not 
 proves, the matter in debate. 
 
 Q^ Bei/2g jhinevohat penfively gi'ven the other nighty F 
 fell into contemplations of things natural, as ivell animal 
 as 'vegetable produ6lions . Among the former^ asfirji in ranky 
 1 luckily thought upon the mechanical Jiru6lure of human 
 bodies, nvhere 1 find the federal members y or organical partr 
 ofdi'vers bodies , carry an exaSl attalogy andJiriSi refemh lance 
 to each other (excepting in Jize, or extraordinury ill and' 
 difiemper'*d cafes.) No=vj I<vjould knouOy ho=w the faces alone, 
 tho' covjyling of the fame conjiituent parts y as mufcleSy mem- 
 branes y bones y &c. come to be fo different as they appear to 
 bey there being fcarce fwo in the uni'verfe fo clofely corn- 
 ponding, as to admit of no ^variation in features ? 
 
 A. This may be numbred with the aflonifhing- 
 wonders of that unfathomable providence, which' 
 created all things in moeight and meafure. And there- 
 fore this fmgle inftance vindicates both parts of the - 
 Pfalmiji^s pachetical exclamation; manifold are thy 
 ijuorksy O Lord ! In ^fdom haji thou made them all. 
 
 Q^ Whether ''tis any fin for a protefiant 'woman to 
 marry a papifi, under thefe termsy viz. If they hai'e- 
 any children, to let them half be brought up in the popijb' 
 religion y and half in the protefiant F 
 
 A, Is it not a fin tp have fo flcndex a regard fop 
 Xx 5 ©ur 
 
ioi8 T/:?^ Bri T I SH Apollo. 
 
 6ur own children, as not to take all the care imaginable 
 that they be educated in the true religion ; that they 
 be nurtur'd in the genuine dodrines of the Gofpel ; 
 that fo important an affair, as the eternal welfare of 
 their immortal fouls, be the mofl prudently provided 
 for ? But if a proteftant woman marry a papift on the 
 conditions fpecified, as to one moiety of her children, 
 ihe not only takes no care that their immortality be 
 thus regarded, but by the very condition of her mar- 
 riage carefully provides, that the very reverfe to this 
 jnay unfortunately enfue. 
 
 Q^ T^he papers of your ingenious fociety have been the 
 frettiejl amufement^ and moji agreeable di^verjiony J ha^ue 
 enjoy d this long time, as li'ving the moft retired life in the 
 ijcorldy Jiirring hardly any nuhere abroad but to church ; 
 but this life I could be contented ivith, had I but content 
 *with itf for books and a friend are the joy of my foul', 
 hut I am fo unfortunate as to enjoy neither as 1 nxioitld'y 
 for <vjhate-ver pleafes me is a crime, tho' ne^ver fo fmall 
 a trifle. And no^Vy Gentlemen, (ince you are fo obliging 
 to all the *world, gi've me a little of your adnjice, and tell 
 tnCy nx'hether I Jhall throiv my felf into the ivorld, and 
 feek my fortune ^ or if 1 Jhall let grief break my heart in 
 my nunnery , for it is impoj/ible I can long fur<vi^je my hard 
 fate. But you njo'tllfay, ^iis impojfble for a Phyfcian to 
 prefcribe a cure till he is acquainted ndth the difeafe : 
 this then is 7ny cafe : I have lived in the Jiricieji obedience 
 to my parents of any child in the n.vorld, my father is 
 fo extremely good, that he has rscei-Sd all my eudeanjours 
 Kvith the great eji return of love and kindnefs', but my 
 mother, contrary to the tendernefs of a parent, has us'd 
 me nxith all the rigor and unkindnefs imaginable ^ and yet 
 it has been the greateji fubjeSl of my thoughts tojiudy hovo to 
 pleafe and oblige her, but all to no purpofe, for 1 never 
 did any thing that Jhe vuould pleafe to fay nvas nvell done ; 
 <ind had 1 not been encouragd by a tender father, 1 believe 
 J never had done any thing vjell. 1 thank God 1 have a great 
 many kind friends, had 1 but the liberty to enjoy them ; and 
 weryfevc enemies that I knovu of', thofe 1 have, I nxould 
 U9t be fo fpiteful as t9 'wijh them any ill, their ovjn unhappy 
 , temper 
 
7Z><? Bri TiSH Apol LO. 1019 
 
 Umper is punijhment enough for them. I ha^ve horn all my 
 fuffermgs, 1 may fa^ivithout 'vanity, %vith the greateji 
 patience and chearfulnefs in the ijoorld; but 'tis impoffible I 
 can be a Job, becaufe 1 am of the contrary fex, and there- 
 fore my patience is almoji 'worn out. So pray. Gentlemen, 
 pity me, and fend me your fpeedy ad'vice, for Iha=ve a thow 
 fund maggots in my brains, ivhich I fear nvill devour them 
 all, having but afexv. Pray, if you cannot pity me, dot^t 
 add to my grief by chiding ?ne, for Ihaive enough of that, . 
 A. Do you fay. Madam, that enemies you have none? 
 happy Lady ! whofe uncommon merit (for you feem 
 miilrefs of a whole train of virtues) has fo recommend- 
 ed you to ail that know you, that by the fame en- 
 dearing method you at once enjoy the^/?^?zg-pronounc'd 
 by the apolHe, a blefling annexed to a blamelefs car- 
 riage, n.vho is he thatjhall harm you, if ye be folloi.vcrs of 
 that nvhich is good? and yet avoid the curfe pronounc'd 
 by our deareil Lord, a curfe entailed upon a finful com- 
 pliance with the world, ivo to you, ivhen allmen fpeak 
 ivellofyou. Strange, that your mother (hou'd be un- 
 kind ! unkind, we fay ; for we wou'd fpeak the mild- 
 eft of a perfon, who bears fo near a relation to a Lady 
 of fuch unufual virtue : as you are her daughter, you 
 might demand the tendercft of her affedlions ; as yoa 
 ^re fuch a daughter, you are ivorthy of double honour 
 fhall we fay ? that indeed is not ftridly due from a 
 mother to a daughter, but undoubtedly we may fay 
 of double love. But why fo concerned at this ? it 
 would be matter of rejoicing, matter of triumph, did 
 not your duty oblige you to bewail fo unnatural, and 
 therefore fo unfortunate a mother, in that you enjoy 
 the opportunity of forgiving the injuries you receive; 
 ofdifplaying the daughter to fo unmotherly a parent; 
 of being dutiful wc*/ ojily to the good and gentle, (for fuch 
 you fay your father is) but alfo to thefrovoard. We 
 may therefore add, in allufion to our blefled Lord, 
 
 ♦ weep not for your felf, weep for your mother, for 
 
 * fo unkind a mother. 
 
 Since the uncomfortable condition you are in is likely 
 
 ;o be of fuch dangerous confequence, we think it not 
 
 X X 6 only 
 
1020 7he British Apoll o. 
 
 cnly advifable, but neceffary (for felf-prefervation is 
 an incumbent duty) that you humbly intreat your pa- 
 rents and endeavour with earneft but modeft impor- 
 tunity, to prevail upon them, info reafonable a requell? 
 as that of leave to try your fortune in the world, to 
 throw ycur felf on the gracious protedlion of an all- 
 difpofing providence, to place your dependance on the 
 tendereftoffathers, your heavenly FsLther :/br ivhenour- 
 father and our mother forfale us, the Lord taketh us up.- 
 And indeed. Madam, 'tis a thoufand pities,that fo con- 
 fpicuous a virtue ftiould be buried inobfcurity, fo ex- 
 emplary a'pattern cloifler'd in a nunnery, fo bright a 
 candle hid under a huJheU fo illuftrious a talent buried in- 
 a napkin, andfo fplendid alight concealed from men, fa 
 dofely concealed from men, that they cannot fee your good 
 nicorksy fuch engaging ijcorks as cou'd not choofe but 
 command their imitation, and thence oblige them 
 pradlically to glorify their Father ^Mhich is in liea<ven, 
 
 Q. IV hy an Afs has a crofs upon his back fine e Chri/i 
 made ufe of one, and not before, as it is reported ? 
 
 J. The report is no other than a vulgar error. 
 Q^Ho'uo comes the cat, alias pufs, to he caWd Mrs. Evans ? 
 IC s liken.vife a common thing in ahhorrency, to fay, an u^ly 
 ■pufs. Noiv it^s the opinion, [at leaf of the generality) that 
 that a/limalis notnvhat <we commonly call an ugly creature ^^ 
 And certainly it cannot be in allufion to the nuotnen of the 
 7iameofl^vzx\s. Tor 1 can affure you. Gentlemen, that it 
 has been the ohfervationfe'ven of critics in fym7netry) that 
 there are more haridfome <v:omen of that name, than of any 
 one name, proper tionahly in number) in the kingdom^ 1 can't 
 hut add the ufual conclufion ofourfpeedy anfiver, fen:eral 
 difputes ending on your determination, and the doubt lefs many 
 quefiions at your God/hip's feet, yet ka^ve fame right ofpe- 
 cedency to a folution, as being the firfl trouble ginjtn you bf 
 one of the <very firfl of your fubfcriber s . 
 
 A. We do not fuppofe that the cat bears the name 
 of Mrs. Evans, in refpeft to the deformity of any wo- 
 men of that name, bat rather derive it fiom a fuipi- 
 cious notion of one Mrs. E^ans being a witch, and 
 cften aifuming (according to the vulgar notion) the 
 4 form 
 
?^^ British Apollo. lozr 
 
 form of a cat ; fo that in allufion to this, we conceive 
 that creature hath been ever lince vulgarly fo call'd. 
 
 Q^ I am a young maid, and ha've about 500I. in m-^ 
 onjjn handi ; a Gentleman of about as much a year, ivt/l 
 bred, of good carriage, and a charming humour, keeps me 
 company, but he f^wears he 'voill ne'ver marry . Nonv I confejs 
 to you, that I nvould not for all the 'world, that anyjhould- 
 knonv, Ihroe this man, <which is to that degree, that I can 
 ttot rcji night or day, lamgroivnfo melancholy. Nonv I 
 beg your adnjice, nvhich for ought Iknoiv may fa^ve my life. 
 A. Madam, if this Gentleman makes love to you 
 after fuch declaration, that he never will marry, you 
 ought to ftiun his converfation with thegreateftdifdain 
 as your moft mortal enemy, who feeks the ruin of 
 your eternal happinefs hereafter : this alfo is the molt 
 probable way to perfuade him to correal his princi- 
 ples, and to engage his affedlions in a lawful way, which 
 hath often happened to fuch as cou'd not effedl their 
 wicked defigns. Eefides, your virtue and innocence 
 hereby will add fo much beauty and luflre to you, as 
 to engage his affeiftions the ftronger : nor can you tell 
 but his refolutions againft marriage are only pre- 
 tended, to try your virtue j if fo, the leaft umbrage 
 of yielding to unlawful embraces utterly deftroys his 
 good opinion of you ; but if it be not fo, conlider,' 
 tkat if you yield, in all probability, by parting with 
 your richeft jewel, you will only purchafe a cold in- 
 difference, if not fcorn after. If your paiTion hath got 
 that afcendant over you, as not to.be refilled by thefe 
 con fi derations, your moft certain remedy will be to 
 have recourfe to religion, a ferious and fedulous ap- 
 plication to it will draw down from heaven that 
 afliftance to your afiaulted virtue, a&not only to fup- 
 port yoB againft all evil confequences, but alfo will 
 elevate your mind by an idea of the beatific njifion, to' 
 a contempt of all the empty joys you vainly promife 
 your felf from any thing here below. 
 
 Q^ Why Rofemary is gi<ven at funerals novj-a-days, 
 and ^vhy among the ancients. Ewe a7id Cyprefs > 
 ^.We have given a reafon for the ufe of Rofemary, \n 
 
 Apollo^ 
 
1022 7^^Britis« Apollo. 
 
 Apollo, infol. N. 73. And fuppofe that as E^-e and Cf 
 prefs are always green, the ancients made ufe of them 
 ^t burials, as an emblem of the immortality of the 
 deceafed, through their virtue or good works. 
 
 Q^ 1 hai}e found experimentally^ that the heji ofijcomen 
 (ire guilty of that odious 'vice of cenforioufnefs. It is to be 
 feared it arifes from fpiritual pride y or a conceited fancy 
 that none are fo good as themfel<ves. Your opinion and 
 refections are de fired by one ^•Jjofuffcrs under the illefeds 
 of ity hanging had moji ijinocent freedom in con^verfation 
 mifreprefented and cenfured by one, ^vho in other cafes is 
 (ojfcietuious to an extreme of fcrupu lofty. 
 
 A. By condemning all, even the beft of the fair fex, 
 cf that odious vice, becaufe you have experimentally 
 found it in one, fhewsyou are guilty in the higheftde- 
 gree, of that evil fpirit you condemn in them ; and 
 therefore your prejudiced opinion can be of no force 
 againfl: them. The belt interpretation we can put up- 
 on lb general an abufe, is that it fhews you never had 
 the good fortune to converfe with the beft of the fex ; 
 ctherwife you wou'd have been convinced, that many 
 cf them abhor the crime, even to the fhame of num- 
 bers (and not of the weakcft) of ours. 
 
 Q^ Pray ix:herein lye the different properties, perfeBions 
 tind defeats, o/'gilding and lacquering. 
 
 ji. AWgilding is performed wilh leaf-gold, and lac- 
 quer with leaf- filver, tingM to a gold colour, by avar- 
 nilh^compofed of rectified fpirits and gums. The 
 nicft beautiful ^//^i;/§- is burnifh'd gold, but fubjedl to 
 an immediate injury by a wet finger, and in a little time 
 lofes its chief luftre by the moiftnefs of the air. Oil 
 geld holds its colour longer than lacquer, but fooner 
 grows dull, and cannot be refrefh'd. Oil lacquer is 
 fubje(Sl to crack and part in time, but not to grow 
 duller fo much as gold, the filver being defended from 
 the injary of the air by the varnifli. Burniihed lacquer 
 holds its briiknefs longer than any of the foremention'd, 
 being performed on a harder body than thofein oil, alfo 
 defended from the injury of the air by the lacquer, yet ia 
 time grows paler i but its colour may be reft(ved by Tun- 
 ing 
 
TbeBKiTisu Apollo. 102^ 
 
 ing it over again with lacquer, and look near as well 
 as at firft. It may be objected, that there is gilding to 
 be feen in many ancient feats, which retains its beauty,, 
 tho' done many years ago. We anfwer, that formerly 
 your leaf-gold was far thicker than now; befides, 
 what has appeared to hold longeft hath been done on 
 cielings, where no filth could lye to contraft a tarniih^ 
 
 Q. PFhy Jhould age he more honourable than youth^ 
 fwhich carries beauty and perfe^hn in it ? 
 
 A. Becaufe wifdom and experience (the companions 
 oi age) are the perfections of the mind, and of much 
 greater dignity than thofe of the body. 
 
 Query I. What may a country farmer (that hath a 
 100 1. to Jiock a farm fuitably) reafonably require nvith a, 
 Kvife? 
 
 2. Or a farmer's fan that's heir to 25 1. a year 
 freehold after his parenfs deceafe? 
 
 •y^. Or a young man that'^s a handicraft, nvho h) 
 his induftry hath gained a 1 00 1. clear, halving nothing 
 to begin ijoith but nuhat he borro-ivd? 
 
 A, To the firft we anfwer, that 1 00 /. with a wife 
 is as much as he ought to expedl, fmce fhe mufl 
 equally fhare in pains and induftry in that ftate of life, 
 
 2. To the fecond, alfo 100/. if he has nothing of his 
 own to ftock a farm. For tho' 25 /. per ann. fettled in 
 jointure requires more^ yet his father may furvive him 
 many years,and all that time (he has no enjoyment of it. 
 
 3 . To the laft we anfwer, he may expe6l more or 
 lefs, according to the time he had fpent in getting 
 the 1 00 /. But no juft calculations can be made of thefe 
 matters,without a knowledge of the perfon's induftry^. 
 principles, ftate of health, relations to eftates, ^r. 
 
 Q^ Should Count Tallard fend. 
 
 But to Boufflers his friend, 
 A cagof good Nottingham liquor ; 
 
 Think you not that his blood, 
 
 Tho' he drinks iJuine that^s good. 
 Would circulate better and quicker ? 
 
 Nay fo well if he fought. 
 
 And fnaintarn''d each redoubt ; 
 Atfiv he''d none of our rare BritiHi liquor ; With 
 
I024 2^^ British Apollo. 
 
 With ixihat ^vigour he ivoud 
 
 Hai'e Hjuaded through bloody 
 Had he fome, and hanje henv'd us down thieker^ 
 
 But thanks be to Jove, 
 
 For his kindnefs and lo-vej 
 That fcenes vice verfa, no wonder 
 
 Though Boufflers Jhould Jly, 
 
 When branje Marlbro' draws nigh. 
 And great Eugene attacks him like thundery 
 
 For thefe tnjoo hanje by odds 
 
 Out-done demi-gods^ 
 Jnd their praifes hate reached Summum Coeli : 
 
 And Hfjho nonu can claim 
 
 The great Scipio'j name. 
 Except thefe (duo fulmina belli ?) 
 -<^..Hail, poet fublime, 
 
 Who fo bravely doth chime, 
 Doubtlefs fraught with thy Nottingham liquor : 
 
 Be it faid to thy praife, 
 
 Than thy volatile lays. 
 Not the fpirit of harts-horn is quicker. 
 
 But tho' this knappy ale 
 
 Perhaps feldom does fail 
 To enervate your fancy when writing ; 
 
 Yet in Bouffiers it may 
 
 Aft a quite different way. 
 And deflroy ail his conduct in fighting. 
 
 But whether or no, 
 
 Bouffer*^ fpirits be low. 
 Or kis vitals may want reparation : 
 
 We here plainly declare. 
 
 Nay we fafely can fwear, 
 That your clapper needs no provocation.. 
 Q^ From a footman Pm rofe. 
 
 In livery flothes, 
 To a furgeon as good as the hefiy 
 
 I am furgeon of St. Thomas, 
 
 Great cures J do fromifey 
 I have judgment aj well at the reji.. 
 
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fhe BritishApollo. 1025 
 
 Then tellmey I pray. 
 Why the company fay. 
 That I am an impudent fellonx) : 
 And call me Bully-Hack, 
 And fay I am a quack, 
 A?id after me in the flreets helloiv. 
 Jf in keep:7ig my coach ^ 
 1 on them encroach, 
 I njoill njoillirigly lay it donjcn ; 
 And tell me my crime, 
 I <will mend it in time, 
 And he ci^vil as any in tonvn ? 
 A. If a skip you were bred. 
 How dare you thus plead. 
 And prefume on the furgeon's perfeflion ? 
 How on patients impofe. 
 And your weaknefs difclofe. 
 Without any thought or rcfledion ? 
 If your crime you would know, 
 *Tis not chariots, or fo, 
 Or your coaches that make the tranrgreffioa : 
 'Tis pretending to know 
 More by half than you do. 
 Which doth fcandalize any profeflion. 
 Q. It is a common exprefjton of people, ivhen they inMilH 
 diflinguifh the 'valu^ of a pidure, to fay ^ It is a fine 
 paint, or coarfe paint. No^iu it appears not reafonahte 
 to me, that there can he a difference in the price of colours 
 in any proportion to Kjohat is in the njalue ofpiflures. Pray 
 Gentlemen, tell me, if this be a proper ijcay of exprefjing 
 the <value of a picture ? 
 
 A. There being two colours, and only two of 
 great price, <vi%. Ultramarine and Carmine ! the firft 
 blue, the laft red ; we fuppofe from hence the notion 
 came, that there was the like difference in the price 
 of other colours ; and then the value of a pidlure lay 
 in the price of the colours, which is all wrong : For 
 the value of a pidure lyes in the fkilful management 
 of the colours, and not in the leaft in the colours 
 themfelves ; for a pifture may have much Carmine 
 
 and 
 
1026 21?i? Bri T I SH A POL LO. 
 
 VLwdiUltrafHariney and yet not be worth a farthing more ; 
 and on the other hand, one may have none of thofe 
 colours in it, and yet be of great worth. But when 
 we fay, the value of a pidure confills in the ma- 
 nagement of the colours^ we mean only in reference to 
 the colouring part ; for to render it a complete pic- 
 ture many other properties muft concur, as dejign, 
 ordinance i draughty proportion, perfpeSii'vey kc. 
 
 Q^ PFhat notice is to be taken, nx)hen the hack part of a 
 young matCs head is quite gray, and the fore-part different? 
 A. No other notice, than that his hair is of two 
 different colours, unlefs to fcrutinize the philofophi- 
 cal account of it, which yet feems to us not to be 
 the intention of the quellion. 
 
 Q^ 1 am a young many juji going to begin the nxorldy 
 hut find I cafinot bring my affairs to bear, unlefs I a?n 
 affijled ^nthfome jnoney. 1 am offered 'very lately my choice 
 of tn.vo Gentie<w€meny I think nearly equal in refpeSi of 
 their fortunes: The one has an affecled modeji look, a Ian- 
 ^uijhing and (very gra've air ; the other a hrifk, Vvvel^ 
 and hold look ; or, according to the oldphrafe, is a bonny 
 lafs. Nonv Gentlemen, rnyprefent emergency ivillnot alloia 
 me to fay long, tofatisfy my f elf of their former con^ 
 du^ ; but am refohed to be deteypnined by your advicey 
 tmhich Ihepe vjillbe very fpeedy P 
 
 J, Since you are in fuch hafle, we will not hold 
 you long. Take the latter, becaufe the Lady gra've-airt 
 feems of too ferious and thoughtful a difpofition to 
 agree with your precipitant refolutions. 
 
 Q^ / have been informed, that a chariot luith thret 
 njoheels hath been 7nade to go by an engine, ixithout tht 
 help of any creature to dravj it, and that they could turn 
 and guide it nvith much exaSlnefs. Nouo Icati conceive 
 hoiv fuch a chariot may be made to go, viz.^ By placing 
 one fmallvLiheel before, and the fixing tvco large ones on an 
 axle-tree ', njchich axle-tree pafftng under the feat in the 
 chariot, an engine may be made to play on it, and the 
 wcheels being fix" d on the axle-tree, n.vhen that is worked 
 round, by confequsnce the ifjheels muft be fo too, and 
 thereby procure a progreffive motion, I alfo can conceive 
 
 hovu. 
 
^^ Br I T IS H Apollo. 1027 
 
 $o=iu theforemoji nuheely on fwbich the chariot hangs he/ore* 
 may be guided by the feet : But Jince by oblique ttirningsr 
 tne of the great ^wheels mujl make a quicker circumference 
 than the other, or elfe the fir Jl ivheel cannot guide it, I 
 cannot conceive ho^w that can be perform d fince they are 
 both fixed to the axle-tree. If you ha<ve any notion of 
 theje thifigSy pray inform me ? 
 
 A. A Gentleman of our fociet/ hath feen tlie in- 
 ward opei-ation of fuch an engine. You feem to have 
 a right notion of the manner of the engine, and hang- 
 ing of the chariot. The motion you infill on is thus 
 performed. The engine confifts of a duplicate form 
 of fimilar works, which plays on both ends of the 
 axle-tree, and the motion performed by the operatioa 
 of both hands ; and the axle-tree is cut in two in the 
 middle, and jointed by an iron pin, let in at both ex- 
 tremities next the divifion, fo that in turning of the 
 chariot, one end is workM by one hand in propor- 
 tion to the circulation, whilft the other hand rellrains 
 the motion of the other end of the axle-tree. 
 
 Qj^ / ha've been 'very much addiSied to keeping company 
 mid hard drinkiiig^ luhich my conftitution ixjould not hear ; 
 for it has cafi me fwice into a confumption, of 'which I 
 ta-ve both times recovered. 
 
 Through the pirfuafions of my friends and relations 1 
 forbear that njice, and no-zv remain in a perfect flat e of 
 health. But byjhunning one e'vily I bring upon jnyfelfa 
 nvorfe, viz. the hippo i that inftead of being all life and 
 jollity as before, 1 look like ajheep hung in a hedge ^ as if 
 I had neither life nor foul in me ? 
 
 Infiead of carejfing a7id pleafing the Ladies as before , I 
 ha've not a tvord to fay for my f elf. Therefore I earnejily 
 beg of you nvith all fpeed to telhne, nvhether IJhall return 
 to my former courfe cf drinking, or nvhat courfe I fi>all 
 take to get rid of this my fmockfaced diftempert 
 
 A. Since your eloquence was wholly infpired by 
 Bacchus, you have loll nothing by parting with that 
 qualiiiciition, becaufe it was none of your own. And 
 we believe, the Ladies will be better pleafed with 
 your filence^ than with fuch airs as wine were likely 
 
 to. 
 
10l8 ne BrI T I SH ^^ POLLO. 
 
 to give you. Nor are we convinc'd you have loft 
 your affurance by your conftrained fobriety, fince you 
 have the confidence to afk, if you ihall return (like a 
 ikg to his 'vomit) to your former drunkenncfs, tho' 
 at the expence of your health here, and forfeiture of 
 your happinefs hereafter. 
 
 Q. The reading oF a quefiion in your quarterly ■paper ^ 
 propounded to you in Englifh 'uerfe, ^without metres occa- 
 Jiond a conlro'verfy het<vjeen tnvo^ nvhich njcas the heft fort 
 of poetry, viz. that 'which is made in rhime, or the for- 
 mer, fuppoftng the njerfe to he equal in all other refpecls ? 
 A confiderabk ivager depending hereon, and the parties 
 being agreed to fiand to your determination, you are en- 
 treated to gvveyour anf^x:er in your next paper. 
 
 A. If a poem of each kind fhould be writ by two 
 perfons of equal judgment, doubtlefs the hlank will 
 contain the llronger lines, the author being freer from 
 conftraint. But the condition of the wager being on 
 fuppofition, both are equal in all other refpefts befidcs 
 rhime, the rhimer wins, fince he gives an addition 
 of art, which being muficalis by confequence poetical, 
 
 Q^ Tour nvife decijion does the lufirefho'w. 
 With nxjhich Apollo lights thejhades belo^ : 
 Afjift my humble, yet afpiringfoul. 
 And my defers nvith your clear fenfe controuly 
 Thefe nice diJiinSiions hard to be expreji, 
 I once more offer to Apollo'j breaji, 
 Thofe nuho nvith 'vicious lonje alone do burn. 
 Will cure, by hate, love, ivhich meets no return : 
 But if liver e the nuretxh, luhofe Iwe negleSied ivtre,, 
 It ivould not turn to hatred but defpair, 
 Becaufe I could not fix my love on one. 
 Guided by that blind pajion love alone ; 
 But from fuch motives of a ^virtuous kind, 
 Ferfediori^s in the judgment, not the mind, 
 A charming foul to afine figure join' d. 
 He muft be allfublime that conquers me. 
 And as his merit'' s great, fofhallmy hnje too be. 
 That not returned, ah I Hea'ven njuhat (hould Ida ? 
 Lament, defpair ^ languifh, and lonje him too. 
 
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 his 
 
ne British Apollo. 1029 
 
 His Jlights ferenely hear^ <with mortal pain^ 
 
 And if he garje no eafCy ntiould glory in his chaifty 
 
 He then an injiance of my love Jhould fee^ 
 
 And at my death perhaps njuould 'value me : 
 
 Since of my fex none ever yet did prove, 
 
 Csnjiant 'without a juji return to love. 
 
 1 ovjtt my foul is voith perfection fir'dy 
 
 And hath a true idea^ 'what Jhould be admired : 
 
 My pajjion's fer^vent, and on merit placed. 
 
 Oh ! Tell me then^ if 1 can err in lovivg to the laji ? 
 
 A. Madam, our utmoft veneration's due. 
 To one that writes, and one that loves like you. 
 Purfuits likethefe can ne'er be errors deem'd. 
 Where virtue fires, and merit's moft elleem'd. 
 Such wife remarks your generous paflion fhow. 
 And hence perfedlion is your choice we know, 
 Thofe fpurious charms which common lovers prize, 
 (Whofe judgment ferve alone to pleafe their eyes) 
 Create fuch hazards of the great event. 
 So fom.e chufe joys, and others difcontent. 
 But here the catarad: of love's remov'd. 
 And amorous blindnefs is to light improved : 
 Happy the nymph with fuch refolves pofTefs d. 
 But happy thrice is he, with fuch a confort blefb'd.l 
 Q^ Do brutes think ? 
 
 A. Tho' many ingenious philofophers have endea- 
 vour'd to folve the adlions of brutes by the power of 
 mechanifm, yet we think the enterprlze of much the 
 fame nature with that of folving the creation by me- 
 chanical principles. And tho' the abettors of them 
 both may be far from defigningly derogating from a 
 fupernatural agency ; yet we cannot but think, that 
 their proceedings bear too near an analogy to the 
 Epicurean or LucretianliyYOthtds. And therefore we 
 perfuade ourfelves, that the Pfalmifi: had another no- 
 tion of the thing, than that of only creating matter 
 and imparting motion to it, when in a pious rapture 
 he elegantly exclaimed, Manifold are thy ^orks,0 Lord; 
 in vjifdom haft thou mad( tbem all? 
 
 Since' 
 
103 o ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 Since we fee the various fignaturesof reafon in the 
 aftions of brutes to deny that they are endowed with 
 reafon, is more irrational than if a phyfician ihould 
 behold the feveral concurring fymptoms of a difeafe, 
 and yet unaccountably difown the confequence. The 
 late naturalill Mr. Ray acquaints us, that he has been 
 himfelf a witnefs to fuch contrivances of a dog, as 
 are unaccountable by reafon, without the fuppofal of 
 their being rational creatures. And Sir iViUiam Te?n- 
 jf)k^s account of a furprizing parrot (and they, who 
 will allow birds to have reafon, will not deny it in 
 brutes) intirely overthrows the beft laid principles of 
 mechanical operation. And we could give a relation 
 of fuch a fucceffive feries of management and fore> 
 fight in a fox, as cannot be accounted for upon any 
 ether principle than that of reafon. 
 
 Upon this account it is, that feme logicians have 
 reje^led that common definition of a man animal ra^ 
 iionale ; and chofe rather to define him by animal 
 religiofum. For tho' brutes are not void of reafon, 
 yet they have not fuch a degree of reafon as to ren- 
 der them capable of religion. And this it was (as we 
 are apt to think) that put ?lato upon forming that 
 fingular definition. Homo ejl animal implumCy bipesi 
 ]\Ian is an unfeatberedy tixole^d animal. Upon which 
 we beg leave, by way of digreffion, to prefent you 
 ^vith a comical relation. 
 
 Diogenes, that morofe C)Tiic, who was no friend to 
 Plato, ' becaufe of his courtly compliance with the 
 world, intending to ridicule the forementioned defini- 
 tion, intirely ftripM a cock of his feathers, and throw- 
 ing him before his fcholars, farcaftically faid, Heris 
 Plato's man. 
 
 .Some will tell you, that the feemingly rational 
 anions of brutes proceed from inftinft. But if you 
 ask them, what inllinft is, unlefs they allow that it 
 is reafon under another denomination, they cannot 
 make you any rational reply. Inftindt therefore, as too 
 ufually taken, is more precarious, becaufe more abfurd 
 than the hypothefis oi unknoim er lattnt caufesi an 
 
 hypothcfis 
 
51>^ British Apollo. 103 i 
 
 iKypothefis framed only to be a fkreen to ignorance. 
 But to tell you, what we underftand by inftind, our 
 opinion is, that it is reafon in general, but in fome 
 creatures more particularly determined to particular 
 objeds. In which later refped it is, what we call 
 in men a particular genius. And fmce we may fre- 
 quently obferve, that fome men of but common rea- 
 fon excel others of uncommon parts in fome particu- 
 lars, we cannot wonder, that fome of the inferior 
 creatures furpafs mankind in their peculiar excellen- 
 cies, and yet are far below them in their general ca- 
 pacity. 
 
 But to the feeming appearances of reafon fome are 
 ready to reply, that an Almighty power can fo mo- 
 delize matter and motion, as to make their efFeds to 
 refemble the confequences of reafon. But we cannot 
 diiTemble our opinion, that there feems to us to be 
 an utter incapacity in the fubje£t. And if there be, 
 it confequently charges the affertion with nothing 
 lefs than a plain contradidion. But to fay, that God 
 can do what is contradidlory, is fo far from ^fferting 
 his omnipotence, that it intirely dellroys it, and con- 
 Verts it into mere impotence. 
 
 'Tis true, an over-ruling providence by a continual 
 influence and diredion, can undoubtedly fo determine 
 the organs of brutes, as to make them produce con- 
 fequences no ways diflbnant to the efFeds of reafon. 
 But fuch a continual influence and diredion are what 
 the defenders of the mechanifm of brutes will not infill 
 Upon. And yet if they did, this one thing were fuf- 
 ficient to confute them ; namely. That it is the pro- 
 J^erty of wifdom to ad by the moft eafy and fimple 
 methods. 
 
 But the quellion is ufually fl:arted. What then be- 
 comes of the fouls of brutes, which are confequently 
 of an immaterial fubfl:ance, after their feparation from 
 their bodies ? To which we return the cuftomary 
 reply ; what, if God annihilate their fouls, when they 
 have ferved the ends of their Creation, when their 
 iWlaker has no farther ufe for them, and confequently 
 
 no 
 
1032 ^e British Apollo. 
 
 no way difparages his own workmanfhip, by re- 
 ducing them to their primitive non-exiflence ? 
 
 But what tho' he doth not annihilate their fouls. 
 Can we puny mortals pretend to fay, that God can- 
 not difpofe of the fouls of brutes in the boundlefs re- 
 gions of infinite fpace ? That he may not have ufes 
 for them, tho' intirely infcrutable to human intel- 
 lect ? To deny the poffibility of fome unknown dis- 
 pofal, what is it but to fay, That God's thoughts are as 
 eur thoughts^ and hss njoays as our njoays ; that our 
 Creator if altogether fuch an one as our Jehes F 
 
 Q^ We read in Genefis, chap. i. 'ver. i. That God 
 created the heanjens and the earth. From this text di'vines 
 collet the creation of the nxorld ex nihilo. "No^uo tho" I 
 donU in 'the leajl doubt hut that three are other texts of 
 Scriptures from ijohence the creation of all things tx nihilo 
 by God may be fairly concluded ; yet three appears to me 
 710 necejjity of underfanding this text in that fenfe. For 
 fuppc/ing God had framed the <^orld out of pne-exijient 
 matter, the njcord Jj^lQ, "vuhich is here rendered CYQ2ite, 
 (being frequently applied in the Hebrenv original, tofgnify 
 ether xidio7is and effects than a produSiion ex nihilo) might 
 have been properly usd by the infpird ^writer to fgnify 
 fuch an opercction, and is fo far from neceffarily implying 
 a production ex nihilo, that it is affirmed ne'ver to hwve 
 been underjlood in that Jenfe by the Jews ihemfehes ? 
 
 A. It is confefs'd, that the word create does not 
 neceffarily import a produdlion ex nihilo. And in evi- 
 dence of this, fome may be ready to alledge thof^ 
 words in the fame chapter. And God created man. Sec, 
 For man was created out of prae-exiflent matter,namely, 
 out of the dujl of the ground. But this paffage is np 
 proof of the fignification of the word, fince as mart 
 is a compound of foul and body, fo the expreffion may 
 bear allufion to the former, which was created out of 
 nothing. And this particular allufion is confirmed by 
 the fubfequent words, in his o^n image ; which muft 
 be allowed to have at leaft a principal reference, not 
 to the body, but the foul. But tho' notwithltanding 
 rhis we agree with you, that the term create is of 
 
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 1053 
 
 an equivocal import ; and that, were there nothing 
 dfe to determine the matter, we coald gather nothing 
 more with any manner of affurance from that expref- 
 fion, /« t^e beginning God created the hewvens a7td the 
 earth, than that the divine hiilory firft relates the crea - 
 tion of the world in general, and then defcendsto the 
 various particulars of that creation ; yet the fubiequent 
 verfe determines the preceding one to a more ftrift, a 
 more particular acceptation. For when Mofss in the 
 firft verfe makes mention of the creation of the earth, 
 he immediately fubjoins, and the earth <was la-.thout 
 form, and void, even after the creation fpecified be- 
 fore. Whence he hiftorically informs us, that God 
 iirft created the matter of which the earth was formed, 
 and then digefted that rude, ill-ihapen matter, into 
 fo delightful, fo beautiful a fabric. 
 
 Q;_ I being in a certain place heard tnua perfons^ viz, 
 A and]^ contending one ivitb the other y concerning the fouls 
 hfgood men departed this life, Afaid, that they luent ta 
 hea'ven, B dejired to know nvhere that place nvaSy njuhicb 
 *we call hea'ven ; nxihich *was anfwered ; in the regions 
 abofve : But B affirms, that no man can answer the quef- 
 tion; therefore J being a fuhjcriber, thought it not amijs 
 to fend toyou to haq^ your opinion ivhere hea'ven is ? 
 
 A, B was very much in the right, when he af- 
 firmed, that the queftion is unanfwerable ; for as the 
 Scriptures are filent in the matter concerning a local 
 heaven, fo reafon cannot fo much as offer at a guefs. 
 All therefore that can be faid is, that heaven is there 
 (whcrefoever it be) where God difplays the beatific 
 vifion to departed faints. 
 
 Q^ About tixjo nights ago I loas in cofhpany nvithfome 
 Gentlemen, and among other difcourfe, a difpute arofe con- 
 cerning the Papiils ivorjhipping the hoji. One /aid, it ivas 
 Idolatry ; and another denied it : Nouj there ivas gi'ven 
 a definition of idolatry on both Jides for the confirmation. 
 of n.vhat they faid, but neither of them be i fig confuted, 1 
 apply myfelf to your oracle, to kno'W vjhich of them ^was in 
 the right ? 
 
 A. Idolatry is to pay that homage to a creature, 
 
 which is due only to the great Creator, ^hfiis G&dover 
 
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i034 ^^^ British Apollo, 
 
 all blejfed for e'ver 'y and fuch an homage is ufually 
 ftyled divine homage. As theiefore Chrilt'sbody is no 
 other than a creature, it neceffarily follows, that to 
 pay it the aforefaid homage cannot poflibly efcape the 
 cenfure of idolatry. 
 
 Qj^ May marriage be reiterated of tner than once ^ nvitb- 
 ^ut offence to God? St. T&uVjexpreJ/ton is. Art thou loofed 
 from a wife, feek not a wife, &c. let in i Tim. iv. 
 I, 2, "i,, he fpeaksy that in the latter times fome fhall 
 depart from the faith, giving heed to feducing fpirits, 
 and dodlrines of devils, ^c. forbidding to marry. 
 
 l^onu (to me it appears) they nvho forbid the fame, 
 are as is above fpecifed. Pray reconcile the fame by your 
 unbiafs' d judgment ? 
 
 A. Your firft quotation from St. Paulis not a pre- 
 cept or command (as may be plainly gathered from 
 the other writings of the fame Apoftle) but barely the 
 advice of a prudent counfellor. And as this advice may 
 bear relation to Chriftians of all ages, we beg leave to 
 reprefent the fenfe of it in the fucceeding paraphrafe. 
 ** You, who have the gift of continence ; you, to 
 «* ivhom it isgi'ven to forbear a repeated marriage ; you, 
 " if you will be ruled by me, if you will follow the 
 ** diredtion I would willingly prefcribe, ' will not 
 ** again intangle your felves in a Hate of matrimony, 
 " nor be willing to be a fecond time imraerfs'd in 
 *' temporal concerns, but rather embrace a difencum- 
 *' bred life, that you may ftudy how to pleafe, not 
 ** your wives, but the Lord, and more intirely dedi- 
 ** cate your felves to your Maker's fervice. 
 
 But we may confider too, that this advice was more 
 particularly feafonable in thofe perilous, thofe perfe- 
 cuting times, when the fingle man was by far the 
 happiefl ; the fingle man who had no wife (that en- 
 dearing relative) no children, (thofe engag/ng dalli- 
 ances) to tempt him to apoftafy for their fccurity , 
 The fingle man, who though he had enough to do to 
 provide for his own fafety, yet rejoiced in this, that 
 liis (olicitude was confined to fuch narrow boundaries. 
 
 Your 
 
^^ British Apollo. 1035 
 
 Your fecond quotation refers not to fecond mar- 
 riages, but to a marriage ftate in general, which was 
 utterly condemned by feveral heretics; and Epipha- 
 tiius tells us, that this pafTage in St. Paul was verified 
 in the Cataphryges, an heretical fed, whofe principal 
 promoters were Phrygians. But there were heretics 
 more early than thefe Cataphryges, (for they began 
 not to appear till the fecond century) who forbad mar- 
 riage as an unlawful flate. 
 
 Q^ / dejire the definition and diJlinSion between the 
 nvords populate, and depopulate ; becaufe moft Englifli 
 Di^ionariesjcepi to tfjnvart the truefenfe ofthefirji <vjord? 
 A. As for the definition you defire, we rauft ex- 
 cufe our felves, fince definitions belong not to words, 
 but things : And as for the diftinftion between them, 
 there is none at all j for they both fignify to difpeo- 
 ple, ravage, or lay wafte. They derive their original 
 from Latin words, and retain the fignifications analo- 
 gous thereunto. To populate, comes from populo, or 
 populor. And as thofe are derived from populus^ the 
 people, one would be apt indeed to think, that they 
 fhould fignify to people, and not difpeople. But ar- 
 bitrary ufsge has recommended them to us under a 
 kind of antithefis ; that is, has ftamped a fignification 
 upon the derivative diredly oppofite to that of the 
 primitive. And tho' verbs compounded of the pre- 
 pofition de, ufually are of a contrary import to their 
 fimple originals, yet that it is not [always fo is ow- 
 ing to the forefaid arbitrary ufage : Whence it is, 
 thsitpopulor and depopulor fignify the fame. 
 
 Q. What can be the meanings that a young Ladyjhall 
 always blujh at the naming {or fight) of one particular 
 Genthnan: Nay if in company and e'ver fo merry, if 
 he happens to come in, fiye has immediately a chagrin 
 damp, and not one ivord more to fay. I ha<ve an intirt 
 friendjloip ivith the Lady, and do not in the leafi belie*ve 
 her diforder to proceed from lo^oe j for my JiriSiefi fcrutiny 
 informs me, a dull indifference is her afcendant P 
 
 J. The reafon of the Lady's blufhes at fight, or 
 
 naming of that perfon, might be from feveral caufes. 
 
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1036 ne Br'itish a POL Lb. 
 
 The Gentleman might at fome time have faid fome- 
 thing which might Ihock her modefty, which the fight 
 or name of him might recall to her memory : Or 
 by accident he might have feen her in fome manner 
 fhe never defigned he fhould. But we rather believe 
 thofe blufhes might arife from love. As to the fcru- 
 tiny you have made, many lovers have concealed their 
 paflion in defiance of the ftrideft fcrutiny ; an inftance 
 whereof happened once to the knowledge of a Gen- 
 tleman of our fociety. Some Ladies fufpeded another 
 Lady, then in the houfe with them, to be in love with 
 a certain Gentleman, from thofc very tokens you hav« 
 given, but Ihe denying it with a cold indifFerency, 
 they were refolved to try an experiment. Knowing 
 Xhe Gentleman on urgent bufmefs was to be away a 
 fortnight, they contrived it fo, that two Gentlemen 
 (as by accident) Ihould come to them with burial 
 favours, who (upon afking whofe funeral they were 
 at) fhould fay, as before inftrudled, at that Gentle- 
 man's who died fuddenly. They did as inftrufted, 
 upon which the Ladies all caft their eyes on the fuf- 
 pedled Lady, but fhe appearing no more concerned 
 than if the Gentleman had been wholly a flranger to 
 her, they difmiffed all their fufpicions, and parted com- 
 pany. At fupper time, the Ladies being all called to- 
 gether, this Lady was miffing, on which they went 
 to her chamber,but finding the key within, after much 
 knocking, without any anfwer, they broke open the 
 door, and found the Lady had hanged her fclf in her 
 garter j upon which the Lady, who contrived that un- 
 happy thought, went dillrafted j which may be a warn- 
 ing to all, how they try fuch defperate experiments. 
 
 Q^ 1 am a young ?nan of 2J yean of age y and am 
 *v:orth about 300I. 1 ha^e afpiring thought s^ and hope 
 §ne time or other to be a conjiderable man, yet atprefent 
 1 ha've no other njie^w of being foy but that of marrying a 
 prodigious fortune. 1 dor^ t like a foldier" s life , and there- 
 fore ni not njenture on it : And as to farming, th(P J 
 have been moji bred to that of any thing, it is my a^ver- 
 fion i and I want interef to put me info a civil mp/oyment, 
 
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 Now upon the nvhole matter, 1 fee nothing but matrimony 
 likely to gratify my ambition^ and I flatter myfelf 1 
 fhall gain my ends thereby, though I tnufl (nvn I did once 
 attempt it, by going to the fame church in the country, that 
 a Lady did of a confider able fortune, great <virtue, and 
 charming beauty. I ogled her there, as I did in all other 
 public places I could fee her, ^without ^ er fpeaking to heri 
 butfhe too foon difco'vered I had gaz^d and taken notice of 
 her, and pre'uented my doing fo any more, by treating me 
 after an unufual manner ; hut all Ladies may not be fo 
 cruel. Therefore, Gentlemen, pray ginje me your opinion, 
 ivhether my ambition is ill grounded ? 'whether fir anger 
 things ha'ue not happen'' d, than my making my fortune to a 
 great degree by marriage ? and ^whether my friends, be- 
 caufe I'willnot gi<ve them the caufe, ha've reafon to fay, I 
 €im nvhimfical, ignorant ly prtud, and ambitious ? 
 
 As you I advife me, fo I luill either decline or continue 
 my prefent opinion, or folhnu fuch rules or direBions that 
 you fhall think fit to prefcribe ; and 1 heartily defire your 
 thoughts concerning it. 
 
 A. Look upon this vanity of yours (Ambition is 
 too noble a title for it) as an impulfe from your evil 
 genius : for fmce Momus jather than I^iars is your a- 
 fcendant, and you durft not venture into the wars, you 
 mull never hope for a conquefl over a fair lady's heart. 
 They afFeft only the brave and bold, where there is 
 neither birth nor fortune to plead. Do you think, 
 hooping and hollowing after your landlord's dogs mu- 
 lick to charm a lady's ears ? or that your Ikill in fat- 
 tening fwine, and curing rotten flieep, will perfuadc 
 her into an opinion of your addrefs and gallantry ? or 
 your knowledge in dunging land render her kindnefis 
 to you prolific ? or all your father's teams of oxen 
 draw her afFedlions after you ? no, no, you are popt 
 out of your element, from which, whilll you wan- 
 der, you muft exped only fuch difappointments as you 
 have met with. Therefore we advife you, to return 
 to your farm, to lay out your 300/. in Hocking your 
 grounds, and to difmifsall vain thoughts of greatnefs. 
 
1038 57?^ Br I T I SH A POL LO, 
 
 Qj^ Invould iefire to knonufrom ^whence the nuord fcot" 
 free is deri'v'd F 
 
 A. Suppofe your felf exempt from paying fcot and 
 ht and your own good fortune will anfweryour queftion. 
 
 Q^ I do7it doubt hut fame of your in^enioiu fociety hawe 
 feen the curious white enameird work of Mr. George 
 Pfalmanaazaar. AsforthehtdiMXyofitf lam able etwugh 
 to judge ; hut for the goodnefs and hardnefs of it, JJhould 
 he glad to have Apollo'.? opinion. 
 
 A. We can experimentally affare you, that it is not 
 cnly ^\x\X.t2.%heautiful, but every way asgood, and hard, 
 as what is done in the Eajt-Indies ; and in one point ftill 
 more exquifite \ for whereas the IndianJ apan will break 
 cr peel away, if flruck with forceagainft a hard body, 
 Mr. V fa]manaax.aar has contrived a way, whereby to 
 iay his colours on with fo much firmnefs, thit they can 
 be no ways liable to the above-nam'd inconveniency. 
 
 Q^ Which is the beft nvay to get the love of a young 
 gent/eivcman nvho is fcmething coy? 
 
 A. By afFefting the fame humour. 
 
 Q^ Whatjhould a man of honour do, that is loved by a 
 lady, and loves another ?for ifhejhevos an indifference to 
 her that loves him, it's not only ill-breeding, but ill nature. 
 Nor can he remove his inclination from her he loves, Jhe 
 heing as much in love v:ith him. 
 
 A. Sir, if you never addrefs'd the firft, it can only 
 be termed good nature to requite her paffion with 
 yours : but your paffion for the laft gives us ground to 
 believe you have addreflfed her, and that her afFedion 
 is the effeft thereof; if fo, your honour is there abfo- 
 lutely engaged, the breach whereof alone can refled 
 on your good breeding. 
 
 C^ Acco) ding to my promife, I make hold to trouble you 
 njcith thefefevo lines. Tou knovo that Ifent you a nvhile ago 
 a quefion, to knovo vchether thefnake voas poifonous or no, 
 njihich vuas anfvjcred in Briti(h Apollo in fol. No. 77. 
 nuherein I find your opinion voas inclining, that the fnake 
 *U'as not poifonous, by your nominating the ?nen that deal 
 in them ; andlikeviife I voas of the fame opinion tilhtoiv 
 But to return to myfiory j there vcas a gentleman of my 
 
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The British Apollo. 1039 
 
 acquaintance ufed to keep a fnake in a box for his fancy t 
 and e<very morning ufed to give it milk ; nonjo one morning 
 he gai'e it fame milk as he ivas ivont to do, and there be- 
 ing a little left, and his cat fianding by, he put it daivn 
 to her^ upon the drinking of it immediately Jhe run mad, 
 and died. This I can jujiify, upon dejiring in any of your 
 papers to kno^ the author of this letter. 
 
 ^. Suppofing the matter of fad to be true, it may be 
 offered, that afmall portion of the falival juice of the 
 fnakemay be intermix'd with theremainder of the milkf 
 and tho' it is not commonly found fo hurtful, yet may 
 it prove fo volatile, or caufe fuch a fermentation in. the 
 ftomach of the cat, as may produce inordinate motions 
 of the fpirits, turning to madnefs and fuffocations. 
 
 Q;_ Pray let me kno-xv the meaning of ihh proverb, and 
 ho^iu it became one ; 'vi^. let us fet round and fquare, 
 like a dog*s elbow ? 
 
 J. The meaning of iht proverb is to put a trick upon 
 jipolh, and it firll became one, from the njohimfical pro- 
 cUtSlion of your imagination. 
 Q. WhyisthefoMT of clubs f«//?^W"i bung's Witch ? 
 
 A. From ontjames Wibling, who in the reign of 
 kingy««;^j the firftgrew rich\yY pri'vate gaming,2ii\^\4^\ 
 commonly obferved to have the card, you mention, in 
 his hand, and never hfi a game but when he mifs'dit. 
 
 Q^ Hanjing con<verfatton vjith a lady for j or % years^. 
 broke a piece of gold, giving her the one half, as a pledge, to 
 bejuji to her as long as ive both Jhould live, Jhe received 
 it upon the fame account, gi'ving me her 'word to be the fame 
 to me, if I -joould promife to be true to her, and not keep 
 any other nvoman company. I agreed to her demands, and 
 woas enjerjuji to her. And 1 do publicly declare, my thoughts 
 ne^er firayedfrom her^ and the more I enjoyed her company, 
 the better I loved her. 1 ijuas alivays kind to her, and 
 prefented her ivith aiery noble prefents, and fupported her 
 in a great degree 'when Jhe 'voas lo-win the ivorld. But a 
 relation leaving her a legacy of /^ or 500 1. fhe began to-- 
 flight me ; and I fince falling under loix> circumfiances% 
 could not do as former ly, fhe has quite left and for faken me, 
 JJirive all I can to put hr out of my thought s, but fhe has 
 Y y 4 '^urought. 
 
I040 The British Apollo. 
 
 •k^rought fuch an imfrejjion upon my heart , that 1 cOtihot 
 tell ho'w to contain myjelf. When I am aivake, I airways 
 think of her ; ivhen ajleepjhe dijlurbs my rejl, Nonv pray^ 
 ingenious gentlemen^ your fpeedy anfwer in this cafe^ and 
 ivhicb nx:ay IJballfind relief? 
 
 A. You ought to look upon the misfortune you now 
 labour under, as the chaftifementof your fin for fo in- 
 timate a converfe with a woman, without the previous, 
 the neceffary folemnity of marriage. You mufl alfo 
 plead guilty to the charge of imprudence too, in leav- 
 ing the perfon,for whomycu had fo valuable an efleem, 
 to the enfnaring temptation, of a wavering, an incon- 
 ftant mind. For as every fin is accompanied with a fpi- 
 ritual, fo are many with a temporal imprudence. H»d 
 you fanftiiied your converfation with the nuptial cere- 
 monies, you had been even ftillin the happy pofreflion 
 of that beloved cbje(St, which hasgot fo intirean afcend- 
 antofyour heart. To make your fclf eafy therefore un- 
 der your afRidting circumftances, the bell method is to 
 turn the profpecl to behold the difaller in another view, 
 to behold it as the corredlion of a father, the falutary 
 corredion of that tender father,«tu^(? car eth for you. And 
 would you but confider, that were it not for the fmart- 
 ing difappointment you fo much complain of, you had 
 probably proceeded in that unwarrantable courfe, and 
 might therefore have been undone, undone for ever. 
 "Would you but confider, that a gracious God has kindly 
 tho' violently, fnatch'd you from the devouring flames, 
 turn'd you out of that fatal road^ihat leadeth to dejiru^iony 
 that leadeth donxn to the chambers of death. Would you 
 but confider, that God, even in the mn^^.' of judgment 
 has remembred mercy ; that in as much as you zxq judged, 
 you are chafened of the Lordy that you Jhould not be con- 
 demnednvith the lAsorld. Would you but confider, ferl- 
 oufly and frequently confider thi?, your uneafinefs 
 would gradually wear away ; and that which is at 
 prefent a bitter cup, a cup mingled with gall and 
 wormwood, would in progrefs of time be converted 
 into a delicious draught, and htcomtf^veeter than ho- 
 ney and the honey comb. Then you would change your 
 
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The British Apollo. 1041 
 
 melancholy note, and be ready to cry out with the joy- 
 ful Pfalmill J // is GOOD for me that Iha've been in 
 TROUBLE^ that Imay learn thy Jiatutes. Before 1 nuat 
 troubled, I tuent ivrongy but nozv ha've I kept thy njcord. 
 Then you would acknowledge with the fore-mention*d 
 Pfalmill, that your afBiftion was a favour, was a fig- 
 nal favour ; O Lord, thou haji dealt GRAdOUSLT 
 nvith thyferofantf according to thy 'word. 
 
 But iince you were both fo ifolemnly engag'd, tho* 
 forbid fo culpable an intimacy, till marriage fhould 
 have made it lawful, you are bound in duty to endea- 
 vour to ufe the bell, the moil prevailing arguments you 
 are mailer of, in order to perfuade her to a compliance 
 with the commendable purpofe of unravelling, as far 
 as poflible, the iniquity of your former doings, by a 
 neceffary, an indifpenfably neceflary marriage. And 
 tho' from the caufe of your uneafinefs, namely, her 
 flighting of you, you may have little expedlation of 
 fuccefs, yet you are under an obligation of a fedulous 
 application, fince whatever be the iflue, you will then 
 have deli<vered your onjon foul. 
 
 Q^ At the refurreilion^ ivhen all the bodies of men and 
 wiomeyi that ha've linjede'ver fince the beginning of the ivorld, 
 nxjhether or no they woill diminijh thefurface of the earth ? 
 
 A. Since all men at their deceafe return to that dull 
 of which they were at firll created, it confequently fol » 
 lows, that when all the fcattered atoms of mouldered 
 carcaffes Ihall be takenout of the terreftrial globe, and 
 re-united into the fame individual bodies they were be- 
 fore, the globe, (from whence they are taken) cannot 
 be otherwife than diminiftiMby foconfiderableafub- 
 tradlion. 
 
 Q. Praygi<ve me a reafon,ivhy a razor [infrofyvjeather^ 
 dipped in hot tvater, cutsfo much ea/ier than before dipping? 
 
 A. The true reafon is, that the hot water renders 
 the edge of the razor fomewhat more fupple, or lels 
 brittle, and confequently not fo apt to be broken by 
 the hair it is to cut. 
 
 Q^ Thomas Hadnack o/'Breckthorp, 3 miles from 
 
 Gloucefter, hii/ba?idtnan from his youth to his death , wohen 
 
 he nfjas at meat f im inter or fummer^ ^within doQVi or njuith- 
 
 y y 5 Qui 
 
1 042 The British Apollo. 
 
 Outf nxhen he eaty did fw eat on one fide of his face till hi 
 dropty and not on the other. And nvhen at nx-orky did alnvajs 
 fiveat on the other fide of his face and body, and not on 
 that fide he didnvhen he eat. He died, of no Palfey or Apo- 
 plexy, about the ^oth year of his age, mofi people belie^ve 
 of nothing but old age. His ^ivido-iv is fill Having, This 
 tan be attefed by fome hundreds of the parijhionen. He 
 died about 6 years ago. 
 
 A. We being not willing to queflion the truth of 
 your relation, (becaufe particular conftitutions, as ap- 
 pears by the obfervations of many learned phyfi- 
 cians, have particular fymptoms of latent difeafes, ne- 
 ver difcovered but by anatomical diffedion after the 
 perfon is dead, ^sBonetusy SchenkiuSyForefiusy and others 
 have obferved) are of opinion, that Tho. Hadnack mull 
 in fome time of hislife have been fubj eft to whst phy- 
 ficians call HemiplagiayOr Palfy, affedling one fide of the 
 body only,or at leall fome violent cold, which crampM 
 and corrugated the tendons and nerves on that fide, fo 
 as to caufe a ftiffnefs in them, ^hough not fufficient 
 to caufe a perfeft palfy, at leaft not obferved by la- 
 bouring men in the Itrength of their years, but carried 
 off by work, and the difeafe by repeated labour, to his 
 dying day, might be kept oft from being fatal to him. 
 Now if fo, it's plain the cafe muil be nervous, 
 and the caufe of fweating in different parts muft arife 
 from different motions of the animal fpirits affeding 
 the nerves. If the parts fweat by excretion oiferum 
 in labour, *tis no v/onder, becaufe heat arifmg from 
 motion adluates the animal fpirits fo, as to drive out 
 theferum to the outward parts of the body by expan- 
 iion of the pores. But if the parts fweat where the 
 liervcs have any way been corrugated, or otherwife 
 violently hurt, that fweat arifes by contraftion of the 
 r.erves, as fweat following great pain 15 very common ; 
 by V. hich means the ferum iCCaCs through the fkin, as 
 accidentally relax'd, caufmg what we generally call 
 <c/d fix'eats, which we take to be the caie of Tho, 
 Uad/iacA,who had an efflux offerufn, called fnador, from 
 his face, cauled by an irregular motion of the nerves 
 ia the face, cr tsndoiis of Uis mufcles furving to ma- 
 
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 ftication, formerly by fome caufe or other unobferv*d» 
 afFeding the nerves thereunto belonging j from whence 
 proceeded his Iweat in eating, different, we are apt to 
 believe, from what proceeded from labour, thougk 
 you gave us not the critical obfervation of the nature 
 ofhis fweat. 
 
 CX ^The extraordinary fatisfaBion lha<ve received from 
 your papers^ ifiduces me to trouble you <vjith the affairs of one 
 that ivould be proudof an anfxverfrcm fo ingenious afociety<, 
 
 I defended from a family that ivas both truly noble 
 and great, though am at prefent under but indifferent cir- 
 cumfanceSy yet a'vers^d to the general fupidity of an in^ 
 different life : for there be fuch [parks ofahi'vity and emu- 
 lation 'within me, as fender my thoughts uneafy. My gi- 
 nius prompts me to the field i for if 1 but read any m^O" 
 rious netvs, of battles, triumphs, &c. Tarn tranfported be- 
 yond myfelf, andfeem ehvated beyond the common pitch cf 
 humanity. 
 
 Methinks I ijoould adnjance myfelffo as to he fer'vice- 
 4ible to my country in general, and to retrieve the lujire of 
 my ancejiorsy to be beneficial in the capital <virtue, charity,. 
 and to lead an unblemijbed life before God and man. 
 
 A. We advife you by all means to cherifh thofe 
 feeds q{ Virtue, till they flourilh, fo as to retrieve the 
 glory of your family, and render you an ornament to 
 your country. 
 
 Q. Seeing you do not alloiv angels to be of either fex^- 
 n»hy then is the mafculine title gi'ven them on all occafionr 
 luhene'vet^ they appeared in former times, either to tmn or • 
 •women ? 
 
 A. Becaufe we have no other way of diftinguifhing 
 perfons, than by the mafculine ox feminine gender, and 
 are therefore neceifarily obliged to give them the title 
 of the fuperior fex. 
 
 Q^Reading your Apollo of the i ()th infant about 'water 
 Jpouts, '^jjas H,villing to gi-ve you this relation, thinking your 
 anf'wer nvid^from the matter. On the ^th ^ Auguit lafi^ 
 heing on board one of her Majefty s fn^s ofivar, in the 
 lat. o/'40, about 40 leagues welling //cz^ /i?^ burling?, 
 hitiMUn 10 and W o'clock in the forenoon, 'v.-efavj ^or 5 
 y y 6 fwaier- 
 
1044 ^^^ British Apollo. 
 
 *w iter-fpouts at a great dijlana, $ne ofnjohich ivas of an ex- 
 traordinary hignefsy at the fame time calm njceather^ and 
 fea fmooth ; but njohat little air there nvas^ auas about E. 
 andE. N. E. our cour/eN. and N. ^W. thefpout appeat^ 
 ed in the W. and W. by S. the great fpout drenxj nearer 
 usy that in half an hour nve could hear the roarings and 
 fee the foaming of the fea at the bottom of the fpout or pil- 
 lar ^ ivhich ivas of a confiderable thicknefs, and not njery. 
 high, prodigious clouds ofnvater fpreading from it, refem^ 
 bling thejhape of a vaji tree. Notv percei'ving it to dratu 
 dire^ly upon us, and having no ivind to njoear ourjhip, or 
 make nvay a-head, this uncommon enemy put thefailors un- 
 der a dreadful conjiernation, being of opinion, if it fiiould 
 c»me athwart fhip, as it direSily pointed, the Jhip iutercept- 
 ing its communication luith the fea, nuould caufe that fea 
 tfnjtater that nvas in the cloud to fall upon our heads, nuhich 
 in all likely hood mufi have been our deJiruSiion. Our oficers 
 to->k all the precaution imaginable,as furling the fails, making 
 clofe the hatches, fecuring the ports, and the like ; then as 
 foon as it came ^within gun-Jhot fred a gun nxjith an 8 pound 
 hall at it, after 'which it came (as near as 1 could guefs 
 in lefs than 6 minutes) up to us, the roaring fill leffening 
 after the firing the gun ; // pleafed God, it only brufied 
 tur larboard quarter, and did us no damage. It flung a 
 pretty deal of ivater into our cabin-galleries, and as itpafd, 
 iould difcern it as it njoere aftrong ivhirl-njuind in compafs 
 •fthe pillar, gathering up the ivater 'whenpali,fiill leffen- 
 ing, till about the difiance ofgunfhot it nxound up its bot- 
 tom and 'went anuay in fvajl clouds. No'w it is certain, the 
 nuat erf pouts, moved for fome leagues ^without any ^nd or 
 current, and <vohat njoas 'was contrary ; vohich if caufed by 
 Jire under the fea, one 'would think Jhould abide in one place, 
 and often he feen at that place, and fometimesin the ni^t, 
 ^ivhich mariners tell me ne-ver nvas heard of Pray your 
 farther opinion, as alfo of the firing the gun, it being fre- 
 quent for Jhips to fire at them 'when they fee any near ; nay, 
 Hvhen they have no guns, to blaze a cut lace in the air. 
 
 A. Suppofing the truth of your relation in all its 
 
 moft minute ^rcumftances, it feems rather to confirm 
 
 than invalidate our opinion, concerning the caufe of 
 
 4 . ihe 
 
The British Apollo. 1045 
 
 the \vater-fpouts. For fince they happen in calm wea- 
 ther, and the fea being fmooth, it is a plain a-rgument 
 that they arc not occafioned by any violent agitation 
 from without, but by fomething within the fea. Yoa 
 tell us alfo, that as it paffed by, you could difcern it 
 as it were a ftrong whirlwind. But what is this 
 whirlwind but air or vapours, violently breaking out 
 of the fea ? And what is more likely to be the caufe 
 of their fo breaking out, but that internal heat or lire 
 contained in fome concavity of the earth under the 
 fea ? You add, that the water-fpouts you faw moved 
 for fome leagues without any wind or current. That 
 fliews ftill, that it was fomething from within which 
 determined their motion this way or that way, and 
 which we may very well fuppofe to be fome fubtir- 
 ranean heat or fire not fix'd in one particular place, 
 but at different times kindled in different places and 
 concavities of the earth, and following the different 
 turnings and windings of them. As for their never 
 being feen in the night, that may be called in que- 
 ftion : But fuppofe it were fo, that does not argue 
 there was never any at that time, fince they may 
 pafs by unfeen. We think the firing of a gun may 
 be of fome ufe by tke motion it caufes in the air, 
 which may caufe fome alteration in the courfe ef 
 thefe water-fpouts : But the blazing of a cutlace 
 feems to be very infignificant. 
 Qj^ By order Tm goings 
 
 As my name is James Lowing, 
 With full fpeed for to carry to Holland,, 
 
 Such a packet of letters^ 
 
 Which come from my betters, 
 That fome I belie've go to Noland^ 
 
 To France 7'tv a pacquet^ 
 
 I belienje they don't lack it^ 
 For it's full of hard^ords to great Lewis : 
 
 '77i to put him in mindy 
 
 He's ^/Tharaoh'j kind. 
 And that hillin the fea mak^ good brcwis. 
 
1046 The British Apollo. 
 
 Thife are fuch harjh menaces, 
 ^at he'll make grimaces. 
 And fend for his grand fon 'with fpeed. Sir; 
 To fi>e^v him thofe lines, 
 And that Britain defigns 
 Him another dark leffon to read. Sir, 
 To Rome T've another, 
 For noiu there^s a pother, 
 *Bout nvaging a 'war njuith their foes ; 
 1 belie-ve, and do think, 
 There's a damnable fink, 
 And the Emperor ivon't kifs his toes : 
 With all fpeed noiv I 
 To your god/hip do hie. 
 To knonv if you^'ve any to fend : 
 If not, nvould you defire, 
 Oh ! thou learned great fire. 
 That your chariot you ivould to me^ lend. 
 A. Was not Phaeton's fall 
 An example to all. 
 Who would jneddle with things too fuperior ^ 
 And are you fo fublime. 
 As our chariot to climb. 
 When a cart won*t appear too inferior ? 
 But to you as a. friend, 
 Thefe inftrudions we fend, 
 That you'd forthwith defift your legation 3 
 Left the letters you bring. 
 Should procure you a fwing, 
 Or at leaftwife a Brideixell collation. 
 Q^ Te glorious bards of race di'vine. 
 Look donxn, and to my nxerds incline j 
 On yon ParnafTus hill 1 food, 
 A7id faixj your wiiSj hoiv great, honx) good > 
 One I <v:ould be ; but ah I arnt. 
 Yet fiill me don't deny this grant, 
 I labour under a difeafe, 
 O quickly, quickly lend me eafe i 
 And tell me 'which Td bef to do, 
 Ta run to i£fculapius, or you I 
 
 A. Sine© 
 
fbe British Apollo. 1047 
 
 J. Since your i^i/eafe you thus declare. 
 We grieve that you in pic^/e are ; 
 You mufl to ^fculapius go, * 
 For Phoebus will be much your foe ; 
 ^hat curing God will mend your ail. 
 We cure the head, and he the 7 ' - 
 
 Or if he will not mind your letter. 
 
 There's Mercury can do it better. 
 
 However, friend, one caution heed, 
 
 Rhime e'vener, if you hope to fpeed j 
 
 For we were Jhock'd to fee the lines, dear brother. 
 
 Speak pfalm at one en(J, and the p — x at t'other. 
 
 Q^ Why is the north wind colder than the fouth ? 
 
 A. Becaufe we are north of the fun, and confe- 
 quently north wind proceeds from regions at a greater 
 dillance from the fun. 
 
 Q^ h there any necejfary trade nx)hich pro'videnci has 
 placed a man in, that jujily renders Jucha perfon ridicu-^ 
 ious ? Is it is not both unchrijlian and ungenerous, to ri- 
 dicule a man for no other reafon, than only his being 
 tf fame necejfary trade ? But a toy lor being as ne- 
 cejfary a calling as any other handicraft, hovu can the 
 ingenious Apollo acquit himfelf of the forementioned 
 charge, for calling (n/jith the ^vulgar) a taylor the 
 ninth part of a man. Sec. ivhen, for ought he kno-ix/s, 
 he may b^^tb a good man, and a good chrijiian too ? 
 
 A, ' Tis ilrange you fhould charge a reiiedlion upoa 
 our invention, which was made before our grand- 
 father's days ; what we faid on it, was only from 
 what occafion it firft became a jeft. If after we were 
 free with one, who attack'd us in the name of a tay- 
 lor, we expedt to be excufed, in taking the fame li- 
 berty with others as they take with us. 
 
 Qj_ What is the caufe of hanging a pi?npk upon the 
 tongue'. And from. n;ohence did that faying come. That 
 one had told a lie, . And in anfvering it foon, you 'will 
 oblige your friend, E. VV. 
 
 A. A pimple upon the tongue generally proceeds 
 
 from (harpnefs or heat of the blood, Itomach, or the 
 
 like I And af lying is the coinmon and unpardonable 
 
 ^ criias: 
 
1048 51?^Britis« Apollo. 
 
 crime of that member, fo is it morally obvious to 
 impute any of its misfortunes to its oftences. 
 Q^ Tbu ^its thit are fo great. 
 Which makes your papers take, 
 I pray^y refohe me one quejiion, 
 .About a friend of mine. 
 Who in former time 
 Did make great rcfolution, 
 To his lo^'e be kind. 
 Rare temper'' d, fnxieet mind. 
 And all that could pleafe a^air creature ; 
 But that lajied fhort. 
 For he^s gronvn ^very fmart. 
 And abufes nxihene^er he comes near her. 
 Therefore, Apollo, 
 For my brains are fhallstv, 
 Refohe me, I pray, nvhat to do ? j 
 Hanx) I may rule 
 This unmannerly fool. 
 And I fhall enjer be obliged to you ? 
 A. By all means, prithee write. 
 And a fatyr indite. 
 Since there's reafon fufficient to blame him i 
 Let it point blank appear. 
 As thy numbers are here. 
 And 'tis twenty to one butthou'lt fhameliim. 
 Q^ 1 am a nvidonx) (and in bujinefs) ; T^jco perfons 
 mt this time court me for a nx)ife j one of ivhich is a 
 trade fman and in bufinefs, char of the ivorld, and lov/s 
 me I thijik in his heart. 
 
 The other is a Gentleman, at prefent out of bufinefs, 
 an honeft charader, but little or no efate. This man I 
 can lo^oe in my heart better than the other. I being a 
 ivido^v, and hearing of your great fame in refohing 
 thefe quejiions, mofi Bumbly requefi your adnjice, HK'hich 
 of thefe perfons to make choice of', they are hoth honefi 
 men, and 1 am refohed to change my condition P 
 
 A, From the foregoing account, two motives ap- 
 pear on the iradefman's behalf: Firft, His prefent 
 profpepity, and fecondly, his real afieaion towards 
 
 you. 
 
 i 
 
fbe Bri T isH Apollo. 1049 
 
 you. Likewife, there are two more on the Gentle- 
 man*s behalf: Firft, his good character ; and fecondly, 
 your hearty affedlion towards him. Now the queftion 
 TS, whether or not the latter hath any real kindnefs 
 for you, or whether his addrefles be not founded upon 
 intereft; if fo, we'advife you to difcharge him, and 
 cleave to the thriving and amorous tradefman : But 
 if the Gentleman's pretenfions be fmcere, and your 
 afFedion meets with fuitable returns, let ^im by all 
 means be the fubjed of your choice, fmce 'tis /o-ve, 
 and not ric^esy that is capable of procuring the 
 greateft happinefs. 
 
 Q^ M. St. Evremont in his ivorks tells us, That the 
 different aims of the kings of Rome njoere prejudicial to 
 the gronuth ofthe'^omzxijlate. Your opinion of the cafe t 
 A. With deference to fo great a man, we are hum- 
 bly of opinion, that we may revert his fentiments of 
 the matter, and not improbably conclude, that of fe- 
 cond caufes, there was none fo vifibly fubfervient to 
 the enlargement of the Roman jiate, as thofe diffe- 
 rent aims and defigns he fpeaks of. Romulus (the 
 founder of Rome) was one of the greateft heroes of 
 the age ; but his warlike temper fpurred him on to 
 fuch hafty enterprizes, as were not far from proving 
 the deftruftion of his new built city. In evidence of 
 which, we appeal to his famous con tell with the 
 Valines, which oblig'd him to fubmit to very fevere 
 conditions. For his own fecurity put him under the 
 neceflity of admitting the Sabines as fellow-inhabitants 
 with his own fubjeds, and Tatius tlieir king, as part- 
 ner in the government. And as though all this were 
 too inconfiderable a difgrace, the Romans receiv'd the 
 name of J^/W/f/ (a name very familiar to the ora- 
 tors of fucceeding ages) from Cures ^ the metropolis 
 of the Sabines. And tho' Romulus enadled feme good 
 laws, yet he left the Romans but little better than a 
 rude, unciviliz'd, undifciplin'd mob. And therefore 
 the prudent choice of Numa Pompilius, who was fon- 
 in-law to the foremention'd TatiuSy was the fortunate: 
 occafion, that a fugceffor of the fame enterprizing ge- 
 nius 
 
lOfo The British Apollo. 
 
 nius with a martial Romulus ^ did not grafp at the ter- 
 ritories of others to the forfeiture of his own. For 
 Numa, who was a man not of arms, but ftudy, and 
 endued with all the accomplilhments of a peacefol 
 prince, reclaim'd the favagc difpol;tion of his fubjc<^s, 
 refined their unpolifh'd temper, inftituted religion, that 
 principal bafis of all government, and reduced the Ro- 
 ma?2s to fo excellent a conftitution as to leave them a 
 robuft, tho' yet an infant Hate. But had another Numa 
 fucceeded this, a tedious fucceffion of unadlive peace 
 might have too much foften'd their unexercised difpo- 
 fuion, might have unbent their martial temper, and 
 effeminated their minds with luxuriant eafe. But this 
 was happily prevented when another Romulus arofe, 
 when TuHus Hojtilius was feated on the throne. For as 
 he could not but obferve, that his people were now 
 ftrengthen'dand confirmed at home, and therefore bet- 
 ter prepar'd for acquifitions abroad fo he refolv'd to 
 train them up afrefli in the fchool of Marsy and im- 
 prove both their difcipline and courage by engaging m 
 a war with a neighbour flate. And then he foon taught 
 the inhabitants of v^;^^,by an entire deflrud^ion of their 
 city, that war and peace in r.n alternate, in a due fuc- 
 ceflion, may wonderfully advance a tender government. 
 Tullus left the Romans to his fuccefFor, Jncus Martius, 
 in a veryflourifhing condition, and able to make new 
 additions to their envied conquefts. But Ancus, as tho' 
 he were confcious what advantages had accrued from 
 the formentioned alternations of war and peace, en- 
 deavoured to tranfcribe the praftice of the pacific 
 Numa, and not fuffer peace to mifs its turn. But when 
 his neighbours, fuppofing him a coward, invaded 
 his territories, he repaid the vifit in an unwelcome 
 manner, and made them deplore the rafhnefs of their 
 attempt. But tho' he encreafed the glory of the Ro- 
 man arms, and obtain'd the charadler of a great war- 
 riour ; yet we may not unreasonably fuppofe, that his 
 defire of a peaceful reign might fo far reihain the fal- 
 lies of a martial flame, as happily to become the caufe» 
 that he never made excurfions beyond his ftrength, ne- 
 ver 
 
^e British Apollo. 1051 
 
 vcr ventured farther than either prudence or neceffity 
 would juftify his condu£>. Now Rome was more 
 than ever a terror to her neighbours, and able to bear 
 another warrior on the throne. And therefore Tar- 
 quinius Prifcus rivaPd his predecefibr, and conquered 
 twelve different forts of people within the boundaries 
 of Tufcany, Whence by the way we may obferv«, 
 what petty conquefts the 'Romans won in thofe early 
 days, though furprizing in proportion to the times 
 and other circumitances. Rome by this time had made 
 fo confiderable a figure among her jealous neighbours, 
 that fhe wanted a king, v/ho fhould be both of a mar- 
 tial genius to maintain her conquefts, to chaftife re- 
 volters ; and withal of a peaceful temper, to make re- 
 gulations in the ftate, to fettle her affairs at home, 
 and not only to make her equal to the acquifitions fhe 
 was already miftrefsof, but prepare her alfo for future, 
 for greater ones. And that Serwius TulUus was fuch an 
 one as this, was the very king (he wanted; he gave 
 fufficient demonftration, by both his foreign and do* 
 meilic enterprizes. Such was his fuccefs in war, 
 that he merited the glory of a threefold triumph : fuch 
 was the model of his government at home, that no 
 number of triumphs could equal his applaufe. Fornot- 
 withftanding the battles which he fought, he fo acj- 
 mirably fettled the civil conftitution, as to pave the way 
 for Tarquinius Superbus to exert his active, his afpiring 
 genius, not only in defenfive, but offenfive wars. 
 
 But to confirm the premiffes, we would remind you, 
 that the feverities the Romans afterwards underwent 
 from Rorfena king of Clujtum, from Brennus king of the 
 Gauls, from Ryrrhus king o^ Epirus, and from the Car- 
 thaginiansy abundantly demonftrate, that they ow'd not 
 only their fecurity, but their glory, to a cautious as well 
 as a brave procedure ; and that had not fome of their 
 kings been a kind o^ Cunciatores Fabii, they might have 
 feen their enemies, not only as their pofterity did Han- 
 nibal, at their gates, but within their walls. And in 
 farther evidence of this, we may inllance in the 
 brave, but rafh Atheniam^ who were fuch fpeedy, fuch 
 
 hafty 
 
io5t The Bri T I SH [.Apollo. 
 
 hafty conquerors, as to run themfelves out of breath, 
 as to outllrip their own glory, and fatally out-con- 
 quer their own fecurity. 
 
 Qj_ Pray gi've 7ne your opinion concerning njoeakly owa- 
 Kien^ hoi.K> for the generality they hanje the Jirongejl chil- 
 dren. There ivas lately a gentk<woman of 7ny acquaintance, 
 all the time of her being njoith chiU^ ivas troubled every 
 dayy t^o or three times a day^ nvith ftruggling hyjlerical 
 fts, and f^ooning a<^vay much oftner ; yet mnxj is delivered 
 of a 'very fine hoy. All the time of her being voith childy 
 Jhe cat Jo little viSluals as is incredible to believe. 
 
 A. We will allow they often have flrong children, 
 tho* not generally the Ilrongeft ; which may as often 
 proceed from the health and ftrength of the father. 
 And tho' a woman be of a weak conftitution, yet 
 may fhe be healthy withal, bear healthy children, 
 and by a regular courfe of life, fpin out more years 
 than a flronger perfon. But as to the gentlewoman 
 here fpecify'd, Ihe may be naturally very healthy, 
 and hyfterical only upon the account of childbearing, 
 the expence of fpirits towards the nutriment of the 
 infant at that time fo difordering her, and not the ill 
 quality of the blood or juices. 
 
 Q. Hear, i-r^^z/ Apollo ! at vohofe powerful Jhrine^ 
 An humble fuppliant begs your aid divine ; 
 Ihe youth 1 love dogs every virtue boajly 
 And among others, that vuhich charms me mojiy 
 His co7iJiancy : for he has hv'd before. 
 And tho' the beauteous nymph is novj no more, 
 Tet fill he loves, and -what caufes me nen/j care^ 
 Is, that he loves, and mufi like me defpair. 
 But could K\xxq\\2, be recall d again, 
 ^hat happy fair, voho o\r his heart did reign ; 
 Cnuld Jhe return in all her blooming charms. 
 And viith an equal pajfion meet his arms ; 
 Even then, methinks, 1 could be pleased to fee, 
 that he voere blejs'd, ^whate'er becomes of me \ 
 But fence "'tis vain to vuijh v^hat cannot be, 
 InJlruSl me, hovu his grief may be removed. 
 Or hovj retrieve the lofs of that dear maid be lovd? 
 
 } 
 
^he British Apollo. 1055 
 
 ji. No means can f.-ve the youth, or eafe his pains. 
 But what Luch^a^c healing breafl contains : 
 None can the great afHidion fure remove. 
 But fuch a gen'rous, fuch tranl'cendent love : 
 bright nymph, proceed, the mighty curt purfue, 
 A£l the phyfician, and the patient too. 
 Let virtue's light tiiy matcnjef vvorth bjetray. 
 And wholefom rules thy nobic flames dilplay. 
 So (hall the lover's former fcrrovv ceafe. 
 And fo Lucinda too improve her eafe : 
 So fliall the youth embrace a recent iire. 
 And fo the nymph obtain her chafle defire. 
 
 Q^ T<TX)o young gentlemen and my felf being in 
 company ivith three young ladies^ about twenty years vf 
 age each, and difcourjing of matrimony, the ladies una- 
 nimoujiy agreed, that they jhould think themfehes happier, 
 if married, not to lye <with their hujbands, than e<ver 
 to lye ivith them ; alledging, that the chief motinje to in- 
 duce e'er a one of them to alter their fate, Jhould bt 
 for the con^erfation <nxhich a conjugal Jlate can afford, 
 Nonv, gentlemen, I beg your opinion, ^whether you really 
 think they are to be parallel' d in the uni'verfe, or njohether 
 they fpoke cordially P It is real matter of fa5i, and 1 
 ha've exprefid it in the mof modeji terms. 
 
 A. Now perhaps, gentleman, you may think you 
 have given us a happy opportunity of upbraiding the 
 fair fex, and rendering that old verficle applicable : 
 Mulieri ne credas, ne mortuee quidem. 
 
 But you are really miftaken. We have a better opi- 
 nion of the ladies difpofitions, and think them the 
 produd of a ferious confideration, as judging fuch a 
 fleeting pleafure altogether unfatisfadory, in refpeft 
 to the feries or train of afliiftions, which attend its 
 confequences. 
 
 Q^ From niohence proceeds the heat of the li<ver ; and 
 tvohether this is the muhole occafon of pain and heat^in the 
 head, and unnatural flufhings in the face, efpecially af- 
 ter eating and drinking, or coming out of the cold to the 
 fire } or ixjhether this diforder arifes from a fcorbutic 
 t flint, and impurities of the blood? 
 
 J, The 
 
I054 ^^ British Apollo, 
 
 A. The heat of the liver then proceeds from im- 
 moderate exercife, paffions of the mind, drinking hot 
 liquors : or it is caufed from choler generated or 
 lodg'd therein, by fome obHrudion of the gall-blad- 
 der, whence we may reafonably fuppofe the blood 
 fufficiently tainted, and capable of creating the 
 fymptoms abovemention'd, though other caufes may 
 concur to the farther produftion of them. 
 Q^ Since the rich and the poor, 
 hordy iayloTf and nvhore^ 
 Send quejiions, ixhich nvcekly you anfnxer ; 
 / thought too I might . 
 Some 'verfes indite. 
 Which is neither a lye nor romance. Sir. 
 Lame Vulcan'j my fire. 
 Who trades in the fire. 
 And makes Jove'j innjincible thunder ; 
 But not lo^itjg jars. 
 He fell from the fiars, 
 JRefufing bright Lemnos to plunder : 
 Being nx'illing to raife 
 My fortune fome ivays, 
 A lady of fortune I doat on : 
 Nowj fay, wide Titan, 
 Honx) Ifhall gain this bright one, 
 Not fool'd like the vji\Q men of Gotham. 
 A. And will not the fcorns 
 Of thy father's large horns, 
 Thy thoughts of ambition detain ? 
 Thy aim is too high. 
 To th* ««W apply. 
 And forge not fuch whims in thy brain. 
 Q^ A lady dtfires to kno'vj njjhy a gentleman, a friend 
 of hers, is ahvays 'very coquet to her in his drink, and 
 nen^r fo at other times ? 
 
 A. Becaufe folly is the common efFetSl of drun- 
 
 kennefs, and he or fhe that pretends to ii£l that part, 
 
 may properly be faid, to be either drunk or delirious. 
 
 Q. Why does a cold affed the %'sice Jo as to make a 
 
 man hoarfe F 
 
 A. Becaufe, 
 
"The British A po l l o. 1055 
 
 A. Becaufe, as a cold creates a roughnefs in the 
 throat, fo the air that pailes from the lungs to the 
 formation of the voice, while reverberated from the 
 afperities of the throat, mull be confequently harfti, 
 in proportion to the greatnefs of thofe afperities. 
 
 Q^ Whence comes the provirb, Rome was not built 
 in one day ? Toursy J. rroublefome. 
 
 A. Really, Mr. Trouble fotne , we believe the original 
 of the proverb you mention, to be a moml only 
 Ilrengthened by example. For as Ro^ne, by gradual ad- 
 vances, grew the mijirefs of the uni<verfe from an ob- 
 fcure original^ there could certainly be nothing more 
 likely to excite a patient perft'verance and elabo- 
 rate application to indujlry, than a remembrance of 
 the example given us in that proverb. 
 
 Q. Which in your opinion is the hejl of thefe French 
 VoetSy Boileau, Moliere, or La Fontaine ? 
 
 A. Where fe<v£ral perfons are in different ways of 
 writing, feverally excellent, 'tis a matter very diffi- 
 cult to fay downright which is the beji Poet. Had 
 you aflc'd, which was the beft epic^ lyric, or dramatic 
 Poety we had eafily informed you. 
 
 Q. Why Jhould people fay 'when they fee a nvoman they 
 like^ thatjhe makes their mouths ivater, nvhen "'tis ohfernj- 
 abk that 'vinegar, lemons^ and other Jharp things ha<ve 
 only that effect : Is it not an ill compliment to the Lady F 
 A. Not at all. Madam, fmce 'tis not (harp things 
 only, but the moft temptatiou^ the moft delicious 
 eatables which produce fuch fenfations in us : But the 
 faying is metaphorically deduced from the real effect 
 of that kind, caufed by the fight of any defired eatable. 
 Q^ Is fpitting frequently prejudicial to health, and 
 in nvhat manner ? 
 
 A. Spitting is beneficial or injuriouF, according to 
 the nature of the conftitution or ftate of the body. 
 It is helpful in afthmatic, pleuritic, and corpulent 
 bodies, and it is hurtful in thin, lean, hedic, or fe- 
 britic bodies ; the retention of the fali'ua in thefe 
 laft being highly neceifary towards the diluting and 
 refrigerating of the blood. 
 
 Q. W^ 
 
1056 72?^ British Apollo. 
 
 Q^ Why does mutton cool fooner than any other meatf 
 ji, Becaufe the fat of that meat is of a harder 
 confluence than the fat of any other fiieat. 
 
 Q^ Pray tell me the reafon nvhy, njohen men are got 
 into a confuTnption, they are fo far from being made t.9 
 belienje they are Jo had as they really are ? 
 
 A. The reafon is, becaufe they are not really fen- 
 iible of their illnefs. For the heftic fever, which 
 attends confumptions, preys upon the body in fuch a 
 delufive manner, as decays the patient with a (hevr 
 of health, but certainly, tho' flowly, fends him to 
 his grave, according to the ingenious Dr. Garth, 
 Whilft meager P/^/-^//^j gives a filent blow. 
 Her ftrokes are fure, but her advances flow : 
 No loud alarms, nor fierce aflaults are fhown. 
 She ftarves the fortrefs firii, then takes the town. 
 Qj_ Harmonious hardsy ivhefe eloquence improves, 
 Not only Albion'j toivn, but rural groves ; 
 Tour lineSi even me (a rujiic) doth injpire. 
 To Jtng of beauty y love, and foft defire ; 
 U^ith potent reafon aid my blooming yearsy 
 To conquer thofe unmanly needlefs fears. 
 That do injlave my mind, wy foul deprefs. 
 When nvith the lovely Daphne / am blejl, 
 The fervile pajjion to my fenfes bind. 
 When /he appears Jhe over-avoes my mind, 
 Altho' the virtuous nymph is condefcending kind. 
 
 A, Alas ! fond Sir, how ftrangely you proceed. 
 Your odd requell has fpoke you young indeed : 
 More like a novice than a bard you move. 
 What I aflc for reafon, yet pretend |d hve ! 
 
 THE END. 
 
 \ 
 
THE 
 
 INDEX 
 
 A. 
 
 APo'llo'j addrefs to the to^uun page i 
 
 Adam, St. A\x?i\n' s opinion of him 9. 
 
 Alps, ^hy fnonx) upon them 1 1 
 
 jittacks on A^oWOf 4, 14, 19, 20, 25, 68, 75, 82, 
 114, 129, 130, 169, 178, 182, 189,-229, 231, 
 245, 256, 294, 320, 335, 337, 367, 368, 378, 
 379, 390, 401, 415, 416, 450, 459, 491, 506,. 
 525' 553. 561, 570* 606, 615, 811, 819, 828^ 
 836, 862, 873, 901, 925, 943, 951, 973, 996. 
 Apparitions 1 8 
 
 Arithmetical quefiions, 22, 29, 31, 'jjy 143, 148, 
 156, 157, 164, 173, 183, 184, 199, 233, 253, 
 325, 332, 389, 595, 668, 741, 907, 972. 
 Airy is it nvithcut pores 40 
 
 A6ls ix. 7. and xxii. g. haw reconciled 45. 
 
 Advantage to a general^ nvhat moji . 73 
 
 Adam, ho-oj long continue in paradife c i 
 
 April fools f vjhence the cuftom Ic6 
 
 Afparagus, nvhy aff'eSi the urine 1 08 
 
 Arteries, a quejlion on them 1 1 2 
 
 America, nxjho its fir ft inhabitants 1 1 3 
 
 ^tna, wohy flaims it 1 1 6 
 
 Affeci one at firft fight, <ivhy do nve more than another 120 
 Anger, n,vhat is it 192 . 
 
 Angels if Ukeft their Maker 205 
 
 Adultery, or fodomy njoorfe 220 
 
 Attra^ion, is there fuch 2^^. 
 
 Zz i^Afietijion 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Afcenjton Jay, ^jhy kept fo P^gC 260 
 
 Ad'vice, ho'LV to gi*ve fo a friend ibid. 
 
 Arms, a nxeaknefsy honv cans' d 269 
 
 Apojiles needy a queftion on it 282 
 
 Adam, of nf:hat his doathes 283 
 
 America, ijsho the frf inhabitants 113, 292 
 
 Antipathies, hon.v cans' d ibid. 
 
 Adult erefs, nvhy only die 325 
 
 Altar, <ivhy bon» at it 347 
 
 A£ls xxii. 28. the meaning 3^5 
 
 Amen, wohence deri'v'd 3^7 
 
 Alphabet, ho^jo many letters 36 1 
 Anchifes and JEntz^, ivhich did moji for the other 362 
 
 Apoplexy, nvhat the caufe of it 397 
 
 Angels, of'vjhat fex are they 404 
 
 Enigma 405 
 
 Accenti in the Greek tongue, ixjhat their ufe 406 
 
 Amity or love preferable 412 
 
 Adam, on ivhat principles immortal 427 
 
 Apoplexy, nvhy third ft mortal 450 
 
 Antipodes, is there fuch 4^8, 754 
 
 Anntfeed oil, ivhy freeze 545 
 
 Ambition, hotu to avoid ^90 
 
 Affronts, ho-xv to bear 594 
 
 Amber, nuhenee comes it 6 14 
 
 Aaron, m}hy make the golden calf, 617 
 
 Anchoi-ies, Kvhy diffohe 632 
 
 Afcending fain, a query thereon 640 
 
 Ads of the Apoftles, nxjho the author 655 
 
 AJb, ^jchat the ^virtue of it 770 
 
 Apothecary, *why faid to talk like one jyj 
 
 A/hes of Scots coal, mhy nfjhiteft 786 
 
 A6ls the vth, your opinion 697 
 
 Antipathy, an inflame of it 704 
 
 Alexander, 'why called great 842 
 
 Apollonius Tyanasus, j'(7«ro^/»w« of him 954 
 
 Adam, honu old 'when Eve nxias made 969 
 
 Antipathy, an inflame of one 995 
 Adam, coiCd he ha^ve JirCd viithout temptation 760 
 
 Antipodes, hoFw prvv'd 458, 754 
 
 Angels, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Angels f ivhen made page 404, 755 
 
 Amends to Apollo 509 
 
 B. 
 
 D Eauty, njohat 24 
 
 Blacks y <vjhy ixjoolly headed 25 
 
 Birth day of the prince j* 
 
 Bohea or /age, nxjhich luholefomeji \n 
 
 Bijhof s foot in it , whence the faying I08 
 
 Bijhopy njohy does he invoice refufe 1 2 r 
 
 Blood, njohy red 14^ 
 
 Blunder y nuhy calPd a bull, 1 5 8 
 
 Beajisy nvhich moft cunning I 7 j 
 
 Brutes, a quejiton on them tOo 
 
 Being, is there ivithout indi'viduals 266 
 
 Beer, ivhich the heji months to breiQ ^zj 
 
 Barnacles, your opinion on them 341 
 
 Blackamoor' s fkin, njohy foft ^-jr 
 
 Biarley, 'when foifSd by the Egyptians 407 
 Bird, njohy ftruck dead by flying over the dead fea 45 f. 
 
 Blu/heSy ^whence caus'd ac^ 
 
 Belly avhence the found 461 
 Ba/iard, nxjhy difgrace a nx)oman more than a man 497 
 
 Beard, hoiv of divers colours, ci± 
 
 Blepy the meaning of the nxjord r 5 j 
 
 Beery nvhy turrCd by thunder r 5 2 
 
 Beauty, honjo recover d ^jq 
 
 Bullet, hovo forc'd through the air rrg 
 
 Bafiard, if uncapahle of Jalvation 589 
 
 Breath, vjhy feen in ^winter 611 
 
 Bufinefs, ho^v Jhall Ifolloiv 6 1 9 
 
 Bugs, vohy bite they fame only 63 1 
 
 Buck, vohy ferve Does in vaults 646 
 
 Behave, my felf hovj 66 z 
 
 Bird, dies it a natural death 794- 
 
 Bleeding, a quejiion thereon 802 
 
 Bones, vchy break in frojly lueather more apt 825 
 
 Bards, ivhence derived 948 
 
 Black pudding, is it a fin to eat g^j 
 Boileau, Moliere, ar La Fontaine, the befl poet 1055 
 Z z 2 Borax, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Borax, nvhence ccmes it page 870 
 
 -Bnpiifm, a qutj^icn on it 88 1 
 
 Bathy %iky hot 898 
 
 Bsnejfit of the chrgjy ivhenu 9|0 
 
 C. 
 
 jT* Ritical tJiinutt \ 2 
 
 Cocks, 1'%' o/i Shrove Tuefda)- //^/'<;Tt7i at 15 
 
 Child, ivhy li'ke tie father, iho cuckold 1 8 
 
 Cherubsy i<:hy in the Saiidlum Sanctorum ibid. 
 
 Cain, ix:hat njoas the mark on him 37 
 
 CuckoLiSy nxhy nveay ho> m y 
 
 Creatures, nvere all made at fr/i ibid. 
 
 Culprit, Kvkat means it 36 
 
 Cat^ ic/^y Jhines its hair at night 38 
 
 Chiiilenge, hcn^v to anfu-er it 4 1 
 
 Cold to take, if properly fpoke 54 
 
 Chrifs temptation, if real 57 
 
 Cafration, ivhy helps the 'voice 6 1 
 
 Cleopatra, nvas it bran^e to kill herfelf' 66 
 
 Cornelian, ivhy change colour, 67 
 
 Chrif, IV hy on cures forbid telling them 85 
 
 Crooked backs, ivhy caWd lords 54 
 
 Canticles, n.>jhy not read in church 06 
 
 Cats, hoiv fee in the dark 98 
 
 Comedian, is he the a6lor or ivrittr 108 
 
 Covetoufnejs, or prodigality ivorje 125 
 
 Colour, <what is it 134 
 
 Cuckolds, mohen it rains and fhines 152 
 
 Coronation day, a poem 154 
 
 Cou/in germans, may they marry 155 
 
 Chorea Sanfti Viti, honju cans' d 158 
 
 I Corinth, i. 17. the meaning of it 162 
 
 Charity of St. Paul, the meaning 163 
 
 Cain'j ivife, nvho/e daughter 1 79 
 
 Cheat in cufoms paid, a quejiion 1 84 
 
 Common prayer, a paffage 1 86 
 
 Chrif, njchere after his refurreSiion 1 87 
 
 Cofin, fjjohence derived 1 98 
 
 Calendar, a quejiion on it 214 
 
 Cathartic 
 
I.N D E X. 
 
 Cathartic pot ion ^ honx) operate page 215 
 
 Compel them to come in, the meaning of it 2 1 9 
 
 Cocks eggs, are there fuch 225 
 
 Chameleons, honxj change colour 227 
 
 Cats, njohy pur oti ^roaking 24O 
 
 Cold, qjjhat the caufe of it ibid. 
 
 Cain'j facrifice, njohy 7iot pkafe 241 
 
 Coxcomb, -^Johy fo calPd 244. 
 
 Cuckoldom, a query on it ibid. 
 
 Cafe, an extraordinary one 249 
 
 Conjuring, nvho the frji inventor of if 252 
 
 Chriji, 'what is it to be in him 259 
 
 Child, ho^j^ marJCd 261 
 
 Commijfon, may I buy one 265 
 
 I Cor. XV. 29. the meaning 276 
 
 ^Challenge, a quejlion on it 283 
 
 Climacierical, your opinion of it 286 
 
 Co'oetoufnefs, explain it 308 
 
 Coat, 7J€<TV made, can it be call" d ne^i.v 3^9 
 
 Charity, is it to give common beggars 347 
 
 Cramp in young birds, -ivhat 3 ij l 
 
 Cats, ^K:hy ajfedled ivith ?mirrain 356 
 
 Cafe of confcience 358 
 
 Chameleon, is there fuch a thing ^^ 375 
 
 Cafe cf confcience in traffic 396 
 
 Con'vert from Rome, if rebapti^d 404 
 
 Cafe relating to traffic 413 
 
 Col. i. 20. the meaning 424 
 
 Colic, nvhat the caufe 428 
 
 Col. i. $$. the meaning 432 
 
 Church, if not hejl to keep to one 44 1 
 
 Cantharides, 'whence their attraSiion 443 
 
 Cojiivenefs, nvhy affe6l the head ibid. 
 
 Conjj, hoiM foretel a form 454 
 
 ChriJl, njohere after his 12th year 455 
 
 Circe*J transformation, if true 459 
 
 Chrifs defcent to hell, the meaning 462 
 
 Cats-tail nveed, vohat is it 474 
 
 Cats, nxihy light they on their feet 475 
 Conquer our fehes or others, the greateji glory 483 
 
 Z Z 3 CQ^fitt 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Coujin ^jrmaniy may they marry page 4R7 
 
 Cui iio^SyWuhy bark at beggars 489 
 
 Crocus Metallorum, a query on it ibid. 
 
 Chriji^s defcenty nvhy an article of faith 509 
 
 Coach y nvfjy fame fick in it 512 
 
 Cuckolds, n)chy faid to go te heaven 525 
 
 Caf ration, a quefion on it ibid. 
 
 Catacombs, a quejiion on them 533 
 
 Crooked y fwhy of crooked conditions 534 
 
 CaheSy rcvhy caltd *ueal 546 
 
 Chinefe account, a queflion on it 550 
 
 1 Cor. i. 14, 34. Phil. iv. 3. reconcile 556 
 
 ChriJVs defcenty a queftion thereon 555 
 
 Creed, nxjhy caltd a fymbol 57^ 
 
 Carrier pigeon, a query on one 5^* 
 
 Child, can he be born a Chrifian 588 
 
 Chrifening a child, a query on it 5^9 
 1 Cor. i. 15, 20. Mat. xxiii. 31, ^Z, reconcile 593 
 
 Cockney y iiuhence the nxjord 620 
 
 Confirmation, is it necejfary 63 O 
 
 Coffee, nxjhat its ^virtue 632 
 
 Confirmation, if neceffary 63.8 
 
 Chrifl, did the de'vil knovj him God 639 
 
 Cramp, ivhat the caufe 64 1 
 
 Content, njohere found 659 
 
 Covfrmation, is fuficient 673 
 
 Caul on infants, ivhy lucky 674 
 
 Chrifi, 'who bore his crofs 681 
 
 Charity, your definition cf it ibid. 
 
 Complexion fanguifie, nxhy farfhefi fen 684 
 
 Crucifixion, a quefiion relating to it 78.2 
 
 Crufiy ijuhy lik^d by fo7ne 797 
 
 Calendar, nvhat the ufe 697 
 
 Col. ii. 18. the meaning 708 
 Celibacy, quefiions on it 7 1 2, 807 
 
 Cold, ijuhat is it 810 
 
 Confumption, ^vhat the fymptoms 826 
 
 Curfe, your opinion on one 829 
 
 Children, njchy have fame late 840 
 
 Canterbury fioryy nxijj^nce ibid. 
 
 Cauk 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Cauls born twith, the (ignification page 840 
 
 Caty <why kilPd by brandy 85 1 
 
 Church of Rome or England, the anclente/i 945 
 
 Cough ^ a quejiion on one 958 
 
 Cold, tuhy catch'' d ajleep, 966 
 Confumpti<ve people, n.vhy not fenjthle of their malady 1056 
 
 Cocks, njoJjy jlng bejl, 724 
 
 Coal pits, a quejiion 737 
 
 Cochitiele, nvhat is it ibid. 
 
 Cards, is it lanvful play 744 
 
 Coujins fecond, may they marry ibid. 
 
 Charms, are there fuch 813 
 
 Camphire, nvhere found 869 
 
 Cancer, nx>hat is it 906 
 
 1 Cor. xvi. zz. the meaning 921 
 
 I Cor. XV. 24. explain 938 
 
 D. 
 
 T\ Ebtor, can he gi've alms 36 
 
 Dogs, hanje they feeling 92 
 
 Die quibus in terris, your opinion • 97 
 
 Dogs, nvhy ivag their tails I07 
 
 Demoniacs, ifjere they madmen 1 1 o 
 
 Dream, ivhat is it 128 
 
 Dog's nofe, nvhy cold 130 
 
 Drinking, quejiion 1 46 
 
 Droixfinefs, nuhence I50 
 
 Deucalion'^ ^<7o^, your opinion 187 
 
 Do^s howling, fwhat omen 2o6 
 
 Devily of nvhicb Jex 229 
 
 Duke Humphry, to dine ivith 23 1 
 
 Dominica in Albis, nvhy Jo caltd 25 1 
 
 Death y honv caused by fur prize 27 1 
 
 Death of St. John, nvhat muas it 273 
 
 Drinking, quejiion 305 
 
 Di'vifibility infinite y honxj is it 310 
 
 Dog, nvhy turns three times round 3 24 
 
 David' J charaSieVy hoiv clear' d 381 
 
 Dumb by a fright, your opinion 389 
 Drinking, is it not felf -murder nvhen immoderate 43 1 
 
 Zz 4 Day 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Day fecondy njchy not bleft page 437 
 
 De/pair, hoiv cur'd j^j^ 
 
 Days, are ours told 4.80 
 
 De^Wy from 'whence is it 489 
 
 Drunkards^ nvJjy fee double 496 
 
 DogSy nvhy do they not fifjeat 525 
 
 Dun, nvhence derinS'd ^'^^ 
 
 Die, nvhy do people at turn of the title 545 
 
 Dartings in the blood, nvhence 552 
 
 David, ivhy a fin to number the people 564 
 
 Dry cough, hon.v occaforid 575 
 
 Day, nvhen begins it 595 
 
 Dreams, homo occaforid 599 
 
 Day, frf of the nveek, 'why kept 649 
 
 Diabetes, nfjhence proceeds it 664 
 
 Defpair, your ad'vice thereon 665 
 
 Devi I ^ does he kno-uo our thoughts 673 
 
 Drink, why four'' d by a drum 785 
 
 Death, nvhy painted like a fie let QU ibid. 
 
 Drunk as 'D2ivi(\^s fo<w, 'whence 8iy 
 
 De^il, nvhycaWd old nick, 822 
 
 Drinking, a cafe thereon " 837 
 
 Dancing, a. qucfign on it 949 
 
 Dreams of blind men ^yz 
 
 Death, nvhy a terror to Atheifs 982 
 
 Draught, 'what the definition 990 
 
 Death-bed-repentance, your thoughts on it 720 
 
 Dever-court, 'whence the proverb 739 
 
 Drunk, if not <vcholefom - 863 
 
 Devil-tavern, 'why fo called 864 
 
 DoSior, ho^oj fpelt 934 
 Drunkennefs or fornication 'which the great ef ftn 939 
 
 E. 
 
 "P At able s, 'why fome raife fpittle 3 
 
 Enrich' d cobler 5 
 
 Echo, IV hat its nature 45 
 
 Enjil, 'who its frf author, 93 
 
 Earth f if plain before the flood 128 
 
 Egyptian 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Egy Tpthn ^arknefs, h(yw felt pige 134 
 
 England, tMho the firji inhabitants 147 
 
 Eft ate, 3 entituled to it i^y 
 
 Earsy nvhy monj'd in brutes 1 66 
 
 Earth, honjo fupported i^I 
 
 Eccle. xxxviii. 8. njohat means 213 
 
 jE"^^, ^why hard to break the hng nvay 21^ 
 
 Englifli, if fpoken at the confufion of languages 245 
 
 England, are not its oivjt commodities fujfficient 259 
 
 Eye, is its humour of any colour 3 1 6 
 
 Earth, mcves it on its axis 349 
 
 Englilh /<3»g-«^ hoixj attaitid 361 
 
 EveV midnjoife, <who ivas Jhe 370 
 
 YX\]2!s letter, ho^vj carried 380 
 
 Eating, nvhy intoxicated after it 399 
 
 Echo, ivhy mo've in an arcuate line 420 
 
 Eye, a queftion on it - 442 
 Eyes, vohy fame diftingui/h colours hitter than ethers 504 
 
 Earnxtigs do they fly 545 
 
 "EvQ, if fubjeci to Adi2im 584 
 
 Ezekiel xx. 25. your opinion 599 
 
 Eyes bad, nuhence caus d 604 
 
 Earth or fun go round 6lO 
 
 Eyes of different cohurs, the caufe- 633 
 
 Exod. xxxiii. 11. explain 637 
 
 Euthalia'j repentance 6^j 
 
 Ezekiel chap. i. the meaning y6j 
 
 Eafler-day, a qus/lion on it 771 
 
 Earth its motion 698 
 
 Exod. ix. 31. explain 735 
 
 England, ho^'j long called fo- 'j\^j 
 
 Ebbing and foiving ^whence 816 
 
 Eruptions, ivhat the caufe 934. 
 
 Eccle. vii. 2. the meaning 953 
 Enjoying outivard things or contempt of them, heft 964 
 
 Eccle. x. 20. the meaning 968 
 
 Extortion, i^hat is it 98.1 
 
 Z z 5 File 
 
I N D E X. 
 
 F. 
 
 jpjie, nvhy Jet the teeth on edge page 2 
 
 •^ Friend/hip y ode on it 20 
 
 Friendjhipy quejiions on it, 42. 83, 1 1 3, 120, 144, 
 
 190, 268, 384, 538, 581, 659, 786, 884. 
 
 Fairies, are there Juch creatures 1 01 
 
 Fires, luhy greater put out lefs 113 
 
 Fe'vers intermitting, nvhat the caufe 127 
 
 Flux of the fea, <vj hence ' 5" 
 
 Foetus, hew marked 1 66 
 
 Fairy rings, hoiv made 1 9^ 
 
 Flannel fparkling, the reafon of it 222 
 
 freckles, the caufe of them 265 
 
 Flying by an engine 333 
 
 Fortune fea ling, dejern)es it hanging 34^ 
 
 Fornication, is it allo^v'd 37 ^ 
 
 Frogs, ho^w long ivithout mouths 3°^ 
 
 Fortune, is there fuch thing 4^4 
 
 Fijh, hoiv breathe in the fea 443 
 
 Fiddk, nvhence the found 453 
 
 Fly, can a pretender to it 47^ 
 
 Foxes, luhence their fcent 497 
 
 Frogs, does it rain atiy 53^ 
 
 Fif? in fait n.vater ivky frejh 539 
 
 Fortune-tellers, if lawoful to go to them 572 
 
 Freewill, honv jufifed 624 
 
 Fat, hoiu reduced 627 
 
 Fits, <vjhy people fronger in them 641 
 
 Friend y howo to choofe 647 
 
 Friend, ho^ knonv a true one 663 
 
 FiJh, do they feep 675 
 
 Fir, njohat is the juice 705 
 
 Tear, nvhy makes one to pifs 790 
 
 Foetus, a queflion on it 747 
 
 Fire, ^whence the Roman cufom for ivomen to touch it 
 
 922 
 
 Faculty, the meaning 947 
 
 Four of dubs, ijohy f^?//*^ WiblingV ifjitch 1039 
 
 Ciddinefs, 
 
INDEX. 
 G. 
 
 /^ Iddinefs, nvhy on high places page ^ 
 
 Gaping, ivhy catching 6 1 
 
 Gaming^ hcnv rejiraiiid 65 
 
 Galling^ honjo curd by elder 136 
 
 Generaly njuho the greatejl 1 49 
 
 Gofpely n.vhy ft and at it 1 56 
 
 God to praife, nvhy not Jlanding 163 
 
 Gainings your opinion of it 1 74 
 
 G/a/r, nuhy t ran/parent igz 
 
 Golden hough, ivhat 'virtue had it log 
 
 Gazette, ivhence deri-vd too 
 
 Genefis i. 2. reconcile 2zo 
 
 GunpoiA^der, good or bad invention 221 
 
 Genefis xvii. ly. the meaning 234 
 
 Genefis vi. 2. /^^ tnenning ^bid. 
 
 Gunponjuder, or print i'/ig of moft ufe 266 
 
 Greeny if good for the eyes 281 
 
 Go^ /;/ Hebrew, w^' //^-^ /)/«;y?/ number 5 3 i 
 
 Gaming, a queftion on it 348 
 
 Goo^ Mf«, nvhy afraid to die 476 
 
 Glafsy honv break of tts ft If 497 
 
 Godhead y homo contain d in humanity 50 1 
 
 Genefis xxviii. 20. your opinion 520 
 
 Genefis iii. 5, 22. the meani?ig ^32 
 
 Gall ^jen broke, ^<.ohy dro-iwid people rife 546 
 
 Genefis ii. 12. the meaning 610 
 
 G(?(?/f, 10-^^/2/ o« Michaelmas day 64!^ 
 
 Godmother, may I marry 6^70 
 
 Go^, Z'otu y«/V /"o be merciful 667 
 
 G/fl/}, if fubjca to decay 66 S 
 
 Giants y njoere there enjer fuch 777 
 
 Geldingy can it be caWd a horfe 787 
 
 Giddinefsy the caufe of it 79 5 
 
 Go^'j exiftenccy a query on its eternity 689 
 
 GraJhopperSy nvhence their noife 690 
 
 Gratitude, a queftion on it 806 
 
 God in Glocefter, the meaning 810 
 
 Gen. j. 7. the meaning 814 
 
 2 z 6 G/Wi, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Cirlsy nj:hy eat /and, See. page 126 
 
 Gouty ^whence proceeds it 9^^ 
 
 Gray in youth, ho^w cauCd ibid. 
 
 Gen. i. \. your opiyiion 1032 
 
 Gen. iv. 26. expiaiji 922 
 
 Gen. V. 28, 29. explain 933 
 
 Gen. ix. 20. explain ibid. 
 
 H. 
 
 TJAily fwhy in nxarm nveather 7 
 
 Hopey a poem 39 
 
 Heraclitus, or Democritus, in the right 59 
 
 Hagar ^»<:AJCeturah, if thefa?ne 64 
 
 Herrings, nvhy die fo foon 67 
 
 Hurricane 1 703, « quejiion on it 93 
 
 i/iz/r, queftions on it 93, 102, 166, 278, 575, 669, 
 
 940, 1026. 
 
 Humourous poems 1 1 6 
 
 Hope of reii-ard, is it not a Ianx:ful motinje to charity 1 1 7 
 
 Hogs, ho^o they fee the ixiind 1 1 9 
 
 Humourous queftions, 114, 117, 121, 1 22, 1 37, 1 45, 
 
 146, 151, 153, 161, 168, 193, 203, 217, 223, 
 
 ■ 230, 238, 240, 244, 255, 279, 288, 295, 303^ 
 
 305, 311, 313, 317, 321, 328, 370, 372, 390, 
 
 ^93» 399. 400, 401, 406, 414, 435, 445, 446, 
 
 453> 454' 462, 477, 478, 484, 486, 492, 498^ 
 
 505, 508, 513, 514, 521, 524, 526, 534, 541, 
 
 546, 547, 554, 571, ^-j-], 587, 596, 602, 607,. 
 
 653, 685, 691, 699, 740, 765, 773, 782, 797, 
 
 813, 819, 828, 833, 842, 851, 879, 886, 892, 
 
 893, 900, 902, 91.9, 921, 937, 938, 943, 962, 
 
 ^lly 9^4* 985> I'^o^, 1012, 1024, 1045, 1046, 
 
 i054> 
 Heat, can it he iviihout fire 1 28 
 
 Health, tvkere befl regained 173 
 
 Horns, a queflion on their growth 1 74 
 
 Happinefs, honv obtain' d 2 1 8 
 
 Hell, tivo que f ions on it 225, 226, 
 
 Happinefs, if progreffi<vt 346 
 
 Horfe, queflions on tt 360, 389, 399, 552 
 
 Her ma - 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Hermaphrodites, can they generate ^ page 365^ 
 
 Hackney, the meaning of the woord ^^^ 
 
 Happinefs, ivhat is it ^Oq 
 
 Handfome, can an ugly ^'oman think her felf 465 
 
 Heart-burny 'what the caufe aSz 
 
 Hammer or tongs firii invented jg^ 
 
 Hair lip, njjhat the caufe of it r j 2 
 
 Heat and cold y nx)hat are they erg 
 
 Hearty njohy beat on the left fide r%>y 
 
 Hermaphrodites are there 5^2 
 
 Healths to drinky nvhence came the cujiom 61 g 
 
 Holly y why fitbjeSi to petrefaSiion g^Q 
 
 HarCy nxjhy the fcent decays ^j^ 
 
 Hebrews xi. 39, 40. the meaning 682 
 
 Hail, <what is ity g2 2 
 
 Hebrews, by 'whom 'writ 066 
 
 Happinefs y honv attain'' d 071 
 
 Hartjhorny a quejiion on it ngg 
 
 Hea'veny 'where is it loq^ 
 
 Hope, 'why do 'we -2q 
 
 Hell, 'what, the pains, 0^2 
 
 Julian, 'why turn Pagan 22 
 JofephV genealogy, 'why gi'ven />x 
 Jacob, did he Jin, in owning himfelf Efau (^a 
 Idea, fwhat is it g - 
 Jofeph, 'why not hold intelligence 'with Jacob in fo long 
 ahfence 02 
 James V. i/i^, your opinion thereon iqq 
 Jealoufy, 'why a fign of lo've iqq 
 J ack-a-lanthorny 'what is it i j 2 
 Imitation of others, does it not lofe our natural ad-van- 
 tages ,,3 
 jejis, 'why pro'voke laughter j 24. 
 Impotence y 'why from eagernefs K- £ 
 Itch, 'why cat ch^ d by a touch j82 
 Intefinum ccscum, of 'what ufe l g^ 
 John xxi. 25. the meaning of it 226 
 John viif. 58. the meaning of it 241 
 John, 'why notes he not the Lord's fupper 242 
 Joy and forrovj, ivhat their eje^ 24c 
 
 Jeahujyy 
 
INDEX. 
 
 yeaioujy, yoitr\^mon on it page 109, 252 
 
 John ix. the meaning 258 
 
 Ifaiah liii. 4. the meaning z^g 
 
 yujfiice, ifEfq-y ivhen dtf charged 278 
 
 Joleph, if firji or eleventh fon 291 
 
 Jews in China, a quejiion on them 306 
 
 Illiterate men^ luhy not to preach 307 
 
 Ideas J if alike in all 332 
 
 Jews, ivJt^ fo contemptible 338 
 
 Jeahufy, nvhence proceeds it 3^5 
 
 Ifle of Dogs, query on it 357 
 
 / amy a queflion on thofe ivords 36^ 
 
 Jefuits bark, hc'iv its di-vers operaticas 382 
 
 Incubuffesy do they generate 388 
 
 Judges iv. 21 . the meaning 427 
 
 John xxvi. 26. the meaning 441 
 
 Infants, nx:hy do they fmile 444 
 
 Judgment day, if foreknonxn hy God the Son 4^7 
 
 Jefuits bark, a quefion on it 466 
 
 Jacob'j rods, honjo affeSi the cattle 467 
 
 John X. 30. your opinion thereon 518 
 
 Jacob, if finful to deceive his father 524 
 
 Ifraelites, ^-ere they 430 years in Egypt 563 
 
 Jngratitude, a quefion on it 593 
 
 -infants, <-ojhy they have not reafon 603 
 
 James ii. 24. Rom. iii. 2. reconcile 608 
 
 Judgment da\\ a queftion on it 624 
 
 John XX. 22. your opinion 638 
 
 Idea, ^vhy <variou/Iy affe8 uSj 640 
 
 yiands, honxj firft inhabited 64 1 
 
 Job xxxviii. 8. explain 645 
 
 ■/ohn i. 4, 12. ho^iio reconciled ivith other texts 658 
 
 John xiv. 28. explain 667 
 
 Infants have they fin to anftver for, if die fo 6j'^ 
 
 Jufl men, ivhy unhappy here 677 
 
 Infant born in the 'jth month ufually lives, in th %th 
 
 month dies, the reafon 714 
 
 Judith iv. 3. explain 725 
 
 Joys fcnfual hoiv refrained 75° 
 
 John XX. 17. explain 752 
 
 Judgment day, your opinion 8 i 4 
 
 Jofepli, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Jofeph, a quejlton on him page 84? 
 
 John laji chap, and'ver. the meaning 846 
 
 Jubilee^ hoiv oft kept 9 1 2 
 
 Indian' J quejiion 971; 
 
 Iz'izhxxxvni. the meaning • 953 
 
 liaiah Iviii. i'^, explicate 988 
 
 K. 
 2^ //^, a quejiion on its motion 1^7 
 
 I Kings vii. 23. //6f meaning of it 181 
 
 2 Kings i. 17. the meaning -80 
 
 ^/7/ /z high<voay man, if la<ivful 4 1 7 
 
 Knonvledgef nxihy deftrd of things it;/// ^vex us 604 
 
 KiJJing^ nvhat benefit, thence 618 
 
 iT/;/^ «;/</ queen, n-vhy chofe on twelfth day 81 i 
 
 King, *who tuas the firfi 971 
 
 Kings, if prejudicial to the P.oman fate 1 049 
 
 J-j. 
 
 jO^equepons,'^, 8, 12, 13, 21, 26, 27, 30, 33* 
 
 37, 42, 46, 49, 53, 62, 72, 75, 87, 89, 93, 
 
 94, 107, 113, 122, 139, 143, 151, 160, 167, 
 
 168, 185, 186, 188, 190, 191, 193, 194, 195, 
 
 198, 201, 207, 2o3, 210, 217, 218, 223, 224, 
 
 228, 232, 239, 240, 252, 254, 260, 263, 267, 
 
 272, 279, 280, 288, 304, 319, 334, 3^2, 344' 
 
 350, 351, 352, 369, 371, i-j-j, 378, 382, 383, 
 
 390, 391, 498, 408. 409, 412, 413, 422, 429* 
 
 43o» 433» 434» 439» 444* 44^, 452, 455, 461, 
 
 468, 469, 470, 484, 485, 489, 490, 499, 505, 
 
 506, 512, 527, 539, 549, 561, 569, 576, 578* 
 
 581, 592, 597» 600, 605, 612, 614, 621, 628, 
 
 635, 636, 643, 645, 651, 652, 658, 660, 662> 
 
 663, 676, 700, 711, 716, 723, 728, 730, 743, 
 
 751, 764, 766, 774, j-ji, 7S8, 789, 790, 798, 
 
 799, 803, 805, 809, 819, 827, 838, 848, 850, 
 
 852, 853, 856, 866, 871, 872, '^'j%, 882, 893, 
 
 908, 920, 924, 942, 949, 961, 972, 976, 978* 
 
 999, 1021, 1028, 1038, 1039, 1C48, 1052, 
 
 1054, 1056. 
 
 Lime, of nvhat fuhftance ^- 
 
 Leeks, iKihy 'worn by Wekhmen ^ ^ 
 
 Lead me into temptation, the meaning ^. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 hwtor frUndJhipy fwhich moji nohle page 133 
 
 Li/ping f luhy after drinking 115 
 Loanfes andfijhes^ ivere they increafed in the miracle 124 
 
 Lie officious y if finful 1 32 
 
 Lamech, nvhom did he Jlay 133 
 
 Liquors, hoiv rife in a crane 136 
 
 Light y nvhat avas it before the fun, 1 47 
 
 Longing in nvomen, nxihence 165 
 
 Lucretia, if for pride or virtue djd 169 
 
 Liquor y <^vhich ivholefomef ij^ 
 
 Lungs 'vjounded, a quejiion 1 8 1 
 
 Lo'very hon^j fh all 1 forget him 18^ 
 
 Luke X X i i . 36. your opinion 219 
 
 Language primitive njohich nvas 233 
 
 Lycurgus'/ /<2it'j, tf good 235 
 
 Liquors fpirituous, if good in hot countries 244 
 
 Life Jingle y if hefi 261 
 
 Le'viathany nxjhatisit 276 
 
 Letters y nvhy Ji and for numbers 286 
 
 Longitude, ivhich the beji 292 
 
 Love and -wine, a poem 297 
 
 Luke vi. 2^. your opinion of it 298 
 
 Loofenefsy hoiucur'^d 321 
 London-bridge, if built on ivool 376, 924 
 
 Longitude y a query relating to it 390 
 
 Liony iijill it hurt a virgin 421 
 
 Luke xxii. ^^ . the meaning /^^z 
 
 Light, is it a body 457 
 
 Lightning blue, nxhy hurts mo/l 458 
 
 Lot'/ nvife, remains fhe 481 
 
 Laz.inefsy hovj cur'd 5 1 4 
 
 Zflix; quefiion 534 
 
 Ladies, nvhy do men look hack on them 605 
 
 Lights y the t-ixo great ones 625 
 Lookingy ftaringy gazing, the difference vjhat is it 63 2 
 
 Luke xxiii. 43. explain 644 
 
 Leper y find he in telling his cure 655 
 
 Libertine, a quejiion on one 796 
 
 LicCy Txhence engender d 74 r 
 
 Ladies, verfes on 3. your opinion 828 
 
 London-Hone wbenere^ed 861 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Lardy lohy Jhould men he caWd page 986 
 
 Luke xvi. 9. explain 733, 987^ 
 
 Liver, ijohence the heat of it J053 
 
 M. 
 J^Oon, queftiom on 36, 96, 333, 419, 577, 625, 
 
 632 
 Mathematical quejiiom, 41, 112, 135, 1 48, 173, 183, 
 
 66g 
 Matrimonial queJiionSi 47, yS, 'JJ^ 122, 165, 172, 
 189, 208, 209,217, 253, 256,293, 355, 363, 
 367. 396, 40^ 423» 428, 433» 435. 439' 45^, 
 483. 519* 520, 528, 535, 541, 544, 575, 576, 
 578, 619, 642, 664, 673, 690, 705, 727, 775^ 
 787, 855, 865, 966, looi, 1007, 1026, 10345. 
 
 1036, 1053 
 
 Maidenheads njohy carefs d 55 
 
 Matter y if infinitely di'vifible 78 
 
 Martyrs f your opinion on their pajjjons 99 
 Michael'/ contention ivith the ds'vil, nuhat tht reafon of 
 
 their difpute I o i 
 
 Matthew oppos'*d to Luke 147 
 
 Mafculine gender, nvhy prefer abU 159 
 
 Murder, or adultery njuorfi 1 74 
 
 Melancholy quefiion » 17 7 
 
 Matthew a»^ Luke r^ro^r/// 187 
 
 May 'poles, nvhence the cujiom 198 
 
 Milton or Waller beji poets 202 
 
 Mo'vement perpetual, can it he made 208 
 
 A'larch 25, nvhy begins it the year 215 
 
 Mountains, niohat their caufe 220 
 
 Memory, can it be mended 221 
 
 Membrane pericard, nvbat ufe 245 
 Money, may i.ve borrow, beyond 9ur power te repay 259 
 
 Mufcular motion, ^what 261 
 
 Milk, nvhy nvhite 269 
 
 Motion perpetual, is there ibid^ 
 
 Mark ix. 49. the meaning zyG 
 
 Mechanics, 'which nobleji 278 
 
 Matt. viii. 22. your opinion on it 290 
 
 Mercury, hoiu falivates it 292 
 
 Matt, Y. 16. Matt. vi. i. reconcile 29^ 
 
 MaJt^ 
 
INDEX. 
 
 
 Man buried aHve^ a query on it 
 
 page 3 1 8 
 
 Millennium, your opimon thereof 
 
 323 
 
 Man, nxihy ordain d to Jin 
 
 327 
 
 Melancholy, honu curd 
 
 333 
 
 Meteor J mjhat is it 
 
 353 
 
 Matt, xxiii. 8, 9, lo^ the meaning 
 
 .35+ 
 
 Matt, xxiii. 2, 35, your opinion 
 
 ibid. 
 
 Moby nvhy fo caltd 
 
 355 
 
 Memory^ heft from reading or hearing 
 
 539 
 
 Memory defe^ive, ivhence 
 
 466 
 
 MufcUy ho<tv calculate its force 
 
 543 
 
 Murder, a quefion on one 
 
 581 
 
 Malachi ii. 14, i^. explain 
 
 434 
 
 Matt, xxvii. 52, ^^. your opinion 
 
 ego 
 
 Muficjlrings, ivhy apter to break inivet nueather than dry 
 
 Memory, hotu to mend 
 
 594 
 596 
 
 Mifs, if a crime to con'verfe viith one 
 
 623 
 
 Matt. i. 16. explain 
 
 650 
 
 Maggots, hoiv bred ivithout air 
 
 664 
 
 Monarchy, nvkich firjl 
 
 674 
 
 Malt liquor, ^ujhy not agreeable 
 
 67^ 
 
 Memory, nxjhy good in diftra^ion 
 
 684 
 
 Monfers a man pretends to carry, if real 
 
 770 
 
 Malachi laji ch. n). 5. explain 
 
 780 
 
 Mark viii. 10, 11. explain 
 
 783 
 
 Matt. V. 22. explain 
 
 791 
 
 Matt. vii. 13, 14. the meaning 
 
 694 
 
 Matter honv adhere 
 
 709 
 
 Miji, ivhy before a hot day 
 
 740 
 
 Miracle, the definition 
 
 905 
 
 Marble, nvhy fvjeat 
 
 906 
 
 Melchifedeck, ivho nvas he 
 
 926 
 
 Matt, xxvii. 5. A6lsi. 21. reconcile 
 
 946 
 
 Martyr, nvhat means it 
 
 952 
 
 Man, nvhy ereSied look 
 
 959 
 
 Matt. xii. 40. honv meant 
 
 967 
 
 Mark xvj. 16. the tneaning 
 
 968 
 
 Minijlers children, nvhy njoorfl 
 
 988 
 
 Mark xv. 32. your^ opinitn 
 
 990 
 
 Mules, nvhy not generate 
 
 994 
 
 Mutton, nvhy cool fooneji 
 
 1056 
 
I N D E X. 
 
 N. 
 J^Egroes, nvhy black page 2 
 
 Noah, luhy the Sih preacher 1 $0 
 
 Nine taylors make a man, hotu 236 
 
 Neiv rinjer nuater, a query on it 252 
 
 Nofe bleeding, is it ominous 278 
 
 Numbers xxii. 20, 22. reconcik 289 
 
 Nenus, luhence deri'v'd 294 
 
 Nineveh/ lubo was king 0/ it 315 
 
 Na<velf had Ad2im one 328 
 
 Night f a quejiion relating to it 362 
 
 Noife in the head, what the caufe 397 
 
 Nile, ^whence it overfoivs 490 
 
 Nofe, ivill ftrong beer make it red 5 1 2 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar, your opinion on his change 571 
 
 Numbnefsy what the caufe 574 
 
 Nofe red, how to remedy 583 
 
 Nofe, <why runs in colds 646 
 
 No/e, why red by ftrong liquor 821 
 
 Nettles, whence their ftinging , 844 
 
 Nipples, why ha've men 983 
 
 North-wind, nvhy coldejl 1 047 
 
 NoahV Jlood, co'ver'd it all the world 736 
 
 O. 
 
 f^ Cean, how contained in its bounds 8 1 
 Old maid, nmuld you advife her to marry 128 
 
 Old maids, why lead apes in hell 1 68 
 
 Onions, why affe£i the eyes 238 
 
 Oils, why fame Jink ' 301 
 
 Opium, your opinion on it 440 
 
 Optic nernje, is it holloniu 444 
 
 Optics, a que ft ion thereon 73* 
 Owls, nvhy Jly by night 547, looo 
 
 Oaks, <vjhy moft fubjeSi to thunder 566 
 
 Oath, a que ft ion on one 656 
 
 Old maidy nvhat nvorfe 803 
 
 Oblations, tuhat the ftgn of acceptance 823 
 
 Onions, do they fpoil the ftgbt 960 
 
 Optics, a quejiion thereon 732 
 
 Opium, how) death thereby knowon 742 
 
 Ovid, had he notions of the Scripture 747 
 
 Oaks 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Oaks found in the earth ^ your opinion on them page 'j^i^ 
 
 P. 
 
 pjlches, if lanjoful 1 7 
 
 Peny poji-mans complaint 34 
 
 Palpitation of the hearty the caufe of it 48 
 
 PaJ/ions, ivhy jirongejl in 'women 49 
 Perfedion^ is it attainable 52, 706 
 
 Phyfcy is it a duty to ufe it 5 2 
 
 Perfecution^ if allo'voed by St. Paul 7 1 
 
 I Peter iii. 19, 20. your opinion 105 
 
 I Peter iv. 6. your opinion 106 
 
 Planets, ^why not influence brutes 107 
 
 Pfalm Ixxxviii. 14. your opinion on it 146 
 
 Plays, if innocent to fee 150 
 
 Pox, HX)hy not hurt the eyes I 5 3 
 
 Planet (I ruck, nvhat is it 221 
 
 Pfalm xviii. 10. the meaning 227 
 
 PerfeHion, hoiv attained ibid*. 
 
 Pri [oners, may they be kept fa 258 
 
 Painting, nxho in'uenled it 271 
 
 Papifi, niihence the <vjord 278 
 
 Prayer and preaching compard i 33*^ 
 Proverb, As the Devil look'd ov£r Lincoln •• S75 
 
 Proverbs xxvi. 4, 5. your meaning "595 , 
 
 Purgatory, njchy afpgtid 4^ 2 
 
 Pepper, your opinion on it 419 
 
 /*<«/» and frnart honv diflinguifh'' d 420 
 
 Perfon fentencd, may he hang himfelf j\.^2 
 
 Perfius his firfl fatyr, your opinion 474 
 Painting or carnjing preferable 5 1 3, 982 
 
 Pilate, may he be accufed 516 
 
 Paradife, ivhere fititated 516 
 
 Poetry, ho<u) improue in it 540 
 
 Purgatory, a queftion on it 549 
 
 Polygamy, a queftion therein 61 
 Predeftination 567, 6o2, 967 
 
 Pleafures 'vain, hoiu avoid 576 
 
 Precept, or example moft pre'valent 592 
 
 Peier, did he e<ver come to England 60 1 
 
 Prophecies, honv compatible nuith free'^hoill 602 
 
 Pfalm cxli. 4. the meaning 616 
 
 Puppiesy 
 
INDEX. 
 
 puppies f IV hy nine days blind page 634 
 
 Prince^ his death^ a dialogue 669 
 
 Prince^ his death, a poem 678 
 Piciuresy tuhy of men, /irike the eye nviih greater -force 
 
 684 
 
 Poetry, honjo Jhall 1 excell in it 685 
 
 Prince, his chara^er 686 
 
 Prince his epitaph 701 
 
 Poetry, ^whence its force 796 
 
 Prime, the meaning of it 809 
 
 Paper, '•juho invented it 810 
 
 Prief and facrifice, ho-tv is our Lord called 822 
 
 Prifcian'i head to break, nxibence 824 
 
 poetry, ivbo in'vented it 834 
 
 Proverbs xxiv. your opinion 854 
 
 Pain, =why f opt by holding the breath 948 
 
 Pain, or pleafure mo/i real 982 
 
 Pfalm li. 5. explain looi 
 
 Populate, depopulate, the meaning l<^35 
 
 Pimple on the tongue, nvhat the caufe 1^47 
 
 Parliament, wohence the 'word -j\j^ 
 
 Pigmies, are there fuch 905 
 
 Pain, ho'vj felt 913 
 
 ^Uacks, aqueftionon them 238 
 
 ion ho^v knonu the true 46 
 
 Roman facrifices, a que/iion on them 1 04 
 
 Red e<ven, ivhy the Jign of a fair day 119 
 
 Royal touch, n^.hence the inrtue 15 1 
 
 Rain, ^whence comes it 200 
 
 Rainboiv, tvhy fo colour d 224 
 
 Reafon, konv loji by furprize 268 
 
 Repentance flncere, ivhat 331 
 
 Rainbrw, if before the flood ibid. 
 
 Rain, honv in fmall drops 359 
 
 Ruth iv. 4. and 6. reconcile 381 
 
 Rich men, njohy fubje^ to the gout, 438 
 
 Rainbow by moonlight, the caufe 474 
 
 Religion, ivhy makes it people ill natur'd 48 1 
 
 Ret^on, if lojl at death 518 
 
 Rake, 
 
 R^ifl 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Rni^e, the meaning of the 'uoord page 525 
 
 Retirement, honv employ C4.8 
 
 Rhimcetosy nvhat is it 552 
 
 Redemption by Chrift, a quefiion thereon 555 
 
 Rocks, ivhy thofe caWd bifhop and his clerks, 567 
 Rob, it il iaioful thofe have nvrong^d us 591 
 
 River by Brillol, // from na'.ure or art 600 
 
 Rofemary, njohy us*d at funerals 640 
 
 Rev. vi. 9, 10, I \. explain 653 
 
 Ramfey the rich, nvhence the faying 773 
 
 Relations t^wo ftrange ones 816 
 
 Real prefence, a quefiion on it 95 7 
 
 Refitution, a quejiion thereon 986 
 
 Refurre£iioni a quejiion on it 1 041 
 
 Rome was not built in a day, nvhence the faying 1055 
 Right hand, if it offend^ nvhal the meaning 
 Requeft to Apollo 
 
 S. 
 
 SOcrates'/ damm 
 Sampfon, guilty of f elf -murder 
 Self-murderers, ivhy denfd chrijiian burial 
 Sculls f njvhy feams only in fome 
 Springinefs, -what the caufe 
 Sin, original, vohat 
 Suffufion of the eye, a question en it 
 Shadonvs, honv inverted 
 Sheep, vjhy bleat at Rearing 
 Spontaneous produ^ions, a quefiion 
 Sobriety, vuhat the rules of it 
 Sky, vuhence its colours 
 Saviours expiration, nvhy fo fudden 
 Shortnefs of fight, whence 
 Scoich-crofs, luhence ivom 
 Self-murder, if brave 
 Sacrament, a quefiion on it 
 Storks^ come they into monarchies 
 Souly nvhat is it 
 Scold, honv to mend her 
 Spirits of men, nvhence do they excel 
 Spleen, vohat the ufe of it 
 Sleep, how excited by forrovj 
 
 5 
 
 726 
 751 
 
 32 
 39 
 45 
 52 
 54 
 
 60 
 66 
 
 68 
 70 
 73 
 74 
 77 
 78 
 80 
 
 96 
 109 
 III 
 116 
 ii» 
 120 
 
 Snvans, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Siuans, Jifig they before death page 1 26, 907 
 
 SnualioiJUSy njohere in ivinter i 3 5 
 
 Souls departed, ivhere firjl go 1 40 
 
 Soufs immortality, ixhtnce 141 
 
 Salmtns, njohatdo they feed on I49 
 
 Snuord- blade i bo^ melted by lightning ibid. 
 
 Sky, fwhy dark before rain 153 
 
 Sanjiour, honuald ivhen cruciffd 154 
 
 Son of God, how from eternity 1 79 
 
 Seed, vjhy produce divers colours 182 
 
 Serum f hoiv evacuated 1 85 
 
 5w/, if preexifient 1 86 
 
 5/j///| iv^ yiS'^?!?/ into fuch Jbapes 190 
 
 ^^jvw, if bare friend/hip may be ibid. 
 Sin againji the Holy Ghofi, nvbat 195, 246 
 
 Shem, nvas he king of Salem 196 
 
 5oa/f departed, your opinion 204 
 
 Scriptures, honv the *word of God 206 
 
 Spirits, do they generate ibid. 
 
 Springs, ivhy coldeft in fummer 211 
 
 Sabbath, vjhence commencd it ibid. 
 
 Svoallovus, *ivhy neji in a chimney 216 
 
 Starry influence, vihatistt 2 20 
 
 Sexes, if dijiinguijh'd in bea^m 234 
 
 •5»«, *when near eft to us 235 
 
 5/^f/, wohy foon foftned 236 
 
 Salifbury Breviary a query 243 
 
 5o« 0/* God, nxihy the judge 253 
 
 Stammering, honxi cured 268 
 
 Sperma-cseti, ivhat is it '270 
 
 Soldiers mercenary, your opinion of ihtm 271 
 
 Soul, vohere in a fnuoon 287 
 
 Straiv, how does it preferve ice 293 
 Snuff, your opinion of it 294> 34* 
 
 Soul or body, greateji finner 314. 
 
 Sam. i. 17, explain 315 
 
 ^/<?^/, f«» people fin in it 33 1 
 
 5a», </o^/ ;/ </«»<-^ on Eallerday 335 
 
 Solitude, a poem 3361 
 
 Sun, njohy darkned at the crucifixion 352 
 
 Samuel, if a per final appearance 363 
 
 Salt, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Salt J hoiv congeals it nxjater page 366 
 
 Springs^ hoi.v flonv from hills 368 
 
 Stockings y Ktjhy thro^ivn at ijoeddings 570 
 
 Stones, do they gronv ^ja 
 
 Senfe^ ijjhich the nohlejl 377 
 
 Sacrament y ho^vo call d a /upper 387 
 
 Seaf nvhat caufes the ebb and Jiaiu 407 
 
 Seoy HK)hence its faltnefs 420 
 
 1 Sam. xxxi. 4. i^hat meaning 426 
 
 Sirnjanty may he dete£i his mafters crime 437'- 
 
 St'ven/h Jon, can he cure difeajes 44<^ 
 
 Sunday y may one nvalk in the fields 442 
 
 Salamander y is there one 45 I 
 Single perjonsy can they not converfe tegether innocently 452 
 
 St. George, njL'ho'washe 458 
 
 Sifter s baftardy am I uncle to it 474 
 
 Stick» 'why crooked in the wcater 482 
 
 Starting, nxhat the caufe of it ibid. 
 
 Sheckle of filnjer, ^what the ^ualue 483 
 
 Spedaclesy hoiv long ivorn 485 
 
 Soul, does it knoiv its ft ate juft after death 5 1 7 
 
 Spirits y do they fee 565 
 
 Sun, moon and ftarSy nxihich higheft 567 
 
 Sun, is it bigger than the earthy 5 74 
 
 Sacrament, a queftion thereon 580 
 
 Sleep, ivhy people 'uoalk in it 5 84 
 
 Sneezing y nvhat the caufe ^gz 
 Sex, can the fame lo've the fame as nuell as the contrary 
 
 601 
 Serpent, hoiv juft to puniftj it for the demts fault 603 
 
 Spider, hoiM fpin from tree to tree 607 
 
 Sleepy ivhy heft on the right fide 6 1 1 
 Souls in hewven, kno^ti, they their friends on earth 6 1 7 
 
 Sin, njoas there any before Mofes 650 
 
 Sin of uncleannefs y lAjhat . 655 
 
 Saviour's fufierings, hoiv fufiicient 673 
 
 Sounds y houo communicated 674 
 
 Snake, is it poifonous ibid. 
 
 Specific C. P. nvhy ne'ver given in the fit ibid. 
 
 Soldier, honjo be one innocently ibid. 
 
 Symbols of the Evange lifts, ^whence 680 
 
 Salt 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Sali-petery and peter-falt, ^hat the difference page 683 
 
 Souli 'what is it .779 
 
 Soufs immortality t how pro'ved ibiQ.. 
 
 Soul^ can it return to the body 7" 3 
 
 Sacrament y if neceffary to fahati'in 79 ^ 
 
 Sacrament t a que fi ion on it . ^^9 
 
 Snoiv, ivhat is it ^^4 
 
 Surgery, tuho invented it ^3^ 
 
 Si\2i\i, the meaning 0/ it 837 
 
 Secrets, your opinion cffMO 594 
 
 Senjenth fon^ can he cure 852 
 
 Strangury, ftrangullion hoiv differ S50 
 
 Su^ion, iKihat is it 94-7 
 
 Sun, a quejiion on it 974 
 
 Something, has it fignification 979 
 
 Strange relation of a dead man 9^° 
 
 Small pox comes it tivice 9^^ 
 
 Scot-free, the meaning of it 1038 
 
 Smieatingf a firange cafe \o\\ 
 Spitting, if injurious to healih 832, IO52 
 
 I Sam. xxi. i. explain 720 
 
 Sun, a que [lion on it 7^^ 
 
 Sea, ^Mby fait J 2$; 
 
 Soul, does it increafe 73" 
 
 Sin, is it tofwear fS^ 
 
 Snuff, nxihy finks it 7^3 
 
 Siny if fo becaufe I think ii 7^4 
 
 Soul, hoix} born in Jin ^75''* 
 
 Swans, fing they before death 1 2^ 
 
 Sin, a quejiion on it S59 
 
 Ships, ijohy of the feminine gtndir 9^3 
 
 Soul, njuhy fomt times brighter 9^7 
 
 Sleep, ivhat is it 929 
 
 Sno^Mf with fait, K\thyfreefce ibid«. 
 
 T. 
 
 n^Hought, iMhat is it 1 1 - 
 
 Tears, the caufe rjohat J O*"' 
 
 Turpentine, wohy fcents the urine 3 7 
 
 Thought, '^dohence proceeds it 47v 
 
 TwkeycQck^ head, nvby red and blui 55 
 
 B.b b liiUi, 
 
INDEX. 
 
 ^tdeSi nvhy greater at fime timet page 80 
 
 temper y hoixi changed 103 
 
 Baylor y hsiu to make him hone ft 121 
 
 ^imey nvhat ajffinity luith eiernitj 1 4 1 
 
 trifles ^ ^hy purfued 1 59 
 
 ftaylor's bill, a quejiion on it 1 75 
 
 torment, if greater for greater Jinners 226 
 
 ^ruth, how knvwn from faljhood 28 j 
 
 Thought t *vain honu avoid 29 1 
 
 Tnvifts joined together, your opinion of them 299 
 
 Twins, a quejiion on them 308, 314, 316, 326, 365 
 
 Ticklijh, why one more than another 358^ 
 
 Thunder, *what the caufe 3-61 
 
 Tobacco and fnuffy honv long ufed 376- 
 
 1 Tim. ii. 15. the meaning 403 
 
 Tyburn, what its original 405 
 
 Turkey, why offered at red 42 Z 
 Truths fundamental, what tbr heft hook to teach them 472 
 
 Truft, whai the breach of it J^jy 
 
 Tongue fcandalouSt nuhat merits it ibid. 
 
 Tempt fts, if raijed by conjuration 488" 
 
 Tickhjh, the caufe of it 496- 
 
 Turks, why not circumcife till 7 yean ^Ut 534 
 
 Third heaven, the meaning of ii 55a 
 
 Tranfmigraiion, fiery thereon 564 
 
 Teeth, two rows- nxhat the cauft 5.73 
 
 Time pajl and to come, a query 61 1 
 
 Trade, which the bejl 629- 
 
 Thinkers, why not con'verf'ut 633 
 
 Tit kit fig, why produce laughter 641 
 
 Tooth- a cb, nvby fwell the face 646^ 
 
 Tithes, can they be demanded in any number under ten 
 
 Tnuins join d together , is it polygamy to marry them 663- 
 Tendcrton^s fteeple the caufe of Goodwin*s fands, how 
 
 applicabU 682 
 
 Things JlrangUd, a que ft ion thereon 702 
 
 Tranflation 704 
 
 Tumour, a quejiion on one 7*^5 
 
 T^banQi your opinion thtrtm ^Y^ 
 
 Tut 
 
I N D E X. 
 
 <TreeofMt <2«^ knowledge, ifjhtfamt page 99a 
 
 Toba€co, nubat the <virtues 72^3 
 
 Traufi, their cufloms 734 
 
 tradt'wotndsy aquijiion 762 
 
 Trees, hvw fplit by cold" 91 8> 
 
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 T^Inegary what effeS en nitre 64 
 
 Vinegar, nuhy caufe fwtat' 1-27 
 
 Unicorn, defcribe it 1*3^' 
 
 ^/^^r, <z quejiion on it 2 1^ 
 
 Vuhano^i, *what the caufe 293 
 
 Vacuum, ^ quejiion on it 419^ 
 
 ^r^f« Mary, ixjai Jhe alnfiaytfa 494 
 
 Vice, hovojhall I amid 715 
 
 Voice, why a feaed hy cold X.054 
 
 Tl^tld, nvhy not made in a momtnf 6 
 fVinter, why not hot ri 
 f^'or^/ ^ G»/^, tf quejiion on it 30 
 Woodcocks, nuhere in tht fummer 65 
 Woman, may Jhe follow the camp with her husband in ho- 
 nour ibid, 
 Wifdom, what is it S6 
 Will, what once was not cea/e to be TOO 
 Wedding ring, nvhy on the fourth Jmger 127 
 World, how to compute the fir Ji day 171 
 Women, nvhy worfl when bad 1 8g 
 Writing, from whence Jirji' 20a 
 Women, why have they no beards 2X>j 
 Wi*ves, moft valued by Englifh or Indians 229 
 Wedding ring, whence the cuftotpt 270 
 Widow, hoiv obtained 872 
 Wife, a bad one how cure 3 1 3 
 Woman, ought Jhe to know her husband* s c^nctrm 367 
 Water, how ajcends it in bread ^^\ 
 Winds, the reajon of their changing 382 
 Wager, decided on footing 3^^ 
 Woman, can Jhe difvorce her felf 3^3, 
 Widonvs, luhy fo many marry . 400 
 Wim our Saviour turned) vJhat colour 403^ 
 
 Wicked 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Wicked man, may be die for his country page 410 
 
 Woodcocks, a query on them 428 
 
 Wttter-fpouts, nvhat their caufe 465 
 
 Will, a quejiion on one 4^72 
 
 Water cold, honu recover fvoooning 480 
 Women, nuhy have they the vapours more than men 511 
 
 Wit, ^hat is it r\^ 
 
 Water, if not moji agreeahlt drink r^i 
 
 Womarts longing, a Jirange one ten 
 
 Woman s conception, a Jirange caje r6r 
 
 Wars, or hooks, Jhall 1 folloio r68 
 
 Worms in people, houu bred rye 
 
 World, is there in the moon ryj 
 
 Water hot, nvhy fooneji freeze 6 1 8 
 
 Works of nature,, or grace preferablt 622 
 
 Women, if capable of learning 626 
 
 Wine, nuho infvented it 668 
 
 Winter, nvhy colder than fummer 674 
 
 Wine, hon» chear the heart of God 766 
 
 Wtund, nvhy lejs fatal than a fir at ch 785 
 
 Water /pouts, the caufe 800 
 
 Welch, *why called tzSy 802 
 
 Worjhipping the hofi, if idolatry 1033 
 
 Water f pouts, an injiance '043 
 Weak luoment 'ivhy have they flrongeft children 1052 
 
 Wido^M^s cafe 874 
 
 Wind, *what is it 890 
 
 Women, why take the upper-hand g i g 
 
 Wagers, if unjujl 926 
 
 Y O U will not come to me, horw meant 234, 
 
 Z. 
 
 'y Achat/y anohje&idn io his per fan ^{48 
 
 F IN I S,