For as our modern Wits behold, Wherefore he bids the Squire ride further, .71, 72. For as our Modern Wits behold, Mounted on pick-back on the old, &c.] A Banter on those Modern Writers, who held, (as Sir William Temple obferves, Efay on ancient and modern Learning,) "That as to Knowledge, the Moderns must have more than the Ancients, because they have the advantage both of theirs and their own; which is commonly illuftrated by a Dwarf's ftanding upon a Giant's Shoulders, or feeing more or farther than He. se 74. Rais'd on, &c.] From off in the two first Editions of 1663. .85, 86. Thus altered 1674, Courage within, and Steel without To give and to receive a Rout. .92. Thus altered 1674, He clear'd at length the Rugged Tuck. 97, 98. Portending Blood like Blazing ftar,- The Beacon of approaching War.] All Apparitions in the Air have been vulgarly numbered with Prodigies preternatural, (fee Spenfer's Prodigies, 2a edit. p. 182.) and Comets to be of baleful influence. Such was the Blaxing Comet which appear'd when the Emperor Charles V. fickened, increafed as his Difeafe increased, and at last shooting it's Fiery Hair point blank against the Monaftery of St. Juftus where he liv'd, in very Hour the Emperor died, the Comet vanish'd. (fee Baker's Hifiory of the Inquifition, p. 355) Richard Corbet, in his Verses infcribed to Sir Thomas Aylesbury, on occafion of the Blazing Star the 85 Courage and Steel, both of 90 His Death-charg'd Pistols he did fit well, To free's Sword from retentive Scabbard: From rufty Durance he bail'd Tuck. 95 And rais'd upon his defp'rate Foot, which appear'd before the Death of King James's Queen 1618, has the following Lines, Hath this fame Star been object of the Wonder, The Ancients were of opinion; that they portended Destruction, Ralpho rode on with no less Speed That makes the Warrior's Stomach come, .99, 100. Ralpho rode on with no lefs Speed,-Than Hugo in the Foreft did.] Thus alter'd in the Edition of 1674. The Squire advanc'd with greater speed, Than could b' expected from his Steed. Reftored in 1704. This Hugo was Scout-mafter to Gondibert, when He and his Party of Hunters were in danger of an Ambuscade, from Ofwald, and his Forces: he fent little Hugo to reconnoitre the Enemy. (fee Sir W. Davenant's Gondibert, 4° edit. b. 1. canto 2. s. 66, 67.) S.66. to The Duke this falling Storm does now discern, The Foe, and their firft Count'nance learn, S. 67. And Hugo foon, light as his Courfers heels, And like to it, fo wingedly he Wheels, No one cou'd catch what all with trouble find, &c. (See Sir John Falstaff's Answer to Prince John of Lancaster, 2a Part of Henry 4th. Shakespear's Works, vol. 3. p. 509.) Sir William Davenant might probably borrow this Thought of Hugo's Swiftness from Titinius's Answer to Caffius. Shakespear's Julius Cæfar, (act 5. vol. 6. p. zo.) who orders him to view the Enemy. . 101, 102. But with a great deal more return'd-For now the Foe he had difcern'd.] In the two first Editions of 1663. 110 By Thunder turn'd to Vineger; (For if a Trumpet found, or Drum beat, Who has not a Month's mind to combat?) A fqueaking Engine he apply'd Unto his Neck, on North-East Side, 115 Juft where the Hangman does dispose, To special Friends, the Knot of Noose : For 'tis Great Grace, when Statefmen straight Dispatch a Friend, let others wait. His warped Ear hung o'er the Strings, 120 Which was but Soufe to Chitterlings: .105. Pth' head of all this warlike Rabble.] See the Description of Ofwald's Warriors, Gondibert, book 1, canto 2. f. 70 to 76. incluf. . 106. Crowdero march'd, expert and able.] So call'd from Croud a Fiddle. This was one Jackson a Milliner, who liv'd in the New Exchange in the Strand; He had formerly been in the Service of the Round-heads, and had loft a Leg in it; this brought him to decay, so that he was obliged to scrape upon a Fiddle from one Alehoufe to another for his Bread. Mr. Butler very judiciously places him at the head of his Catalogue: for Country Diverfions are generally attended with a Fidler, or Bag-piper: I would obferve in this place that we have the exact Characters of the ufual Attendants at a Bear-baiting, fully drawn, and a Catalogue of Warriors conformable to the practice of Epic Poets. (Mr. B.) .113, 114. A Squeaking Engine he apply'd-Unto his Neck on North-East Side.] Why the North-East Side? Do Fidlers always, or most generally ftand, or fit according to the points of the Compass, so as to answer this Description? no furely: I lately heard an ingenious Explication of this Paffage, taken from the pofition of a Body when 'tis buried, which being always the Head to the Weft, and the Feet to the East, confequently the Left Side of the Neck, that part where the Fiddle is ufually placed, must be due North-Eaft. (Mr. B.) Perhaps the Fidler and Company were marching towards the East, which would occafion the fame pofition of the Fiddle. .115, 116. Juft where the Hangman does difpofe-To Special Friends the Knot of Noofe.] The Noofe I am told," is always placed under the Left Ear. y. 121, For Guts, fome write, e're they are fodden, Are fit for Mufick, or for Pudden : From whence Men borrow ev'ry kind Of Minstrelsy, by String or Wind. 125 His grifly Beard was long and thick, With which he ftrung his Fiddle-stick: For he to Horse-tail scorn'd to owe, For what on his own Chin did grow. .121, 122, 123, 124. For Guts fome fay, e're they are fodden-Are fit for Mufick or for Pudding;-From whence Men borrow ev'ry kind-Of Minstrelsy, by String or Wind.] This Thought probably was borrowed, from the following words of an Humorous Writer. Sed hic maxime ardua a Willichio movetur quæftio, an in his crepitibus poffit effe Mufica? ad quam fecundum illum magiftraliter, & refolutive refpondemus; effe in Dipthongis maximè non quidem cam quæ fit voce per ejus inftrumenta aut impulfu rei cujufpiam fonoræ, ut fit in Chordis Citharæ, vel teftudinis, vel Pfalterii; fed quæ fit fpiritû, ficuti per tubam & tibiam redditur. Quapropter hic non eft harmonica, vel Pubμxn fed organica Mufica: in quâ ut in aliis, leges componendi & canendi non difficulter, exagitare & confarcinari poffent ; ita ut acuti & puellares primo loco, poft illas mediæ vel civiles, aniles aut vetulares: ultimo graves vel viriles rufticorum ftatuerentur, non fecus ac Diatonico canendi genere per Pythagoream dimenfionem difpofitum eft. vid. Facet. Facetiar. Fafcic. Nov. 1657. De Peditu. f. 29. p. 30. In Muficorum gratiam, quæritur, quot fint genera crepituum fecundum differentiam foni? Refp. 62. Nam ficuti Cardanus oftendit, Podex quatuor modis fimplicibus crepitum format; acutum, gravem, reflexum & liberum ; ex quibus compofitis fiunt modi 58, quibus additis quatuor fimplicibus, erunt ex prolationis differentiâ 62. crepituum genera. Qui volet computet. id. ib. p. 42. The merry Author of a Tract, intitled The Benefit of F-t-ng explain'd, p. 11. has improved this whimsical Opinion, by obferving "That Dr. Blow in his Treatife of the Fun"damentals of Mufick, afferts, that the First Discovery of Harmony, was owing to an obfervation of Persons of different Sizes founding different Notes in Mufick by F--t-ng. For while one F--t-d " in B-fa-bimi, an other was obferved to answer in F-faut, and "make that agreeable concord called a Fifth; whence the mufi"cal part had the name of Bum-Fiddle. And the first Invention of "the Double Curtail, was owing to this obfervation. By this Rule "it would be an easy matter to form a F--t-ng Confort, by ranging 66 "Perfons |