3S0f).] Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 47 



TOBACCO. 



The Marrow of Complements (Lond. 

 I(;.'i4) contains the foUuuiiig I'uiijj in piaile 

 *jt' tobacco : — 



Much meat doth gluttony procure 



To feed men I'atiike fwinc; 

 But he's a frugal man indeed 



Tiiat with a leaf can dine. 

 lie needs no napiiin for Lis hands. 



His fiagers ends to wipe, 

 That liath his liilchen in a bos. 



His roail-meat iu a pipe. 



IHE boar's head. 



The following is from a manurnipt of 

 the well-known Anthony Wood, dated 

 1660:— 



" There is a cnftom at Queen's Col- 

 lege, Oxford, to ferve up every year a 

 ■boar's head provided by the manciple 

 againtt Chiiftmas-day. The boar's head 

 being boyled or roafted, is laid in a great 

 charger covered with a garland of bays 

 or laurel, as broad at bottom as the brims 

 of the charger. When the (irlt courle is 

 ferved up in the refe6tory, on Chrillmas- 

 day, in the faid college, the manciple 

 brings the fiiid boar's head from the 

 kitchen up to the high table, accompa- 

 nied with one of tlie tubarders, who lays 

 his hand on the charger. The tabarder 

 then fings a fong, and when he comes to 

 •the chorus, all the fcholai-s that are in 

 the rcfeiSlory join together and ling it ; — • 



The Boar's head in hand bear I, 

 Bedeck'd with bays and rofeinary, 

 And I pray you Makers merry be 

 Quotcjuot eftis in convivio. 



CHORUS. 



Caput Apri defero, 

 lleddens laudes Domino. 



T!ie Boar's head, as I underftand. 

 Is the braveft dilb in all tlie laud, 

 Beiug thus bedeck'd with a gay garland ; 

 Let us fervirc convivio. 



ciioF vs. 

 Caput Apri defero. 

 Reddens laudes Domino. 



Our fteward ha« provided this 



Iu honour of the King of Blifs, 



W liichon tliis da3' to be ferved is 



In regincull atrio. 



CHORUS. 



Caput Apri defero, 

 Reddens laudes Di>mino. 



CARAIilXEEKS. 



Carabineers lirfl appeared in France at 

 rhc memorable battle of Ivry, 1.J90, 

 ^hcie Count Egmont brought -iOO to the 

 aid of the Ix'aguc. Their novelty and 

 Ihc jiromptitude of thcii uiovtmeiils rca- 



dered them formidable to the royalilts.— 

 See Wraxall, vol. iii. p.'JVi. 



PILGBIMAGK. 



The form of confecrating a perfon for 

 a pilgrimage, in what arc called tlie mid- 

 dle ages, was as- follows : — The pilgrim 

 elett, after confellion, lay proftrate at the 

 altar, while an ajjpropriate mals was per- 

 formed. After this he arofc, and the 

 priell confecrated his fciip and Itatf. The 

 former of tliel'e he nc\t fprinkled with 

 holy water, and hung around the pilgrim's 

 neck, accompanying the ceremony with 

 certain prayers : the like was alio done 

 with hisftalf. The whole concluded with 

 the mafs dc iter agcntibus. To pilgrims 

 going to the Holy Land a garment was 

 delivered, marked witii a crofs, both crol* 

 and gai-mcnt having been previoutly con- 

 fecrated, — See the Saliibury Manual, 

 1554, fol.lix. 



DR. DEXTI.ET. 



During the celebrated controverfy be- 

 twixt Mr, Boyle and Dr. Bentley, on the 

 fubjeft of the Epiftles of Phalaris, foine 

 Cambridge wags made the following pun : 

 They exhibited in a print Phularis's 

 guards thrnlting Dr. Bentley into the ty- 

 rant's brazen bull, and this label illiiiiit; 

 from the Doctor's mouth, " I had much 

 rather be roallcd than bo^l'd!" 



CANNON. 



The following pafiage in Fabian's Chro- 

 nicle, under the year 1268, fcems to in- 

 dicate the ufe of cannon at an earlier pe- 

 riod than we are generally aware of: — 

 " Then upon tinee weekes after Kaftrr 

 the kyng came to Ham, three myles from 

 London, and was lodged hymfelfe in the 

 abbaye of whyte monkcs "of Stratforde : 

 whyther came unto hym the legate i'oon 

 after, and was lodgid alio in the fame ab- 

 bay, where for ftreyghtnes of lodgyng his 

 horles and nudes were fette Avytliin'the 

 cloller of the fayd abbay. 'Fhen the 

 kynge's hofte made dayly alVautes upon 

 the cytye, and guniies and other oid^ 

 naunces was jhot into the a/^t/e, whyclie 

 lytell or nothynge hurt the towue, yt was 

 fo llrongly fortyfyed." 



PAINTING. 



How foon likeneifes were taken would 

 be worth enquiiy. It is told of Andreas 

 de Orgagna, a Florentine, who died aged 

 fixty years, in 1,S89, and was buried in 

 Florence, that " He painted the Jud:;- 

 rnent, where he placed in hell moft of Ins 

 foes that had inolelled him, and amoii" 

 the relt a fcriveiier, whole luiine was Ce;> 

 cho de Al'coli, and knowne for a notable 

 knave in his profellion, and a coninror 

 belide, wiio iiad inunv v.ajs molefied him. 



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