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lent*, made him a favourite with Henry VIII. who fre- 

 quently made him handsome presents. When Mary 

 came to the throne, he was admitted to her most inti- 

 mate conversation, and is said to have amused her with 

 his diverting stories even in her last illness. On the 

 accession of Elizabeth, being a bigotted catholic, he na- 

 turally anticipated the losa of his court favour ; and, 

 going into voluntary exile, he settled at Mechlin in 

 Brabant, where he died in 1565. 



As a poet, he was famous in his time, ami his plays 

 are still curious relics. One of them, Thr Four i*i, is 

 in Dodsley's Collection. Ilia longest work is the Spi- 

 der and Fly, of which honest Holingshed says, " that 

 the author dealeth so profoundlie and beyond' all mea- 

 sure of skill, that neither he himself that made it, nor 

 any one that readeth it, can reach unto the meaning 

 thereof." His Dialogue of Proverb*, and Sir Hundred 

 Epigramu, give us but a humble idea of the wit and 

 conversation of our ancestors. () 



III /> WOOD, THOMAS. This author was an actor 

 M well as a writer, and flourished in the reigns of Quean 

 - I. .nd Charles I. The date of hi* 



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birth and death, (we might almost add, the whole his- 

 tory of his life,) is unknown, except his profession and 

 character a* a writer. In the latter capacity he is dis- 

 riBgridsirl as one of the moM prolific that ever existed ; 

 for, be- ides his prose compositions of Tke Emgtitft Tra 

 vtUtr, Apolofiu for Actor t. tic. Ac. he tells us, that the 

 plays in which he had either a principal thare, or wrote 

 entardy, amounted to two hundred and twenty. Of 

 this number, it u true, that but a few comparatively re- 

 mahv Different reasons have been ateigmd for the 

 IOM of so many of them h bat been alleged, that they 

 were lost (ran the desultory manner in which he wrote 



them, on the badu of play .'bills and tavern-bills, a* he 

 was a gnat frequenter of taverns ; but the true 



i to have been, that the rnanefiri, in those days, 

 purchaeed the sole property of the copies of plays, and 

 it was not their interest to let them be pubNahed till 

 the public had been completely satiated with them ; of 

 course when play i ceased to be attractive, the memory 

 of them would perish, and the actors would not much 

 trouble themselves about composition*, which, if they 

 had hern printed, might not have repaid the cost. 



Of SB of his puys that remain to M. there i* one that 

 SH*. e TP ecU1 . lT to redeem hi* name from oblivion. 

 TlH is, MM Woman killed irt' A KluJmeti. The interest 



of it U founded, like that of Kotsebue'* Strmmgrr, on a 

 story of domestic infidelity, and the repentance that 

 "; * terminate, more tragically, and with a 

 severer moral lesson. Mrs Frunkland, the penitent, 

 though forgiven by her hu.Und, cannot forgive her. 

 sell, and dies broken, hearted. In this, ad in several 



he seems to have hardly 

 cf a poet ( be thought such. 

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HIBERNATION. See HIBERNATION. 

 HIERA. SeeKAMMExr. 



HIERES, is a town of France, in the department 

 of the Var, about nine miles east of Toulon. It u 

 situated in a delightful valley, about four leagues 

 long and one broad, open on the with to the sea, and 

 bounded on the north, east, and wet. by lofty moun- 

 tain*. Between the northern and western chain is a 

 narrow pass, which is the road to Toulon. At the 

 sloping entrance of this pas*, on the declivity of a 

 mountain that defends the whole plain, is situated the 

 town, which is built in the form of an amphitheatre. 

 The summit of the mountain is bare, and i< cleft in se- 

 veral placet, to give it the appearance of a fortification 

 from a distance. Towards the base of the mountain, 

 stands the modern part of the town, which contains the 

 principal street, the square, and the inns ; but it has a 

 gloomy and dirty appearance. The old town, which 

 stands on the highest part of the mountain, presents a 

 heap of uninhabited ruins; but the suburbs, which 

 skirt the mountains, are chearfu! and clean, and have a 

 neat and rural appearance. 



Near the mouth of the small river Gapeau, which 

 intersects the plain of Hieres, are the salt-pits, con. 

 sisting of a number of small basins separated by canals. 

 The houses of the superintendents, excisemen, and 

 workmen, have the appearance of a little sea-port. The 

 salt M tent U Toulon, Marseilles, and Genoa, and the 

 annual revenue amounts to about 5OO IXO francs. 



About four English miles from the town i< the Etang, 

 ' in the centre of an isthmus, running from the 

 L It is about a league long, and half a 

 and the three little island* in the middle 

 of it contain a great number of aquatic bird*. The 

 aatlin part of the isthmui joins the road of Hieres, 

 and is called La Plage de la Munasne. The lower part 

 ' the peninsula Giens, which contains many inte- 

 resting objects, 



Hieres u celebrated for the mild temperature of its 

 winters ; but it is reckoned unhealthy from May to 

 October 



At the chapel of Notre Dame, on a hill situated near 

 the sea-shore, and about a league from the town, is a 

 Mod painting of the Twelve Apostles, and a baa-n Int. 



\'\ Pllijrt. 



The garden of M. Fillc is well worthy of being vi- 

 sited. Its annual revenue U about 84,000 franc* In 

 the garden of M. Beauregard, which is excellent, a crop 

 told, in 1793. for 1800 franca. The chief 

 Hieres are oil, wine, fruit, vegetables, 

 alt, which are sent almost exclusively to 

 Toulon and Marseilles. A thousand oranges are told 

 for 45 Kvres. Vessels are loaded in .ummer at the 

 beach near the salt-works ; but in winter, all the n, r- 

 chandise must be conveyed to Toulon by land. East 

 Long. 6 7' 55", and North Lat 48 7' '. Population 

 about 7000. See Christ. Augu. Fischer ReUe nacf, 

 Hyertt, im Winter MM 1803 and 1MH. Leipzic, 1806 ; 

 and MilHn's Vayagri eW let Departement du Mi.li dc 

 le Freor, torn. li. chap. M 



HI EKES I*LM or, (the Innlae Arearwn,) are a 

 cluster of three small islands in the Mediterranean, si- 

 tuated about four leagues from the town of Hieres. 

 They are called PorqueroUea, Porticros, and the isle of 

 Titan. They were called Stoechadea by the Marseilles, 

 who first inhabited them. The most western of these 

 is Porquerollea. which is the large** and best wooded, 

 and contains 85 inhabitants. Porticro* is three league* 

 farther to UM east, and u more elevated and fertile. It 

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Hibtrattivu 

 Hierec. 



