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frequently put up with for the fake of his companionable 

 qualities. Quindicdat Bath in 1766, at thcageof feventy- 

 three. Garrick, whofc fuperior talents are fuppokd to liuve 

 driven him from the ftage, but afterwards his iUiidy friend, 

 wrote a poetical epitaph for Ills monument. Wiiile Quin 

 continued on the ftage, he conftantly kept company with the 

 moft celebrated gcniufcs of tlie age. He was on intimate 

 terms with Pope and Swift ; and was frequently invited by 

 the earl of Chellerheld to his table. His pecnllar judgment 

 in the Englilh langiiagc recommended him to his royal hlgh- 

 nefs, Frederic prmee of Wales, who appointed him to in- 

 ftruft his children in fpeaking and reading with graceful pro- 

 priety. When Quin was informed of the elegant manner in 

 which his prefent majefty had delivered his iirll gracious 

 ipeech from the throne, he was in raptures, and the king 

 foon after gave orders, without any application on the part 

 of Quin or his friends, that a genteel penfion fliould be paid 

 him during his life. 



Quin, in Geography, a village of the county of Clare, 

 Ireland, where are the remains of a monallery, which was 

 founded f )r Franclfcan friars in 1402, and repaired by the 

 Roman Catholics in 1604. Blfliop Pococke fpeaks of it as 

 one of the finell and moft entire monallcries he faw in Ire- 

 land. It is fituated on a fine ftream, with an afcent of fe- 

 veral fteps to the church : at the entrance one is furprifed 

 with the view of the high altar, entire, and of an altar on 

 each fide of the arch of the chancel. The building is quad- 

 rangular, with piazzas fupported by a number of pillars ; 

 there are apartments on three fides of the cloiflers, with a 

 vaulted room under them all. A round tower and fome 

 other ruins are adjoining. Quin is 15 miles from Limerick, 

 on the road to Galway, and about 106 miles W.S.W. from 

 Dublin. Archdall'a Monafticon. Carhfle. 



QUINA Folia, in Botany. See Leaf. 



QUTNABAUG, in Geography, a river of America, 

 formerly called " Mobegan," which rifes in Brimfield, 

 Maliachufetts, and is joined at Oxford by French river, 

 which has its fource in Sutton, Worceiter county. It runs 

 a loutherly courfe, and difcharges Itfelf into Shetucket, 

 about three miles above Norwicli Landing, in Connefticut. 

 In the iirft part of its courfe it furnifhes many good mill- 

 ieats : as it advances, the intervals in many places are wide, 

 and aiford a moft excellent foil. 



QUINA-QUINA, in Botany, a Peruvian name, gene- 

 rally applied to tiie Peruvian bark. (See Cinxiiona.) 

 JuHieu, however, in his Gen. PI, 366, informs us, that it 

 properly belongs to a tree, nearly if not entirely agreeing in 

 genus with Myrnfpermum of Jacquln, or Myroxylon of 

 Llnnxus. (See the lall -named article.) An account of 

 the Qiiina-quina may be found in the Memoires de I'Acad. 

 des Sciences'for 1738, p. 237. 



■ QUINARIA, fo called by Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 

 V. I. 272, from the prevalence of the number five in the 

 parts of fruftification, is the IVampfe or Wampi of the 

 Chinefe, now eftablifhed as a genus by the name of Cookia. 

 (See that article.) This plant palled long; in the gardens 

 of England, for Giiarea trichU'ioules, according to the ob- 

 fervation of the late Mr. Dryander. 



QUINARIUS, Quinary, in Jntlqulty, a little Roman 

 com, equal to half the denarius. See Coin. 



The quinarius was properly the Roman halfpenny. 



Medalifts indeed ufe the term quinarius in the general 

 for a medal ot any matter, not exceeding the fize of our fix- 

 pence ; but F. Cham.illart, in an exprefs diilertation, ftiews 

 this to be an abufe. The filver coins, current under the 

 republic, he fhews, were two : the one weighing a drachm, 

 and called denarius, as containing ten afles ; the other 



weighing half a drachm, and called quinarius, as containing 

 five afles : which coins continued on the fame fooling under 

 the emperors. 



Hence tiie origin of the word quinarius : and hence, m 

 propriety, it is only the filver medal of tlie weight of half 

 a drachm that the name belongs to ; the Romans having 

 never given it to any other fpecics of the fame fr/.e with 

 it. It is only by way of analogy, therefore, that the 

 moderns apply It to the medals of gold, or copper, of the 

 fame fize with the filver quinarius ; tiiofe of gold being fixed 

 at 3i value mucli above, and thofe of brafs nmch below five 

 afi'es. 



The only relation between thefe qnlnarli is, that the gold 

 quinary is the half of a gold medal, as to weight and value ; 

 and the bral's quinary half a brafs medal, as the filver qui- 

 nary is half a filver one. 



Hence a feries of quinaries fliould feem at Icaft a neccf- 

 fary in tlie cabinets of the curious, as the feries of great 

 medals ; they being all equally different fpecies of money, 

 which teach us how many kinds of pieces there were of any 

 metal current in commerce. 



Add to this, fays our author, that the quinaries were of 

 a finer and more finlflied coin than the other medals, being 

 wrought by the hands of the mafters ; which feems owing 

 to the nicety required in engraving whole figures in fo 

 fmall a compafs. He adds, that though quinaries are very 

 fcarce, yet M. the duke of Maine had almoft a complete 

 fet of them. 



OUINAULT, Philip, in Biography, a French poet, 

 was born in 1636, probably in a low condition; though 

 while fome fay he was the f«n of a baker, others maintain 

 that he was defcended from a family of confequence at 

 Paris. He had, however, veryr few advantages of educa- 

 tion, but was foon found to poffefs a talent for poetry and 

 the belles lettres. Before the age of twenty he brought 

 out fome pieces on the ftage ; and for a number of years, 

 he continued to produce dramatic works ot different kinds, 

 which were much applauded by the public voice ; but fome 

 of which drew upon the author the fatires of Boilcau, who 

 carried the matter lo far as to injure his owri reputation. 

 Quinault now affociated hirafelf with Lulli in the compofi- 

 tion of operas, and difplayed an excellence in lyric poetry, 

 or that adapted to mufic, which placed him beyond com- 

 petition in that branch, and has ranked him among the dli- 

 tinguillied characlers of the age of Lewis XIV. Nothing, 

 it is allowed, can be more tender, delicate, and ingenious, 

 than the turn of his fongs and love-dlalcgues ; and no one 

 has more happily accommodated the melody of French 

 verfe to mufical expreffion. His " Armida" and his " At- 

 tliys" are fpoken of as mall:er-pieces of their kind. Not- 

 withftanding the high reputation which he enjoyed as a poet, 

 he applied himfelf to the ftudy of the law, and eventually 

 made his fortune by marrying the rich widow of a merchant, 

 to whom he had been ufeful in his profeflion. After this, 

 he purchafed the place of an auditor in the chamber ot ac- 

 counts. He was received into the French academy, and, 

 in the same of that foclety, harangued the king on his re- 

 turn from the campaigns of 1675 and 1677. He died in 

 1688, having enjoyed a penfion from Lewis XIV. feveral 

 years previoufly to his deceafe. In his lall illnefs he was 

 extremely penitent, on account of his having devoted his 

 talents too frequently to the excitement of the licentious 

 paflions. He left a family of five daughters, and was 

 eiteemcd in foclety attentive, polite, and mild. Btfides his 

 numerous pieces for the ftage, he wrote occafional poems. 

 His works were printed at Paris in 5 vols, izmo,, 1739, 

 and again in 1778. 



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