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ruinates the fcale by a common chord to the odtavc of the 

 key-note. 



In defccnding, it is neceffary to imagine the harmony m 

 the Jth of the key for the four firil notes : as, fiippofing the 

 fcale to be in C major, after repeating the common chord to 

 theoftave, the 7th of C muil be regarded as 3d of the key 

 of G, and be only accompanied by the 6th. A, as 2d of G, 

 by a °» as in afcending ; and the jth of the key by a com- 

 mon chord, or clofe in G. Tlie 4th of the key in defcending 

 has a 4> or chord of the 5th of the key repeated ; the next 

 three chords are the fame as in afcending. 



In minor keys, in all which fuppofing A natural to be the 

 archetype, the chords are much the fame ; only whenever 

 the 7th of the key is wanting in the afcending fcale, it muil 

 be accidentally (harp : as to A, a common chord minor ; to 

 B, the 2d of the key, a < ; to the 3d of the key, a 6th ; to 

 the 4th, a ° ; to the 5th, a common chord, with a (liarp 3d ; 

 to the 6th, if natural, a 6th; if (harp, a ° ; to the 7th fharp, 



t?^u> 3fd a common chord to the ottave. 



In defcending, to the 7th natural, a 6th ; to the minor 6th, a 

 % or 6 doubling the 3d ; to the 5th of the key, a (harp 3d ; 



to the 4th of the key, the fame chord, or 1 -;- ; and to 

 the three laft, the fame as in afcending. 



Thefe chords will be more clearly comprehended in nota- 

 tion on the thorough-bafe plates, to which we refer. 



Though the regie de I'oftave only provides for the regular 

 afcent and defcerst of the bafe in plain counterpoint, we 

 know, by long experience, that it teaches more thorough- 

 bafe and counterpoint in a fliort time, than any other rule 

 that has been propofed fince the laws of harmony were fet- 

 tled. See Thorough-base, AccompanIiMent, and Com- 



POSITIOX. 



REGLET, or RiGLET, in Architeaure, a little flat nar- 

 row moulding, ufcd chiefly in compartiments, and pannels, 

 to feparate the parts or members from one another, and to 

 form knots, frets, and other ornaments. 



The word is a diminutive of the French, regie, rule. 



The reglet, according to Daviler, differs from the fillet 

 and lyiel, in that it projefts equally, like a ruler. 



Reglets, or Rights, in Printing, are thin rulers, or flips 

 of wood, of different diraenfions, placed in the chafe, be- 

 tween the pages, and at the extremes of them, to keep them 

 afunder, and to hold them tight. 



The reglets make the cliief part of what they call the 

 furniture of the chafe. See Chase. 



They are particularly denominated from the place they 

 hold in refpedl of the pages, head-Jiicks, gutterflicks, &c. 



The term reglets is alfo ufed abroad for a ruler of metal, 

 three quarters of an inch long, but which may be lengthened 

 out by joining feveral together ; ufed to feparate the co- 

 lumns, in books that have feveral in the fame page ; as alfo 

 for Unes to place the notes on, in printing of mufic. See 

 Printing. 



Reglet is alfo ufed for a little thin flip of wood, occa- 

 fionally, though feldom, ufed by compofitors for the prefs 

 to take off the lines from the compofing-ftick, and place 

 tliem on the galley, where the lines are of an extraordinai^ 

 length : and where the lines are at great diftances, thofe 

 diftances are made by leaving a reglet between each line, 

 when printed. 



REGMALARD, in Geography, a town of France, 

 in the department of the Orne ; 9 miles E.N.E. of Bel- 

 lefme. 



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REGNANO, a town of Naples, in Capitanata ; 16 



miles from Manfredonia. 



REGNANT gunKN. See Queen. 

 REGNARD, JoiiN-FnAscis, in Biography, a French 

 poet and writer of comedy, was born of a good family, at 

 Paris, in 1647. His earlieft paifion was that for travelling, 

 and he firft made the tour of Italy. On his return, in an 

 Englifli fliip, the velfel was taken by the Algerines, and the 

 crew made flaves at Algiers. Regnard, by his (kill in cookery, 

 ingratiated himfelf with his mailer : he poflefTed another art, 

 which had nearly proved fatal to him. His perfon and man- 

 ners recommended him to the attention of the ladies, whofe 

 advances he encouraged, and being difcovered, the alterna- 

 tive was given him of being burnt to death or becoming a 

 difciple of the Koran. He was, however, releafed from 

 this difficulty by the interpofition of the French conful, and 

 the proper application of a confiderable bribe. He gained 

 his liberty, and returned to France, and in 1681 departed 

 upon a new tour to the northern countries of Europe. Af- 

 ter an abfence of three years he came back to Paris, and 

 fettled quietly, with the view of cultivating his taite for li- 

 terary purfuits. He compofed a number of comedies for 

 the French theatre, which were acted with fuccefs, and 

 which, in the general opinion, placed him next to Moliere in 

 true comic humour. Gaiety is the predominant charadtcr 

 of Regnard's comedies, which is fometimes maintained at the 

 expence of morality. He ex'celled not lefs in the elevated 

 or genteel comedy, than in the low, or familiar. His two 

 beft pieces are faid to be " Le Joueur," and " Le Lega- 

 taire ;" for defcribing, to the life, the fcenes of the fird, he 

 was extremely qualified, being himfelf a lucky gamelter. 

 He wrote eight comedies, fome pieces for the Italian theatre, 

 and an opera. He alfo publilhed mifcellaneous poems, con- 

 fiding of fatires, epifl.les, &c. In profe he gave a relation 

 of his travels, of which the only part that excited much in- 

 tereft was his account of Lapland. Regnard died at the age 

 of 62. His works have been printed collectively, of which 

 the beft edition is that of Paris, in 1790, in 4 vols. 8vo. 



REGNAVADSOE, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the 

 North fea, near the coaft of Norway. N. lat. 69° 50'. 



REGNI, \n Ancient Geography, a name given to the an- 

 cient inhabitants of Surrey and Sufl'ex, and perhaps of part 

 of Hampfliire. They were feated E. of the BelgK, and S. 

 Mf the Atrebatii. As thefe people poflelfed fo large a tradl 

 of the fea-coaft in the fouth part of this ifland, it is very pro- 

 bable that they had come from the continent, and fettled 

 here not very long before the Roman invafion, perhaps at 

 the fame time with their neighbours the Belga. The Belgx 

 and the Regni had been near neighbours on the continent ; 

 the one having migrated from. the country of the Suefliones, 

 now Soiflbns, and the other from the country of the Rhemi, 

 now Reims. The Regni, like all the other Belgic Britons, 

 early fubmitted to the Roman power, and continued fteady 

 in their obedience, without engaging in any revolt. It is 

 not known who was fovereign of the Regni when they fub- 

 mitted to the Romans, but foon after their fubmiflion, they 

 were put under the governraent of Cogidunus, king of the 

 Dobuni. For this prince, who was then very young, had 

 got fo much into favour with the emperor Claudius, and his 

 minifters, that he was not only allowed to keep his own do- 

 minions, but he had feveral other neighbouring ftates put 

 under his authority. It feems probable, from a famous in- 

 fcription difcovered at Chichefter, that Cogidunus governed 

 the Regni in quality of the emperor's lieutenant, or legatus 

 Augufti ; for in that infcription he is fo ilyled. He conti- 

 nued a faithful and ufeful friend and ally to the Romans 

 above 60 years, and thus he was fo much endeared to them, 



that; 





