R O S 



R O S 



" Hark, hark. ! what found invades my ear ? 

 The conqueror's approach I hear. 

 He comes, vi&orious Henry comes ! 

 Hautbois, trumpets, fifes, and drums. 



In dreadful concert join'd, 

 Send from afar the found of war, 



And fill with horror eVry wind." 



It was the fafhion in abnoft all the ferious operas that 

 were written in Italy, before the time of Apoltolo Zeno 

 and Metaftafio, to mix comic and buffoon characters with 

 the tragic, even in dramme fieri, notwithstanding the feverity 

 of fomc Italian critics upon our Shakfpeare for the lame 

 praftice. 



And Mr. Addifon has fully complied with this cuftom, 

 in the characters of fir Trulty and Grideline, which are of 

 the loweft fpecies of comic. 



If it can be proved that gunpowder was invented, and 

 in military ufe in the time of Henry II. Mr. Addifon was 

 guilty of an anachronifm in making him alk, 



" Why did I not in battle fall 



Crufn'd by the thunder of the Gaul?" 



The lofs of Rofamond in the fecond act of this drama 

 is not compenfated by a single interesting event in the third, 

 which drags and languishes for want of her fo much, that 

 neither the flat and forced humour of fir Trulty and Gride- 

 line, nor the elegant compliments made to the duke of 

 Marlborough and Blenheim, ever kept the audience awake 

 in the performance. 



In 1733, Rofamond was fet by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) 

 Arne, his first attempt at dramatic mufic, in the per- 

 formance of which his filter, Mifs Arne, afterwards 

 the juftly celebrated actrefs Mrs. Cibber, performed the 

 part of Rofamond. The airs in this coup d'ejfai of Arne, 

 were extremely pleafing, and far fuperior to thofe of any 

 Englifh compofer of that period. Many of them were 

 afterwards fung at Vauxhall by Mrs. Arne and Low with 

 great applaufe. " Was ever Nymph like Rofamond," 

 was long in univerfal favour all over the kingdom. 



ROSAN, in Geography, a town of the duchy of War- 

 raw, on the Narew ; ) 10 miles E. of Thorn. 



ROSANA, a river of Germany, which runs into the 

 Inn, near Landeck, in the county of Tyrol. 



ROSANI, Caps:, a cape on the coaft of Romania, in the 

 Grecian Archipelago. N. lat. 40 35'. E. long. 24" 14'. 



ROSANNA, a town of Lithuania, in the palatinate nf 

 Novogrodek ; 36 miles W. of Novogrodek. 



ROSARBA, in Botany, the name of an imaginary 

 plant, which has given great trouble to the commentators 

 on the works of the ancients. 



The Arabian writers, Avicenna, Serapion, and others, 

 have mentioned two kinds of carob or ceration ; the one 

 efculent, and endowed with the virtue of a gentle purga- 

 tive, the other an altringent. 



This bit they have diltinguifhed from the other by the 

 name of the nabathiean pod or aljembut. They fay in 

 their defcriptions, that the aljembut is like the rclarba ; 

 fo run the old translations, but the true meaning of the 

 original is rofa •vines. This was a name given to the com- 

 mon wild acacia-tree, and the tree which produced the 

 nabathsean pod, might be very well likened to this ; it be- 

 ing, in reality, only a fpecies of the acacia, and the fuccus 

 acacise, or infpiflated acacia juice of the fhops, being, ac- 

 cording to Ifidore, made oftentimes from the unripe fruit 

 of this very fpecies. 



ROSARIA, among the Romans, a kind of perfumi 

 fo called either from their being chiefly made of rofes, or 

 becaufe they had a most exquifite odour. 



ROSARIO, in Geography, a fmall ifland in the Spanifi; 

 main, near the coatt of Carthagena. N. lat. io° 5'. W. 

 long. 75 56'. — Alfo, a town of New Navarre ; 30 milet- 

 S.W. of Cafa Grande. —Alfo, a town of South America. 

 in the province of Tucuman ; 7^ miles N. of St. Miguel 

 de Tucuman. — Alfo, a town of Brazil, in the government 

 of Minas Geraes ; 220 miles N. of Villa Rica. — Alfo. 

 a town of North America, in the county of California ; 

 30 miles S.W. of Loreto. — Alfo, a town of the iiland of 

 Cuba; 45 miles S. of Havannah. 



Rosa 1: in, Ei, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Chiapa ; 140 miles S.E. of Chiapa dos Efpagnols. 



Rosa Rio, or NenJIra Senhora del Rofario, a canal of r. 

 strait in the gulf ot Georgia, which feparates the ifland of 

 Florida from America ; about 30 miles in length. At the 

 S.E. extremity the canal is fix miles broad ; but towards 

 the N.W. its breadth is gradually diminifhed to two miles. 

 in its narrowest part. 



ROSARUM Acetum. See Acetum. 

 ROSARUOLO, m Geography, a town of Iftria; 

 8 miles E. of Capo d'lltria. 



ROSARY, in the Romi/h Church, a chaplet confifting 

 of five or fifteen decads of beads, to direct the recitation of 

 fo many Ave Maria's, in honour of the Virgin. 



Rosary alfo denotes a particular mafs or form of devo- 

 tion addreil'ed to the Virgin, to which the chaplet of that 

 name is accommodated. It confifts of fifteen repetitions of 

 the Lord's prayer, and an hundred and fifty falutation-- of 

 the blefled Virgin ; whilst the crown, as it is called, ac- 

 cording to the different opinions of the learned concerning 

 the age of the Virgin, confilts of fix or feven repetitions 

 of the Lord's prayer, and fix or feven times ten falutations 

 or Ave Maria's. 



Some attribute the inltitution of the rofary to St. Do- 

 minic ; but F. d'Achcry (hews it was in ufe the year 1 ico ; 

 fo that St. Dominic could only make it more celebrated. 

 Others attribute it to Paulus Libycus, and others to St. 

 Benedict ; others to the Chartreux ; others to Venerable 

 Bede ; and, finally, others to Peter the Hermit. Thofe 

 who afcribe it to St. Dominic, differ as to the particular 

 time of its inltitution; fome referring it to the year 1208, 

 when he preached againlt the Albigeiifes ; others will have 

 him to have fet it on foot in the courfe of his miffians in 

 Spain, before he paffed into France. 



RoSARY, Order of the, or of our Lady sf the Rofary, is 

 an order of knights, fuppofed by Schoonebeck, and the 

 Jefuit Bonanni, to have been inltituted by St. Dominic, 

 but by miltake ; for that faint never instituted any order 

 under this name, and thefe authors apparently make a mili- 

 tary order of an army of croifes, who, under the command 

 of the count de Montfort, fought againlt the Albigenfes. 



The abbot Juftiniani, and M. Hermant, will have this 

 order to have been ellablifhed by an archbilhop of Toledo, 

 named Frederic, after St. Don-ink's death ; and to have 

 borne for a badge a black and white crols, in the middle of 

 which was reprcfented our Lady, holding her little fon in 

 one hand, and in the other a rofary. F. Mendo adds, that 

 they were obliged to rehearfe the rofary on certain days. 

 After all, F. Helyot doubts whether or 110 Inch an order 

 in reality ever existed. Edmondfon refers the inltitution of 

 this order to the year 1212 ; and he fays, the badge of the 

 order was a crofs patonce per crofs countercharged argent 

 and fable, furmounted on the centre with a medal or, ena- 

 melled 



