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when. Qu.intz himfelf added a fecond key in the year 

 1726, and about 173^, a third. Two more keys have fince 

 been added by fubfequent performers on the inftrument ; 

 but it has been thought more for parade than ufe : as , 

 the management of five keys in rapid performance, would 

 be as difficult as running divifions on an organ v'th all the 

 five (hort keys fplit into qaarter-tones. See Tacitt. 



TRAVESTY", or Travesti, a term which fome late 

 authors have introduced into poetry : it is originally French, 

 being a participle of the word Iravejlir, to difguife one's 

 felf, or to appear in mafqaerade. Hence travefty comes to 

 be apphed to the disfiguring of an author, or the tranflatuig 

 him into a ftyle and manner different from his own ; and is 

 generally applied to pieces of humour. 



Travefty, or parody, may be divided into two clafles : — 

 that which is intended to ridicule abfurdity, and that the 

 purpofe of which is to extraft gaiety and laughter from 

 compofitions in their own nature grave and admirable. The 

 Rehearfal by the duke of Buckingham is the beil fpecimen 

 of the former. At a period \vh«n falfe tafte feems to have 

 prevailed in an eminent degree, which would be moft likely 

 to happen v%'hen a man of fplendid talents like Dryden con- 

 defcends to facrifice his better judgment for the fpecious 

 allurement of a temporary popularity, an author of wit has 

 the appearance of doing the public a fervice, who (hall call 

 them to fobriety and good fenfe ky the force of ridicule. 

 The fecond kind of travefty has ftill lefs that can be alleged 

 in its favour. Its direft operation is to pollute our better 

 feelings, and tarififh with a putrefying film of ridicule all 

 the nobleft and moft exquifite eff'ufions of the human mind. 

 Here unfortunately ridicule moft eafily takes hold. We 

 cannot laugh at nothing ; the prattle of inanity bids de- 

 fiance to the ludicrous. There muil be fomething of what 

 we have been accuftomed to view with honour in the com- 

 pofition we are fuccefiively invited to contemplate again 

 and again with burfts of laughter againft the author. But 

 that which is moft eafily turned into burlefque, and affords 

 the moft permanent hold of an attack of this fort, is the 

 language and fentiments that had before excited in us the 

 deepeft and moft facred emotions. The very contraft be- 

 tween the folemn feelings with which thefe things had been 

 formerly regarded, and the unexpedled colour of abfurdity 

 which is given them now, makes the temptation to laughter 

 the more violent and irrefiftible. 



G. Battifta Lalli has traveftied Virgil, or turned him into 

 Italian burlefque verfe. Scarron has done the fame in 

 French ; and Cotton and Philips in Englifh verfe. 



Caftabo is, by fome, charged with having traveftied the 

 facred text, by reafon of the difference of air and ftyle 

 between his verfion and the original. 



TRAVICE, in the Matiege, is a fmall inclofure or ob- 

 long quadrangle placed before a farrier's ftiop, and confift- 

 ing of four pillars or pofts, kept clofe together by crofs 

 poles. This inclofure is defigned for holding and keeping 

 in a horfe that is apt to be unruly or diforderly in the time 

 of (hoeing, or of any operation. 



This, in fome of the remoter parts of England, goes by 

 the name of a break ; and is called in French, travail. 



TRA.UMATICS, T^ku^ktixz, Vulnerarks, or medi- 

 cines good for the healing of wounds. See VULNERARY 

 and Agglutinant, Healing, and Consolidation. 



TRAUMATICUM, Balsamum. See Balsamum 

 Traumaticum. 



TRAUN, in Geography, a river of Auftria, which rifes 

 in the Halftatter See, forms a confiderable lake, called 

 Traun See, and runs into the Danube, about three miles 

 lielow Steyregg — Alfo, a piver of Bavaria, which rifes 



from two lakes, Forchenfee and Daubenfee, and enters the 

 Alza, 4 miles N. of Chiemfee. 



TRAVNIKOVA, a town of RulTia, on the Lena; 6 

 miles S.S.E. of Orlenga. 



TRAUNKIRCHEN, a town of Auftria; 10 mUes 

 S.S.E. of Voglabruck. 



TRAUNSTAIN, a town of Auftria; 4 miles S.W. 

 of Zwetl. 



TRAUNSTEIN, a town of Bavaria, en the Traun, 

 where are fome confiderable fait -works ; 18 miles W. of 

 Salzburg. N. lat. 47'=5l'. E. long. 12° 55'. 



TRAUSI, in Jncicnt Geography, a people of Thrace, in 

 the environs of mcuat Hsemus, whofe maur.ers, defcribed by 

 Herodotus, refembled thofe of the other Thracians. 



TRAUSTADT, or Wschowa, in Geography, a town 

 of the duchy of Wrjfaw ; 40 miles S.S.W. of Pofen. 



TRAUTENAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 

 Konigingratz ; 2 1 miles N. of Konigingratz. N. lat. 

 50° 27'. E. long. 15° 48'. 



TRAUTENFELS, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 7 

 miles E.N.E. of Groming. 



TRAUTMANSDORF, a citadel in the county of 

 Tyrol ; 4 miles N.E. of Tyrol. 



TRAUTMANSTORFF, a town of Auftria ; 6 miles 

 W.N.W. of Brugg. 



TRAVUS, in Ancient Geography, a river of Thraee, 

 which difcharged its waters into the lake of Biftonis. 



TRAYAGUERA, in Geography, a town of Spain, in 

 Valencia, furrounded by a wall flanked with towers. Here 

 is a manufafture of fine earthenware ; 80 miles N.E. of 

 Valencia. 



TRAYL-BASTON, or Trail-Baston. Edward I. 

 in his 3 2d year, fent out a new writ of inquifition, under 

 this denomination, againft the intruders on other men's lands, 

 who, to opprefs the right owner, would make over their 

 lands to great men ; againft batterers hired to beat men, 

 breakers of peace, ravifliers, incendiaries, fighters, falfe 

 aftifors, and other malefaftors : which inquifition was fo 

 ftriftly executed, and fuch fines taken, that it brought in 

 much treafure to the king. 



Hence, alfo, jujlices of trayl-bajlon, a denomination given 

 to the juftices appointed to execute this commiffion, either 

 by reafon of their fevere and fummary way of proceeding, 

 or becaufe a ftaff was delivered them as the badge of their 

 office, and the offenders were dragged before this jurif- 

 diftion. 



TRAYTOR, Traitor, Traditor, a betrayer of his 

 king and country, or one guilty of high-treafon. See 

 Treason. 



TRAYTOROUS or Traiterous Pofition, is parti- 

 cularly underftood of a tenet, which fome formerly held, of 

 the legality of taking arms, by the king's autliority, againft 

 his perfon, and thofe commiftioned by him : which is con- 

 demned by ftatute 14 Car. II. c. 3. 



TRAZA, in Geography^ a town of Arabia, in the country 

 of Yemen ; 70 miles N. of Loheia, 



TREACLE, in Pharmacy, ^c. See Theriaca, 



The word treacle is alfo popularly ufcd for melaffes ; and 

 in this fenfe it is that Dr. Shaw, in his ■' ElTay on Diftillery," 

 has endeavoured to bring into ufe feveral forts of treacles, 

 which might be made at home, and would ferve very con- 

 veniently for the diftillation of fpirits, or the making of 

 potable liquors. Thefe are the infpiflated juices or decoc- 

 tions of vegetables : fuch as the fweet juice of the birch, or 

 fycamore, procured by tapping or piercing the trees in 

 fpring, and the common wort made from malt, or from other 

 vegetable fubftances treated in the fame mann^. Thefe 



liquor* 



