BOY 
free about a foot' from the ground ; from whence flows a 
liquor of which fugar is made. 
BOX'MEER, a town with a corifiderable figniory, fitu- 
ated on the weft fide of the Meufe, near the duchy of 
Gueldres. In 1367, Pierre de Culemburg enjoyed this 
lordfhip.as a freehold; but the following year he gave it 
to the duke of Brabant, from whom lie held it as a fief. 
It afterwards palled to the comte of Heerenbergh, the laft' 
of whom, Ofwaldj comte of Bergh, &c. dying without 
ifTue, le f t all his eftates to Francois Antoine, prince of 
Hohenzollern and comte of Sigrriaringen, the grandfon of 
his filler, who had efpoufed a prince of that family . Eight 
leagues E. of Bois le-Duc, and four S. S.W. of Cleves. 
BOX'TEHLDE, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Lower Saxony, and duchy of Bremen, on the river Efte 
or Etfe, which is navigable for boats to the Elbe: ten miles 
•foutli-eaft of Stade, and fourteen weft of Hamburg. 
BOX'TEL, a town of Brabant, fituated on the Domrnel, 
and furnifhed with fluices. The Britifhand Dutch troops, 
under the command of the duke of York, were attacked 
by the French at this place, on the 14th of Aug'uft, 1794, 
and defeated with confiderable lofs. The French account 
Bates 2000 prifoners, and eight pieces of cannon. The 
duke of York’s account mentions ninety-one Britifh in the 
whole, killed, wounded, and milling. Five miles fouth of 
Bois-le-Duc. 
BOX-THORN, f in botany. See Lycium. 
BOX-TREE, f. in botany. See Buxus. 
BOY, f. [of Gr. or bube, Tent.] A male child ; 
not a girl.—The ftreets of the city lhall be full of boys 
and girls playing, Zcchariah .—One in the ftate of adolef- 
cence; older than an infant, yet not arrived at puberty 
or manhood : 
Sometimes forgotten things, long call behind, 
Rulh forward in the brain, and come to mind : 
The nurfe’s legends are for truths receiv’d, 
And the man dreams but what the boy believ’d. Dryden. 
A word of contempt for young men, as noting their imma¬ 
turity.—Men of worth and parts will not eafily admit the 
familiarity of boys, who yet need the care of a tutor. Locke. 
7 b BOY, mm To treat as a boy. 
BOY'AR, f. The title of an order of grandees of 
Ritlfia' and Tranfylvania. Becman fays, that the boyars 
are tile Upper nobility ; and adds, that the czar of Muf- 
covy, in his diplomas, names the boyars before the way- 
wodes 1 . See Waywode. 
BOYAU'j /l.jn fortification, a ditch covered by a para¬ 
pet, and fervingas a communication between two trenches'. 
It runs parallel to the works’ of the body of the place ; 
and ferves as a line of ccntfavallat’i'ori, both to hinder the 
failles' of the befieged,' and to feciire the miners. When 
it is a p'articulai 1 cut running front'd he trenches, to cover 
fyhie fpttt of ground’, it is drawn fo as not to be enfiladed 
orfcpnr'ed by the enemy’s'filot. 
BOYCE (Jofeph), art eminent dilTenting minifter in 
Dublin, nnich'refpedted not only for learning and abilities, 
but for his extenfive humanity and* undilfenibled piety. 
During his miriifterial career at Dublin, hepubliflied many 
fermoris which compofe feveral folio volumes', a few poem's, 
artd t Otlver tra6ls ; but what chiefly diftinguillicd him as a' 
writer, was the controverfy he carried on with Dr. King, 
arthbifhbp of Dublin, and author of the Origin of Evil, 
concernihg tlvC office of a fcriritural bifhop. This contro¬ 
verted point was managed 1 on both Tides with great force 
of argument'and calmnefs of temper. The bifhop aflert- 
ed, that the epifcopal right of jurifdiflion had its founda¬ 
tion in the New Teftament. Mr. Boyce, confident with 
his principles, denied that any ecClefiaftical fuperiority ap¬ 
peared there; this he after ted with' thl‘ greateft candour 
and good manners. He was father to 
BOYCE (Sarimel), the poet, a man remarkable for the 
fiiiertefs of lus genius, the lownefs of his mariners, and the 
wretche’dnefs of his life, lie was born in 1708, and edu¬ 
cated in the univerfity of Glafgow. He had not been a 
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year at the univerfity, when lie fell in love with the daugh¬ 
ter of a tradefman in that city, and married her befoYe he 
had entered into his twentieth year. The natural extra¬ 
vagance- of his temper Toon, obliged him to quit the uni- 
verfity, and go over with his wife to Dublin, where they 
relied on the old gentleman for fupport. Young Boyce 
was of all men the furtheft removed from a gentleman ; 
lie had no graces of perfon, and fewer (till of converfatiori.' 
The eftate his father pofteffed in Yorkfhi.re was fold to dif- 
charge his debts ; and, when the venerable old man lay in 
his laft ficknefs, he was fupported by his congregation, 
and buried at their expence. We have no further account 
of the fon till we find him Toon after his father’s death at 
Edinburgh. At this place his poetical genius railed him 
many friends, and fo’me patrons._ In 1731, he publifiled 
a volume of poems, addrefted to the countefs of Eglimon ; 
who was a patronefs to men of wit, and much diftingiiifhed 
Boyce while he refided in that country. He wrote alfo an" 
elegy on the death of lady Stormont, intitled, The Tears 
of the Mufes; with which lord Stormont, brother to the 
late earl Mansfield, was (o much pleafed, that he ordered 
Boyce a handfgme prefent. Thefe publications, and the 
honourable notice taken of them, were the means of re¬ 
commending him to the duchefs of Gordon, who was de- 
firous of ferving him ; but Boyce was not a man to be 
ferved. The contempt and poverty he w-as fallen info at 
Edinburgh, put hint upon going to London ; which de- 
fign being communicated to. the duchefs of Gordon, who 
Hill retained a high opinion of his poetical talents, (he 
gave him a recommendatory letter to Mr. Pope, and ob¬ 
tained another for him to Sir Peter King, then chancellor 
of England. Lord Stormont alfo recommended him to his 
brother, afterwards earl Mansfield; but he made no u!e 
of thefe recommendations, and contented himfelf with fub- 
fifting by contributions. About 1740, he was fo reduced, 
that he' had no clothes to put on : the', (beefs in which he 
lay were carried to the pawnbroker’s; he vvas obliged to 
be confined to bed, with no other covering than a blanket; 
arid he had little fupport, but what lie got by writing let¬ 
ters in the moft abj.eH ftyle. His mode of Undying and 
writing vvas curious : he fat up in bed, with the blanket 
wrapped about him, through which he had cut a .hole 
large enough to admit his arm ; and, placing the paper 
upon his knee, fcribbled itr the beft manner he could. At 
T'otne times he would raife fubferiptions for poems which 
did not exift ; and, at others, ordered his wife to inform 
people that he was juft expiring, to move the companion 
of his friends. In 1743, lie publifhed an ode on the battle 
of Dettingen, intitled Albion’s. Triumph, In 1745, he 
was with Mr. Henry, at.Reading, where he v/as paid at a 
very low rate for compiling a work, intitled An Hiftorical 
Review of the Tranfa’Cliqns of Europe, from the Com¬ 
mencement of the War with Spain in 1739, to thq Infur- 
rection in Scotland in 1745. This.work was publifhed in 
1747, in 2 vols. 8vo, arid is not deftitute of merit. After 
his return from Reading, his behaviour and appearance 
were more decent, and hopes were entertained of his re¬ 
formation ; but his health now vifibly declined, and lie 
died, after a lingering ilJ.iYefs,. in h/fay, 1,749, in,, otjfcure 
lodgings near Shoe-lane, where he was buried at the ex¬ 
pence of the parifh. Some afTeOting anecdotes of him inay, 
be feen in Nichols’s feleft collection of poems, recited on 
the bed: authority. He is a melancholy i-nftance ot the 
wretchednefs,. contempt, and difgra.ee, to which the moft 
ingenious perfons may .reduce tjfemfel.v.es. by an abiife of 
thofe powers with which nature has endowed them. His 
genius was not confined, to poetry ; he had .alfo a tafte for 
painting, mufic,'and heraldry. 1 1 is Laid that his poems, 
if collefled, would make fix moderate volumes; two have 
been publifhed.' But the moft celebrated of his perfor¬ 
mances was his, p.oem called Deity, (he,third edition of 
which vvas publifhed in 1752,, 8vo, It is Hv Led by Hervey 
“a beautiful and inftruclive poem;” and.is alfo mentioned 
by Fielding wit bcommendal ion. If we did not know from 
obfervation, that fuCh ftr’ange contradictory qualities exift 
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