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To cover chickens under the wing: 
They breed, they brood-, infiru£l, and educate; 
And make provision for the future fiate. Dryden. 
To remain long in anxiety, or folicitous thought; 
, As rejoicing mifers 
• Brood o’er their precious tlores of fecret gold. Smith. 
To mature any tiling by care..—It was the opinion of Cli- 
nias, as if there were cveramongft nations a brooding of a 
war, and that there is no fit re league but impuiffknce to do 
hurt. Bacon. 
To BROOD, v. a. To eherifh by care : 
Of crowds afraid, yet anxious when alone, 
You’ll lit and brood your furrows on a throne. Dryden. 
BROOD, f. Offspring; progeny. It is now hardly ufed 
of human beings, but in contempt.—v£lian difepurfes of 
(forks, aipd their affection toward their brood, whom they 
fnftruiSl; to fly. Brown. —Thing bred; fpecies generated : . 
Have you forgotten Lybia’s burning waftes, 
Its barren rocks, parch'd earth, and hills of fand. 
Its tainted air, and all its broods of poifon ? Addifon. 
A hatch; the number hatched at once.—I was wonderfully 
pleafed to fee the different workings of inftindt in a hen fol¬ 
lowed by a brood of ducks. Addifon. —The a£t of covering 
the eggs. Something brought forth : a production : 
Such things become the hatch and brood of time. Shakefp. 
BROO'DY, adj. In a ftate of fitting on the eggs; in¬ 
clined to fit.—The common hen, all the while (heis broody, 
fits, and leads her chickens, and ufes a. voice which we 
call clocking. Ray. 
BROOK, f. fbroc, or broca, Sax.] A running water, 
lefs than a river.—Springs makelittle rivulets; thofe uni¬ 
ted, make brooks ; and thofe coining together, make rivers, 
which empty themfelves into the fea. Locke. 
To PROOK, v. a. \_brucan. Sax.] Tobear; to endure; 
to fupport: 
Heav’n, the feat of blifs, 
Brooks not the works of violence and war. Milton. 
7 b BROOK, v.n. To endure; to be content. 
BROOK (Ralph), York herald in the herald’s office, 
was born in 1552, and difeovered many errors in relation 
to pedigrees in Camden’s Britannia, which he offered to 
communicate to the author; but his offer was waved, and 
he i\as fupercilioufiy treated. Upon this, urged by re- 
fentment, he fcduloufly applied himfelf to a thorough 
examination of that celebrated work, and publifhed a dif- 
covery of the errors which he found in the fourth edition 
of it. This book, in which Mr. Camden is treated with 
very little ceremony, was of great life to him in the fifth 
edition, publifhed in 1600. Brook’s Second Difcovery of 
Errors, to which his portrait is prefixed, was publifhed in 
4to. 1723, almoft a century after hi^ deceafe, which hap¬ 
pened on the 15th of October, 1625. 
BROOKE (Frances), whole maiden name was Moore, 
was the daughter of a clergyman, and the wife of the 
Rev. John Brooke, reCtor of Colney in Norfolk, of St. 
Auguftine in t(ie city of Norwich, and chaplain to the 
garrifou of Quebec. She was as remarkable for her gen- 
tlenefs of manners, as for her literary talents. Her huf- 
banddied on the tiff of January, 1789; and fhe herfelf 
expired on the 26th of the fame month, at Sleaford, where 
IFe had retired to tile lioufe of her foil. The fir ft literary 
performance v.e know of her writing was the Old Maid, 
a periodical work, fince printed inonevol. tamo. In 1756, 
file publifhed Virginia, a tragedy, with odes, paftorals, and 
tranflations, 8vo. In 1763, Hie publifhed Lady Julia Man- 
deville, 3 yols. concerning which there were various opi-. 
•Jiions, though it was read with much avidity. It: has been 
often, how.ever, wifhed that the cataflrophe had been lefs 
melancholy ; and of the propriety of this opinion the au¬ 
thor, efs herfelf is fa id to have been fatisfied, but did not 
choofe to make the alteration. The fame year fbe pub- 
Vol. III. No. 140. 
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lifhcd Letters front Lady Julia Oatefby to her friend •!. 
Henrietta Camplev, tratiflated front the French, m-.. 
She foon afterwards went to Canada with Iter huh :• : 
and there faw thofe romantic feenes fo admirably pa;: 
in her next work, intitled, The Hiftory of Emily Monta¬ 
gue, 4 vols. 121110, 1769. The next year fhe publifhed, 
Memoirs of the Marquis af St. Forlaix, in 4 vols. 121110. 
On her return to England, accident brought her acquaint 
ed with Mrs. Yates, and an intimacy was formed belween' 
them which lafted as long as that lady lived. It was now 
that fhe wifhed to try her fortune at the theat’re, and pro-' 
bably relying on the influence of Mrs. Yates to obtain its 
reprefentatipn, produced the tragedy of Virginia, which 
had not the good fortune to pleafe the manager, Mr. Gar¬ 
rick. He therefore rejected it; and by that means exci¬ 
ted the refentment of the autliorefs fo much, that file took 
a fevere revenge on him in a novel publifhed in 1777, in- 
titled, The Excitrfion, in 2 vols. 121110. It ought, how¬ 
ever, to be added, that fhe afterwards thought her in¬ 
ventive tyo fevere; lamented, and retraCted it. In 1771, 
file tranflated Elements of the Hiftory of England, from 
the invafioti of the Romans to the Reign of George II. 
from the abbe Millot, in 4 vols. 12mo. In January, 1781, 
the Siege of Sinope, a tragedy, was aCted at Covent-gar¬ 
den. This piece added but little to her reputation, though 
the principal characters were well fupported by Mr. Hen- 
derfon and Mrs. Yates. It went nine nights, but never 
became popular; it wanted energy, and had not much ori¬ 
ginality; there was little to disapprove, but nothing to 
admire. Her next and nioft popular performance was 
Rofma, aCted at Covent-garden in December 1782. This 
file prefented to Mr. Harris, and few pieces have been 
equally fuccefsful. The fimplicity of the ftory, the ele¬ 
gance of the words, and the excellence of the mufic, pro- 
mile a long duration to this drama. Her concluding work 
was Marian, ailed in 1788 at Covent-garden with fome 
fuccefs, but much inferior to Rofma. 
BROOKE (Henry), born in 1706, was the fon of the 
Rev. William Brooke, of Rantavan, in Ireland. He was 
educated at Dr. Sheridan’s fchool, fent early to Dublin- 
college, and from thence removed to the Temple in his 
fevgnteenth year. There the engaging fweetnefs of his 
temper, and peculiar vivacity of his genius, caught the 
notice and efleem of feyeral diftinguifhed perfonages in 
London. Thus flattered and encouraged, he returned to 
Ireland to fettle his affairs, and to obtain a call to the bar. 
The illnefs of an aunt haftened him to Weffmeath. This 
lady evinced, in her dying moments, the mod implicit re¬ 
liance on iiis honour and vPortli : (he committed to his 
guardianlhip her daughter, a lively and beautiful girl of 
between eleven and twelve, but flightly portioned, and 
therefore in (till greater need of a protector. On the death 
of his aunt, he efcorted his mourning ward to Dublin, 
where his father and mother then were, and placed her at 
a boardjn.g-fc.hool. Here (lie improved in beauty and ac- 
complifhments ; the vifits of her guardian were frequent, 
and love dole on their young fufceptible hearts; unper- 
ceived indeed by themfelves, but plainly apparent to the 
companions at the fchool, whofe obfervations and rail, 
lery, quickened perhaps by jealoufy, frequently drew tears 
of embarraffinent and vexation from her eyes. She com¬ 
plained of this to her coufin; but he was too much ena¬ 
moured to difeontinue his attentions, and file loved him 
too much to facrifice his company to prudential confide- 
yations : the confequence was they married fecretly ; and 
upon difcovery were married again in prefence of his fatlter 
andipother; and Mrs. Brooke had her firft child before 
fhe had completed her fourteenth year. Here was an end 
for a while to bufinefs, to ambition, to every thing but 
love; the enthufiafm of youthful fondnefs wrapt every 
other objefl from their view ; and it was not till after the 
birth of their third .child, that Mr. Brooke could be pre¬ 
vailed on, by the preffing folicitations of his friends, to 
think of getting forward in a line of life that might ena¬ 
ble him to make a handfome provifion for a family fo pre- 
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