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ley, near Cambridge ; and gained fo much of his efteem, 
that he was employed to make extracts from Euftathius, 
for the notes to the tranflation of the Iliad; and in the 
volumes of poetry published by Lintof, commonly called 
Pope's Mifce/lanies , many of his early pieces were inferted. 
Pope and Broome were to be yet more clofely confiedted. 
' When-the fuccefs of the Iliad gave encouragement to a 
verfion of the Odyfley, Pope, weary of the toil, called 
Fenton and Broome to his alii fiance ; and, taking only half 
the work upon himfelf, divided the other half between 
his partners, giving four books to Fenton, and eight to 
Broome. Fenton’s hocks are enumerated in Dr. Johnfon’s 
life of him. To the'lot of Broome fell the fecond, fixth, 
eighth, eleventh, twelfth, fixteenth, eighteenth, and twen¬ 
ty-third, together with f he burdenofwritingallthenot.es. 
The price at which Pope purchafed this, abidance was, 
three hundred pounds paid to Fenton, and rive hundred to 
Broome, with as many copies as he wanted for his fr iends, 
amounting to iool. more. The payment made to Fenton 
is knowuronly by hearfay ; BroomeV is very^diftinCtly told 
by Pope in the notes to the Dunciad It is evident, that, 
according to Pope’s own e(Innate, Broome was unkindly 
treated. If four books could merit .three hundred pounds, 
eight,,and -all the notes, equivalent at • lead to four, had 
certainly a right to more than fix. Broome probably con- 
llderedhimfelf as injured, and there was fur (ome time 
more than coldnefs between him and Iris employer. He 
always fpoke of Pope as too much a lover of money,' and 
Pope purfued him with avowed lioftility; for he not only 
named him difrefpeCtfuliy in the Dunciad, but quoted him 
more than once in the Bathos, as a proficient in the art of 
finking : and in liis enumeration of the different kinds of 
poets diftinguiihed for the profound, he reckons Broom 
among “ the parrots who repeat another’s words in fuch 
an hoarfe odd tone as makes them feem their own.” It 
has been faid that they were afterwards reconciled ; but 
their peace was probably without friendfiiip. He.afcer- 
wards publifhed a Mifcellany of .Poems. He w as fonie 
time leClor of Sturften in Suffolk, where lie married 
a wealthy widow; and afterwards, when the king vifited 
Cambridge in 1728, became doctor of laws. He was in 
1733 prefemed by the crown to the rectory of Pulliam in 
Norfolk, w hich he held with Oakley Magna in Suffolk, 
given him by lord Cornwallis, to whom he was" chaplain, 
and who added the vicarage of Eye in‘Suffolk; he then 
refigned Pulham, and .retained the other two. T owards 
the clofe.of his life he grew again poetical, and a mu fed 
himfelf with tranflating odes of Anacreon, which he pub- 
lifhed under the name of Ckrjlcr. He died at Bath in 1745, 
and was'buried in the abbey church. 
BROOMhNG, or Breaming of a fhip, v.a. In fea lan¬ 
guage, the waffling and burning off all the filth fire has 
contraded on her (ides and bottom, by long fea voyages, 
or by a long continuance on any ftatioh, or in the har¬ 
bour, &c. 
BROGM'LAND, f. Land that bears broom.—I have 
known flieep cured of the rot, when they have not been fat- 
gone with it, by being put into broomlands. Mortimer. 
BROCM'RIDGE, or Broomrigcs, a place of Nor¬ 
thumberland, where it is faid a battle was fought by 
Athelftan againft Conftantine king of Scotland, Evvane, or 
Oweine, king of Cumberland, and Aniap, the general of 
the Danes, in the year 928, in which Athelftan obtained 
a complete victory. 
BROOM'STAI’F, f, [from broom and Jiajf.'] The ftaff 
to which the broom is bound ; the handle of a befom: 
From the age 
That children tread this worldly ffage, 
Broontflajf or poker they beftride, 
And round the parlour love to ride. Prior. 
BROOM'STICK, f. The fame as Broomstaff.- — • 
When I beheld this, I .fig bed, and faid within mylelf, 
Surely mortal man is a broomjlick. Swift. 
.BKOO'MY, adj. Full of broom. If land grow molly 
fix broomj’y then break it up again. Mortimer. 
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BROONS, a town of France, and principal place of a 
diftriCf, in the department of the North Coaft : four leagues 
and a half fouth-eaft of Lamballe, and three and a half 
fouth weft of Dinan. 
BROOT'ZI, a town of Siberia: forty-eight miles north- 
weft of To.mfk. 
BROOZENKOW'A, a town of P< land, in the palati¬ 
nate of Podolia: thirty-two miles north-eaft of Kaminiecz. 
BROQUI'ES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Aveiron, and cliief place of a canton, in the diftrift of 
St. Afrique, cn ’he Tarn : feven leagues fouth of Rhodes. 
BRO'RA", a fea-port town on die caft coaft of Scotland, 
in the county of Sutherland ; near it is a. coalmine; the 
coals of which are faid to take fire on being expofed to the 
air: here is Ike wife a quarry of lime (tone, interfperfed 
with a-variety of lhells. It is ten miles riorth-.ndrth-eafl 
of Dornock. 
BRO'RA, a river of Scotland, which pages through a 
lake of the fame name, in the county of Sutherland, and 
runs into the fea at Brora. 
BRO KE, a river ..of Germany, which runs into the. 
Meufe : about a league belov. Maeftricht. 
BROS'CFIAN, a town of Bohemia, in the.circle of 
I.eitmeritz : four miles ioutli of Leitmeritz. 
BROS'CHI (Carlo), better known under the name of 
Farinello, was born the 2J,.th x of January, 1703, at Andria, 
in the kingdom of Naples, of a reduced noble family From, 
the patent of his knighthood of the order of Cabitrava, it 
appears that lie was indebted for die lading" agreeablenefs. 
of liis voice, not to a voluntary mutilation from the third: 
of gain, but that he was obliged to undergo caftration on 
account of a dangerous hurt he received in his youth, by 
a fall from' a horfe. He owed the firft rudiments of the 
fingi.ngart to liis father, Salvatore Brofee, and his farther 
information to the famous Porpora. At that time there 
flouriflied at Naples three wealthy brothers of the name 
of Farina, whole family is now extinet. Thefe perfons 
vonchfafed him their diftingbiftted patronage, and beftow- 
ed on him the name of Farinello. For feme time his fame 
was confined to the convivial concerts of his patrons, till 
it happened that the count of Schrautenbacli, nephew of 
the then viceroy, came to Naples. To celebrate his arri¬ 
val, the viceroy, and his familiar friend Antonio' Caiac- 
ciolo, prince della Torella, caufed the opera of Angelica 
and Medoro to be reprefeirted, in which Metaftafio and 
Farinello plucked the firft laurels of their immortal fame. 
A circumftunce very prettily expreffed by Metaftafio, in a- 
fonaet addretfed to him : 
Apprejfero gemelli a feiorre il voto ; 
La tua voce in Parnafo, e il mio pevfiere. 
1 hefe twins I offer at the mufie’s (brine, 
A poet’s genius and a voice divine. 
Thus fortune united the two greateft luminaries that have 
appeared on the theatre in modern times, at the entrance- 
on their career. Metaftafio was then not more than eigh¬ 
teen, and Farinello not above fifteen years of age. Soon 
after, Farinello was called to the principal theatres in- 
Italy, and every where richly-rewarded : between the 
.years 1722 and 1734, lie-gave proofs of his powers at Na¬ 
ples, Rome, Venice, and moff of the cities of Italy. 
The report of hisTalents at length found its way acrofs 
the Alps: lord ETHa, the Engltfh ambaliador at Turin, 
received a comniiflion to invite him to London, where for 
fix months performance he was paid 1500I. Scarcely ever 
had any linger a like capacity of perpetually giving new 
aceeflions of force to his voice, and alv ays with pleafnre ; 
and, when it had attained to the higheff degree of energy, 
to keep it for a long time at that pitch which the Italians 
call ‘ niezza di voce.’ While he (ang at London in the 
year 1733., in on opera eompofed by his brother Ritcardo,. 
at another theatre they were performing an opera fet to . 
mufic by Handel, wherein . Sendtni, Cardlini,' and the no 
lefs Celebrated Cuzzoni, had parts: Farinello from the 
very beginning was acknowledged to have the fuperiority 
