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and vanquiftt the mod favage bulls. The foluiers on foot, 
Hill more lightly armed, with the'ir hair bound up in nets, 
hold in ©ne hand a purple veil, and, in the othef, (harp 
lances. The alcade proclaims the laws ot the fight, that 
no combatant filial 1 be afTifted, and that they (hall be al¬ 
lowed no other .arms than the lance for the attack, and the 
purple veil for defence. The monarchs, furrounded by 
their court, preiide at thefe fianguinary amufeinents; and 
the whole army, feated in the vail amphitheatre, teflifv, 
by loud (houts of joy and the mod violent exprellions of 
applaufe, their excefiive fondnels for thefe ancient com¬ 
bats. The fignal is given, the barrier opens, the bull 
rufiies into the midft of the circus : but, on feeing the 
{deflators, on hearing their-(bouts, accompanied with the 
found of thoufands of trumpets, he (tops aftonifned and 
difmayed; his nofirils fmoke; with glowing eyes he looks 
around the amphitheatre >: he leems ftil'pended between 
amazement and fury. He fuddenly attacks a knight, who 
wounds him and'gallops at full fpeea to the other end of 
the circus : the bull, enraged, clofely purines, tears up 
the ground witli furv, and rufiies on the fplendid veil, 
Which one of the foot-foldiers holds out before him. The 
agile Spaniard in one inftant eludes his force, liifpendsthe 
light veil on his horns, and launches a (harp dart, which 
makes him bleed anew. Soon after, pierced by ail their 
lances, and by the penetrating darts, the barbed points of 
which remain in the wound, the animal bounds over the 
plain, utters the mod dreadful bellowings, runs furioufiy 
round the circus, (hakes tne innumerable darts that (land 
thick in his broad neck, fcatters around him a cloud of 
fand and pebbles mixed with Ihreds of purple ftained with 
blood and foam, till at length he falls exhaufted by vio¬ 
lence, rage, and anguilh. In one of thefe combats, the 
ralh Cortez narrowly efcaped lolinga life deftined to great 
exploits. Ardent to fignalize himfelf before the beauti¬ 
ful Mendoza, who had long pofieffed his heart, Cortez, 
mounted on an Andalulian (teed, wounded a furious bull, 
and fled. Notwithftanding the danger that threatened 
him, the young lover keeps his eyes fixed on the beauty 
that ever engrofled his thoughts, and fees an orange blof- 
fom, that had adorned her bofom, fall into the arena. 
Cortez fprings from his courfer, runs and (loops to pick it 
‘up; the bull rufiies onward, and aims at the imprudent 
youth. Mendoza’s cries warn him of his danger. Cortez, 
without letting go the flower, direfls his lance with a 
Heady eye at the ihoulder of the animai, who infiantly 
falls dead on the fand. The foldiers all join in fliouts of 
applaufe : KabellS offers to crown him as a viflor : but 
Cortez declines the wreath, and (hews the valued flower, 
which had nearly coft him his life. He bellows innume¬ 
rable kilfes on it, prelles it to his heart, breaks Iris lance, 
and leaves the circus.” 
Pepin king of France, furnamed, from his diminutive 
fize, UBrcf, or ‘the Short,’ introduced a combat of t Iris 
defcription at Paris, with a view- to convince iris fub- 
jefts, that, notwithihmding his deficiency of Hature, he 
was not deficient in Hrength and magnanimity, ’and con- 
fequently not unworthy to reign over them. In this en¬ 
tertainment, which included a fight between a hull and a 
lion, the latter had got his antagonift-under ; when Pepin, 
turning towards his nobility, faid, “ Which of you will 
dare 'o go, and part or kill thefe furious beafis ?” The 
bare propofal made them (huddcr : nobody made anfwer. 
“ Then I will be the man,” replied the monarch ; upon 
which, drawing his fabre, he leaped down into the arena, 
made up to the lion, and killed him ; and, without delay, 
difcharged fuch a Hroke on the bull as left his head hang¬ 
ing by the upper part of his neck. The courtiers were 
equally amazed at fuch courage and Hrength ; and the 
king, with an heroic lofttnefs, (aid to them, “ David was 
a 1 tie man ; yet he laid low the infolent giant who had 
dared to defpife him.” 
The feudal cuflom called bull-running , which appears 
io have had its origin from bull-fights, was for many ages 
in ufe at Tutbury in Staffordlhire y where, anciently, on 
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the day of the affumption of our Lady, a bull was turned 
loofe by the lord to the minftrels; who, if they could 
catch and conquer them him before he palled the river 
Dove,.were to jiave him for their own, or, in lieu thereof, 
to receive each forty-pence ; in confideration of which 
cufiom they paid twenty-pence yearly to the lord. 
BULL-FROG,/] in zoology. See Rana. 
BULL-HEAD, f. A ftupid fellow ; a blockhead. 
BULL HEAD, or Miller’s Thumb, j. in ichthyo¬ 
logy. See Cottus. 
BULL-HEAD, a cape of Ireland, on the north fide of 
DingIC-Bay, three miles fouth-eaH of Dingle. Lat. 52, 
6. N. Ion. 10. 4. E. Greenwich. 
BULL-TROUT, f. A large kind of trout.—There is, 
in Northumberland, a trout called a bull-trout, of a much 
greater length and bignefs than any in thefe fouthern parts. 
Walton. 1 /, 
BULL-WEED, ~f. The fame with knap-wecd. 
BUL'LA,yi The Dipper ; a genus of (liell-fifh be¬ 
longing to the order ot vermes tefiacese. It is an animal 
of the fnail kind: the (hell confifts of one valve, convo¬ 
luted, and without any prickles; thy aperture is narrow- 
i(h, oblong, longitudinal, and entire at the bate; the colo- 
mella is fmooth and oblique. There are twenty-three 
fpecies enumerated by Linnaeus; four of them fouird in 
the Britifli teas; the reft chiefly natives of the Aiiatic and. 
Atlantic oceans. See Conchology. 
BUL'LACE, f. A wild four plum.—In October, and 
the beginning of November, come lervices, medlars, and 
bullaces. Bacon. 
BUL'Lfli, f. in antiquity, ornaments much in ufe a- 
mong the ancient Romans. Mr. Whittaker, in his Hif- 
tory of Manchefter, vol. i. p. 79, dates it as his opinion, 
"that they were originally formed of leather among all 
ranks of people ; and it is certain that they continued fo 
to the laft among the commonalty. Healfo imagines, that 
at firft the bulla was intended as an amulet rather than an. 
ornament; as a proof of which he tells 11s that the bullse 
were frequently impreired with the figure of the fextial parts. 
It is univerfally afterted by the critics, that rhe'bullae were 
made hollow for the reception of an amulet; but this Mr. 
W. contradifls from the figm e of a golden one lately found 
at Manchefter, which had no aperture whereby an amu¬ 
let could have been introduced Pliny refers the original 
of the bulla to the elder Tarquin, who gave one with the 
praetexta to his fon, becaufe at the age of fourteen he had 
with his own hand killed an enemy ; and in imitation of 
him it was afterwards alfumed bv other patricians. Others 
affirm, that the bulla was given by that king to the Ions 
of all the patricians who had borne civil offices-. ~ Laftly, 
others allege, that Romulus firft introduced the bulla, 
and gave it to Tulltis Hoftilius, the firft child born ot the 
rape of the Sabines. As to the form of the bullte, Mr, 
WLiittaker informs us, that they were originally made in 
the ftiape of hearts ; but they did not always retain the 
form of an heart, any more than they were always made 
of leather. As the wealth of the (late and the riches of 
individuals increafed, the young patrician diftinguifbed 
himfelf by a bulla of gold, while the Com man people 
wore the amulet of their anceftors. The figure of the 
heart then became fo generally round, fome even having 
the impreflion of an heart upon them, that there are not 
many of the original form to be found in the cabinets of 
the curious. The. form is naturally varied from a com¬ 
plete circle to that of a (egment ; and this was the fhape 
of the bulla found at Manchefter.. 
The term bulla• vas alio given to divers other metalline 
ornaments made after the lame form \ and in this lenfe 
bulla: feem to include all gold and filver ornaments ot a 
roundifti form, whether worn on the habits ot men, Hre 
trappings of horfes, or the like. Such were t-hofe deco¬ 
rations vifeu by the ancients on heir doors and belts, 1 he- 
bullae of doors were a kind ot large-headed nails, {aliened 
on the doors of jbe rich, and kepi bright with great care. 
The doors of temples wete lometimes adorned with gol~ 
