BUS 
town in Flanders, in 1522. The early proofs he g\.ve of 
an extraordinary genius, induced his father to {pare nei¬ 
ther care nor expence to get him properly inllrutted, and 
to obtain his legitimation from the emperor Charles V. 
Fie was lent to ftudy at the univerfities of Louvain, Paris, 
Venice, Bologna, and Padua. He was fonte time at Lon¬ 
don, whither he attended the ambaflador of Ferdinand 
king of the Romans. In 1554. he was appointed ambaf- 
fador at Conftantinople ; he continued there leven years, 
and acquired a perfect knowledge of the Fate of the Ot¬ 
toman empire, and the true means of attacking it with 
fuccefs ; on which fubjeCt he compofed a very judicious 
difcourle, intituled, De Re Militari contra Turcain infti- 
tuenda Conlilium. Without neglecting any tiling that re¬ 
lated to the bulinefs of his emhalfy, he laboured liiccefs- 
fully for the republic of letters, collecting infcriptions, 
•purchaling manulcripts, fearching after rare plants, and 
enquiring into the nature of animals. He alfo carried 
with him a painter, to take draughts of the plants and ani¬ 
mals that were unknown in the weft. The relation which 
he wrote of his embally to Turkey, is much commended 
by Thuanus. He was delirous of palling the latter part 
of his life in privacy, but the emperor Maximilian made 
choice of him to be governor to his fons; and, when his 
daughter princefs Elizabeih was married to Charles IX. 
of France, Bulbec was nominated to conduCt her to Paris. 
This queen gave him the whole fuperintendance of her 
houlhold and her affairs, and, when fhe quitted France, 
on her huiband’s death, left him there as her ambalfador. 
He was continued in that quality by the emperor Rodolph. 
He died in October 1592. 
BUS'BY (Richard), a very eminent fchoolmafter, fon 
of Richard Bulby, of Weftminfter, born at Luton in Lin- 
colnfhire, September 22, 1606. Having parted through 
the claftes of Weliminfter-fchool as a king’s fcholar, he 
was, in 1624, eleCted ftudent of Chrift-church. He took 
the degree of B. A. October 31, 1628 ; and that of M. A. 
June 18, 1631. July 1639, he was admitted to the pre¬ 
bend and rectory of Cudworth, in the church of Wells. 
December 13, 1640, he was appointed mailer of Weftmin- 
fter-fchool; and, by his (kill and diligence in the difcharge 
of this molt laborious and important office for the fpace of 
fifty-five years, bred up the greateft: number of eminent 
men in church and Hate that ever adorned at one time 
any age or nation. He extremely liked, and even ap¬ 
plauded, and rewarded, wit in any of his (cholars, though 
it reflected on himfelf. After the reftoration, Charles II. 
conferred on him a prebend of Weftminfter, into which 
he was inftalled July 5, 1660; and the nth of Attguft fol¬ 
lowing he was made treafurer and canon relidentiary of the 
church of Wells. He took the degree of D. D. October 
19, 1660. At the coronation of Charles II. he carried 
the ampulla, and in the convocation, which met June 24, 
1661, he was proCtor for the chapter of Bath and Wells; 
and one of thofe who approved and fubfcribed the Com¬ 
mon-prayer Book. This great man, after a long and 
healthy life, the Confequence of his chaftity, fobriety, 
and temperance, died April 6, 1695, aged eighty-nine, 
and was buried in Weltminfier-abbey, where there is a 
fine monument ereCted to him. Whatever reputation 
Weftminlter-fchool enjoys, whatever advantage has thence 
accrued, is chiefly due to Bulby, and will forever be due 
to him. He compofed feveral books for the ufe of his 
fchool; and gave 250I. towards repairing and beautifying 
Chrift-church college and cathedral, and founded and en¬ 
dowed two lectures in the fame college, one for the ori¬ 
ental languages, and another for the mathematics; giving, 
moreover, an hundred pounds to repair the room in which 
they were to be read. He contributed alio to the repair of 
Lichfield-cluirch. It had been the boaft of this great in- 
ftrudtorof youth, that at one time fixteen out of the whole 
Bench of bilhops had been educated by him. The unne- 
certary feverity with refpedt to difcipline, which lias in ^e- 
neral been imputed to Dr. Bulby, is fuppofed, like many 
Other fcandalous ftories, to haye arifen from the prejudices 
Vol. III. No. 147. 
and malignity of party. Several letters from the fcholars 
to this great mafter have been lately difcovered, by which 
it appears that he was much beloved by them. Bulby is 
laid to have allowed no notes to any claftical author that 
was read at Weftminfter. Dr. Johnfon faid, that Bulby 
tiled to declare that his rod was his (ieve, and that who¬ 
ever could not pals through that was no boy for him. 
He early difcovered the genius of Dr. South, lurking, per¬ 
haps, under idlenefs and obftinacy : “I fee (laid he) 
great talents in that fulky boy, and 1 (hall endeavour to 
bring them out.” This indeed he. effected, but by means 
of great feverity. 
BUS'CA, a town of Italy, in the province of Coni : 
feven miles weft of Coni. 
BUSCHET'TO DA DULJ'CHIO, architect, of the 
eleventh century, native of Dulichio, built the cathedral 
of Pifa, which (till partes for one of the fiueft in Italy. 
Bulchetto was a great machinift ; and could move the hea- 
Vieft loads with a very fmall force. It is marked on his 
tomb, “that ten girls could lift, by his method, weights 
which a thoufand yoke of oxen could not move, and a thip 
could fcarcely carry.” 
BUS'CHING (Dr. Anthony Frederic), famous for his 
his New Treatife of Geography, firft publiftied in the Ger¬ 
man language in 2 vols. 1754, which met with fuch en¬ 
couragement, that it palled through editions in 1756, 1758, 
1760, 1768, and was tranflated into Englilh 1762, 6 vols. 
4to. with maps: the French trandation is in 14 vols. nmo. 
1768—1779. It has likewife been tranllated into Dutch, 
Dr. Bufching died at Berlin in 1793, in the 69th year of 
his age. 
BUS'CHOFF, a town of the duchy of Courland: eight- 
miles Couth of Seelburg. 
BUSEN'TO, a river of Italy, which runs into the fea, 
near Policaftro. 
BUSH, f. [_bou, Fr.] A thick fhrub.—The poller, .and 
exacfer of tees, juftifies the refemblance of the courts of 
juftice to the bujk, whereunto while the fheep flies for de¬ 
fence from the weather, he is lure to lofe part of the fleece. 
Bacon .—A bough of a tree fixed up at a door, to (hew that 
liquors are fold there.—If it be true that good wine needs 
no bujk, ’tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shakef 
To BUSH, v. n. To grow thick : 
The roles bujhing round 
About her glow’d, half (looping to lupport 
Each flower of tender (talk. Milton. 
“One bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush.” 
This proverb intimates, that poflellion is a mighty matter, 
and precautions us not to run the hazard of a certain lofs 
for an uncertain gain, and teaches 11s that futurities are 
liable to dilappointmen? ; and no depending on JliaLL or will 
hereafter , and no commanding things out of our hand, 
five tenfes diftant from fruition. It feems to have been 
borrowed either of the Greeks, who fay, 0 ; to. 
eToi^x 7 \iTtav t’ ccroi^a. iWv.ei, Heliod ; or the Romans, who 
peremptorily fay, Spem pretio non emo ; the French lay, 
Micux vaut un tencz, que deux vous I’aurcz. 
BUSH (Paul), the firft bilhop of Brillol, became a ftu¬ 
dent in the univerrtty of Oxford about the year 1513, and 
in 1518 took the degree of bachelor of arts. He afterwards 
became a brother of the order called bonhoms ; of which, 
after Undying fonte time among the friars of St. Auftin 
(now Wadham college), he was elected provincial. In 
that (lation he lived many years; till at length Henry VIII. 
being informed of his great knowledge in divinity and 
play lie, made him his chaplain, and in 1542 appointed him 
to the new epifcopal fee of Briftol: but, having in the reign 
of Edward VI. taken a wife, he was, on the accelTion of 
Mary, deprived of his dignity, and fpent the remainder 
of his life in a private ftation at Brillol, where he died in 
in 1558, aged lixty-eight, and was buried on the north 
fide of the choir of that cathedral. Wood fays, that, w hile 
he was a ftudent at Oxford, he was numbered among the 
celebrated poets of that univerfity; and Pits gives him 
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