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the day, and now and then to refrefii them with water. 
In two months, or lei's* they will have taken foot, when 
they mult be gradually inured to the open air, placing 
them in a (lieltered fituation till they have obtained 
ftrength, when they may befeparated, and eacli planted in 
a fmall pot filled with light earth, placing them in the (hade 
till they have taken frefii root; then they may be remo¬ 
ved, and treated like other exotics. See Serratula. 
CEAP'GlLDE,yi [from ceap, pccus, Sax. cattle, and 
g’ld, i. e. folutio, Lat.] Hence it is folutio pec.udis : from this 
Saxon word gild, it is very probable we have our Englifh 
word yield ; as yield, or pay. Cozvel. 
To CEASE, v. n. \_cejfer, Fr. ccJJ'o, Lat.] To leave off; 
to flop ; to give over; to defiff : with from before a noun: 
The lives of all, who ceafe from combat, fpare ; 
My brother’s be your mod peculiar care. Dryden. 
To fail; to be extin6l; to pafs away.—The poor man 
fliall never ceafe out .of the land. Deuteronomy. —The foul 
being removed, the faculties and operations of life, fenfe, 
and intelledlion, ceafe from that moles corporea, and are no 
longer in it. Hale. —To be at an end ; to rell.—The mini- 
tiers of Chrift have ceafed from their labours, Spratt. 
To CEASE, v. a. To put a (lop to ; to put an end to : 
The difcord is complete, nor can they ceafe 
The dire debate, nor yet command the peace. Dryden. 
CEASE, f. Extinction; failure: perhaps for deceafe. 
The ceafe of majefiy 
Dies not alone, but like a gulph, withdraws 
What’s near it with it, Shakefpeare. 
CE'A'SELESS, adj. Inceffant; perpetual; continual; 
without paule ; without (top; without end : 
Like an oak 
That (lands fe.cure, though all the winds employ 
Their ceafelefs roar ; and only fheds its leaves, 
Or malt, which the revolving fpring reflores. Philips. 
CEAUX, a town of France, in the department of 
Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the diltridt of Lou- 
dun : two leagues ea(t of London. 
CE'BA (Anfaldo), a politician, hiftorian, ora’or, and 
poet, of Genoa, at the beginning of the feventeenth cen¬ 
tury, publifhed feveral traits in each of tliefe departments. 
The Italians attach fome value to his treatife on epic poe¬ 
try: but h,e acquired reputation chiefly by his tragedies; 
the mod efteemed of which are hi.s Twins .of Capua, and 
his Alcippus. The marquis Maffei has pronounced them 
deferring of being inferted in the collection of the bed 
Italian tragedies, printed at Verona in 1723, 3 vols, 8vo. 
<This poet died in 1623, at the age of fifty-eight. 
CEBAS'SAT, a town of France, in the department of 
Puy-de-Dome, and chief place of a canton, in the didridt 
of Clermont Ferrand : three miles north of Clermont. 
CE'BES, a Theban philofopher, one of the difciples of 
Socrates, B.C. 405. He attended his learned preceptor 
in his laft moments, and didinguidied himfelf by three 
dialogues that he wrote; but more particularly by his 
tables, which contain a beautiful and affedling picture of 
human life, delineated with accuracy of judgment, and 
great fplendor of fentiment. The bed editions of Cebes, 
are thofe of Gronovius, Svo. 1689, and Glafgow, 121110. 
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CE'CIL (William), lord Burleigh, treafurer of England 
in the re gn of queen Elizabeth., was the fon of Richard 
Cecil, mafter of the robes to Henry VI 11 . He was born 
in the houfe of his grandfather, at Bourn, in L'incol.nfhire, 
in 1520; and received the rudiments of his education in 
(lie grammar-fchool at Grantham. From thence he was 
removed to Stamford ; and afterwards entered of St.John’s 
college, Cambridge. Here he began his dudies with a 
degree of eivhufiaflic application very uncommon in young 
gentlemen of family. In 1341 he became a member of the 
focieiy of Gray’s-Inn, with an intention to .(Indy the law; 
but he had not been long in that fituation, before an ac- 
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■cident introduced him to king Henry, who commanded 
his father to find a place for him. He accordingly re¬ 
queued the reverfion of the cufios brevium, which Mr. Ce¬ 
cil afterwards poffeffed. About tins time he married the 
filler of Sir John Cheke, by whom lie was recommended 
to the earl of Hertford, afterwards duke of Someilet and 
proteClor. Soon after king Edward’s accefiion, Mr.Cecil 
came into the polfedion of his office of cujlos brevium. His 
fird lady dying in 1543, he married the daughter of Sir 
Anthony Cook, director of the king’s dudies. In 1547, 
he was appointed by the protestor, rnader of requeds ; 
and loon after, attended his noble patron on his expedi¬ 
tion againd the Scots, and was prelent at the battle of 
Mu (Tel burgh; In this battle, which was fought on the 
xoth of September 1547, Mr. Cecil’s life was miraculoully 
preferved by a friend, who, in puffing him out of the 
level of a cannon, had his arm (battered to pieces. The 
fight and judgment of his friend inud have been as extra¬ 
ordinary as his friendffip, to perceive the precile direc¬ 
tion of a cannon (hot; unlefs we fuppofe, that the ball 
was almoft fpent; in which cafe the thing is not impodi | 
ble. The (tory is told in his life by a domedic. In 1548, 
Mr.Cecil was made fecretary of date ; but, in the follow¬ 
ing year, the dtike of Northumberland’s faftion prevail¬ 
ing, he differed in the difgrace of the prote&or Somerfet, 
and was fent prifoner to the Tower. After three months 
confinement lie was releafed ; in 1551 redored to his office; 
and foon after knighted, and fworn of the privy council. 
On the death of Edward VI. Mr. Cecil refufed to have 
any concern in Northumberland’s attempt in favour of the 
unfortunate lady Jane Grey ; and when queen Mary af- 
cended the throne, he was gracioufiy received at court; 
but, not choofing to change his religion, was difmiffed 
from his employments. During this reign, he was twice 
eledled knight of the (hire for the county of Lincoln ; and 
often fpoke in the houfe of commons, with great freedom 
and firmnefs. Queen Elizabeth’s accefiion in 1558, dif- 
pelled the cloud which had obfeured his fortunes and mi- 
niderial capacity. On the day of her accefiion, he pre¬ 
heated her with a paper containing twelve articles necelfary 
for her immediate difpatch ; and, in a few days after, was 
fworn of the privy-council, and made fecretary of (late. 
His firft advice to the queen, was to call a parliament; 
and the firfi bufinefs he propofed after it was affembled, 
was the eftabliffment of a national church. A plan of 
reformation was accordingly drawn up under his imme¬ 
diate infpeclion, and the legal eftabliffment of the church 
of England was the confequence. Sir William Cecil’s 
next important concern, was to refiore the value of the 
coin, which had in the preceding reigns been confiderably 
debafed. In 1561, he was appointed mafter of the wards; 
and, in 1571, created baron of Burleigh, as a reward fur 
his fervices. The following year he was honoured with 
the garter, and railed to the office of lord high treafurer 
of England. From this period we find him the primum 
mobile of every material tranfadlion during the glorious 
reign of queen Elizabeth. Having filled the higheft and 
mod important offices of the (late for forty years, and 
guided the helm of government during the ntoft glorious 
period of Englilh hiftory, he departed this life on the 4th 
of Auguft 1598, in the 78th year of his age. His body 
was removed to Stamford, and there depolited in the fa¬ 
mily-vault, where a magnificent tomb was erefled to his 
memory. Notwithftanding his long enjoyment of fuch 
lucrative employments, lie left only an eftate of 4000I. 
per annum, n,oool. in money, and effects worth about 
14,cool. He lived, indeed, in a manner fuitable to his 
high rank and importance. He had four places of refi- 
dence, viz. his lodgings at court, his houfe in the Strand, 
his feat at Burleigh Park near Stamford, and his feat at 
Theobalds. The laft of thefe was his favourite place of 
retirement, where he frequently entertained the queen at 
a vaft expence. Lord Burleigh was doubtlefs a man of 
lingular abilities and prudence; amiable in bis private 
character, and one ol the molt able, upright, and indefati. 
gable, 
