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wrote-various trails on religious fubjects. which were col¬ 
lected and publiflied by Bertrand Tidier, in 1662. 
BAL'DY, adv. Nakedly; meanly ; inelegantly. 
BALE (John), biftiop of Odory in Ireland, was born 
at Cove, in Suffolk, in 1495. At twelve years of age he 
was entered in the monaftery of Carmelites at Norwich, 
and was thence fent to Jefus college, Oxford. He was 
educated a Roman Catholic, but was converted to the 
Rroteftant religion by Thomas lord Wentworth. On the 
death of Lord Cromwell, who protected him from the 
perfecutions of the Romifh clergy, he was obliged to re¬ 
tire into the Low Countries, where he continued eight 
years. Soon after the accedion of Edward VI. he was 
recalled ; and being firft prefented to the living of Bifiiop’s 
Stoke in Hamplhire, in 1552, he was nominated to the lee 
of Odory. During his refidence in Ireland he was re¬ 
markably afliduous in propagating the Proteftant doCtrines ; 
but to very little purpofe, and frequently at the hazard of 
his life. Once, in particular, they murdered five of his 
domedics, who were making hay near his houfe ; and 
would probably have done the fame by him, if the laird 
of Kilkenny had not come to his adidance. On the accef- 
fion of queen Mary, he embarked for Holland, but was 
very unfortunate in his voyage. Firft he was taken by a 
Dutch man-of-war, and robbed by the captain of all his 
effeCts. Then, being forced by ftrefs of weather into St. 
Ive’s in Cornwall, he was confined on fufpicion of treafon. 
Being, however, releafed after a few days confinement, 
the (hip anchored in Dover road, where he was again feiz- 
ed on a falfe accufation. After his arrival in Holland, he 
was made prifoner, and obliged to pay 30I. for his liberty. 
From Holland he travelled to Bafil in Switzerland, where 
he continued till queen Elizabeth afcended the throne. 
After his return to England, he was in 1560 made pre¬ 
bendary of Canterbury. He died in 1563, at Canterbury, 
in the 68th year of his age. He was fo fevere a writer 
againft the church of Rome, that his books were prohi¬ 
bited in the expurgatory index publiflied at Madrid, in 
1667. He is the earlieft dramatic writer in the Englifh 
language, or at leaft author of the firft pieces of that kind 
that we find in print. Of thefe twenty-one have been enu¬ 
merated ; only three of them, however, are extant, viz. 
1. God’s Promifes, an interlude ; 2. St. John Baptift, an 
interlude ; 3. The Laws of Nature corrupted : the firft 
has been reprinted by Dodftey in his collection of old 
plays, and the only copy extant of the laft is preferved in 
St. Sepulchre’s library in Dublin. He alfo tranflated the 
tragedies of Pammachius. His other works are very nu¬ 
merous ; but the chief is his catalogue of Britifh Authors. 
T he title of it is, “ Illuftrium Majoris Britannia: fcripto- 
rumcatalogus, a Japhe’to fanCtillimiNoafilioad A. D. 1557. 
BALE,/! [bal, S.ax. bale, Dan. bul, bul, Icelsndifh.J 
Milery; calamity. 
She look’d about, and, feeing one in mail 
Armed to point, fought back to turn again ; 
For light flte hated as the deadly bale,. Fairy Queen. 
Bale,/! \balle, Fr.] In commerce, a term denoting a 
quantity of merchandize wrapped or packed up in cloth, 
and corded round very tight, after having been well fe- 
cured with hay or ftraw, to keep it from breaking, or to 
preferve it from the weather. To fell goods in the bale is 
' to fell them in the lump, on (hewing a fpecimen, without 
unpacking or taking off the cordage. 
Bale-coods, in the Eaft India trade, the bulky goods, 
as falt-petre, pepper, red-earth, tea. See. Bale-goods 
(land oppofed to piece-goods. 
Bales of Camblet, at Smyrna, are called tables, on 
account of their flat fquare figure. A bale of cotton yarn 
is from three to four hundred weight : of raw (ilk, from 
one to four hundred ; of lockram or dowlas, either three, 
three and a half, or four, pieces, &c. 
Bale of Paper, denotes a certain number of reams 
packed together in a bundle. There are bales of more 
and fewer reams. Thofe fent from Marfeilles to Couftaji* 
BAX, 
tinoplc ufually contain twelve reams. A bale or ballon of 
Crown paper, manufactured in fome parts of Provence, 
confifts of fourteen reams, and is fold in the Levant for 
Venice paper. 
Bale of Dice, denotes a little packet, or paper, con¬ 
taining fome dozens of dice for playing with. 
To BALE, v.n. [ eniballer , Fr. imbctllare, Ital.*] To make 
up into a bqle. 
BALEA'.RES INSULiE, or Balearic Islands. 
The appellation is commonly derived from b.ecaufe 
the inhabitants were excellent (lingers. But Bochart makes 
the name of Punic or Phoenician original, as were the 
people : Baal-jare, fkilful at throwing ; the Phoenicians 
and Hebrews being dextrous at the ufe of the fling. The 
Greeks called thefe iftands Gymncjiae, becaufe in funfmer 
the inhabitants were naked, or rather becaufe only armed 
with a fling in war. Hefychius. They are three in number, 
modernly called Majored, Minorca, and Yvica, on the coaft 
of Spain. We are told by Floriis, that the mothers never 
gave their children breakfaft, before they had ftruck with 
an arrow a certain mark in a tree. When a woman was 
married, (he was not admitted to her hufband’s bed before 
(lie had received the embraces of all her relations. The 
inhabitants were naturally of a lafeivious propenfity, and 
in their war they required nothing but females and wine, 
and often changed four men for one woman. See Ma¬ 
jorca, and Minorca. 
BALECHOU' (John Jofeph), a celebrated French en¬ 
graver, who flourlfhed about the year 1750. This extra¬ 
ordinary artift worked entirely with the graver. The 
clearnefs of his ftrokes, and the depth of colour which he 
produced, are far beyond any productions prior to his own. 
The two large plates which he did from Verr.et, one re- 
prefenting a ftorm, the other a calm, inuft ever be confi- 
dered as very aftonifiiing fpecimensof the celebrity of this 
art. They are too well known, and too much admired, 
to need any further eulogium. 
BALE'FUL, adj. Full of mifery; full of grief; for- 
rovvful; fad ; woeful : 
Round he throws his baleful e yes, 
That witnefs’d huge affliction and difmay, 
Mix’d with obdurate pride and ftedfaft hate. Milton . 
Full of mifehief; deftruCtive-: 
Happy lerne, whofe moft wholfome air 
Poifons envenom’d fpiders, and forbids 
The baleful toad and vipers from her lhore. Philips. 
BALE'FULLY, adv. Sorrowfully ; mifehievoufly. 
BA'LEN (Hendrick Van), hiftory and portrait painter, 
was born at Antwerp in 1560, and was a difciple of Adam 
Van Oort; but he quitted that mafter to acquire a better 
tafte of defign and compofttion, by purfuing his (Indies at 
Rome, where lie redded for a confiderable time. He dif- 
tinguiftied himfelf by a good manner of defigning, and his 
works are admitted into the cabinets of the curious among 
thofe of the principal painters. He particularly excelled 
in the naked, and gave to his figures fo much tafte, ex- 
preftion, and correCtnefs of outline, that few of his cotem¬ 
poraries could enter into competition with him. Several 
fine portraits of his are at the Hague; among which there 
is one adorned with the two figures of Wifdom and Juf- 
tice, which extorts commendation from all who attentively 
confider it. All the hiftorical fubjeCts painted by Van 
Balen have abundant merit. His defigns of the Deluge, 
of Moles (hiking the Rock, and the drowning of Pharaoh, 
are grand and noble compofitions. He died in 1632. 
Balen (John Van), painter of hiftory, landfcape, and 
boys, was born at Antwerp in 1611; and derived his 
knowledge of the art, and his fine tafte of drawing and 
defign, from his father Hendrick Van Balen ; but, as foon 
as he had made a competent progrefs, he travelled to 
Rome, and lived for feveral years in that emporium of 
the fine arts. His particular merit was ftiewn in his naked 
boys, cupids* nymphs, .bathing or Myiting, of which fub- 
