L U L 
(hem, as fuch was . the ignorance of the generality of in- 
ftrumental performers at this time, that they could exe¬ 
cute nothing which they did not know by heart. The 
genius, therefore, of Lulli was obliged to contract itfelf 
to the abilities of his orcheftra; and it is fuppofed that he 
would have written as well as his fucceflors, if he had 
lived a hundred years later. 
Before the eftablilhment of the opera in France, the 
king every year gave to his court magnificent fpeftacl.es 
called ballets, in which there was a great number of fym- 
phonies, mixed with recitatives. Lulii firft began by only 
compofing the mulic to the dances in thefe ballets ; but 
the king became fo fond of his compolitions, that he 
would hear no other. In 1672, Perrin, to whom the pa¬ 
tent for an opera was firft granted, refigned it to Lulli, 
w hofe genius began to expand; and he may be regarded 
as the creator of this kind of mulic, which (according to 
M. Laborde) has not been fo much improved (in France, 
he thould have faid) as fome imagine, and in many parti¬ 
culars has, perhaps, loft more than it has gained. It is 
true that he was aftifted by the immortal Quinault, of 
whom he had the penetration to difeover the genius, and 
the dexterity to fecure the aftiftance by a deed, Jn which 
the poet engaged to fupply him every year with a new 
drama, for 4000 livres, about 200I. Quinault iketched 
many plans, and carried them to the king for his appro¬ 
bation ; after which Lulli pointed out to him the places 
where the dances were to be introduced, and let him hear 
the airs. The feenes were examined, by his majefty’s 
command, in the Academie des Belles Lettres. Thus by 
their united opinions all the dramas of Quinault were re¬ 
gulated, which remain the beft that were produced in 
France during the feventeenth century, and will probably 
continue the beft, if new fet, for many ages yet to come. 
The enemies of Quinault, jealous of his glory and talents, 
contrived to bring about a quarrel between the poet and 
mufician. Lulli had recourse to La Fontaine, who, at his 
requelt, produced the opera of Daphne; but, as foon as 
Lulli had heard it read, he did not conceal from the au¬ 
thor, that he thought his talents did not extend to writ¬ 
ing operas. La Fontaine, piqued at having laboured in 
vain, to revenge himfelf on Lulli, for his coarfe rejeftion 
of his drama, wrote his comedy, or rather fatire, of the 
Florentine; but, as he had a good heart, he foon fubdued 
his wrath, and they were fincerely reconciled. The king, 
more and more pleafed with his mufic, conferred on him 
the title and emoluments of fecretary to his majefty, and 
heaped upon him many other favours for his family. 
The king having been extremely ill in 1686, Lulli com- 
pofed a Te Deunt on his recovery, which was executed 
in the church of the Feuillans, Rue Saint Honore, on the 
Sth of January, 1687. While enthufiaftically regulating 
the time with his cane, he (truck his foot fo violently, that, 
probably from a bad habit of body, a mortification came 
on : and it was announced to him that he mult prepare 
for death. His conftffor w>as fummoned, who refufed to 
give him abfolution, unlefs he would deliver to him a new 
opera he was compofing, to be committed to the flames. 
This was done; and Lulli, being - fomew hat better, was 
foon after vifited by a prince of the blood, who reproached 
him with having burned his mufic in compliance with a 
gloomy Janfenilt. Hulh ! my lord, (faid Lulli,) I have 
another copy.” This fally, however, was foon fucceeded 
by a relapfe, in which the confeifor had all the advantage. 
The poor penitent fubmitted to be laid upon a heap of 
allies with a cord about his neck, in which fituation he 
lung to an air of his own compofing, IIfaut mourir, fecheur, 
ilfavt mourir ! He foon after expired, at the age of fifty- 
four, on the 22d of March, 1687 : he was buried in the 
church of Les petits Peres, in the Place des Viftoires, 
where a fine monument was erefted to his memory, with 
the following epitaph by Santeuil : 
Perfida mors, inimica audax, temeraria et excors, 
£rudelifque, et cceca probris te abfolvimus iftis. 
L U L 7(tt' 
Non de te qnerimur, tua fint hare munia magna. 
Sed quando per te populi regifque voluptas, 
Non ante auditis rapuit qui camibus forbem 
Lullius eripitur, querimur modo, furdus fuilti. 
Lulli was a fortunate man to arrive in a country where 
mufic had been fo little cultivated, that he never had any 
rival; nor was there throughout the whole kingdom of 
France an individual who had the courage to doubt of his 
infallibility in his art.' He was fortunate in fo magnifi¬ 
cent a patron ; and (till more fortunate in a lyric poet* 
who could intereft an audience by all the powers of poetry, 
by the contexture of his fables, and variety and force or 
his characters. Lulli was rough, rude, and coarfe in his 
manners, but without malice. His greateft frailties were 
the love of wine and money. There were found in his 
coffer 630,000 livres in gold, an exorbitant fum for the 
time in which he lived. He had the art of making him- 
felf at once beloved and feared by the performers of fils 
mufic, which isdoubtlefs the inoft effentiai talent for go¬ 
verning fuch eccentric and mutinous fubjefts. Lulli mar¬ 
ried the only daughter of Michel Lambert, the celebrated 
mufician, anil the beft finging-mafter of his time. By 
this marriage he had three fons and three daughters ; to all 
of whom he left an ample provifion, and friends in power, 
who conferred on them places, penfions, and kindnefs. 
Burney and Hawkins. 
LUL'LING,/] The aft of quieting ; of laying to reft. 
LUL'LINGSTON, a village in K^-nt, on the Derwent. 
LUL'LINGTON, a village near Philip’s Norton, So- 
meriet.— A village in Derbyfhire, fouth-weft of Caftle 
Grefley, and including the hamlet of Coton in the Elms. 
LUL'LY, a village in Hertfordfliire, fouth-vvelt of Hit- 
chin. 
LUL'LY (Raymond), a philofopher of great note ia 
the dark ages, was born at Majorca in 1234. In his youth 
he bore arms, and led the life of a man of pleafure. Fall¬ 
ing in love with a young maid, who obftinately rejefted 
his addrefles, (he at length, to free herfelf from his impor¬ 
tunities, difplayed to him her breaft confumed with a can¬ 
cerous ulcer. The fpeftacle had fuch an effeft upon him, 
that he plunged into religious retirement, and devoted the 
reft of his days to pious purfuits. Others, however, fay 
that it infpired him with the refolution of feeking a re¬ 
medy for her difeafe, and was the motive for the chemical 
ftadies for which he became famous. It appears cer¬ 
tain that he undertook a courfe of travels into Africa 
and the eaft, for the purpofe of converting the Mahome¬ 
tans to the Chriltian faith, where he incurred grea{ 
hardlhips and dangers. He was fo much inflamed with 
zeal for this objeft, that, not fucceeding in his appli¬ 
cation to various Chriltian princes for aftiftance, he 
entered into the Francifcan order, and returned to Af¬ 
rica with the hope of obtaining the crown of martyr¬ 
dom. When he was again found in that country, from 
which he had been permitted to depart only on condition 
of not returning, he was thrown intoprifon, and, after buf¬ 
fering much torture, was freed through the intereft of fome 
Genoefe traders, who took him on-board their fnip to 
convey him home. On the paflage, when juft in fight of 
his native land, he died, in 1315. 
From this narrative, which reprefents Lully in the light 
of a fanatic miflionary, weihould not expeft that feientific 
character which has caufed his name to be preferved to mo¬ 
dern times. He is celebrated in a two-fold capacity, that 
of a fcholaltic metaphyfician, and that of an experimental 
chemift. In the firft department he was the inventor of a 
great art which exaftly fuited thegenius of the age. It con- 
tilted in colleftinga numberof general terms, common to all 
the fciences, of which an alphabetical table was to be pro¬ 
vided. Subjefts and predicates taken from thefe were to be 
refpeftively inferibed in angularlpaces upon circular papers. 
The eflences, afiYftions, qualities, and relations, of things, 
being thus mechanically brought together, the circular pa¬ 
pers of lubjefts were fixed in a frame, and tbofe of predi¬ 
cates 
