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works, given every one reafon to fuppofe that he had de¬ 
voted bimfelf exclufively to the fciences, had not neglect¬ 
ed tlie praftice of medicine. After having exercifed it 
for a long time in the hofpitals and cloillers, he was Tent 
for to court; and he was the only example, except the 
celebrated Fernel, of one individual holding the office of 
firft phylician at Verfailles, fucceffively to two queens, and 
afterwards to the king; the minilters and the courtiers 
had been all changed, but he preferved the friendflrip of 
his fovereigns. He lived in friend (hip with Fontenelle, 
Window, d’Alembert, Buffon, and other fcientific cha¬ 
racters ; and the affability of his manners, and his ardent 
zeal for the advancement of knowledge among the young 
fcholars, whofe induftry he encouraged, and whofe repu¬ 
tation was become one of his molt fatisfaCtory enjoyments, 
gained him general refpect. When, from a natural deli¬ 
cacy of conftitution, M. de Lalfone began to experience 
the inconveniences of a premature old age, he became 
forrowful and fond of folitude ; yet, reconciled to his fitua- 
tion, he calmly obferved his death approaching, and ex¬ 
pired on the 8th of December, 1788. Laffone, at the 
time of his death, held the appointment of firft phyfician 
to Louis XVI. and his queen ; he was counfellor of ftate, 
doctor-regent of the faculty of medicine at Paris, and 
penfionary-veteran of the academy of fciences, member 
of the academy of medicine at Madrid, and honorary af- 
fociate of the college of medicine at Nancy. Hiji. de 
VAcad. Roy. des Sciences, 1788. 
LASSOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Anrungabad : thirty-two miles north-weft of Aurungabad. 
LAS'SUS (Orlandus), or, as he is called by the Italians, 
Orlando di Lajfo, was a native of Mons, in Hainault, born 
in 1520 ; and who not only fpent many years of his life 
in Italy, but had his mufical education there, having 
been carried thither furreptitioufly, when a child, on ac¬ 
count of his fine voice. The hiftorian Thuanus, who 
has given Orlando a place among the illuftrious men of 
his time, tells us that it was a common practice for young 
fingers to be forced away from their parents, and detain¬ 
ed in the fervice of princes ; and that Orlando was car¬ 
ried to Milan, Naples, and Sicily, by Ferdinand Gonzago. 
Afterwards, when he was grown up, and had probably 
loft his voice, he went to Rome, where he taught mufic 
during two years ; at the expiration of which, he travel¬ 
led through different parts of Italy and France ; and at 
length, returning to Flanders, refided many years at Ant¬ 
werp, till, being invited by Albert duke of Bavaria to 
Munich, he fettled at that court, married, and continued 
there till his death, in the year 1593, at upwards of fe- 
venty years of age. He was accounted one of the moll 
excellent compolers of his time, and has left a great num¬ 
ber of w'orks of different kinds, confifting of motets, 
maffes, magnificats, See. with Latin, Italian, German, 
and French, fongs. He excelled in modulation, of which 
he gave many new fpecimens, and was a great mailer of 
harmony. His ftyle of church-mufic was lighter and 
more fecular than that of Paleftrina, and he feems to have 
poffeffed more elegance and fweetnefs than grandeur and 
lblemnity. 
Turn of Orlando di Laffo’s fons, Ferdinand and Ro- 
dolph, were able muficians, and both in the fervice of 
Maximilian duke of Bavaria; the eldeft as chapel-maf- 
ter, and the other as organill to that prince. Thefe col- 
lefled their father’s motets, as well thofe which had been 
publilhed during his life as thofe which remained unpub- 
liihed at his deceafe, and printed them in a very fplendid 
and fumptuous manner at Munich, in fieven volumes, 
large folio, 1604, with a dedication to their patron, the 
fovereign of Bavaria. The general reception, however, 
of thefe compofitions, feems not to have equalled the ex¬ 
pectations of the editors. Burney. 
LASS'OTH, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neiffe : ten miles north of Neiffe. 
LASS'WITZ, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neiffe : four miles north-weft of Patfchkau. 
LAS 
LAST, adj. [lateyt. Sax. laetjle, Dut.] Lateft ; that 
which follows all the reft in time.—Why are ye the lajl to 
bring the king back ? Samuel. 
Oh ! may fome fpark of your celeftial fire 
The laf, the meaneft, of your fons infpire! 
Pope. 
Hindmoft ; which follows in order of place : 
Merion purfu’d at greater diftance ftill, 
Lajl came Admetus, thy unhappy fon. 
Pope. 
Beyond which there is no more.—I will flay 
them with the fword. Amos. 
the lajl of 
Wit not alone has fhone on ages paft. 
But lights the prefent, and fhall warm the laft. 
Pope. 
The loweft; the meaneft: 
Antilochus 
Takes the lajl prize, and takes it with a jell. 
Pope. 
Next before the prefent; as, lajl week. Utmoft : 
Fools ambitioully contend 
For wit and pow’r; their lajl endeavours bend 
T’ outlhine each other. Dryden's Lucretius. 
At Last. In conclufion; at the end.—Gad, a troop 
lhall overcome him; but he lhall overcome at the lajl. 
Gen. xlix. 19. 
Thus weather-cocks, that for a while 
Have turn’d about with ev’ry blaft. 
Grown old, and deftitute of oil, 
Ruft to a point, and fix at lajl. Freind. 
The Last ; the end : 
All politicians chew on wifdom paft, 
And blunder on in bufinefs to the lajl. Pope. 
LAST, adv. The laft time; the time next before the 
prefent: 
When lajl I dy’d, and, dear! I die 
As often as from thee I go, 
I can remember yet that I 
Something did fay, and fomething did bellow. Donne. 
In conclufion: 
Pleas’d with his idol, he commends, admires. 
Adores; and, lajl, the thing ador’d delires. Dryden. 
To LAST, v.n. [laeptan, Sax.] To endure; to conti¬ 
nue; to perfevere.—Thefe are Handing marks of facts de¬ 
livered by thofe who were eye-witneffes to them, and 
which were contrived with great wifdom to lajl till time 
Ihould be no more. Addifon. 
LAST, f. [lrey'fc, Sax.] The mould on which Ihoes 
are formed.—The cobler is not to go beyond his lajl » 
L'EJlrange. 
Should the big lajl extend the fhoe too wide. 
Each ftone would wrench th* unwary Hep afide. Gay. 
[From hlseyncan, Sax. a load.] A burden in general; and 
particularly a certain weight or meafure of filh, corn, wool, 
leather, pitch, &c. A laft of white herrings is twelve 
barrels, of red herrings twenty cades or thoufand, and of 
pilchards ten thoufand ; of corn ten quarters, and in fotne 
parts of England twenty-one quarters; of wool twelve 
lacks ; of leather, twenty dickers, or ten fcore ; of hides 
or Ikins, twelve dozen ; of pitch, tar, or allies, fourteen 
barrels ; of gunpowder, twenty-four firkins, weighing a 
hundred pounds each, &c. 
LAST-COURT, f. In the marfhes of Kent, a court 
held by the twenty-four jurats, and fummoned by the bai- 
lifs; wherein orders are made to lay and levy taxes, im- 
pofe penalties, &c. for the prefervation of the faid marfhes. 
HiJl. of Imbanking and Draining, § 54. 
LAST-HEIR, f. He to whom land comes by efeheat 
for want of lawful heirs; that is, in fome cafes the lord 
of whom they held, but in others the king. BraEl. lib. 7. 
LAST'AGE, 
