JON 
ley." Though fuch a fpeech is not unfuitable to the fur- 
linefs of his character, yet its authenticity may be doubt¬ 
ed, as there is in Jonfon’s works an epigram “To king 
Charles for an hundred pounds he fent me in my ficknefs, 
3629.” The dil'eafe of want, however, was radical and 
incurable; and fome of his lateffc productions are mendi¬ 
cant poems addrefied to different patrons. The powers of 
his body and mind fell into equal decay, and the two laft 
comedies he wrote have been called his dotages. He 
ceafed to employ his pen after the New-Year’s Ode for 1635 ; 
and died in 1637, at the age of fixty-three. He was in¬ 
terred in Weftminfter abbey; and an infcription was placed 
over his grave, familiarly expreflive of the reputation he 
had acquired among his countrymen : “ O rare Ben Jon- 
fon!” He was confidered at that time as at the head of 
Englifh poetry, and was addreffed by the wits with the 
reverential title of Father Ben. Six months after his death 
a collection of poems to his honour, by a number of the 
moft eminent writers and fcholars in the nation, was pub- 
1 iflted, entitled Jonfonius Virbius-, or, the Memory of Ben 
Jonfon revived by the Friends of the Mules. The bull, 
with the fore-mentioned infcription, that now marks his 
place in Poets-corner, was put up by the fecond Harley, 
earl of Oxford. 
The remaining fame of Jonfon is principally founded 
Upon his comedies, which were long reckoned the moft 
perfect in the Englidi language. Dryden, in his Eflay on 
Dramatic Poetry, lpeaks of him as “the moft learned and 
judicious writer which any theatre ever had and gives 
a particular examinatioir-of his Silent Woman, as a model 
ef perfection. His excellence, however, was comprifed 
within narrow limits, and chiefly conlifted in the prefer- 
vation of the unities, and the Ikilful management of the 
plot. He was defective in almoft every thing which makes 
comedy pleafant. Dryden fays, “ You feldom find him 
making love in any of his fcenes, or endeavouring to move 
the pafiions ; his genius was too fullen and faturnine to 
do it gracefully. Humour was his proper fphere; and in 
that he delighted moft to reprefent mechanics.” Humour 
is, indeed, the eflence of comedy ; but Jonfon drew his 
rather from conceptions of ridiculous charafters formed 
in his own fancy, than from the obfervation of nature. 
Neither the manners nor the language of real life, efpeci- 
ally in the fuperior ranks of fociety, are to be found in his 
representations ; and the incidents are in general vulgar, 
and the humour forced. It is therefore no wonder that 
his plays have gradually difappeared from the llage, and 
that, if any one is occafionally revived, it is little relilhed 
or underftood by the audience. He compofed only two 
tragedies, Sejanus and Catiline, neither of which was fuc- 
cefsful. They are full of long declamatory fpeeches, 
many of them clofe tranflations from the ancient hiftorians 
and orators. As a general poet, Jonfon is for the moft 
part harfn, frigid, and tedious, perpetually in purfuit of 
fome uncommon thought, which he wants tafte and genius 
to render ftriking or agreeable. There are, however, 
fome ftrains of vigorous imagination, and even happy ex- 
prelfion. His hymn in Cynthia’s Revels, beginning with 
“ Queen and huntrefs chafte and fair,” is remarkably ele¬ 
gant and melodious. His epitaph on the countefs of Pem¬ 
broke is deferveu'ly celebrated for the Spirit and concife- 
nefs of its language and ingenuity of its turn; in which 
it is perhaps furpaffed by that of four lines on Elizabeth 
T. H. 
Underneath this ftone doth lie • 
As much beauty as could die. 
Which in life did harbour give 
To more virtue than doth live. 
But fuch pieces are great rarities in his works; and Father 
Benis at this day little more than the fhadow of a great 
name. 
JONTHLASTI, f. in botany. See Alyssum and 
Clypeola. 
JONYIJ.LE, a town of France, in the department of 
J O R <2,59 
the Upper Saone, on the Saone: feven miles north of 
Jolley. 
JOOD BOODANG'-, a town on the weft coaft of th* 
ifland of,Celebes. Lat. 1. 39. S. Ion. 119. 21. E. 
JOODPOU'R, a circar of Hindooftan, in the country 
of Agimere, bounded on the north by Bickaneer and Na- 
gore, on the eaft by Agimere circar, on the fouth by t>i- 
rowy, and on the weft by a fandy defert. The principal 
towns are Joodpour and Merta. 
JOODPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, and capital of a 
circar or diftriCt, in the country of Agimere: eighty-five 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Agimere, feventy-five north-weft 
ot Cheitore. Lat. 26. 7. N. Ion. 73. 4.8. E. 
JOOGDANPOU'R, a town of Bengal: fixteen miles 
north-welt of Kilhenagur. 
JOOGDY'A, a town of Bengal: feventy miles fouth , 
ealt of Dacca. 
JOOGOOGOO', a town of Bootan : forty miles north 
of Beyhar. 
JOO'KY, a town of Bengal: fourteen miles north of 
Boglipour. 
JOOL, a French fettlement on the coaft of Africa, de¬ 
pendent on Goree. 
JOOS'SY, a town of Hindooftan : two miles eaft of 
Allahabad. 
JOOT'SI-SI'MA, or Jaotsi'ma, two fmall Japanefe 
iflands, near the north coaft of Niphort. Lat. 37. 56. N, 
Ion. 137. 50. E. 
IO'PAS, a king of Africa, among the fuitors of Dido. 
He was an excellent mufician, poet, and philofopher, 
Virgil v. 744. 
JOP'PA, [Heb. beauty.] A city on the fea-coaft of 
the land of Canaan. See Jaffa, vol. x. 
JOP'PA, a fmall town of the American States, in Hart¬ 
ford county, Maryland : twenty miles ealt by north of 
Baltimore, and eighty-two fouth-weft of Philadelphia. 
JOP'PA BURAGY'A, a town of Morungs. ten mile? 
fouth-eaft of Amerpour. 
JOP'SUS, a river of Romania, which runs into the Ma- 
riza ten miles weft-north-weft of Alfarlic. 
JO'RA, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JO'RA, a fortrefs in the kingdom of Gurrah, where 
the treafures were depofited. In the year 1564, it was 
taken by the troops of the emperor Akbar ; before the 
furrender, the garrifon made a general maflacre of their 
wives and children, and let fire to the place. The riches 
found here were immenfe. 
JORA'I, [Hebrew.] A man’s name. 
JO'RAM, or Jeho'ram, [Heb. elevated.] King of 
Ifrael, was the fon of Ahab, and lucceeded to the throne 
on the death of his brother Ahaziah, in the year 896 B. C»- 
He deftroyed the Phoenician idols which his father had 
fet up, but ftill continued the idolatrous worftiip of the- 
two gdlden calves. Soon., after he came to the crown, he 
raifed an army for the purpofe of reducing the Moabites, 
who had been tributaries to Ifrael ever fince the defection 
of Jeroboam, but revolted during the reign of Ahaziah, 
Joram was allifted by Jeholhaphat, king of Judah, who 
came in perfon with his troops, and was accompanied by 
the king of Edom, his tributary. The army of the con¬ 
federates took a compafs of feven days march through the 
deferts of Edom, in order to furprife the enemy, but was 
in danger of periftiing for want of water, when it had ar¬ 
rived at the borders of the land of Moab. By this time 
the Moabites had been apprifed of their approach, and,, 
after collecting together all who were capable of bearing-; 
arms, advanced to difpute their further progrefs. In this 
extremity the three kings reforted for advice to the-pro- 
phet Elilba, who appears to have accompanied the army 
into the deferts. When the prophet met them, after fe- 
verely reproaching Joram for his idolatry, and alluring, 
him, that, were it not for the refpett which he bore to 
Jeholhaphat, he would not interfere on their behalf, he 
ordered them to dig large ditches in the valley where they 
were encamped, proraifing that they Ihould be filled with 
vvate? 
