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no fmall {hare of the tribute of the provinces. After 
having {hared the glory of Rome, Padua partook of her 
difafters : like her (lie was plundered by Alaric and At- 
tila ; and, like her, half depopulated by the flight of her 
difmayed inhabitants, and obliged to bend under the 
yoke of a fuccefiion of barbarian invaders. Padua was, 
after the expulfion of the Goths, fubje&ed to the Lom¬ 
bards, the Franks, and the Germans. At length it {hook 
off the yoke, and with its lifter ftates, Verona, Vicenza, 
Ferrara, and Mantua, experienced the advantages and 
difadvantages of republicanifm, occafionally blefi'ed with 
the enjoyment of freedom, and occafionally, with all its 
forms, finarting under the rod of a powerful ufurper. 
At length, in the 15th century, Padua united itfelf to 
the Venetian territory, and under the influence of its 
laws acknowledged the fupreme authority of that repub¬ 
lic. At a later period it fuffered much by fire and fword, 
as weil as by earthquakes and peftilence. In ancient 
times, Padua was famous for its woollen manufactures, 
celebrated in profe by Strabo, and in verfe by Martial 5 
it {till retains much of its reputation in this refpeft, its 
•wool and woollen articles being confidered as the beft in 
Italy. For its prefent ftate, fee the modern name Padua, 
p. 186 of this volume. 
PATA'Y, a town of France, in the department of the 
Loiret, near which the Englifh were defeated by the 
French, under the conduit of the celebrated Maid of Or¬ 
leans, in the year 1429 : twelve miles north-north-weft 
of Orleans, and eighteen north of Beaugency. 
PATAZ'. See Caxamarqua, vol. iv. 
PATCH, f, [piece, Fr. pezzo, Ital. pars, particula, 
Lat. a fmall part.] A piece fewed on to cover a hole : 
Patches fet upon a little breach, 
Difcredit more, in hiding of the flaw, 
Than did the flaw before it was fo patch’d. Shakefpeare. 
A piece inferted in mofaic or variegated work.—They 
fuffer their minds to appear in a piebald livery of coarfe 
patches and borro wed {hreds, fuch as the common opinion 
of thofe they converfe with clothe them in. Locke .—'A 
fmall fpot of black illk put on the face.—They were 
patched differently, and caft hoftile glances upon one 
another; and their patches were placed in different fitu- 
ations, as party-fignals to diftinguifli friends from foes. 
AddiJ'on. 
If to every common funeral, 
By your eyes martyr’d, fuch grace were allow’d, 
Your face would wear not patches, but a cloud. Suckling. 
A fmall particle ; a parcel of land : 
We go to gain a little patch of ground, 
That hath in it no profit but the name. Shakefpeare. 
A paltry fellow. Obfolele. —It feems probable that fools 
were nicknamed patch from their drefs ; unlefs there hap¬ 
pen to be a nearer affinity to the Italian pazzo, which fig- 
nifies foolifli. But, though a patch denotes a fool or fim- 
pleton, and, by corruption, a clowm, it feems to have 
been occafionally ufed in the fenfe of any low or mean 
perfon. fhus in the Midfummer Night’s Dream, Puck 
calls Bottom and his companions “ a crew' of patches, rude 
mechanicals,” certainly not meaning to compare them to 
pampered and fieek buffoons. Whether in this fenfe the 
term have a fiinple reference to that clafs of people whofe 
clothes might be pieced or patched with rags, or whether 
it is to be derived from the Sax. verb pascan, to deceive 
by falfe appearances, as fuggefted by the acute and inge¬ 
nious author of the Diverfions of Purley, muff be left to 
the reader’s own difcernment. Douce’s lllufir.of ShakeJ- 
peare. —He was yet more foole in Plautus, whome bis ma- 
laperte fquire made to beleeve that all women accompted 
him fo fayre, as they ran in every place after him. The 
patche, fuppofing it to be true, fayd, It is a greate paine 
to be an over-fayre man ! North’s Tr. of Philofopher at 
Court. 1575 - 
Laugh at me ; 
I do deferveit; call me patch, and puppy. Beaum. and PI. 
A fmall piece of greafed leather, &c. which is put round 
the ball of a rifle before it is driven down, in order to fill 
up the interftices of the grooves, which, without this 
precaution, would occafion too great a windage.—As 
leather patches are frequently cut by the {harp edges of 
the rifles, they have latterly been much difcontinued. 
and calico, dimity, Ruflia duck, fuftian, thickfet, and 
other fubftances, adopted in their {lead. Patches are alfo 
ufed in duelling-piftols. James’s Mil. Did. 
Patch, a w’ord ufed at Madras fora lot of three pieces 
of doth. Roberts's Ind. Glojf. 
To PATCH, v. a. To cover with a piece fewed on.— 
They would think themfelves miferable in a patched coat, 
and yet their minds appear in a piebald livery of coarfe 
patches and borrowed {hreds. Loclie. —To decorate the 
face with fmall fpots of black filk.—In the middle boxes, 
were feveral ladies wdio patched both fides of their faces. 
Addifon. 
We begg’d her but to patch her face : ' 
She never hit one proper place. Swift. 
To mend clumfily; tomend fo as that the original ftrength 
or beauty is loft.—Any thing mended is but patch’d. 
Shakefpeare. 
Phyfick can but mend our crazy ftate, 
Patch an old building, not a new create. Dryden. 
To make up of fhreds or different pieces. Sometimes 
with up emphatical.—There is that vifible fymmetry in a 
human body, as gives an intrinfick evidence, that it was 
not formed fucceffively and patched up by piece-meal. 
Bentley. — Enlarging an author’s fenfe, and building 
fancies of our own upon his foundation, we may call 
paraphrafing; but more properly changing, adding, patch¬ 
ing, piecing, Felton. 
His glorious end was a patch'd work of fate, 
Ill forted w'ith a foft effeminate life. Dryden. 
To drefs in a party-coloured coat.■‘—Man is but a patched 
fool. Shakefpeare’s MidJ'. N. Dream. 
PATCH'-BOX, f. A box to hold thofe little round 
bits of filk-which ladies ufed to ftick upon their faces 
about a hundred years ago: 
And this the morning-omens feem’d to tell: 
Thrice from my trembling hand the patch-box fell. Pope. 
PATCH'-WORK, f. Work made by fewing fmall 
pieces of different colours interchangeably together.— 
When my cloaths were finidied, they looked liked the 
patch-work, only mine were all of a colour. Swift. —Who¬ 
ever only reads to tranfcribe Alining remarks, without 
entering into the genius and fpirit of the author, will be 
apt to be milled out of the regular way of thinking ; and 
all the product of all this will be found a manifeft inco¬ 
herent piece of patch-work. Swift. 
To patch-work learn’d quotations are ally’d : 
Both ftrive to make our poverty our pride. Young. 
PATCHEPALIAM', a town of Hindooftan, in Coim- 
betore: thirteen miles north-north-eaft of Coimbetore. 
PATCH'ER, f. One that patches ; a botcher. 
PATCH'ERY, f Botchery ; bungling work ; forgery. 
Not in ufe. 
You hear him cogg, fee him diflemble, 
Know his grofs patchery, love him, and feed him; 
Yet remain allured that he’s a made-up villain. ShukeJ'p. 
PATCHIEU', a river of Bootan, called by the Bootans 
Jumta Chieu, or the jun&ion of three rivers, viz. the 
Hatchieu, the Tchintchieu, and the Patchieu. 
PATCH'WARY, a town of Bengal : thirty-two 
miles fouth ofRajemal. 
PATCOO'M. 
