434 PAY 
rmift compare its promifes and its payments together. 
South. 
Give her an hundred marks. 
—An hundred marks! by this light I’ll ha’ more. 
An ordinary groom is for fuch payment. Shakefpeare. 
Chaftifement ; found beating. Ainfworth. 
PAYMO'GO, a fort of Portugal in Eftramadura, on 
the fea-coaft : four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Peniche. 
PAYMO'GO, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Seville, on the frontiers of Portugal: thirty-five miles 
north of Ayamonte. 
PAYNE (John), an Englifh engraver of merit, the 
pupil of Simon Pafle, born in London about the year 
1607. Mr. Landfeer fays, that “ Payne had caught the 
mantle of the Pafles.” Strutt fays of him that he was a 
man of genius ; and, though his works are not very nu¬ 
merous, they neverthelefs manifeft his fuperior abilities. 
He was recommended to Charles I. and had a fair pro- 
fpeftof making his fortune ; but, carelefs of that as he 
was of his fame, he negle&ed his bufinefs, and died in in¬ 
digence, anno 1647 or 48, before he had reached his 40th 
year. His chief engravings confift of frontifpieces and 
other book-plates, and portraits; but he aifo engraved 
a variety of other fubje&s, fuch as landfcapes, flowers, 
&c. His portraits, however, are his belt works. Thofe 
he executed entirely with the graver in a free open ftyle, 
fo managed as to produce a very pleating effeft. Mr. 
Evelyn) fpeaking of this artifl commends him alfo for a 
/hip which he engraved. This fitip, as Vertue informs us, 
was the Royal Sovereign, built by Phineas Pett. The 
print was of a prodigious fize, and engraved on two plates, 
being, when joined, three feet long by two feet two 
inches wide. 
PAYNE (Roger), a very eminent book-binder, was 
born in London, but in what year we are not informed. 
This ingenious man introduced a ftyle of binding, uni¬ 
ting elegance with durability, fuch as no perfon has ever 
been able to imitate. He may be ranked, indeed, among 
artifts of the greateft merit. The ornaments he employed 
were chofen with a claflical tafte, and, in many inftances, 
appropriated to the fubjedl of the work, or the age and 
time of the author; and each book of his binding was 
accompanied by a written defeription of the ornaments, 
in a 1110ft precife and curious ftyle. His chef d’ceuvre is 
his AEfchylus, in the pefieflion of earl Spencer, the orna¬ 
ments and decorations of which are molt fplendid and 
claflical. The binding of the book coft the noble earl 
fifteen guineas. Thofe who are not accuftomed to fee 
book-binding executed in any other than the common 
manner, can have no idea of the merits of the deceafed, 
who lived without a rival, and, we fear, has died with¬ 
out a fucceflor. He died, in great poverty, in Duke’s 
court, St. Martin’s lane, 061 . 20, 1797; and was buried 
at the expenfe of his namefake Payne the bookfeller at 
the Mews-gate; and to whom, in a great meafure, the 
admirers of this ingenious man’s performances may feel 
themfelves indebted for the prolongation of his life; 
having for the laft eight years provided him with a regu¬ 
lar pecuniary afliftance, both for the fupport of his body 
and the performance of his work. For this ingenious 
artift had no command of himfelf: when in pofieflion of 
a few pounds, he would live jovially 5 when that was ex- 
haufted, almoft famifliing. Gent. Mag. Dec. 1797. 
PAYNE (Thomas). See Paine, vol. xviii. 
PAY'NESVILLE, a town of the ftate of Ohio, on 
Lake Erie. 
PAY'NIM. See Painim, vol. xviii. 
PA'YO (St.), a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Tras los Montes : eighteen miles weft of Mirand-de- 
Duero. 
PAY'RA, a town of South America, in the province 
of Quito : twelve miles north-weft of Macas. 
PAYRAC', a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
P A Y 
Gourdon. The place contains 902, and the canton 5171, 
inhabitants. 
PAYRE', a town of France, in the department of the 
Gers : three miles fouth of Auch. 
PAYRO'LA, J'. [contrafted by Juflieu from Paypay - 
rola of Aublet, its Caribbean name.] In botany, a ge¬ 
nus of the clafs pentandria, order monogynia. Generic 
characters— Calyx: perianthium inferior, of one leaf, 
cloven into five roundifli acute fegments. Corolla: pe¬ 
tals five, oblong, narrow, ere£l, united together, fo as to 
refemble a tube, their tops reflexed ; one larger, emargi- 
11 ate, inferted into the diik beneath the germen. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments five, eredf, inferted into the dilk; an- 
therae oblong, combined, two-celled. Piftillum: germen 
fuperior, placed on the dilk ; ftyle elongated, ftigma two- 
lobed. Aublet remarks that he never faw the fruit of 
this plant in its perfect ftate; but from an imperfeft one, 
which he cut in halves, it appeared to have two cells.— 
Ejfential Chara£ler. Calyx inferior, five cleft; petals five, 
forming a tube, reflexed at their fummit. Stigrna two- 
lobed. 
; Payrola guianenfis, the only fpecies. Native of woods 
in Guiana, about Sinemari, upwards of twenty miles from 
the fea. It flowers in OCtober. This is a ftirub from 
twelve to fifteen feet in height; ftem upright and branched; 
leaves alternate, ftalked, large, ovate, acute, finooth, en¬ 
tire. Flowers fpiked, axillary terminal, yellow, each 
furnilhed with three glands at its bafe. Aublet's Gui¬ 
ana, i. 249. 
PAYS (Rene le), a writer of celebrity, born at Nantz 
in 1636, was brought up to bufinefs, and obtained the 
poll: of direCtor-general of the gabelles in Dauphine and 
Provence. He was firlt known in the literary world in 
1685, by a little production in verfe and profe, entitled, 
“ Amities, Amours, et Amourettes,” which was read 
with great avidity at Paris. It is faid that, in anfwer to 
fome enquiries made by ladies as to his perfon, he ad- 
drefied to the duchefs of Nemours a Portrait” of him¬ 
felf, written in the fame ftyle. He profefled to imitate 
Voiture, but was feverely criricifed by Boileau as a very 
inferior writer. Le Pays, however, inftead of being of¬ 
fended with the fatire, paid a vifit to the poet, and ob¬ 
tained his friendfhip. He publilhed letters, which prove 
that he had vifited England and Holland. He was 
honoured by the duke of Savoy with the knighthood 
of St. Michael, and was an aflociate of the academy of 
Arles. Fie died in 1690, at the age of fifty-four. 
ToPAYSE, v.n. [ufed by Spenfer for poife. Fr .pefer. 
See To Peise.J To balance : 
Ne was itifland then, ne was it pays'd 
Amid the ocean waves. Fairy Queen. 
PAY'SER, f. [for poifer.~\ One that weighs.—To ma¬ 
nage this coinage, porters bear the tin, payzers weigh 
it, a fteward, comptroller, and receiver, keep the account. 
Carew. 
PAY'TA, or St. Michel de Payta, a town of Peru, 
in the diocefe of Truxillo, founded by Francis Pizarro 
in the year 1531. It is fmall, confifting of houfes which 
are only ground-floors, the walls of fplit canes and mud, 
and covered with leaves. Thefe edifices, though ex¬ 
tremely flight, are abundantly fufficient for a climate 
where rain is confidered as a prodigy, and is not feen in 
many years ; fo that, a fmall quantity falling here in 
1728, great part of the buildings were ruined ; the walls 
as it were melting away before it. The only houfe built 
of ftone in the whole place, is that of the governor. It 
has a parilh-church and chapel, dedicated to Our Lady of 
Mercy, and ferved by a religious of that order. 
The inhabitants of Payta are Spaniards, Mulattoes, and 
Meftizoes, who live chiefly by paflengers going or re¬ 
turning from Panama to Lima, the number of whites 
being inconfiderable; all of them conftituting but one 
ftreet, and about 172 houfes. The port, though little 
more than a bay, is efteemed the belt on the coaft, and 
affordy 
