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continued to preach the tenets of the reformed religion, 
though it was often at the hazard of his life. He 
afterwards preached decidedly againft the Interim, 
(which fee, vol. xi.) but, as the magiftrates of Auglburg 
chofe to fubmit to it, he thought it prudent to withdraw 
to Swilferland, and occafionally officiated as preacher at 
Conftance, St. Gall, and Zurich. While he was at the 
}aft-named place, he was invited to England by arch- 
biffiop Cranmer; but the ill health of his wife, and the 
largenefs of his family, confifting of eight children, led 
him to decline the prelate’s offer. In 154.9, he became 
profeffor of divinity in the univerfity of Berne, the du¬ 
ties of which office he difcharged with great reputation 
for more than fourteen years. In 1552, when Auglburg 
had recovered its liberty, he was recalled ; and about the 
fame time he had invitations from Strafburg, the eledtors 
palatine Otho-Henry and Frederic, and the landgrave of 
Heffe, to polls of honour and emolument; but his gra¬ 
titude to Berne was fo great, for affording him an afylum 
in the hour of his diftrefs, that he refufed, without hefi- 
tation, the advantageous propofals made to him. He 
died in 1563, at about the age of fixty-fix, refpedted and 
beloved by men of all parties for his moderation and can¬ 
dour, and the amiable qualities of his heart. 
That Mufculus was a perfon of great application, and 
very confiderable learning, his numerous works, fuffi- 
ciently teftify. Befides thofe which we have already enu¬ 
merated, he publifhed, in Latin, A Commentary on'the 
Pfalms, 1550; Upon the Gofpel of St.John, 1553; Upon 
the Book of Genefis, 1554; Upon the Epiftle of St. Paul to 
the Romans, 1555; Upon the Epiftle to the Corinthians, 
3559; Upon the Epiftles to the Galatians and Epliefians, 
3561, folio. In 1560 he publifhed his Loci Communes, 
in folio, which had employed him for ten years ; and after 
his death his heirs publifhed his Commentaries upon the 
Gofpel of St. Matthew, and upon the Epiftles to the Philip- 
pians, Coloffians, Theflalonians, and upon the firft chap¬ 
ter of the Firft Epiftle to Timothy. To this lift might be 
added a multitude of pieces in the German language, &c. 
His writings defervedly gave him a high charadter with 
the proteftants of his day; and, though the reading of 
them has been in fome’meafure fuperfeded by more mo¬ 
dern and lefs voluminous works, they will carry his name 
down with honour to diftant pofterity. Gen. Biog. 
MUSDE-RE'E, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: fix- 
teen miles fouth-weft of Rotafgur. 
To MUSE, v. n. \_mvjer, Fr. muyfen, Dut. muJJ'o, Lat.] 
To ponder; to think clofe; to ftudy in filence.—If he 
fpakecourteoufly, he angled the people’s hearts; if he were 
filent, he mufed upon fome dangerous plot. Sidney. —St. 
Auguftine,f peaking of devout men,noteth,how they daily 
frequented the church, how attentive ear they give unto 
the chapters read, how careful they were to remember the 
Fame, and to muj'e thereupon by themfelves. Hooker. —My 
mouth (hall lpeak of wifdom ; and my heart mnj'e of un- 
derftanding. PJ'alm xlix. 3.-—All men mufed in their hearts 
of John, whether he were the Chrift or not. St. Luke iii. 15. 
Caefar’s father oft, 
When he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in, 
Bellow'd his lips on that unworthy place, 
As it rain’d kiifes. Shakefpeare. 
To be affifent of mind ; to be attentive to fomething not 
prefent; to be in a brown ftudy: 
You fuddenly arofe and walk’d about, 
Mvjing and fighing, with your arms acrofs. S/iakefpeare. 
The fad king 
Feels fudden terror and cold fliivering, 
Lifts not to eat, ftill mufes, fleeps unfound. Daniel. 
To wonder ; to be amazed : 
Muj'e not that I thus fuddenly proceed; 
For what I will, I will. Shahejpeare. 
Do hot mnj'e at me, my moft worthy friends ; 
I have a ftrange infirmity. Shakefpeare's Macbeth, 
M U S 
To MUSE, v. a. To meditate; to think on.—Come 
then,, expreffive Silence ! muj'e his praife. ThomJ'on, 
Man fuperiour walks 
Amid the glad creation, mufing praife. Thomfon; 
MUSE, f. Deep thought; clofe attention ; abfence of 
mind ; brown ftudy : 
The tidings ftrange did him abaftied make. 
That ftill he fat long time aftoniffied 
As in great muj'e, ne word to creature fpake. Spenfcr. 
He was fill’d 
With admiration and deep muj'e, to hear 
Of things fo high and ftrange. Milton's P. L. 
The power of poetry.—Begin, my mvfe. Cowley. 
Lodona’s fate, in long oblivion call, 
The muj'e fliall ling, and what ffie fings (hall laft. Pope. 
MUSE, [from the Lat. mu fa, a fong.] In heathen my¬ 
thology, one of the nine fifter-goddelfes who prelided 
over poetry, mufic, dancing, and all the liberal arts. 
The word, according to Phornutus, is derived from 
the Greek, p.ao-Qou, which fignifies the fame with 
to fearch ; others derive it from oponscnog, fnnilar, or aiike ; 
all the arts being bound and united together. Eufebius 
derives it from kueb, to initiate, or inftruft; Plato and 
Scaliger from yoavo-Qou, to bring forth ; becaufe to them 
is attributed the invention of arts ; and by them arts were 
produced. Diodorus derives the name from mij'in, which 
fignifies to teach things fublime. Huetius deduces it from 
MoJ'es. Laftly, Heinfius and Voffius derive it from the 
Hebrew muj'char, fcience, inftruftion. 
The Mufes are called by various names : Camasnae, 
Heliconiades, Parnaffides, Aonides, Citheriades, Pegafides, 
Aganippides, Thefpiades, Libethrides, Caftalides, and 
Pierides. 
They were called Camamce, from eano, as their principal 
employment was to celebrate the actions of the gods and 
heroes ; Heliconiades from Helicon, a mountain in Boeotia; 
Parnaffides from Mount Parnaflus, in Phocis, which they 
much frequented ; Aonides from the Aonian Mountain in 
Bceotia; Citheriades from Mount Citheron ; Pegafides and 
Hippocrence, from the fountain which Pergafus caufed to 
fpring out of the earth with a blow of his foot; and from 
the fame fountain they were called Aganippides ; Thefpiades 
from a town in Boeotia called Thefpia ; Libethrides, from 
Libethra, the city where Orpheus was born; Ctjialidcs, 
from a fountain of Parnaflus; Pierides, from Mount 
Pierus, or from that part of Macedonia called Pieria, or 
becaufe they were fuppofed by fome to be the daughters of 
Pierus, a king of Macedonia, who fettled in Boeotia. But, 
as the daughters of one Pierus, who challenged the Mufes 
to a trial in mufic, were conquered, and changed into 
magpies ; it may perhaps be fuppofed, that the victorious 
Mufes affumed the name of the conquered daughters of 
Pierus, and ordered themfelves to be called Pierides, in 
the fame manner as Minerva was called Pallas becaufe ffie 
had killed the giant Pallas. 
The ancients admitted nine Mufes, and made them the 
daughters of Jupiter and Mnemofyne, or Memory. At 
firft, indeed, their number was but three; viz. Melcte, 
Mneme, and Acede ; Greek words fignifying Meditation, 
Memory, and Singing ; but a certain fculptor of Sicyon, 
according to Varro, having orders to make three ftatues of 
the three Mufes for the temple of Apollo, and miltaking 
his inftmdtions, made three feveral ftatues of each Mufe •. 
thefe, however, were found fo beautiful, that they were all 
fet up in the temple; and from that time they began to 
reckon nine Mufes ; to whom Heiiod afterward gave 
names ; viz. Calliope, Clio, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, 
Terpfichore, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, and Urania. Each of 
thefe was fuppofed to p he fide over her relpedtive art: Cal. 
liope over heroic poetry ; Clio over liiftory ; Melpomene 
over tragedy ; Thalia over comedy ; Euterpe over wind- 
mufic; Urania over aftronomy ; Terpfichore over the 
harp ; Erato, the lute 3 Polyhymnia, the dance. As to 
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