NAB 
NAB (Wald), a river of Bavaria, which runs into the 
Nab two miles fouth of Weiden. 
NAB’s BA'Y, a bay on the weft part of Hudfon’s Bay, 
north of Cape Efquimaux. 
NABAGA'NA, a river of Africa, which runs into the 
Indian Sea in lat. 29. 30. S. 
NA'BAL, [Heb. mad, orfoolifh.] In fcripture-hiftory, 
a rich but churlifh man, of the tribe of Judah, and race 
of Caleb 5 he had numerous flocks, which had their pas¬ 
ture about Carmel, near Maon. David, in his exile, 
lurked in the neighbouring wildernefs. He and his men, 
not only did no hurt to Nabal’s flocks, but protected them 
from the Arabs and from wild beafts, and aflifted the 
herdfmen in every thing they could. When Nabal held 
his (hearing feaft, David fent to defire a prefent of part of 
the provifion. Nabal, in the moft harfh and furly manner, 
told David’s meffengers that he knew better than to 
give his fervants’ provifions to a contemptible fellow, who 
had run away from his mafter, and to his partifans. In¬ 
formed of this rudenefs, David rafhly refolved to put 
Nabal, and all that he had, to the fword. Abigail, by 
her prudent behaviour, difarmed David’s rage, and won 
his affeCtion. As foon as Nabal, her hufband, was fober, 
the told him into what danger his conduct had brought 
himfelf and family. The man was fo terrified, that he 
fell fick, and in ten days died; and, not long after, Abi¬ 
gail was efpoufed to David. 1 Sain. xxv. 
NA'BAL, a town of Africa, in the country of Tunis, 
fltuated on the fouth fide of the peninfiula of Dackhul, 
in the bay of Hamamet. Dr. Shaw calls it a thriving and 
induftrious town, much celebrated for its potteries. It 
ftands about a mile from the fea, and about a furlong to 
the weft of the ancient Neapolis, which appears to have 
been a large city, exclufive of that part of it which was 
fwallowed up by the fea. Here is a great number of in- 
fcriptions upon (tones, fix feet in length and three in 
breadth ; but they are unfortunately defaced, or filled up 
with rubbifh and mortar. It is ten miles north-eaft of 
Hamamet, and thirty-two fouth-fouth-eaft of Tunis. 
Lat. 36. 20. N. Ion. 10.45. E. 
NABA'LIA, a fmall ifland of Egypt, in Lake Menza- 
leh : three miles fouth of Tennis. 
NA'BAN, a town of Egypt, on the left bank of the 
Nile : five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Benifuef. 
NA'BAN, a town of Arabia, in the province of Oman: 
108 miles weft of Julfar. 
NA'BAN, or Nabend', a town of Perfia, in the pro¬ 
vince of Lariftan, near the gulf: feventy miles weft of 
Lar. Lat. 27. 30. N. Ion. 52. 20. E. 
NABA'RI, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
fifteen miles fouth of Iga. 
NABAZA'NES, an officer of Darius at the battle of 
Iflus. He confpired with Beflus to murder his royal maf¬ 
ter, either to obtain the favour of Alexander, or to feize 
the kingdom. He was pardoned by Alexander. 
NABATHAi'A, a country of Arabia, of which the 
capital was called Petra. The word is often applied 
to any of the eaftern countries of the world by the 
poets; and feems to be derived from Nabath, the fon of 
Iflimael. 
NAB'BES (Thomas), a dramatic writer in the reign of 
Charles I. Langbaine ranks him as a third-rate poet; but 
Cibber will not admit him to above a fifth-rate degree of 
merit. Yet he appears to have been well efteemed by his 
contemporaries, fome of them having publicly profefled 
themfelves his friends, and fir John Suckling having 
warmly patronized him. One degree of merit at lead he 
has a claim to 5 and that is, that his plays are truly and 
entirely his own, not having had recourfe to any preced¬ 
ing writer for affiftance ; on which account his deficien¬ 
cies are certainly more pardonable, and the applaufe due 
to his beauties more truly his own, than that given to 
many other bards. This Langbaine, whofe great reading 
enabled him very accurately to trace the plagiarifms of 
authors, feems to confirm, at the fame time that he quotes 
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the author’s own aflertion of it in his prologue to the co¬ 
medy of Covent Garden, in thele words: 
He juftifies that ’tis no borrow’d drain 
From the invention of another’s brain ; 
Nor did he fteal the fancy, &c. 
The dramatic pieces extant of this author are the follow¬ 
ing : 1. Microcofmus, a mafque, 4to. 1637. 2. Hanni¬ 
bal and Scipio, an hiftorical tragedy, 1637. 3. Covent 
Garden, a comedy, 4to. 1638. 4. Spring’s Glory, a 
mafque, 1638. 5. Prefentation on the Prince’s Birth- 
Day, 1638. 6. Tottenham Court, a comedy, 4to. 1638 ; 
121110. 1718. 7. Entertainment on the Prince’s Birth- 
Day, a mafque, 4to. 1639. 8. Unfortunate Mother, a 
tragedy, 1640. 9. The Bride, a comedy, 1640. Wood 
informs us, that Mr. Nabbes made a continuation of 
Knolles’s Hillory of the Turks, from the year 1628 to the 
end of 1637, collected from the difpatches of fir Peter 
Wyche, ambaflador at Conftantinople, and others. He 
feems to have been fecretary, or other domeftic, to fome 
nobleman or prelate, at or near Worcefter: partly hinted 
in his poem “ On loling his way in a foreft, after he was 
intoxicated with drinking perry j” w herein he fays, “ I 
am a fervant of my lord’s.” Biographia Dramatica. 
NAB'BURG, a town of Bavaria, fltuated on the Nab: 
ten miles eaft of Amberg, and twenty-nine north of Ra- 
tifiion. Lat. 49. 27. N. Ion. 12. 3. E. 
NABE'Ajj'i in botany. See Rhamnus. 
NAB'GIN, orTu.vi'BO Na'min, a fmall ifland in the 
Perfian Gulf: five miles fouth-weft of Tumbo. 
NABHA'NA, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Tunis : forty miles from Cairoan. 
NA'BIS, a celebrated tyrant of Lacedaemon, who, iii 
a£ts of cruelty and oppreffion, furpafled Phalaris or Diony- 
fius. See the article Greece, vol. viii. p. 956, 7. 
NABLOU'S. SeeNAPLOusE. 
NA'BLUM, or Ne'bel. See Music, p. 349. 
NA'BOB, J\ The name of a viceroy or governor of one 
of the provinces of the Mogul empire in India. Nabob, 
or more properly navab, is the plural of nail, “a deputy.” 
Thefe deputies w r ere appointed by the great mogul; but, 
as there is now nofuch monarch, the nabobs may be ac¬ 
counted fovereign princes, though they hold their power 
at the mercy of the Englifli government.—Among the 
princes dependent on this nation in the fouthern part of 
India, the moft confiderable at prefent is commonly 
known by the title of the nabob of Arcot. Burke's Speech 
on the Nabob of Arcol's Debts. —The word is now applied 
(not in commendation) to Europeans wdio have acquired 
great riches in the Eaft Indies.—Leave riches to Clive the 
nabob. Catch. 
NABOBGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal, 
on the left bank of the Ganges: twenty-five miles north 
of Moorfhedabad. Lat. 24. 34. N. Ion. 87. 26. E.—A town 
of Hindooftan, in Allahabad : ten miles eaft of Jionpour. 
—A town of Hindooftan, in Oude: twenty-five miles 
fouth of Bahraitch.—A town of Hindooftan, in Oude: 
forty-five fouth-fouth-eaft of Bahraitch. 
NABOBGUN'GE, a-town of Bengal: fourteen miles 
eaft of Purneah.—A town of Bengal: twenty-fix miles 
fouth of Purneah.—A town of Bengal: thirty-eight miles 
north of Dinagepour.—A town of Bengal: three miles 
fouth-weft of Bauleah.—A town of Bengal: eighteen 
miles weft-louth-weft of Silhet. — A town of Bengal: 
twenty-one miles eaft of Midnapour. 
NABOBSERASPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twentv- 
four mjles north-eaft of Calcutta, 
NABO'JA, a town of Newjvlexico, in the province of 
Mayo : thirty-two miles north-eaft of Santa Cruz. 
NABONAS'SAR. The era of Nabonaflar is famous: 
we know but little of the hiftory of that prince; only 
that he was king of Babylon, and was called Belefus; 
though fome will have him the Baladan mentioned in 
Ifaiah xxxix. 1. and 2 Kings xx. 12. Some even con¬ 
jecture that he was a Mede*, and that he was let on the 
throne 
