586 NAS 
NA'SAS, a river of North-America, in the country of 
New Bifcay, which joins the Sauceda in lat. 25. 10. N. 
Ion. ioa. 31. W. and with it forms the Rio Palmas, which 
runs into the Gulf of Mexico in lat. 25. N. Ion. 98.46. W. 
NAS'JBINALS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lozere: twelve miles north-weft of Marvejols. 
NAS'BY, a town of Sweden, in Nericia : twelve miles 
north of Orebro., 
NAS'CA, a feaport of Peru, in the archbifhopric of 
Lima, and jurifdiftion of Iga, Pifco, and Nafca $ the terri¬ 
tory is fertile in wine and fugar; the harbour is good, but 
the town is in a ftate of decay. It is 190 miles fouth-fouth- 
eaft of Lima. Lat. 14. 48. S. Ion, 75. 6. W. 
NAS'CA, a river of Peru, which runs into the Pacific 
Ocean in lat. 14. 42. S. 
NAS'CAL, f. [nafcale, low Lat.] A kind of medicated 
peffary.—They may make ufe of a iiajcal or peftary, com- 
pofed of caftoreum mixed with rue. Ferrand on Melan. 
NASCA'RO, a river of Naples, which runs into the 
Gulf of Squillace in lat. 38. 58. N. Ion. 17. 5. E. 
NAS'CENT, adj. [riajcens, Lat.] Growing; encreaf- 
ing. — Without any refpeft of climates, Imagination 
reigns in all nafcent Societies of men, where the neceftities 
of life force every one to think and a 61 much for himfelf. 
Gray'f, Lett. 
NASCIMEN'TO, a fmall ifland in the Indian Sea, near 
the fouth-weft coaft of Madagafcar. Lat. 25. 15.S. Ion. 
42. 6. E. 
NAS'CIO, or Na'tio, a goddefs at Rome, who pre- 
fided over the birth of children. She had a temple at 
Ardea. Cic. de Nat. Dear. 
NASE, a town of Norway, in the province of Agger- 
huus : ninety-fix miles north of Chriftiania. 
NASE, a river of North-America, which runs into the 
Miffiftippi in lat. 37 20. N. Ion. 90. 12. W. 
NA'SEBERRY-TREE. See Sloanea and Chryso- 
PHYLLUM. 
NA'SEBY, [or Nave/Jby, from its being fuppofed to be 
the very centre of the kingdom, as well as the higheft 
ground.] A village in the county of Northampton. 
Though fmall, it is, on many accounts, interefting to the 
traveller, and will ever be confpicuous on the page of 
hiftory. Its geological features naturally attract the at¬ 
tention of the phiiofopher; and the political importance 
connected with the military fcenes dilplayed in its vici¬ 
nity, peculiarly entitle it to topographical notice. Six 
fprings rife within the parilh, the waters iiiuing from 
which are collefted in refervoirs, and form valuable ponds. 
The Upper Avon derives its fource from one of thefe 
fprings; the Nen from another; and the rife of the 
Welland has been referred to Nafeby-field. The parilh 
confifts rnoftly of open fields, and is nearly tw'enty miles 
in circumference. Nafeby was formerly a market-town; 
the inhabitants having obtained a charier in the fifth 
year of king John. The market-crofs is (till ftanding. A 
confiderable manufafture of worfted fluffs, harrateens, 
and tammies, was carried on here; but has greatly de¬ 
clined through the immenfe increaie of the cotton-trade, 
and the prevalence of muflirts and calicoes. By the re¬ 
turn to parliament under the population-aft of 1811, the 
number of houfes is ftated to be 120, which are inhabited 
by 598 perfons. 
Adjacent to this village, on Nafeby-field, occurred the 
memorable battle between the royal and parliamentarian 
forces, June 14, 1645, which proved fo fatal to the royal 
caufe, and in which, according to lord Clarendon, both 
king and kingdom were loft. See the article England, 
vol. vi. p. 675. 
NA'SEWITZ, a town of Prufiia, in the palatinate of 
Culm, eight miles north-eaft of Bifchofsu'erder. 
NASH, a town of Virginia, forty-two miles weft of 
Richmond. 
NASH, a county of North-Carolina; with 6975 inha- 
bi jants, including 2596 llaves. A large and valuable body 
of iron-ore has been difcovered. 
NAS 
NASH, a village in Buckinghamfhire, in the parilh of 
Whaddon.—A village in Dorfetlhire; a hamlet in the 
parilh of Broad Windfor.—A village in Hamplhire, near 
the Channel; eaft of Chrift-Church.—-A village in Here- 
fordlhire, on the Wadels, near Prefteign in Radnorlhire. 
NASH (Thomas), a dramatic writer, was born at the 
feaport-town of LoweftofFin Suffolk, and was defcended 
from a family whofe relidence w r as in Herefordlhire. He 
received his education at St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
where he took the degree of B. A. 1585. If we may judge 
from his pamphlet, entitled Pierce PennileJ’s, which, 
though written with confiderable fpirit, feems to breathe 
the fentiments of a man in the height of defpair and rage 
again ft the world, he had met with many difappointments 
and much diftrefs. And, indeed, it feems not impro¬ 
bable, from the mention which he makes of Robert Green 
in his Pierce Pennilefs, and from his having been with 
that writer at the feaft in which he took the furfeit that 
carried him off the ftage of life, that he had been, and 
even continued to the lalt to be, a companion and inti¬ 
mate to that loofe and riotous genius. He is fuppofed to 
have died about the year 1600, or 1601, and before that 
time feems to have altered the courfe of his life, and to 
have become very pious. In a pamphlet, entitled Chriji's 
Tears over Jeruja/em, printed before the end of the Six¬ 
teenth century, he fays, in a dedication to lady Elizabeth 
Carey, “ A hundred unfortunate farewels to fantafticall 
fatirifme. In thofe vaines heretofore I mif-fpent my 
fpirit, and prodigally confpired againft good houres. 
Nothing is there now fo much in my vowes as to be at 
eaceTivk-h all men, and make fubmiifive amends where I 
ave moft difpleafed.” Again : “ To a little more wit 
have my increafing yeeres reclaimed mee then I had be¬ 
fore : thofe that have beene perverted by any of my 
workes, let them reade this, and it fti.il 1 thrice more be¬ 
nefit them. The autumne I imitate, in lheading my 
leaves with the trees, and fo doth the peacock ftiead his 
taile, &c.” 
Nafli’s talent was fatire, in which he muft have had 
great excellence, if we may give credit to the authority of 
an old copy of verfes, which Langbaine has quoted, con¬ 
cerning him, in which it is faid of him : 
Sharply fatyric was he; and that way 
He went, that fince his being, to this day. 
Few have attempted ; and I Purely think, 
Thofe words /hall hardly be let down in ink 
Shall fcorch and blaft fo as his could, when he 
Would inflift vengeance. 
His dramatic works are only three in number, viz, 
1. Dido, Queen of Carthage, a tragedy, 1594, in conjunc¬ 
tion with Marloe. 2. Summer’s laft Will and Teftament, 
a comedy, 1600. 3. The Ifie of Dogs, a comedy. It ap¬ 
pears, from a very fcarce pamphlet, entitled, “ The Trim¬ 
ming of Thomas Nalhe, Gentleman, by the high-tituled 
Patron Don Richardo de Medico Campo, Barber Chirur- 
geon to Trinity College in Cambridge,” 4to. 1397, that 
Nafti was then (in 1597) in confinement on acc.mnt of 
his having written this play, though as to its merits or 
demerits we are not able to fpeak, as it never has been 
printed; that while he was at Cambridge he wrote part 
of a Ihow, called Terminus et non Terminus , for which the 
perfon who was concerned with him in that compofirion 
was expelled ; that Nafti left his college when he was of 
leven years ftanding, and before he had taken his mailer’s 
degree, about the year 1387; and that, after his arrival 
in London, he was often confined in different gaols. 
Suppoiing him to have gone to college w hen he was fix- 
teen years old, it appears by this account that he was bom 
in the fame year that gave Sliakipeare to the world (1564). 
Biog. Dramat. 
NASH (Richard), commonly called Beau Najh , or 
King of Bath, born at Swanfea in South Wales, 1674, died 
1761. He was the Arbiter Elcgantiarum of his time. His 
heart fcemed an aliembiage of the virtues which difplay 
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