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Extracts from the Fortfdio of a Man of Letters. 
A LEICESTER COLD. 
T Is reported that Lord Sheffield, 
(temp, Eliz.) soon after the Ear! of 
Leicester became enamoured of his lady, 
died suddenly of a violent rheum in the 
head, which complaint, from this circum¬ 
stance, was in those days called A. Lei- 
cestef Cold. 
V£RSin,N OE THE PSALIMS. 
The first cdi-ion or bteriihold’s version 
of a portion of the Psalms was published 
in j549, w’ith this title— All suck 
Psalms of David as Thomas Sternholdy 
late Gromeqfthe Khig’s 'Majesties liohes 
did in his Cyft Tym dratpe into Englishe 
?n€tre." Tin's edition was printed with¬ 
out notes, but in 1562 an entire version 
of the Psalter, with tunes dhiefly Ger¬ 
man, was published, and added for the 
first time to the Book of Common Pray¬ 
er, with the followin'! title, “ The zokole 
Booke of Psalms collected into English 
metre by T. Sternhold, I. Hopkins, and 
others, confe^ed with the Ebrue^ with apt 
notes to sing them zoilhal." 
THOMAS CHURCHY.4RD 
Was born at Shrewsbury, an*d made 
some figure at the beginning of Queen 
Elizabeth’s reign. He was equally ad¬ 
dicted to arts and arms, and served un¬ 
der Sir Wm. Drury when he marched 
into Scotland. lie thus speaks of him¬ 
self in his “ Tragical Discourse oj the 
Unhappy Man’s Life’^'j 
Tull .thirty years both court and vyars I 
tryde, 
And still I sougiit acquaintance with the 
best, 
And served the state, and did such hap abide 
As might befal, and Fortune sent the rest. 
When drum did sound I was a soldier 
prest. 
To sea or land as prince's quarrel stood, 
And for the same full oft 1 lost my blood, 
l^ut God he knows my gain was siuail I 
ween, 
For, though I did my credit still increase,- 
I got no wealth by wars nor yet by peace. 
• His productions were numerous. 
Twelve of them, which he iepublisl.ed 
together, he entitled, “ Churchyard’s 
Chipsf and dedicated to Sir Christopher 
’Hatton; he also wrote the Pal! of Jane 
.Shore, and of Cardinal Wolsey, which 
are inserted in the Mirror for Hagistraces. 
He is supposed to have died in 1570, 
and was biiiied in tiie chancel of St. 
Liarga^etC Church, 'Westi.ainsier, His 
epitaph which follows is preserved hj 
Camden. 
Come Alecto, lend me thy torch 
To find a Chu> chyard in a church-porch. 
Poverty and poetry this tomb doih enclose. 
Wherefore good neighbouis be merry ia 
prose. 
JOHN FPvANSHAM. 
To the Life of Joim Fransham, which 
occurs in your thirty-first volume, p. 342, 
may be a.dded the^e two facts. 
1. That betvveet^ the years 1750 and 
1755, he attached Inmself for a 
to a band of strolling players, and cho.se 
for his benefit a comedy of Ben Jonson, 
and a farce, in which he played the part 
of Justice Ballance, T-hese players se¬ 
parated in a field of turnips, where, from 
total uant of pecuniary resouice, they 
bad sitten down to dine. 
2. The temper of Fransham during 
youth was turbulent and ungovernable, 
but it was, daring the latter iialf of his 
life, gentle, cheerful*, and equanimous. 
This fact ought to have been noticed as a 
victory of philosop'hy over nature; as it 
clearly grev/ out of the moral art which 
Fransham exerted in the discipline of 
his temper. ■ 
Surely the proprietor of his manu- 
.scripts would do well to publish a selec¬ 
tion from them. 
TOLERANCE. 
The beautiful article, thus entitled, iti 
t’ne French EncyClopedy, was w ritten by 
a I\Ir. Flomiiiy, Was this an anesfRor of 
our great and accomplished countrymavi 
Sir Samuel Roniiliv ? If so, eloquence is 
hereditary in the family, and all the fine 
.principles which elocjuence shouid be em** 
ployed to scatter. 
/I'AL-L OF MAN. 
Dr. Adam Clarke has advanced the 
new and singular, but very rational and 
probable, opinion, tliat the animal, de¬ 
signated in the third chapter of Genesis, 
as iiaving given to Eve the example, or 
lesson, of forbidden indulgence, was not 
a serpent, but an ape. The fourteenth 
verse proves that it was some beast of 
the field naturally erect, but for this de¬ 
graded into a quadruped. 
A COLONIST. 
In new colonies, says Chateaubriand, 
the Spaniard begins by building a clmrch, 
the Englishman by building a tavern, 
and the Ereuclimaii by building a ball¬ 
room. 
While 
