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ceflary to its eftablifhment; —the tithe laws 
in particular bear fo unreafonably hard, 
that to yield to them, according to their 
modern complection. is to fubmit to the 
moft irrational and moft cruel ufurpation. 
My prefent caufe of complaint is the 
following: the law of tithes compels the 
breeder of lambs and pigs to pay’ the 
tenth of the young, as I apprehend, 
awhen they are capable of living without 
their dam. To this I amas willing to 
fubmit as a rational creature can fobmit 
to imp: litic laws: but this will not fatisfy 
the prefent proprietor—No, he will not 
con‘ent to take ihe tithes of young ftock 
unul the owner of the ttock weans bis 
own. Itnow, Sir, remains to explain the 
hardfhip and cruelty of my fituation. My 
lambs begin to drop about Chriftmas, and 
continue Cropping tome weeks afrerwards. 
On May-day I expe& the tithe-lambs to 
be takef from me; they can then live 
upon tie fame food upon which their dams 
live: but, Six, 1 do not conceive myfelf 
obliged to wean my own, becaule my ram 
Jamb- muft undergo the operation of cut- 
ting, and for a few days the comfort 
which a wounded lamb receives by fucking 
his dam is very confiderable. * 
It cannot be expected that I thould ei- 
“ther be at the expence of, or run the rifk 
of, cutting the parfon’s lambs! indeed if I 
choje to do it, I muft not; he may ehoofe 
to preferve them in a ftate of virility. 
And fhould I even be difpofed to let my 
lambs fuck the year through, have the tithe- 
laws the power of compelling me to bea 
ood farmer, if I chole to be a bad one? 
The admitting the above into your 
next month’s colleétion will be efteemed 
a favour. The attention to it of fome of 
your correfpondents will be highly grati- 
tying ; and if they would point cut where 
the beft information can be procured on 
the fubject of the tithe of agiftment, ano- 
ther fertile fource of vexatious difpute, it 
would bear additional favour. 
Aug. 5, 1300. NS: 
P. S. The point withed to be obtained by 
N.S. is how: to proceed fo as to compel the 
parfon to take his tithe; or fhould he refufe, 
how to aé, fo asto throw the commencement 
of an aétion on the parfon. 
—— ta 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
HEN I propofed my fmularit for 
Jfimularat on Virgil AEn. vi- 591, 
I was more anxious about the mood than 
the tenfe. A few, days after, as I was 
fealting my fancy on Mr. Wakefield’s 
Tithe of Lambs—Mr. Cogan’s Letter. 
307 
I 
Lucretius, I caft my eyes on his fmularet, 
and faw quafi per nebulam the reafon of 
his preference of the impertect tenfe. I 
know nothing that can be replied to the 
remark with which Mr. Wakefield has’ 
honoured me, unlefs it be that perhaps the 
verb fimula implies merely the act of imi- 
tation, without any reference to its fuccefs ; 
fo that the action, with refpect to Salmo- 
neus, might be complete, while the imita- 
tion itfelf was a»kward and inefficient. 
Might we not with propriety. fay in Eng- 
lith, * Madman! to bave imitated the tnimi- 
table thunder?” However, whatever be- 
comes of the tenfe, I an glad to have 
agreed with Mr. Wakefield and Mr. Ca- 
rey as to the fubjunétive mood ; in favour 
of which let me aid Stat. Theb.v. 172: 
Miferi, guos non aut horida virtus 
Marte fub Odryfio, aut medil inclementia 
ponti 
Hauferit ! 
Mr. Carey, as I learn from your cor- 
refpondent E. W. pigei220 of your laft 
Number, prefers, /wmularet, partly on ac- 
count of zbat and pofcebat in the defcrip- 
tion preeeding. I, on the contrary, 
fhould, I think, prefer the perfect tenfe 
if admiffible, as drawing a clearer line of 
diftinétion between the epiphonema and 
the tale; and I fhould point with a co. 
lon at pofcebat bonorem, which is not 
done according to my copies by Burman 
or Heyne. I fhall not wander far from 
the prefent fubject, if I remark, that the 
firt aorift of the Grecks 1s fometimes ufed 
inftead of the imperfect de conatu. On 
Eur. Oreit. v. 906, taro d” eres Turvdapews 
AOYOUS TH TDW LATAXKTEVOIT) TOLETSS AEVEbYy 
Mr. Porfon’s note 18 as follows: * wae 
caxntevavts Ald et MSS. quidam. Parum 
refert.? Vis parum refert at fir fartied 
me, and my penc:l {pontaneoully wrote on 
the margin Immo permultum, x1 yallor. 
But from a memorandum fubjomed, | I 
learn that I have found the aorift of the 
very verb tsiva twice in the Ion alone 
ufed of the attempt, not of the effs¢i. 
One of the paffages lies before me in Mr. 
Wakefield’s edition, v. 1310: exvetve O ora 
MOAGAbOY Sopnots E/L0bG« 
I with to fuggeft a doubt, whether the 
ablative cafe in che Latin language be not 
fometimes uled, with a double reference, 
I do not love whims; but if TL am whimft- 
cal in this, I err in good company. Doe 
ering on Catullus, 64, 251, 
Multiplices animo volvebat faucia curas. 
has this note: “ Saucia percuffa dolore, 
Jaucia referre malit. 
Rui 
am tea’ 
QAM 
