1800. } 
the ellipfis will be of the word /izadedbat, 
which, occurring afterwards in the future 
tenfe, /wadebit, renders the fenfe perfectly 
clear, without any violation of the idiom 
of the language. The fentence wilfthen 
be to be conftruéd thus: inc t2bi fepes 
' gue femper (formerly) fuadebat forinum in- 
are (in future) fuadebit. 
According to the reading which I pro- 
pofe, femper has a reference to the pa/, 
whereby the whole becomes much imore 
clofely conne&ted with the fubject of the. 
poem, (in which Meliboeus is defcribing 
the happinefs of his companion, in being 
re-inftated in his former. poffeffions) than 
according to the common reading ; which, 
' by joining it with the fuadebit, makes the 
fentence refer folely to the future. 
If any of your claffical veaders will 
pleafe to inform me, through the medium 
of your valuable mifcellany, whether there 
be any edition of Virgil extant, in which 
the paflage in queftion has a comma after 
femper, he will very much oblige 
A ConsTantT READER. 
Yan. 9th, 1800. 
—a 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
REPLY TO MR. SAMUEL WESLEY, 
VOL. VII. p. $75. 
Wy ECLUSE means in Englith /hut up, 
folitary ; becaufe it had that fignifi- 
cation previoufly in French: 
Les chofes d’ici bas ne me regardent plus: 
En quoi peut un pauvre reclis 
Vous aflifter ? 
The queftion now recurs, how could 
this Latin word acquire in French a fenfe 
feemingly fo unclaffical? The following 
project of explanation may perhaps fatisfy. 
In the feventh century, which abound- 
ed with chapel-building and monaftic 
foundations, four diftin claffes of monks, 
bound by vows of chaftity and poverty, 
are enumerated by the ecclefiaftical hifto- 
rians. 1, Cenobites, who livedin focieties 
under a fuperior ; 2, Pilgrims, who were 
itinerant from motives of religion; 3, 
' Hermits, who lived a retired life of prayer 
in defert places ; 4. Anchorets, who lived 
an afcetic devout life in the midtt of cities. 
To this laft defcription of holy perfons 
the appellation of reclus was peculiarly af- 
fe&ted. The denomination was probably 
beftowed originally by the monkith wri- 
ters. They would naturally confider bre- 
thren, who, like Diogenes, pitched their 
tubs in towns, as men af large, let loofe, 
unfettered, made public, not fout-up, which 
are the original meanings of the werd. 
MONTHLY MAG, NO. £5. 
Lafontaine. 
Reglufe explained—Apples frozen under Linen, 
25 
But the inhabitants of cities would as 
naturally confider even a relaxed monk as 
a very contemplative, abftemious, purita~ 
nic, folitary character, and would there- 
fore foon employ the term reclu/e, particu. 
larly, if in conduét thefe anchorets corre- 
fponded with their profeifions, in the fe-~ 
vere and modern acceptation. 
Re 
To the Editor.of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WT will not be difputed, that the an- 
{ nouncement of economical projects and 
improvements of all kinds is a valuable 
part of your mifcellany, nor can you be 
xpeéted to anfwer for the truth and real 
utility of ali you infert; but it will be 
proper for readers to be aware, that in the 
common courfe of things a large propor- 
tion of thefe will fail in the trial. You 
mult know, Sir, that in my little domain 
we havea confiderable propenfity to try new 
experiments ; when, therefore, you told us 
of fo eafy a way of preferving apples from 
freezing, as that of covering them with a 
linen cloth, we immediately beftrewed a 
garret floor with part of our winter ftock, 
‘and {nugly concealed them beneath a large 
fleet or two. The late fevere weather 
gave us an early opportunity of witnefling 
the efficacy of this method, which was 
fuch, that almof? ewery apple was froxex 
to the core, and many of them irrecovera- 
bly fpoilt 5; while: fomie, which were pack- 
ed in a hamper with ftraw, were Icarcely 
atallinjured. This fad I.beg you will 
make known, in order to prevent further 
miichief. Iam fenfivle, the erroneous in- 
formation did not come firft from you, but 
the wide circulation of your magazine is 
likely to give it extenfive currency; I 
have fince been told, that, in relating the 
American praétice, a little curcumitance 
was omitted, which its, that, befides the 
fheet, every fingle apple fhould be wrapped 
in paper; but I mean not to aflert, that 
even this will anfwer; nor do I intend to 
try the expefiment. Your's, &c. 
Fan. 6, 1800. SIMPLEX. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
X ‘TF ISHING, with your correfpondent 
\ T. T. in your Magazine for No- 
vember laft, to communicate any ufeful 
expériment ; and having feen no anf{wer to 
his requelt, concerning the cheapeft and 
moft fimple method of making Vinegar, I 
give him mine, which, I know from many 
years” experiegce, makes it of an excellent 
flavours 
