Z 800.) 
be ignorant. Lead is of a dull white co- 
lour, the, leaft dudile, the leait fonorous 
of the white metals, yet poflefles a confi- 
derable degree of {pecific gravity. [Here 
our auther extends through fix pages-a 
differtation on the various kinds of lead, 
native, lead fpar, lead mineralized, and 
gives an accurate defcription of ‘all the 
mines in the world, in which, we think, 
he has greatly the advantage of his anta- 
gonilts, but we hafte to the following. } 
¢¢ Tt will be for Mr. Matthias, Mr. Ma- 
lone, and the editors of the reviews and 
new{papers, to determine whether a mace 
can be made of lead, or whether lead can 
be a component part of a mace. The 
fat is, and I appeal to Era/m: Opera, 
‘vol. vi. p. 298. Godwinus de Preful. An- 
gle, in art. Cefire, and other works, to 
prove that the ancient mace was made of 
won; ‘* ex ferro” are the words, and if 
they will turn to Ainfworth’s Dictionary, 
4to edition, in art. ferrum, they will find 
that it always means zroz and not dead, 
which fully eftablifhes my pofition. It 
was undoubtedly with a weapon of this 
kind that Walworth, the lord mayor of 
London, knocked down Wat Tyler, who 
was anoted Jacobin circa temp. Ricard.II. 
and I do not find that Hume or Smolilett, 
although they pofleffed the advantages of 
modern difcoveries, have ever denied this. 
It is alfo notorious that nothing of Wal- 
worth now remains buta pleafant village, 
which in faé& is not a parifh of itfelf, but 
ahamlet to Newington Butts in the coua- 
ty of Surry. See Aubrey’s Antiquities, 
amd Camden iz Loco edit. 1789, much 
improved by Mr.Gough. As to the mo- 
dern mace, it is made of copper or filver 
gilt, and is the chief infignia of autho- 
rity in Great Britain. ‘The divifion of 
Great Britain into fhires I have fhown in 
another place to be modern, and IJ fhall 
now only add that mace in the materia 
medica is the fecond coat or covering of 
the kernel of the nutmeg, and nothing can 
be f> improbable as that it was ever made 
of lead. The generic name of. nutmeg 
is myriflica, which will at once explain 
the difficulties with which thofe writers 
are embarrafled who are unacquainted with 
natural or political hiftory. For further 
elucidation of the fubjeét of maces, I refer 
the curious reader to the notes at the bot- 
tom of the page, being genuine extracts 
from Spencer’s Fairy Queen, Knolles’ 
Hiftory of the Turks, Milton’s Paradife ° 
Loft, the Spectator, and Stow’s Hiitory 
of London*, 

* Thefe we have omitted. 
P.S. to the Appendix to the Supplement to the, Fe. 
317 
*¢ To return to ead. It appears clear to 
me that Mr. Malone, in his laft edition of 
Shakefpeare, betrays a great ignorance on 
this fubjeét, and that the other commen- 
tators, fervilely following him, have been 
kept in the dark as to a circumftance 
which I fhall now prove from very high 
authority. I mean that formerly dead and 
genius, or what we call talents, were fyno- 
nymous. 
chapter sth, and verfe 7th, it is exprefsly 
faid, §* Phere was lift up a talent ot lead.” 
What will Mr. Malone fay to this? The 
late Mr. George Steevens, whofe inaccu- 
racies I proved in my Supplement, knew 
this faét; but fupprefled’ it in his: lait 
edition. He knew the advantage I fhould 
have over him, if he once admitted ‘my 
talent of lead.+” 
‘6 T now proceed, agreeably to my pro- \ 
mife, to fhow the univerfal extent and ap- 
plication of lead in the ceconomy of nature 
and of man, which I fhall prove by vari- 
ous extracts from that eminent judge of 
nature, Shakefpeare, and thal] leave Mefirs. 
Malone, Matthias, and the editors of the 
reviews and magazines, to chew the cud 
of inftruétion ft. 
«¢ My firft quotation is from a fublime 
paffage in Love’s Labour Loft. Aét iii. / 
Scene 1. 
“¢ Armado. The way is but fhort: away. 
Moth. As {wilt as lead, Sir. 
Armado. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious? 
Is not /ead a metal heavy, dull, and flow ? 
Moth. Minime, honeft mafter, or rather 
matter, no. 
Armado. \ fay, lead is flow. 
Moth. You are too {wift, Sir, to fay fo > 
Ts that lead flow which is fired from a gun ?” 
«© There is multifarious learning in this 
extract. The application of lead to the 
way, isa curious hiftorical fact, for it ts 
certain that the roads, when the fcene of 
this play was laid, were not fo good as 
now §. There is a confiderable expence 
attending road-bills, which is probably 
one caufe why they are fo feldom brought 
into the Houfe of Commons, and in efta- 
blifhing a new road, I think Mr. Malone | 

+ See a fimilar proof of the awtiguity of 
balloons in the Supplement to the Apology. 
Edit.—the other notes are by the author. 
} See Pappe with an hatchet, or Cracke me 
this nut, or a Countrie cuff, ‘that is, a found 
boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold 
his peace, by one that dares call a dog a dog. 
D.'30: 
Sher is a curious paflage in the Keye 
to unknowne knowledge, or a Shop of five 
Windowes, imprynted 1599. 
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