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318 =P. S._ to the Appendix to the Supplement to the, &e, [May 1, 
cannot deny, that the jarring of petty in- 
terefts is often permited to obftrudt a ge- 
neral good. ‘The road, indeed, to Hamp- 
ftead, with which the late Mr. Steevens 
ought to have been better acquainted, is 
remarkably good, if the Az// did not con- 
tribute a perpendicularity very unfriendly 
to levellers and republicans, which is pro- 
bably the reafon why the Jacobins of our 
days {feldom travelled farther than Chalk- 
farm, fituated about mid-way on the left 
hand fide of the road. Hampftead itfelf 
lies in the hundred of Offulfton, and is 
bounded by Hendon, Finchiey, Pancras, 
Marybone, Paddington, and Wilfdon. 
Although I by no means agree with 
Locke in his notions of liberty, yet as to 
boundaries, Mr. Rogers is right in faying 
that ‘¢ Great part of our fins confift in the 
regularities attending the ordinary pur- 
fuits of life; fo that our reformation muft 
appear by purfuing them within the bouz- 
daries of duty."” * All this proves to a 
demonftration that boundaries and limits 
were formerly underftood to mean the fame 
thing. i 
‘© With regard to the learning of Shak- 
fpeare it appears to be decided by what 
Moth fays in this very paflage : <‘Mizime, 
honeft mafter, or rather, mafter, 20.”? It 
would be extremely difficult for Dr. Parr, 
or Mr. Porfon, to deny that mnime is an 
adverb, and moft learned {cholars under- 
ftand it to mean, ‘* Not at all, or by no 
means :”’? we have allo minimuaz, and zt- 
zimus, which is the fuperlative of parvus. 
I fhould be afhamed to advance thefe faéts 
in a regular differtation,. if thofe who pre- 
tended to underftand the rules for deciding 
on fuppofed forgeries had not betrayed an 
ignorance of claffical learning}. 
«* Moth enquires again, ‘‘Is that lead 
flow which is fired from a gun?” To 
* Dives and Pauper, of Holy Pouerte; fru€tu- 
oufly treatynge upon the x commaundementes. 
’ Emprentyd by me Wynken de Worde, 1496. 
+ Farther information may be obtained in 
The three bookes of Tullye’s Offyces bothe, 
in latyne tonge and in englyfshe tranflated 
by Roberte Whytinton, poete laureate. Im- 
“printed at London, in Flete-ftrete, by Wyn- 
ken de Worde, 1534. Thisman was poet-lau- 
yeat nearly three centuries ago. Mr. Pye,the 
prefent laureat, according to his own account, 
hath filled that office part of two centuries. 
See the ‘* Thirde and Fourthe boke of Sir 
John Froiffart of the Cronycles of Englande, 
&c. Mr. Malone-may not know that this is 
a large folio penes me, and was ‘* Imprinted at 
London, in Flete-ftrete, by Richard Pynfon, 
printer to the kinges moft. noble grace, 
4525." 
thofe who imagine that«guns and gun- 
powder were invented at one and the fame 
time, perhaps this paflage may not appear 
of great importance; but there are few 
prejudices more abfurd than this. I know 
the common opinion is, that gun-powder 
was invented before guns ; but how is this 
poflible ? Suppofing for a moment that this 
was the cafe,we fhould be at a lofs to know 
whence it derived its name; for, if guns 
were not antecedent to gun-powder, how 
could the name of the latter have been de- 
rived from the former ? The Shakefpeare 
critics muft therefore perceive that this 
opinion will not bear the teft of fair and 
candid examination ; but what fets the 
matter beyond all doubt is, the analogy of 
the thing ; thus gun powder was derived 
from gun, or took its name from gun, as 
Caftle-alley takes its name from theCafile- 
tavern, which was antecedent; Bridge- 
{treet from bridge; Hill-ftreet from hill; 
to which I might add a great many more 
examples. Of the ufes of gun-powder in 
war, I have fpoken in another place, and 
fhall only remark here that the frequent 
inftances of powder mills blowing up has 
made more noife in the world than need- 
ful, feeing fuch things arife from acci- 
dent f. 
<*My fecond proof from Shakefpeare is 
taken from Part I. Henry IV. A&. v. 
Scene 3, where Falftaff fays, **I am as 
hot as molten lead, and as heavy too: Hea- 
ven keep /ead out of mé! I need no more 
weight than my own bowels.” In the 
latter part of this prayer it cannot be de- 
nied by the commentators of Shakefpeare 
that we have all great reafon to join. With 
refpeét to the effects of molten lead, I fhall 
lay before the reader the following ac- 
count from Mr. Smeaton’s Hiftory of the 
Eddyftone light-houfe. [omitted.] 
‘¢ The’ following quotations are very 
happily in point : 
6¢ Mortimer. All the reft 
Turned on themfelves, like dull and heavy 
lead.” 
Second Part Henry IV. AG. i. Scene 1- 
‘«¢ This turning upon one’s felf is become 
very common in days of frivolous contro- 
verfy, when fome men, although their an- 
tagonitts are filent, will turn upon them- 
felves, and write themfelves down in {pite. 
of the love of fame, which is as natural 
as the love of life §.” 

{ Demoivre on Chances, is worth cen- 
fulting, alfo Peere William’s Reports. 
§ Greene’s Groatfworth of Wit, Game 
mer Gurton’s Needle, and Greene’s Nun- 
quam 
