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admire the more his beauties, on account 
of their being furrounded with fuch de- 
formities.” This obfervation*(fays Lin- 
guet) is more intelligible thaa that of 
Pope’s, but it does not appear to be a 
better one. 
Dr, Berkenhout, in his Biographia 
Literaria, a work of which only the 
firft- volume has been publifhed, in his 
account of Shakfpeare, has inferted a 
letter, relating an evening’s converfation 
between our great bard Ben Jonfon,° and 
Alleyn, the actor. The. doétor tells us, 
he does not recolleét whence he tranf- 
cribed it.—G. Peele, a dramatic poet,. 
writes to his friend Marlow : 
‘“Pri—enp MariLow, 
‘¢ J never lonzed for zthy company 
mote than laft night; we were all very 
merrye at the Globe, when Ned Alleyn 
did not fcruple to affyrme pleafantely to 
thy friend Will, that he had ftolen his 
fpeeche about the qualityes of an aétor’s 
excellencye in Hamlet his tragedye, 
from converfations manyfold which had 
pafled between them, and opinyons given 
by Alleyn touchinge ‘this fubjeét. Shake- 
{fpeare did not take this talke in good 
forte ; but Jonfon put an end to the 
ftrif ey wittylie remarking, this affaire 
needeth no contentione; you ftole it 
from Ned, no doubt; do-not marvel; 
have you not feen him ac times out of 
number ?”” 
ALLEGORICAL SYMBOLS. 
The following extract from one of 
AlligaPbcal Simbals DMeaeP ailicatints. 
[Aug- 
Plutarch’s Moral Effays, is a curious 
fpecimen of the fymbolical language, im 
which the ancients fometimes “conchalbde. 
their precepts. - 
Thefe allegorical fym- 
bols were employed by Pythagoras— 
and the Chaldean oracles, given by Mr. 
Taylor, in our. laft Suppiement, could. 
they be, at this day, as ingentoufly elu- 
cidated, might appear more fignificant, 
and Jefs myfierious. 
We muft not feed on fifo with black tails ; = 
that is, we mutt avoid all conneétions 
with men of a malignant character.— 
Tread not-on the fcales; that is, refpect 
juftice, and be careful not to infringe the. 
laws.—Sit net on the bufbel; that is, fly 
all indolence, and labour for the neceffa-. 
ries of life —Wear not a tight ring; that 
is, preferve your liberty, and be the 
flave of no perfon.-Sur not the fire with a 
fword; that is, irritate not a man in a 
paffion, but ftrive to calm him.—Gzaw 
not your heart; that is, give not yourfelf 
up. to devouring griets.—Abfiain from 
eating beans ; that j is, do not meddle with 
the affairs of the government: for an- 
ciently the votes for the ele€tion of ma- 
giftrates, were made with beans. 
It is in this manner, that the com- 
mencement of all knowledge has been 
mede in enigmas; and thefe have ap- 
peared, to remote pofterity, more ab- 
furd and barbarous than they really were, 
by metaphors which become unintelli- 
gible, and cuftoms which become for- 
gotten. 
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