1808.] 
God wold not ye weren-as wys as he;. and 
therefore he forbad that ye {chulde nougt 
eten of the appull. And that fey Eve 
{che fchuld have ben fo wys, & was both 
coveytous-and likerous, as comenly wymen 
ben, fche fay the Appul fo fayre to here 
fygt & delicious, to the tre {che wente and 
took away an Appul and eet thereof and 
gat Adam that other del; and he eet 
ther eof alfo. And in the mene tyme that 
Adam & his wyf eten of that Appul the 
foule fals tyrant with his jij tormentours 
wenten into the Abbey of the Holy Gooft 
and baren awey moo precious Jewells than 
' al this world is worth ; alfo they baren 
awey the chartre that God almygty gaf to 
hem to hold by here place; therefore 
neyther hene his wyf ne non of heyres fro 
that day til this day hadde no rygt to 
chalange the lord{ehipe of hevene but only 
by the mercy of God. And not only thefe 
falfe theves broken thus this holy Abbey 
and baren awey here goodes, but they diden 
a more queldede and a more rewfull, they 
dryven awey dy{pyroufly out of that Ab- 
bey the faire Abbefle and the Priourefle 
and all here Conuent fo forforth that this 
m c 
was Viij v and xxxiij yeer after that or 
they mygte come alle agen togidere as per- 
figtly as they weren before.”’ 
Thus much have I thought proper to 
fend you forthe prefent; but fhould you 
be defirous, after perufing what I now 
give you, to have more of this delectable 
hiftory, upon your fignifying fuch your 
with, I will fend you. not only the copy 
of the Charter which Satan and his crew 
had ftolen, but fome further extracts. 
ErratTa.—tin the former letter of Bru- 
net-Latin, and in page 525, vol. 12, the rea- 
der will pleafe to correét the following errors 
which have efcaped the prefs, viz. —In the 
poetry, line 8, wnroyfe fhould have been 
printed wnwyfe.—Line 11, grek fhould be read 
gret.—In the notes, ‘* Guido Cavalcanti is 
ftiled poeta gregio ;” read egregin. 
ENGLISH SAILORS 72 CHARACTER. 
That the character of the Englith tar 
has been of long ftanding, the following 
narrative of the Dominican father Nava- 
rette in the 17th century will prove. Some 
Spanifh military officers having landed at 
Cadiz, the people of the cultom-houfe 
followed them to fearch their baggage. 
Upon the refiftance of the officers, {words 
were drawn on both fides, and a furious 
affray arofe, which was augmented by a 
-great crowd affembling from all parts. 
Every endeavour to part the combatants 
was in vain, till four drunken Englifh 
failors in a moment effected what many 
fober perfons, could not perform, Thele 
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fellows, wanting to get to their fhip, found 
the way blocked up by thecrowd. With- 
out hefitation they took up ftones from the 
pavement, and began throwing with all 
their might_at the people’s legs. ‘This 
fet them alla fcampering, and cleared the 
field of battle in an inftant. 
CURIOUS, ANECDOTES Of MEDICAL 
PRACTICE at PARIS, im the MIDDLE 
of the XV1l CENTURY. 
The ridicule of Le Sage again ex-~ 
ceflive blood-leiting, in his account. of 
the medical practice of Dr. Sangrado, 
may feem to thofe who witnefs the prefent 
practice in London, to rife to an extrava- 
gance that entirely lofes fight of the 
reality. But, he who reads the letters of 
Guy Patin, will be of a different: mind. 
Patin was zealous to an inconceivable de- 
gree for purging and letting blood, in 
almoft every cafe of difeafe; and fo were 
all his contemporaries of the College of 
Phyficians at Paris, who were accounted 
to be regular, not leas te innovating 
practitioners. 
Speaking of Hoffmann, a German phy- 
fician, whom in many refpects he highly 
admired ; Patin adds, in a tone of com- 
a ee ae The honeft man, however, 
knows not much of the ufe of bleeding” 
—Le bon homme ne connoit pas grande chofe 
@ la faignée.. He complains elfewhere, 
that ‘the createlt abufes of medicine in the. 
innovating practice of fome of his con-. 
temporaries, arofe from the zegle of 
blood-letting, and the ufe of certain phar- 
maceutical noftrums which were recom- 
mended in the works of the Arabian phy- 
ficians. In intermittent fevers, Patin, as 
himfeif relates, taught, that there was 
nothing fo ufeful as very copious bleed-_ 
ing. The Firft Prefident of the Parlia- 
ment of Paris, Lamoignon, then an old 
man, and a great patron of literature, had 
been ill: his phyfician, M. Guenaut, after 
treating him with many bleedings, put 
him, at length, ona courfe of purging —= 
the good man became daily worle—they 
returned to bleeding—and Patin com- 
plains bitterly of Guenaut for not empty~ 
ing the Prefident’s veins more entirely at 
the firt. A.M. Courteis, one of Patin’s 
friends, had been. ill: Patin boafts of 
having cored him—soyennant dix-buit 
faignées, G vingt purgations. He was 
heartily fincere in favour of blood-letting s 
for after paffing a fleeplefs night under the 
pain of the tooth-ach, the ‘fir thing he 
did in the morning was fo have himfelf 
bled for it in both arms. He tells elfe- 
where of a bookfeller of the name of Ro- 
colet; ** I was 30 years nis phyfician; ft 
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