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From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. - 
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CERVANTES and bis DON QUIXOTE. 
‘YT is not underftocd that Cervantes 
found his Don Quixote ready fketched ‘to 
his hand, reprefented as riding about armed 
cap-a-pie, in fearch of adventures, his head 
being turned by the perufal of romances ; 
yet {uch is the faét.. ‘Fhe writer of this 
article, fome years ago, at Amfterdam, met 
with a fall volume in twelves, intitled, 
** Le Delefpoir Amoureux; avec les Nou- 
velles Vifions de Don Quichotte, Hiftoire 
Efpagnole. Ambterdam; 1715.’ Inthe 
advertifement prefixed to it, the French 
tranflator gives the following account of 
the work: *¢* Nous en fommes redevables 
aux Ecrivains Efpagnols que je n’ai quafi 
fait que traduire, & \urtout a l’auteur de 
PHiftoire de la belle Floride & du Berger 
Philidon, avec lesVifions de Don Quichotte, 
dans fon Livre intitulé Homicidio de la 
Fidelitad, y la Defenfa del Honor, imprimé 
a Paris, ’'an Mil fix cens neuf chez Jean 
‘Richer, & connuen fa Langue Originale 
plus d’un fiécle avant que Miguel Cer- 
vantes, quia donré le céiébre Romans de 
Don Quichotte, ait été du monde.” We are 
({ays the tranflator) beholden to Spanifhwri- 
ters for the hiftories c ntained in thisvolume, 
avhich are mergly a tranflation from their 
works, and. particularly from thole of the 
author of Howticidio, &s. printed at Paris 
in 1609, for John Richer, but known in 
the original Spanifh above acentury before 
Miguel Cefvantes, who.produced, the cele- 
brated Romance of Don Quixote, came 
into the world,” 
duced in the three following hiftories or 
novels :—1. ‘ Hiftoire du Berger Phili- 
don & de la Bergere Floride avec quelques 
Vifions de Don Quichotte.” ., Cervantes 
has introduced this iptire novel- into his 
own werk. 2. ** Les Amours de Don 
Antonio, avec Jes Proyeffes de Don 
Qichotte,” and 3. * Les Avantures étranges 
de Cretonia & de fon Fils Don Felix, avec de 
Nouvelles Vifisns de Don Quichatte.’ This 
lait is the tory of Walpole’s ‘* Myfterious 
Mother,’’ wherein Don. Quixote and Don 
Felix are introduced, having met at an inn. 
SIR THOMAS POPE BLOUNT. 
This autbor in his Effays, fir publifhed 
in 1692, makes the following obfervation: 
* The foul of man ({ays he) hathits pa- 
late as well as the body ; opinion being 
nothing but the gufto or relifh of the foul : 
nay, lome have been fo critical as to affirm 
that there is a great correfpondence be- 
twixt the one and the other, that thofe 
waoare of a different dict are generally 
Don Quixotte is intro-- 
obferved to be of different opinions ; and 
‘the learned Doétor Harvey gives \this for 
the reafon, becaufe a different diet fends 
up. different teams to the head, and ac- 
‘cording to the fleams are men’s opinions.” 
WHO THE GENTLEMAN 1S. 
Sir Thomas Smith, Secretary of State 
to Queen Elizabeth, in a work written by 
him intituled, ** The Common Wealth 
of England,"” thus defines a gentleman : 
“¢ Ordinarily (fays he) the King doth only 
make knights, and create barons or high 
degrees; for as for gentlemen they be- 
made good cheape in England ; tor who- 
foever ttudieth in the laws of the realme, 
who ftudieth in the univerfities, who pro- | 
feffeth liberal fcicnees ; and, to be fhort, 
who can live idely, and without manual 
Tabour, and well beare the port, charge, 
and countenance of a gentleman, hee fhall 
be called maffer (for that-is the title men 
give to efquires and other gentlemen ;) 
and fhall be taken for a gentleman.” 
HENRY THE THIRD OF FRANCE. 
The Journal of this monarch, under the 
date of July 1585, records the_following 
circumftance : ** Ence temps le Roicom- 
menga de porter un Bi/boquet a la main, 
dont if fe joufit par les Rués ; le Dac 
d’Efpernon & les autres courtifans firent le 
fembiable, av grand melpris d’eux tous.” 
About this time the King began to carry 
a cup and bail in his hand, with which he 
playcd as he paffed through the flreets ; 
the Duke of Efpernon and the reft of the 
courtiers did the fame, to the great difgrace 
“of them all. 
PLy¥MOUTH heretofore called suTTON.* 
Married PRIESTS. 
(from a MS. ofthe Year 1631.) 
‘¢ Tn the time of Pope Alexander the 
‘Third. (A.D. 1159 to 1181), there wasa 
controverfie for the patronage of a benefice, 
tweene the Prior of Plympton in Devon- 
fhier, & one John de Valle Torda. Now 
there were deputed Judges Richard Arch- 
bifhop of Canterbury, Roger Bifhop of 
Winchetter, before whom the Pryor of 
Piynipton proved his patronage by reafon 
that he was.in pofleifion and had ‘given it 
unto divers perfons, firft he fayth, there 
was a prieft of Plympton called Alphege 
which had by the-gift of the Prior of 
Plympton the benefice of Sutton which is 
now called Plymmouth ; this Alphege 
had a fonne called Sadda, which aifo had 
the benefice after his father, and after 
Sadda was there another prieit cal'ed Al- 
nods which had the bencfice likewife. 
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