. 
At once your cheek-and brow were flufh’d, 
Your neck and ev’n your bofom blufh’d 5 
fine fhame may claim the larger part, 
En that fmooth neck, and-all above: 
But the blufh fo near the heart, 
> Oh! Jet it be a blufh of love. 
Pygmalion thes tit up with life 
"The ftatue that became his wife, 
EPIGRAM.—By the fame. 
Bear Anne, a wond’rous Trinity 
Wath made thee a Divinity, 
The being frangely beautiful, 
And firangely chafte and dutiful, 
And what is more than either, 
The, being each together. 
ELXV. — ORIGIN OF STOURBRIDGE 
FAIR. 
“The following extra&t is made from 
Dr. Foller’s Hiftory of the Univerlty of 
Cambridge. 
«© This Stourbridge Fair is fo called 
from Stur, 2 little rivulet (on both fides 
whereof it is kept,) on the eaft of Cam- 
Bridge, whereof this original is reported. 
A clothier of Kendal, a town character- 
ized to be Lanificii gloria & indufiria pre- 
céllens, cafually wettibg his cloath in wa- 
rer in his paflage to Lontion, expoted it 
there to fail, on cheap termes. as the 
worfe for wetting, and yet it feems faved 
By the bargain. Next year he returned 
#gain with fome other of his towntmen, 
profering drier and dearer cloath to be 
feid. So that within’ few years hither 
éame a confluence of bu evs, fellers, 
and toc kers-on, which are the three pria- 
€ipiés of ‘a fair. In memoria thereof 
Kendal men challenge fome privilege in 
that placé, annua'ly choching one of the 
town to be chief, before whom an artic 
fwerd was cartied with fome mirthful fo- 
femnitics, difufed of date, fince thele fad 
Litnes, which ptt mens’ minds into mere 
ferious employments.’” This was atout 
1417. 
CLxvi.—A conflant TENURE of princely 
EARLS 0/ CAMBRIDGE. 
~ "The fame Fuller obferves, that ** Rich. 
ard Duke of York at this ‘time 
(A.1436,) Earl of Cambridge, ‘the laft 
“hot wore the honour for many years, 4n 
whole death ic was extinct. And now let 
the reader at one ‘view behoid the great 
perfons dignified with the earlcom of 
Cambridge : 
Scotch Kings:—1. David:—2. Henry. 
3. Malcolm. 
Gernian Princes :——4. John: Earl of 
Henk. — 5. Willian Marquis ‘of Ju- 
liers. Miu, 
~6. E‘mund of Langley, 
WEs 
fifth fon to 
Cantabrigiana. 
sz 
[April 15; 
Edward the Thitd,—7. Edward his fon.» 
—8. Richard Duke.of York, his bro-» 
ther, father to Edward the Fourth.” 
‘¢ No city, town, or place, in Eng- — 
land was ever honoured with fo many 
and great perfons as Cambridge was,- 
whofe earldom, fleeping for almoft two 
hundred years, was at daft conferred by. 
King James on. the royaily-extraéted. 
Marquis Hamilton.” _ 
CLXVII. —- MR. MASON aud CHURCH- 
MUSIC. : » 
Mr. Mafon was Fellow of Pembroke-. 
hall, no lefs diftinguithed for his fkill in. 
painting and mufic than in poetry. His 
love of painting occafioned him :o publ fly 
a Tranflation of Freinoy’s Latin Poems. 
de Re Grapbica, which was accompa~ 
nicd with Notes by Sir Jofhua Reynolds, 
In his mufical charater be publithed a 
book but littl known, entitled ** A co- 
pious Collection of the Portions of the 
Plaims of David, Bible, and Liturgy, 
which have been fet to Mulic, and fung 
as Anthems in the Cathedral and Colle- 
giate Churches of England; prefixed ‘to 
which is a Critical and Hiftorical Effay’ 
on Cathedral Mufic.*’ A, 
At the Reformation, cathedral-mufie 
confifted of harmonical proportions, oF, 
more properly, of a confuled variety of 
parts, without any attention to fimple 
melodies, ur even to fyllabic diftinétions. 
This mufeal jargon infufed  itfelf 
through the whole chureh-ferviee, not 
only through the pfalmody and the parts 
fill chanted in cathedrals, but even into 
thofe portions of Scripture which are now 
read, called the Epiftile and Gofpel.—. 
Speaking of this figurate defcant, in 
which different voices were exprefling dif- 
ferent words at the fame time, Maton 
mikes the following cunious remark :—= 
* One example of this kind may fuffice, 
and a nore ridiculous one’can be hardly. 
evnccived. The genealogy in’ the firft 
chapter.of St. M:-tthew’s Gofpel was 
thus fet to mafic : while the bafs was hoald= 
ing forth the exiftence of Abraham, the 
tenor, in defiznce-of nature and chrono- 
logy, was ‘begetting Ifaac, the counter- 
tenor begetting Jacob, and the treble 
begetiing Jofeph and all his \brethren.” - 
CLXVIIT. 
To a Lady, who bad, in a poetical Com- - 
pliment, been compared to a Star.—By 
Mrs. Le Noir. 
To change thee, fair Eliza, to a ftar, 
Is far lefs flattering than, perhaps, de- 
fign’d ; ; 
They make thee only rule by night, from far, 
Born to give pleafant days to human kind. 
Renounce 
