1810.) 
with one exception, the oldest General in 
the British army. 
Dying a bachelor, General M. is suc- 
ceeded mn name ant estate, by his cousin 
John Whyte MelviNe, of Bennochy, in 
the county of Fife, esq. 
General Melville had nearly completed 
his eiybty-sixth year, having been born at 
Nionimail, in that en de which hgh 
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Scarce Tracts, Se. | 49. 
his father was minister, on the 712th of 
October, 1723: ‘his mother was a daugh- 
ter of Robert Whyte, of Bennuchy, esq.” 
Advocate, and a Sister of the late cele- 
brated Dr. Robert. Whyte (Whvtt,) his- 
Majesty’ s Physician in Scotian d, aiid pro- 
fessor. of medicine i the ‘edhe pt 
Eqinburgh, 
SCARCE TRACES, Witt EXTR ACTS, AND ANALYSES. OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. 
I is ee in fulure to devote a few Pages of the Monthly Magazine i eae 
Insertion ‘of such Scarce Tracts as are of an interesting Neture,. with rhe» Use 
of which we may be favoured by our Cor espondents 5. dnd under the sume Head ‘ta 
introduce also the Analyses of scarce and curious Books. ; 
SSS 
“ The Letling of Humour’s Blood in the 
Head-Vaine. Witha New Morissco, 
duunced by seven Satyrs, upon. the 
- boltome cf Diagines Tubbe.” Imprinted 
at London, . by W. Whete, 1611, 8vo. 
F®NHIS is one of those curious little 
tracts, which the commentators on 
Shakespeare have occasionally called in 
to their assistance. | Ritson, in his Bib- 
liographia Poetica, mentions an edition, 
with the same title, m quarto, printed 
jw 1600 ; and- adds, that it was “ reo 
printed in 1607, ‘under the title of * Hu- 
niors Ordinarie ; where a man may be 
verie mertie, and exceeding well ased 
for his Sixpeice.’” 
It consists of thirty-seven Epigrams 
and seven Satires. 
From the former we have selected the 
19th, 26th, and Sst, as specimens, -i-- 
lustrative as well ef the manners of the 
tume, as of the author’s poetry.” 
’ EPIG. 19. 
et A woefull exclamation late [ heard, 
Wherewith Tobacco takers may be feat ; 
One (at the poynt with pipe and teres 
part) 
Did vow tobacco wotse than Death’s oS 
darts 
And prou’d ‘it thus: You know (qd. he) my 
friends, 
Death onely stabbes the heart, and so life 
‘ endes. 
But this same poyson, steeped India vipede, 
Tn head, hart, lunges, doth soote and cob- 
$ welis bréed3 
With that he gasped, and breath’d out dice 
a stoke, 
That all the standets by were like to choke.” 
EPIG. 26. 
“¢ Behold a most accomplish’d caualeere, 
That the world’s ape of fashions doth appear, 
Wabking the streets his humors to me 
‘n the French doublet and the German hose 
~Monvury Mag. No. ; 19 
The Muffe’s cloake, Spanish hat, Tollede 
blade, 
» Italian ruffe, a shooe right Flemish: made ; sae, 
Like’ Lord of Misrule, wh ae he comes he’ ll 
reuél, 
And lye for wages with ait lying’st. diuell” 
EPIG. 31. 
‘© When Tarlton ‘clown’d it ina pie edsant 
vaine, 
Ard with conceits did Rood opinions gaine _ 
Upon the stage, his merry humours’ shop, 
Clownes knéw the clewne, by his es 
clownish slop 5 
But now th’ are pen, for present fashion 
sayes, 
Dicke Tarlton’s part, gentlemen’ 8 “eel chbs 
plaies ; * 
In every street, where any eailent goes, 
The swage ‘ring lope, is Larlton’s clowhish 
hose.” ‘ 
From the fourth of phe eairee we ses 
lect a curious enumeration of the saris 
and games, which, in the reign of Pligas 
beth and James the First, appear to have 
been most prevalent :'' 
‘© Man, IT dare challenge thee to throw the 
sledge; . 
To jumpe or lcape ouer ditch or hedze, 
To wrestle, ‘play at stovleball, or to ruane? 
To pitch the barre, or to shocks ofa gunne : 
To play at loggets, nine- holes, or ten-pinnesy 
To try it Out at foot-bail by the shinnes 
At tick-cacke, _— noddie, maw, and 
ruffe, 
At hot- eae ee eat frogegs or ada 
buffe ; 
To drinke halfe pots, or deale at the whole 
can 5 
To play at base, or pen and Yokhorné Sir 
jhan : 
To dauncé the Morris, play ot barley-bralee : a 
At all exploytes a man can’ thinke or ‘speake@ 
At showeseréate, reese pop Gr: Cross and 
pile, $ set MORN WH? OMT £ 
At beshrow him that's last at bila style: 
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