1804.] 
Merci! dit Pautre; A mes malheurs 
Ninfultez point ; fongez, que de la vie 
Je connois les tuurmens, je goute les douceurs ! 
Epargnez-mvi, je vous fupplie, 
Et mettez fin a mes frayeurs. 
O, s’11 vous plait, Pautre repligque, 
Ceffez de braire, ou, par Gargantua! 
‘Tenez, je vais vous planter 1a. 
‘Je n’aime point le pathétique, 
Et puis encore vous méfier de moi ! 
_ Graces au fort, je fuis infecte, 
Qui plus que moi fur la terre refpeéte 
La juftice, ’honneur, fur tout la bonne fol. 
Tout en tenant ce beau langage, 
De fes longs doigts elle fait rage. 
Vous piend la mouche par un bas, 
La fait partir d'un croc-en-jamce. 
Comm’un oifon que par la patte on flambe, 
Les pieds en J’air, la téte en bas. 
Contente enfin, & fare de fon fait, 
Elle finit par ce beau trait: 
Gommere, jai befogne'avec plus d’une folle ; 
Memoir of Aldo Manucci, the Younger. _ 131 
Je vous quitte a regret méme pour un infant. 
Reftez tranquille cependant ; 
Vous me verrez, fur ma parole. 
Morale. 
DU charlatan, du faux doéteur, 
Du foi-difant confolateur, 
Des heritiers facheux, des ames baffles, 
De tout efcroc dont nos difgraces 
Font tout l’etpoir et le bonheur, 
Le Ciel nous garde !——Araignées maudites, 
Se tapiffant, a l’aife, dans leurs ites, 
Pour y croquer les innocens, 
Ami lecteur, que tous ces gens, 
— See 
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ON A CHILD, 
(In a country Church-yard in Norfolk } 
igee fin could blight, or forrow fade, 
Death came with friendly care 5 
The opening bud to Heavenconvey’d, 
And bade it bloffom there. 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MEMOIR of the LIEE Of ALDO MANUCCI, 
the YOUNGER. 
HE younger Apo, the third and 
lait in the fuccefhion of this illufri- 
ous family of printers, was born on the 
13th of February, in the year 1547. 
The firft with of his father’s heart was, 
to bring up his fon to excel his own emi- 
nence and that of the elder Aldo, as a 
printer and a man of letters. From the 
boy's earlieft infancy, Paulo himfelf a&ted. 
as his preceptor. While a mere child, 
young ALDo difcovered an aptnefs and 
a precocity of genius which aftonifhed 
and delighted his father and all the triends 
of the family. 
When not more than eleven years of 
age, he publifhed a collection of Fie- 
gant Phrafes in the Tufcan and the La- 
tim Languages, which was received with 
extraordinary applaufe, and certainly pof- 
‘fefles no common merit. It was twice 
printed in the year 1558. In the very 
next year, it was printed a third time. It 
has gone through many fubfequent edi- 
tions, with corrections aad improvements. 
The boy-author was, however, believed 
to have had much afiifiance fiom his fa- 
ther in the compofiticn of this work. In 
1559, he affifted his father in corre€ting a 
new edition of an Italian tyanflation of 
Cicera’s Familiar Epifiles. In 1561, at 
the age of fourteen years, he publifhed 
an elaborate treatife on the Orthography 
of the Latin Language, in which he en- 
Geavoured to deduce the principles of core 
rect {pelling from the authority of infcrip- 
tions and manuferipts jointly. In 1562, 
be attended his father at Rome, and in- 
{peéted, with eager diligence, the libraries, 
mufeurm, and monuments of antiquity, 
in that famous metropolis. Ina new edi- 
tion of his orthographical work, in 1566, 
he inferted a curious Ejfay on the Expia- 
nation of the Notes of Abbreviatien, occvt- 
ring i ancient manu(cripts and infcrip- 
tions. In 1575, he was induced to give 
an Abridgement of his treatife on the Or- 
thography of the Latin Tongue. An 
edition of Salluft, printed by his father, 
in 1563, was alfo enriched with notes 
and other additions, by the care cf young 
ALDO. 
his diligence and fuccefs in Rudy, 
and the innocence of manners with which 
they were naturally accompasied, gave 
to Paulo Manucei the higheft pride in 
his confcioufnefs of having fuch a fon. 
He intrufied to him the management of 
the printing-eftablifhment at Venice: and 
the young man applied to its bufinefs 
with admirable {pirit and perfeverance. 
He gave, in 1571, an edition of Velleinus 
Paterculus, a Roman hiftcrian, not before 
printed at the Aldine prefs. In 1572, he 
publifhed, in Italiana, an Effay on the Ex- 
cellence of the Venetian Conjfiztution, which 
has been much admired. In 1572, he 
married Francefca Lucrezia, a daughter of 
a Venetian branch of the family of the 
Giunti, of Florence. In 1574, he fuc- 
ceeded, on his father’s death, to the en- 
tirely 
