270 A New COUNTRY DANCE. Caft away Care. da bi A -6.69 #isimT SA First couple caft off. nd turn the fecond couple the fame. Firft couple crofs over two couple; lead to the top and caft off. A RIDDLE. RAW back the curtains, let the Ladies fee DRAW A fight well worth their curiofity; And yet a very paradox in nature : The crime is yours, for whilft I'm pure, you're A chafte : Wed then, and to your hufbands conftant be, So you'll be honour'd, and you'll honour me : And when you take for better, or for worse, The first great blefling, and the first great curfe, That these two are right, I believe you will The Profeffor victorious, or the Proctor in the Poor Jemmy will tell you how little he thought A New Cambridge Ballad, fung at the Weft- A Profeffor fo arch, and a Council fo clever, A minfter Club. Proctor there was, and he liv'd in a hall, He was not very short, he was not very tall; But a whim at eleven came into his pate, But alas! this poor Proctor there met with a drub, minfter club. For they knock'd him down flat with a WelDerry down. He blufter'd and huff'd with a menacing tone; Said their hour was come, and they needs muft be gone: But they told him they thought it extreamly uncivil, And, in fhort, let him know, he might go to The gallant Profeffor declar'd he would fpeak, And before good Acutus the culprits muft ftand, With a Beadle to guard, and a Scribe to take down, And who to accufe but the pale Mr. B—. கதிர Derry down. Henceforth then, ye keen politicians take care; Ye Proctors, and eke Moderators, beware; And remember, unless you've a mind for a drub, To keep out of the reach of the Westminster Derry down. club. A Reflection on feeing that excellent Picture of Belifarius, drawn by Vandyke. POOR, blind, and old, fee! Belifarius led An alms to ask of those, his bounty fed: Whom he defended, by his lord beknav'd; And circumvented by the wretch, he fav'd! Do fuch things ftartle you?-rash thoughts fufpend, Judge not appearances, but mark the end. . Should to a farther, more extenfive, run; Derry doon. I He depos'd, that he came to some fad naughty boys, Who faluted his Worship with clappings and noife; So that he, the faid Proctor, was terribly frighted, And as for poor C, he was greatly delighted. Derry down. He talk'd about fomething that somebody fpoke, That this thing was ferious, and that was a The Weary PILGRIM. And yet must tread this ftage; But each must act his part, they say, Is how to live and die ; And teach men how to live and die, Let's find her, while we 're here; Those murderers of time; Nor Nor is the in the bed of luft, The palm that hath receiv'd the fame, Nor is the in the breath of fame, Who for no cause engage: Tho' he fhould there be flain; For fhe is with him in his fall, And with him he will rife; She'll not forfake, but follow him, Beyond the azure skies; True happiness is not confin'd, To any sphere or place; She's with the King upon the throne, In short, wherever virtue is, There happiness remains ; Tho' pangs of death obftruct our joy, Hope fays they're happy pains. V. But let not excefs, tho' in either appear, For what ftains a moment may tinge the whole year; Then more than fufficient is certainly wrong, The Bag-Wig and the Tobacco-Pipe. Bag-wig of a jauntee air, A Trick'& up with all a barber's care, Loaded with powder and perfume, -- Reversely at his t'other end. Oh, what mixt odours! what a throng Did thus his fentiments unfold: < Why what's the matter, Goodman Swagger, Thou flanting, French, fantaftic bragger? • Whose whole fine speech is (with a pox) Ridiculous and heterodox. 'Twas better for the English nation, Before fuch fcoundrils came in fashion; < When none fought hair in realms unknown, But every blockhead bore his own. Know, puppy, I'm an English pipe, • Deem'd worthy of each Briton's gripe Who, with my cloud-compelling aid, Help our plantations, and our trade; And am, when fober, and when mellow, An upright, downright honeft fellow. Tho' fools, like you, may think me rough And fcorn me 'cause I am in buff; "Yet your contempt I glad receive, Tis all the fame that you can give. An Account of the Clove-Tree. HE tree upon which the cloves grow, is as big as an ordinary pear-tree, and grows after the fame form the leaves hang upon long ftalks, and grow fometimes fingle, and fometimes in clufters; it has feveral greater and leffer branches, each whereof ends in very thin fhoots, upon whofe top grow small stalks. There the cloves grow in clusters: within the T they are not fo fharp of tafte, yet are more efteemed, and are used for feed: and this is the reafon why the Indians call them the mother of fruits. The feeds grow up to a complete tree in eight or ten years time, and then bear ftore of fruit. The cloves, when they are firft gathered, are blackifh; and to make them blacker they lay them a drying in the fun; but to preferve them from being worm-eaten, they lay them to fteep a while in faltwater, and then again dry them in the fun. Being thus prepared for keeping, they are fit to be tranfported into any parts of the world. And here obferve that, though the clove-trees are only cherished for the fake of the fruit, yet there is an aromatic fovereign virtue in the very leaves, flowers, and branches. I fhall not need to fay any thing of the excellency of this fpice, it being fo well known to every body; only obferve that the cunning Indians, when they are to fell their cloves, will be fure to foak them well before hand in water, to make them weigh the heavier. N. B. Out of the flowers and green cloves, the Indians extract a water or fpirit very pleafant of fmell, and very good for feveral distempers. An Account of the Nutmeg-Trce. HE tree upon which the ordinary nutmegs grow, and called by the inhabitants Bongopolu, is like our apple or pear-tree, and fprings oftentimes of itself without planting: it is always green, full of bloffoms, and laden with fruit, whereof fome are full ripe, and others but half ripe. The bark is fwarthy, the wood hollow and pithy, and the leaves which grow in clusters upon the ftaiks, are of a green colour, thin and fmooth; which being rubbed between the fingers, as they are pulled from the trees, do not only smell very ftrongly fragrant, but retain alfo, when they are dried, their fharp and strong aromatic fcent and virtue. The flowers or bloffoms are for bigneis and colour much like the pear or cherry-tree bloffom, dropping eafily off without any great fcent. The fruit which fucceeds the bloffoms, grows fcattering up and down about the joints of the boughs." When the bloffoms are fallen off, the firft fhell of the nut at the beginning is green, rough, and fomewhat thick; but as it grows ripe, it becomes full of yellow and purple fpecks: this rough fhell being foon fplit, the nut appears, about which is the mace in the form of a net: afterwards when the fruit is ripe, this rough fhell falls quite off, in the fame manner as the M in thell fhell of a ripe wall nut drops off; and then the mace appears, of a delicate red colour, but afterwards turns yellow, and includes that kernel which we properly call the nutmeg fo that the nutmeg is covered with three fhells; the first and outermoft green and thick, the middlemoft thinner, of a gold colour, and very hard; and lalty, the undermoft, which is a hard rind. This fruit is very much spoiled, and eaten up by birds, efpecially a certain kind of white and fmall pigeons, whole flesh, being eaten, taftes very much of the mace. Thefe trees bring forth fruit two or three times in a year, which neverthelefs are not to be gathered till they are thorough ripe, left they fhould grow light and be worm eaten. When they are firit taken out of the fhell or hufk, they are laid a drying in the fun; then taking off the mace, they wath the nutmeg in lime-water, which preferves it from perifhing; infomuch that they may be tranfported into all parts of the world, without taking any hurt. Thofe nuts are counted the beft which are of a reddish hue, and of an afh colour, mixed with white ftreaks. It often happens that fome nuts differ from others in bignefs and colour, as is feen by the nuts in Europe: fuch are called by the Indians Palaiava, and are ufed in medicine, but not among their vi&uals: but the mace that covers the nutmeg is taken by the Indians, before it be thorough ripe, and while it is of a very deep red colour, and put into vinegar and falt, and fo brought to the table, and eaten before meat to fharpen the appetite. When the mace is ripe, it is taken off the nutmeg, and dried in the fun, and laid up carefully. The . Of the Report of Guns HAT Mr. Derham fuggefted of the report of the guns on Black-heath, he found the fame to hold in all others, viz. that the motion of found is neither fwifter nor flower, whether the gun be discharged with its muzzle towards the obferver, or from him: as alfo that there is no yariation Indians fay, that the oil, as well as the nut and the mace, cures fhrunk finews, and achs of the body caused by cold: for that end every one has oil in his houfe made of the fresh fruit; and as there comes from the mace much lefs oil than from the nut, fo the oil of mace is much stronger than that of the nutmeg. The inhabitants efteem the mace fo much more than the nut, in regard they can make near fifty times as much of it. The people of quality put the green and unripe nuts into vinegar or fugar, and have them brought to table instead of a banquet; and of late years fome Europeans have brought over of these nuts ordered after this manner, which are ufed not only in phyfic, but as a fweetmeat or conferve. Some put the outward fhell or husk into fugar, and prefer it before the nut, because of its moft delicate smell and tafte. There is another fort of long nutmeg, which is called by the Indians Pala Matfiva; these are accounted the beft by the ordinary people, but without any reafon; for though they are bigger than the round nuts, yet they have not that aromatic virtue, neither is the mace the long nutmeg in that esteem among the Indians, tho' perhaps of a better colour, as that of the round nutmeg, there being very little virtue in it; and the very trees upon which thefe long nutmegs grow, are reckoned among the wild and worst fort; fo that the Indians think it not worth their while to gather them, there being little or no virtue in them. And to fay all in one word, the tree upon which these long nutmegs grow, differs more in virtue and ftrength, than form or shape, from that of the other. fired in all Directions. of the found, in any pofition of the gun, whether horizontal or vertical; nor in any elevations, as 10, 20, &c. degrees. Gunpowder, whether ftrong or weak, and a greater or lefs quantity thereof be ufed, though it may increase or diminifh the found, yet it neither accelerates, nor retards its motion. |