"cients excelled us almoft in every thing, yet

why this fingularity? your Son must take up "with fuch masters as the present age affords; "we have Dancing-mafters, Writing-mafters, "and Mufick-mafters."

The bare mention of Mufick threw Cornelius into a paffion. "How can you dignify" (quoth he) "this modern fidling with the name of Will any of your best Hautboys "encounter a Wolf now-a-days with no other "arms but their inftruments, as did that ancient

"Mufick?

piper Pythocaris? Have ever wild Boars, Elephants, Deer, Dolphins, Whales, or Turbots, "thewed the leaft emotion at the most elaborate "ftrains of your modern Scrapers, all which "have been, as it were, tamed and humanized

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by ancient Musicians? Does not Ælian tell "us how the Libyan Mares were excited to horfing by Mufick? (which ought in truth to` "be a caution to modeft Women against frequenting Operas; and confider, Brother, you are brought to this dilemma, either to give up the virtue of the Ladies, or the power of your Mufick.) Whence proceeds the degeneracy of our Morals? Is it not from the lofs "of ancient Mufick, by which (fays Aristotle)

they taught all the Virtues? Elfe might we turn Newgate into a College of Dorian Mufi"cians, who fhould teach moral virtues to those people. Whence comes it that our present

⚫ Ælian Hift. Animal. lib. xi. cap. 18. and lib. xii. cap. 44. P. VOL. VI. L

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diseases are so stubborn? whence is it that I daily deplore my fciatical pains? Alas! be"cause we have loft their true cure by the melody of the Pipe. All this was well known "to the Ancients, as Theophraftus affures us, (whence Calius calls it loca dolentia decan"tare) only indeed fome small remains of this "fkill are preferved in the cure of the Taran"tula. Did not Pythagoras ftop a company "of drunken Bullies from ftorming a civil " house, by changing the strain of the Pipe to "the fober Spondæus? and yet your modern "Musicians want art to defend their windows " from common Nickers. It is well known, "that when the Lacedæmonian Mob were up, they commonly fent for a Lefbian Musician "to appease them, and they immediately grew "calm, as foon as they heard Terpander fing: "Yet I don't believe that the Pope's whole band "of Mufick, though the best of this age, could

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keep his Holiness's Image from being burnt " on a fifth of November. "Nor would Terpander himself (replied Albertus) at Billingfgate, nor Timotheus at Hockley in the Hole, "have any manner of effect, nor both of them together bring 'Horneck to common civility." That's a grofs mistake" (faid Cornelius very

Suidas in Timotheo.

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f Horneck, a fcurrilous Scribler, who wrote a weekly paper,

called the High German Doctor.

warmly) "and to prove it fo, I have here a fmall Lyra of my own, framed, ftrung, and "tuned after the ancient manner. I can play "fome fragments of Lefbian tunes, and I wish I were to try them upon the moft paffionate creatures alive."-" You never had a better opportunity" (fays Albertus;)" for yonder are "two Apple-women fcolding, and just ready to "uncoif one another." With that Cornelius, undreffed as he was, jumps out into his Balcony, his Lyra in hand, in his flippers, with his breeches hanging down to his ankles, a stocking upon his head, and waistcoat of murrey-coloured fattin upon his body: He touched his Lyra with a very unusual fort of an Harpegiatura, nor were his hopes fruftrated. The odd Equipage, the uncouth Inftrument, the ftrangeness of the Man and of the Mufick, drew the ears and the eyes of the whole Mob that were got about the two female Champions, and at laft of the Combatants themselves. They all approached the Balcony, in as clofe attention as Orpheus's firft Au-dience of Cattle, or that of an Italian Opera, when fome favourite air is juft awakened.

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fudden effect of his Mufick encouraged him mightily, and it was obferved he never touched his Lyre in fuch a truly chromatick and enharmonick manner as upon that occafion. The mob laughed, fung, jumped, danced, and used many odd geftures, all which he judged to be caufed by the various ftrains and modulations. "Mark" (quoth he) "in this, the power of

"the Ionian, in that, you fee the effect of the "Eolian." But in a little time they began to grow riotous, and threw ftones: Cornelius then withdrew, but with the greatest Air of Triumph in the world. "Brother" (faid he) "do you

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"obferve I have mixed unawares too much of "the Phrygian; I might change it to the Lydian, and foften their riotous tempers: But "it is enough: learn from this Sample to speak "with veneration of ancient Mufick. If this Lyre in my unfkilful hands can perform fuch "wonders, what muft it not have done in those "of a Timotheus or a Terpander?" Having faid this, he retired with the utmoft Exultation in himself, and Contempt of his Brother; and, it is faid, behaved that night with fuch unufual haughtiness to his family, that they all had reafon to wish for fome ancient Tibicen to calm his Temper.

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VII.

Rhetoric, Logick, and Metaphyficks.

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Ornelius having (as hath been faid) many ways been disappointed in his attempts of improving the bodily Forces of his son, thought it now high time to apply to the Culture of his Internal faculties. He judged it proper in the first place to instruct him in Rhetor ck.

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herein we shall not need to give the Reader any account of his wonderful progrefs, fince it is already known to the learned world by his Treatife on this fubject: I mean the admirable Difcourfe Iepì Babes, which he wrote at this time, but concealed from his Father, knowing his extreme partiality for the Ancients. It lay by him concealed, and perhaps forgot among the great multiplicity of other Writings, till, about the year 1727, he fent it us to be printed, with many additional examples, drawn from the excellent live Poets of this prefent age. We proceed therefore to I ogick and Metaphyficks.

The wife Cornelius was convinced, that these being Polemical Arts, could no more be learned alone, than Fencing or Cudgel-playing. He thought it therefore neceffary to look out for fome Youth of pregnant parts, to be a fort of humble Companion to his fon in thofe ftudies.

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good fortune directed him to one of the most fingular endowments, whofe name was Conradus Crambe, who by the father's fide was related to the Crouches of Cambridge, and his mother was coufin to Mr. Swan, Gamefter and Punster of the City of London. So that from both parents he drew a natural difpofition to fport himself with Words, which as they are faid to be the counters of wife Men, and ready money of Fools, Crambe had great store of cash of the latter fort. Happy Martin in such a Parent, and fuch a Companion! What might not he atchieve in Arts and Sciences.