when I came, the earl used far greater refpect to me, than I expected; and began debafing his own manner of hard life, comparing himself to wolves, that fill their bellies fometime, and fast as long for it; then excufed himself to me that he could no better call to mind myself, and fome of my friends that had done him fome courtefy in England; and been oft in his company at my Lord of Ormond's; faying thefe troubles had made him forget almoft all his friends.

After this he fell to private communication with Sir William, to the effecting of the matters begun the day before; to which I thought it not fit to intrude myfelf, but took occafion the while to entertain his two fons, by pofing them in their learning, and their tutors, which were one Friar Nangle, a Francifcan, and a younger scholar, whofe name I know not; and finding the two children of good towardly fpirit, their age between thirteen and fifteen, in English cloths, like a nobleman's fons; with velvet gerkins and gold lace; of a good chearful afpect, freckled faced, not tall of ftature, but ftrong and well-fet, both of them their English tongue. I gave them, not without the advice of Sir William Warren, my, English tranflation of Ariofto, which I got at Dublin: which their teachers took very thankfully, and foon after fhewed it the earl, who called to fee it openly, and would needs hear fome part of it read; I turned, as it had been by chance, to the beginning of the 45th canto, and fome other paffages of the book, which he feemed to like fo well, that he folemnly swore his boys fhould read all the book over to him.

Then they fell to communication again, and calling me to him, he faid, that I fhould witnefs, and tell my lord lieutenant, how, against all his confederates wills, Sir William had drawn him to a longer ceffation, which he would never have agreed to, but in confidence of my lord's honourable dealing with him; for, faith he, now is my harvest time, now have my men their fix weeks pay afore-hand, that they have nothing to do but fight; and if I omit this opportunity, and then you fhall prepare to invade me the mean time, I may be condemned for a fool.

Alfo one pretty thing I noted, that the paper being drawn for him to fign, and his figning it with O'Neal, Sir William (though with very great difficulty) made him to new write it, and fubfcribe Hugh Tyrone. Then we broke our faits with him, and at his meat he was very merry, and it was my hap to thwart one of his priests in an argument, to which he gave reafonable good ear, and fome approbation. He drank to my lord's health, and bade me tell him he loved him, and acknowledged this ceffation had been very honourably kept. He made likewife a folemn proteftation, that he was not ambitious, but fought only fafety of his life, and freedom of his confcience, without which he would not live, though the queen would give him

Ireland.

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Warren. Other pleasant and idle tales were needlefs and impertinent, or to defcribe his fern table, fern forms fpread under the ftately canopy of heaven. His guard, for the most part, were beardlefs boys without fhirts; who, in the froft, wade as familiarly through rivers water fpaniels. With what charm fuch a mafter makes them love him I know not; but, if he bid come, they come; if go, they do go; if he fay do this, they do it. He makes apparent fhow to be inclinable to peace; and fome of his nearest followers have it buzzed amongst them, that fome league of England with Spain or Scotland, or I know not where, may endanger them. But himfelf, no doubt, waits only to hear what my lord lieutenant intends, and according to that will bend his

courfe.

Fryar Nangle fwears all oaths, that he will do all the good he can, and that he is guiltlefs of the heinous crimes he is indited of; for, if he had his pardon, perhaps there might be made good ufe of him. This is all I remember any way worthy the writing to you, not doubting but Sir William Warren, that had the fole charge of this bufinefs, will give you much better account of the weightier affairs, than I that only went to fee their manner of parting.

I remain in much duty,
JOHN HARINGTON.

captains and our foldiers, in fummer heats and winter colds, in hunger and thirft, for our backs and our bellies. That is to fay, every captain of an hundred footmen doth receive weekly, upon every Saturday, his full entertainment of twenty-eight fhillings. In like cafe, every lieutenant fourteen fhillings; an enfign feven fhillings; our ferjeant, furgeon, drum, and fife, five fhillings pay by way of impreft; and every common foldier three fhillings delivered to all by the pole weekly. To the four laft lower officers two fhillings weekly, and for every common foldier twenty pence weekly is to be answered to the full value thereof, in good apparel of different kinds, part for winter, and part for fummer, which is ordered of good quality and stuff for the prices; patterns whereof must be fent to the lord-deputy to be compared and prepared as followeth.

Apparel for an officer in winter.

A caffock of broad cloth with

bays, and trimmed with filk lace, twenty-feven fhillings feven-pence.

A doublet of canvafs with filk

buttons, and lined with white linnen, fourteen fhillings five-pence.

Two fhirts and two bands, nine fhillings and fix-pence.

Three pair of kerfy ftockings, at two fhillings and four-pence a pair, feven fhillings.

Three pair of fhoes neats leather, at two fhillings and four-pence per pair, feven fhillings.

One pair of Venetians of broad Kentish cloth, with filver lace, fifteen fhillings four-pence.

Two pair of fhoes, four fhillings eight-pence.

One pair of ftockings, two fhillings eight-pence.

A felt hat and band, five fhillings five-pence.

Apparel for a common foldier in winter.

A caflock of Kentish broad cloth lined with cotton, and trimmed with buttons and loops, feventeen fhillings fix-pence.

A doublet of canvass, with white linnen lining, twelve fhillings fixpence.

A hat cap coloured, feven fhillings.

Two fhirts of Ofanbridge holland and bands, eight fhillings. Three pair neats leather shoes, two fhillings four-pence each, feven fhillings.

Three pair of kerfy stockings, eight fhillings.

One pair Venetians of Kentish broad cloth, with buttons, loops, and lining of linnen, thirteen fhillings four-pence.

In Summer.

Two thirts of Ofanbridge and two falling Holland bands, feven fhillings.

Two pair of neats leather shoes, four fhillings eight-pence.

One pair of stockings, two fhillings eight-pence.

A hat cap coloured, three fhillings.

Thus, friend Thomas, her majefty, with wonted grace, hath graced our bodies, and may heaven's grace cloath her in everlafting robes of righteoufnefs, and on earth

:

To follow ancient mufic through its developments and progreffes, in a nation whose heart and organs were open to every object of fenfibility, does not belong to my fubject befides, nothing can be added to the feveral details on this head given by M. Burette. Let me only be permitted to defire, that fome capable perfon, equally converfant with Greek, and the theory of mufic, would, from the lights fcattered in the Memoirs of the Academy of Infcriptions, in the didactic treatifes of Greek muficians, and in the learned Meibomius's commentaries on those treatises, compofe a connected history of ancient mufic: fuch a work would be highly acceptable to the scholar and the harmonist, as it may open fresh views; and though it be, partly, no more than picking from the above monuments, yet it is a picking which requires a maiterly hand,

From Plutarch's Treatife, and M. Burette's comment on it, I fhall produce fome facts which belong to my fubject, and are preparative to it.

In the country which the Greeks and their firft colonies occupied, each tribe being equally enamoured with the beautiful, and the harmony from which it refults, ftruck out different ways in the purfuit and attainment of it. Hence that difference of dialects in pronouncing one common language, which they enriched in varying it; hence that variety in the orders, the ftandards of architectonic beauty; hence likewife that diverfity of modes, into which mufical melody was modelled.

+ Whether this diverfity be attributed to the climate, or the different conformation of the organs; whether it be accounted the mere effect of chance, or the force of habit; it muft difpofe us to fee, without aftonishment, what is doing among us and among our neighbours. Let us therefore not be furprised, that the fame tafte for finging does not unite nations, of an extent far beyond the narrow limits of Greece; nations speaking different languages; in a word, nations no lefs difcordant in their manner of feeling, than in their way of feeing and thinking.

It is natural that each nation fhould impart to its finging and mufic the ftamp of that national characteristic, which diftinguishes