"hum.

m

"duced a more unlucky instance of modern folly "and barbarity, than what you say of the JacuThe Cretans wifely forbid their fervants Gymnasticks, as well as Arms; and yet your "modern Footmen exercise themselves daily in "the faculum at the corner of Hyde-Park, whilst " their enervated Lords are lolling in their chariots (a fpecies of Vectitation seldom us'd amongst

the Ancients, except by old men.) You fay "well (quoth Albertus) and we have several other "kinds of Vectitation unknown to the Ancients,

particularly flying Chariots, where the people may have the benefit of this exercise at the small expence of a farthing. But fuppofe (which I readily grant) that the Ancients excelled us al"most in every thing, yet why this fingularity? your fon must take up with fuch masters as the present age affords; we have Dancing-masters, "Writing-masters, 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 Musick? "Will any of your best Hautboys encounter a "Wolf now-a-days with no other arms but their "instruments, as did that ancient piper Pythocha"ris? Have ever wild Boars, Elephants, Deer, 'Dolphins, Whales or Turbots, fhew'd the least "emotion at the most elaborate strains of your mo,

Ariftot, politic. lib. ii. cap. 3. P.

"dern Scrapers, all which have been, as it were, “tamed and humanized 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 modest 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 degene<< racy of our Morals? Is it not from the loss of "ancient Mufick, by which (fays Ariftotle) they

taught all the Virtues? Elfe might we turn Newgate "into a College of Dorian Muficians, who should "teach moral Virtues to those people. Whence "comes it that our present diseases are so stub"born? whence is it that I daily deplore my fcia "tical pains? Alas! because we have loft their "true cure, by the melody of the Pipe. All this " was well known to the Ancients, as° Theophra"ftus affures us, (whence P Cælius calls it loca do

૧

lentia decantare) only indeed some small remains "of this skill are preferved in the cure of the Ta"rantula. 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

"Elian Hift. Animal. lib. xi. cap. 18. and lib. xii. cap. 44. P.

о

Athenæus, lib. xiv. P. P Lib. de fanitate tuenda, cap. 2. P. • Quintilian, lib. i. cap. 10. P.

a

want art to defend their windows from common "Nickers. It is well known that when the Lace"dæmonian Mob were up, they commonly fent "for a Lesbian Mufician to appeafe them, and they immediately grew calm as foon as they heard "Terpander fing: Yet I don't believe that the ic Pope's whole band of Mufick, though the best "of this age, could keep his Holiness's Image from being burnt on a fifth of November. Nor "would Terpander himself (reply'd 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 warmly) and to prove it fo, I have here a "fmall Lyra of my own, fram'd, ftrung, and "tun'd after the ancient manner. I can play "fome fragments of Lesbian tunes, and I wish I ** were to try them upon the most paffionate crea"tures alive."--" You never had a better oppor tunity (fays Albertus) for yonder are two Ap'ple-women fcolding, and juft ready to uncoif one another." With that Cornelius, undrefs'd as he was, jumps out into his Balcony, his Lyra in hand, in his flippers, with his breeches hanging down to his ankles, a ftocking upon his head, and a wastcoat of murrey-coloured fattin upon his

a Suidas in Timotheo. P.

Horneck, a fcurrilous Scribler, who wrote a weekly paper, called the High German Doctor. P.

the veri på at on the or female Champions,

this, he retired with the utmost Exultation in himself, and Contempt of his Brother; and, it is said, behaved that night with fuch unusual haughtiness. to his family, that they all had reason to wish for fome ancient Tibicen to calm his Temper.

CHAP. VII.

Rhetorick, Logick, and Metaphyficks.

C

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 inftruct him in Rhetorick. But herein we shall not need to give the Reader any account of his wonderful progress, fince it is already known to the learned world by his Treatife on this subject: I mean the admirable Difcourfe Пe Balss, which he wrote at this time, but conceal'd from his Father, knowing his extremne 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 Logic and Metaphyficks.