learn certainly when and how far they ought to be pleafed. 8. It is fubmitted whether it would not be proper to distinguish the council of fix by fome parti cular habit or gown of an honourable shape and colour, to which may be added a square cap and a white wand. 9. That to prevent unmarried actreffes making away with their infants, a competent provifion be allowed for the nurture of them, who fhall for that reafon be deemed the children of the fociety; and that they may be educated according to the genius of their parents, the faid actreffes fhall declare upon oath (as far as their memory will allow) the true names and qualities of their feveral fathers. A private gentleman's fon fhall, at the public expence, be brought as a page to attend the council of fix; a more ample provifion fhall be made for the son of a poet; and a greater ftill for the fon of à critic. 10. If it be difcovered that any actress is got with child during the interludes of any play wherein fhe hath a part, it shall be reckoned neglect of her bufinefs, and the fhall forfeit accordingly. If any actor for the future fhall commit murder, except upon the stage, he fhall be left to the laws of the land; the like is to be understood of robbery and theft. In all other cafes, particularly in those for debt, it is propofed, that this, like the other courts of Whitehall and St James's, may be held a place of privilege. And whereas it has been found, that an obligation to fatisfy paltry creditors has been a difcouragement to men of letters, if any perfon of quality, or others, fhall fend for any poet or critic Critic of this fociety to any remote quarter of the town, the faid poet or critic fhall freely pafs and repals without being liable to an arreft. II. The forementioned fcheme in its feveral regulations may be supported by profits arising from every third night throughout the year. And as it would be hard to fuppofe that fo many perfons could live without any food (though from the former course of their lives a very little will be deemed fufficient), the mafters of calculation will, we believe, agree, that out of thofe profits, the said perfons might be subsisted in a fober and decent manuer. We will venture to affirm further, that not only the proper magazines of thunder and lightning, but paint, diet-drinks, spitting-pots, and all other neceffaries of life, may, in like manner, fairly be provided for. 12. If fome of the articles may at first view feem liable to objections, particularly those that give fo vaft a power to the council of fix, (which is indeed larger than any intrusted to the great officers offtate), this may be obviated, by fwearing thofe fix perfons of his Majesty's privy-council, and obliging them to pass every thing of moment previously at that molt honourable board. VIR VIRGILIUS RESTAURATUS: SEU MARTINI SCRIBLERI, fummi critici, caftigationum in Æneidem specimen. NEIDEM totam, Amice Lector, innumerabilibus pæne mendis fcaturientem, ad priftinum fenfum revocabimus. In fingulis fere verfibus fpuria occurrunt lectiones, in omnibus quos unquam vidi codicibus, aut vulgatis aut ineditis, ad opprobrium ufque criticorum, in hunc diem exiftentes. Interea adverte oculos, et his paucis fruere. At fi quæ fint in hifce caftigationibus, de quibus non fatis liquet, fyllabarum quantitates, #ęλy nostra libro ipfi præfigenda, ut confulas, moneo. I. SPECIMEN LIBRI PRIMI. VER. I. ARMA Virumque cano, Trojë qui primus ab Italiam, fato profugus, Lavinaque venit Littora. multum ille et terris jactatus et alto, Arma Virumque cano, Troja qui primus ab aris Littora. Littora. multum ille et terris vexatus et alto Ab aris, nempe Hercæi Jovis, vide lib. ii. ver. 512, 550.--Flatu, ventorum Æoli, ut fequitur--Latina certe littora cum Æneas aderat, Lavina non nifi poftea ab ipfo nominata, lib. xii. v. 193. ---Jactatus terris non convenit, II. VER. 52. Et quifquis numen Junonis adoret ? Longe melius, quam, ut antea, numen. et procul dubio fic Virgilius. III. VER. 86. Venti, velut agmine facto, Qua data porta ruunt. Venti, velut aggere fracto, Qua data porta ruunt. Sic corrige, meo periculo. IV. VER. 117. Fidumque vehebat Oroniem. Fortemque vehebat Orontem. Non fidum. quia epitheton Achate notiffimum Qronti-nunquam datur, V. VER. 119. Excutitur, pronufque magifler Volvitur in caput. Excutitur: pronufque magis ter Volvitur in caput. Aio Aio Virgilium aliter non feripfiffe, quod plane confirmatur ex fequentibus---Aft illum ter fluctus ibidem torquet. VI. VER. 122. Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto Armi hominum: Ridicule antea Arma virum, quæ, ex ferro conflata, quomodo poffunt natare? VII. VER. 151. Atque rotis fummas leviter perlabitur undas. Atque rotis fpumas leviter perlabitur udas. Summas, et leviter perlabi, pleonafmus eft: Mirifice altera lectio Neptuni agilitatem et celeritatem exprimit. fimili modo nofter de Camilla, Æn. xi, Illa vel intacte fegetis per fumma volaret, &c, hyperbolice. VIII. VER. 154, Jamque faces et faxa volant, furor arma miniftrat. Jam fæces et faxa volant, fugiuntque ministri: uti folent, inftanti periculo---Faces facibus longe præftant; quid enim nifi fæces jactarent vulgus fordidum? IX. VER. 170. Fronte fub adverfa fcopulis pendentibus antrum, Intus aquæ dulces, vivoque fedilia faxo. Fronte fub adverfa populis prandentibus antrum. Sic malim, longe potius quam fcopulis pendentibus: Nuga! |