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C^Mi. O Mr, he gidu by t hair In batf.
rut. Nay, more 111 •tend to't. Foi, wbeie be vas wont to get In, bnngrjr Captains, obacure Stateimen.
Cpmi. FeUowa To diink with taim in a darlc toom in a taTcrn, And eat a nwaage.
Fill. We ha' aeen't;
Cpmi. As fain. To keep so many politick pens, Goinf; to feed the press.
rut. And dish out News, Were 't true or false.
Cymi. Now all that charge is saVd The pabUck Chronicler.
Fill. How do yon call htm there I
Cgmi. And gentle reader.
FUl. He that has the maidenhead or all the books.
C^md. Yes, dedicated to liim.
Fitt. Or rather prostituted.
P. jun. You are right. Sir.
C^mi. No more sliall be abns'd, nor Country Parsons O* the Inquisition, nor busy Justices Trooble the peace, and Iwth torment fliemaelTes And their poor ign'rant neighlxHira with inqoliles After the many and most innocent monsters. That never came 'i th' Counties they were cliarg'd with.
P. juH. Why, metliinks. Sir, if the honest common people Win be abus'd, why should not they ha' their pleasure. In the believing lyes, are made for them ; As you i' tb' Office, making them themselves ?
FUt. O Sir ! it is the printing we oppose.
Cymb. We not forbid that any News be made. Bat that 't \it printed; for, when News is printed. It leaves. Sir, to be News, while 'tis but written—
Fitt. Though It be ne're so false, it runs News still.
P.jun. See divers men's opinions 1 nntosome The very printing of them makes them News; That ba' not the heart to believe anything. But what they see in prini.
Fitt. I, ttiat's an error Has abus'd many : but we shall reform it. As many things beside (we have a hope) Are crept among the popular abuses.
Ctpnb. Nor shall the Stationer cheat * upon the time. By battering over againt —
Fitt. Once in seven years. As the age doats —
Cymb. And grows forgetful o' them— His antiquated pamphlets, with new dates. Bat all shall come from the mint.
Fitt. Fresh and newstamp'd,
Cgmb. With the OfBce-seal, staple commodity.
Fitt. And if a man will assure bis News, he may : Twopence a sheet he shall tie warranted. And have a policy for t."
P. jtm. What are yonr present Clerk's liabilities ) flow is be qualified ■
Cgmi. A decay'd Stationer He was, but knows News well ; can sort and rank 'em. .
Fitt. And for a need can make 'em.
Cymb. True Paul's bred, I' the church-yard.
1635, Aug. Count de Tilly, the celebrated Austrian geneial, who is equally known for his military talents and for the frightful scenes of pillage and massacre which marked the course of his army, during the thirty years war in Germany, sent to the deputies of the circle of Lower Saxony, at Brunswick, for them to exert all their authority peremptorily to forbid all
- In a note to the reader, Ben Jonson speaks of the
Times News as a weekly cheat to draw money, which " could not be fitter reprehended, than in raising this ridiculous office of the Staple, wherein the age may see her own folly, or hunger and thirst after published Pamphlets of News, set out every Saturday, but made all at home, and no syllable of trnth in them j than which there cannot be a greater disease in nature, or a fooler scorn put upon the times."
t This aUudes, no doubt, to Nathaniel Butter, the great newspaper-monger.
writers and printers from speaking in an im> proper manner of the imperial troops, and in> flaming men's minds by such publications. In answer to this order, among other things, the printers returned these words : " if bis excellency will seriously exert himself to restrain the sm- diery from inhumanly wicked actions, all such publications will soon die away." No further notice was taken by the general. He was de- feated by Gustavus Adolphus at Leipsic, August 28, 1631, and died at Ingoldstadt, April 30, 1632.
1626, Feb. A second newspaper of weekly news, printed at London for Mercurius Brit- tanicus, entitled, Imperial and Spanith Newe$, a small 4to. of 14 pages.
1626. The first Latin work printed in Ireland, is supposed to have been sir James Ware's ArchtepucofMTum Castilietulwn et Tvamennum Vilae, duobtu expmsae Commentariolii. Dublin, 4to. Sir James Ware was born at Dublin, November 26, 1604, and died in that city, De- cember 1, 1666.
It is asserted in the Nouveau Dictiontutire Huiorique, printed at Lyons, in 1804, that archbishop Usher's publication of GoUetchalchi, &c. lilerse, 4to., Dublin, 1631, is the fint Latin book printed in Ireland. The Hittory of Got- tetchalau, and the Predettinarian Doctrine stirred by him." He was a monk of the abbey of Orbais, in the beginning of the ninth century, and was whipped and imprisoned, because he would not recant many things condemned by councils against his doctrines, which he never held.
1626. Died, Claude Morel, son of Frederic Morel, noticed at page 376, ante, a Parisian printer of considerable eminence. He was a member of the " societas librEtrioruin and typo- graphorum," formed with a ^cial view to the publication of voluminous Greek works. In this character, he was both employed in the im- pression of, and had the chief concern in editing, many folio editions of the Greek fathers, and other sumptuous editions, undertaken at the expense of the society. Claude Morel left three sons, viz., Charles, Olaude, and Giles, concern- ing whom little more is recorded, than that the first and third also signalized themselves in the typographical profession.
1&6. Died,PiLVi. Stephens, son of the second Henry. He was born probably in or about the year 1566; and received his education chiefly at Geneva, and as it is supposed, in the house of his father, whose parenttj solicitude in his behalf is pleasingly evinced by an epistle prefixed to the Noctet Attica of Aulus Gellius, printed by Henry, Paritiis, 1689. When Paul had com- pleted his juvenile studies, he began at an early age to travel ; and after the example of his father, visited various seats of learning, and formed an intimacy with some of the most eminent scholars of the age ; which he was care- ful afterwards to cherish and increase. The periods of his different excursions in pursuit of knowledge and improvement, cannot at present be accurately defined: but it appears, that at
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