Stood WHISPERING SOFT, by a fresh fountain's fide well as the lark's matin fong from the beginning of the fifth Book: THE SHRILL MATIN SONG Of birds on every bough 6. Perplex'd with irkfome thoughts] ibly from the following description of the fallen Angels: each his feveral way Pursues, as inclination or fad choice Leads him PERPLEX'D, where he may likelieft find Truce to his RESTLESS THOUGHTS, and entertain 75 Now, now's the time; ere hafty funs forbid 84. a flexile fallow entrench'd, Rounding, capacious of the juicy hord.] 80 85 Spenfer in his FAERY QUEEN, B. ii. C. 2., where he characterises the different forts of trees, defcribes the Sallow (we may suppose, from its flexibility) as particularly useful in mills the SALLOW for the mill. The trough of the Cider-mill, at the time Philips wrote, was very frequently made of wood: though Worlidge (who published his treatife on Cider in the year 1678) defcribes the Trough of the Horse-Mill as always made of ftone.-Indeed a Mill with a wooden trough is now rarely to be met with in any part of the county of Hereford. As the form and ftructure of Cider-mills, that are worked by horses, is not generally known, there being fome counties where only handmills are used, in which the fruit is merely torn in pieces, and not really ground fo as to ftand a chance of making any good Cider; it may not be improper here to infert a description of the best-conftructed Cidermill now in ufe. "A Cider-mill confifts of aftone wheel" (the grinder of Philips), "pro"vincially a 'runner,' somewhat in the shape of a corn mill-ftone, running "on its edge in a circular stone trough, provincially, the chace.'-The "fize of the runner varies from two and a half to four and a half feet diameter, and from nine to twelve inches in thickness; which, in general, is even, like that of a grindstone: not varying like that of a mill"ftone: the weight one or two tons.-The bottom of the chace is "fomewhat wider than the runner, that this may run freely. The 86 "inner 66 the trough partly hollowed, at the quarry; leaving a few inches e edge of each ftone uncut out, as a bond to prevent its breaking arriage.-Much depends on the quality of the ftone. It ought not e calcarious in whole, or in part; as the acid of the liquor would ode it. Nor fhould it be fuch as will communicate a disagreeable e to the liquor. A clean-grained grindstone grit is the fittest for purpose. The runner is moved by means of an axle paffing ugh the centre with a long arm reaching without the bed of mill, for a horfe to draw by; and with a fhort one paffing to an ght fwivel" (the sturdy poft Cylindric of our Author), turning i a pivot, in the centre of the ftone; and steadied at the top, by ring a bearing of the floor above. An iron bolt, with a large , paffes through an eye in the lower part of the fwivel, into the of the inner arm of the axis. Thus the requifite double motion btained, and the ftone kept perfectly upright (which it ought to with great fimplicity, and without ftrefs to any part of the ma-On the inner arm of the axis, about a foot from the runner, xed (or ought to be, though it is frequently wanting) a cogged el, working in a circle of cogs, fixed upon the bed of the mill. e ufe of thefe wheels is to prevent the runner from sliding; to ch it is liable, when the mill is full; the matter, when nearly und, rifing up in a body before the ftone. Befides, by affifting rotatory motion of the ftone, it renders the work more easy to horse. These wheels require to be made with great exactness; in a country, where carpenters are unaccustomed to them, a 1-wright fhould be employed in fixing them." e. above defcription of a Cider-mill is taken from Mr. Marshall's vations on the Orchards and Fruit Liquor of Herefordshire, annexed Rural Economy of Glocefterfbire, published in 1789.-It may not proper to remark, that fome of the moft intelligent Ciderifts of ordfhire have expreffed a wish, that Mr. Marshall (with so much P accuracy ment as he has difplayed on the fubject) had not conchiefly to the extremity of their county, but had found o pursue them in the interior parts of it. -In the large Stone Cider-Mill, they entirely agree with him, the most powerful, yet invented for grinding the rind are generally allowed to impart the valuable qualities nd flavor to Cider. goat's fhaggy beard.-] were formerly kept in Herefordshire, it is poffible that metimes made of goat's hair. They are now made air. -But we may here trace our Poet to his gic. interea BARBAS INCANA QUE MENTA ONDENT HIRCI, SETASQUE COMANTES. V. 311. ard.] name of Rinaldo's Horfe, in Ariofto's ORLANDO meet with "Blind Bayards" in Britain's Rememn eight Cantos, by George Wither, written upon oce, which raged in London, in the year 1625. each man valiant, who dare die, - heat of youth, or wine, or paffion CANTO ii. P. be 61. Ed. 1628. 12mo. been defcribed as one "whofe name would have otten, if it had not been preferved by Swift, as "a term two charming P humous fame of (whofe fine tafte nently diftingu which were pri tions, which are obfervations, a appear that he of it, but in the The Editor th his Readers, by challenge compa or modern poetry A crying God's ge His brow Methoug Afraid w My foul Where w There Her arch Until her Above th Conveyin Thofe ra And all t Within t In this From wh See diftinguish him) published Extracts from Wither's Fuvenilia, were printed in 1785, for J. SEWELL, Cornhill. The Selecwhich are highly judicious, and accompanied with very excellent ations, are chiefly made from his Lyrical Pieces; nor does it that he had feen Britain's Remembrancer, as he takes no notice but in the general lift of the works of Wither. Editor therefore takes the liberty to trefpafs on the patience of aders, by inferting one fpecimen of that Poem, which may, perhaps, nge comparison with any instance of the Otos año unxavas in antient dern poetry. it prov'd My foul was rais'd above her common station, In this large room of ftate is fix'd a throne, upon * See Grainger's Biographical Dictionary, Art. WITHER. P 2 His |