alfo the touch-hole, and making a conftant "fire under it, within twenty-four hours it 66 burst, and made a great crack; so that hav"ing a way to make my veffels fo that they "are ftrengthened by the force within them, "and the one to fill after the other, I have "feen the water run like a conftant fountain "ftream forty foot high. One veffel of water, "rarified by fire, driveth up forty of cold "water; and a man that tends the work is but "to turn two cocks, that one veffel of water 2 being confumed, another begins to force, and "to refill with cold water, and fo fucceffively, "the fire being tended and kept conftant, which "the felf-fame perfon may likewise abundantly "perform in the interim between the neceffity "of turning the faid cock *." * "Spare me not, my Lords and Gentlemen," fays this illuftrious Nobleman, in his Dedication to his Scantling of Inventions," in what your wifdoms fhall find me useful, "who do esteem myself, not only by the Act of the water"commanding engine, (which fo chearfully you have "paffed,) fufficiently rewarded, but likewife with courage "enabled me to do ten times more for the future; and my "debts being paid, and a competency to live according to "my wish and quality fettled, the reft I fhall dedicate to "the service of our King and Country, by your disposals; "and efteem me not the more, or rather any more, by what is paft but what is to come; profeffing really, from my heart, that my intentions are to out-go the fix or seven thousand pounds already facrificed." Two Two of the Inventions of the Marquis feem to be of most eminent utility. "XXXII. How to compofe an universal cha"racter, methodical, and easy to be written, yet intelligible in any language, fo that if an En glishman wrote it in English, a Frenchman, "Italian, Spaniard, Irishman, Welchman, (being "Scholars,) yea, Grecian, or Hebrew, fhall as perfectly understand it, in their own tongue, "as if they were perfect English, distinguishing "the verbs from nouns, the numbers, tenfes, "and cafes, as properly expreffed in their own language, as if it was written in English." "LXXXIV. An inftrument*, whereby per"fons ignorant in Arithmetic may perfectly ob"ferve numerations and substractions of all "fums and fractions." The following anecdotes of this illuftrious Nobleman, no lefs the loyal fubject of his Sovereign than the defender of the liberties of the People, are taken from a very scarce little book intitled, "Worcester's Apophthegmata, or Witty Sayings of the Right Honourable "Henry (late) Marquis of Worcester. By * An inftrument of this kind was made a few years after wards by the learned and excellent Pascal, who calls it, “ une "machine arithmetique." See Oeuvres de PASCAL. "S. B. "S. B. a conftant Observer, and no less Ad"mirer, of his Lordship's Wisdom and Loy❝alty." APOPHTH. V. "When the King (Charles the First) had' "made his repaire to Raglon Castle *, a seat of "the Marquifs of Worcester's, between Mon"mouth and Abergavenny, after the battell of Nafeby; taking occafion to thank the Mar quifs for fome monies lent to his Majesty, the "Marquis returned his Majefty this answer:"Sir, I had your word for the money, but I never thought I fhould be fo foon repayed; "for now you have given me thanks, I have all "I looked for." 1 APOPHTH. VI. "Another time the King came unto my Lord "and told him, that he thought not to have 66 stayed with his Lordship above three days, but "his occafions require his longer abode with "him, he was willing to eafe him of fo great a "burthen, as to be altogether fo heavy a charge. "unto him; and confidering it was a garrifon, "that his provifions might not be spent by fo * "The King marched from Hereford to Ragland "Caftle, belonging to the Earl of Worcester, very strong "of itself, and beautiful to behold. Here the King con"tinued three weeks." ઃઃ great a preffure, he was willing that his Lordship should have power given him to take what "provifions the country would afford for his prefent maintenance and recruit; to which "his Lordfhip made this reply: I humbly thank your Majefty, but my Caftle will not stand long if it leanes upon the countrey. I had "rather be brought to a morfel of bread, than any morfels of bread should be brought me to "entertain your Majesty." 66 APOPHTH. XIV. "The Marquifs had a mind to tell the King "(as handfomely as he could) of fome of his (as he thought) faults; and thus he contrives "his plot. Against the time that his Majesty "was wont to give his Lordship a vifit, as he commonly used to do after dinner, his Lordfhip had the book of John Gower lying be"fore him on the table. The King cafting his 66 eye upon the book, told the Marquifs that he "had never feen it before. Oh, said the Mar 66 66 quifs, it is the book of books, which if your Majefty had been well verfed in, it would "have made you a King of Kings. Why fo, 86 66 my Lord? faid the King. Why, faid the Marquifs, here is fet down how Aristotle brought up and inftructed Alexander the "Great in all the rudiments and principles be"longing to a Prince. And under the perfons "of Alexander and Ariftotle he read the King "fuch 1 "fuch a leffon, that all the ftanders-by were "amazed at the boldnefs; and the King, fup pofing that he had gone further than his text would have given him leave, asked the Marquifs if he had his leffon by heart, or whe"ther he spake out of the book. The Marquifs "replied, Sir, if you could read my heart, it may "be you may find it there; or, if your Majesty please to get it by heart, I will lend you my book; which latter proffer the King accepted "of, and did borrow it. Nay, faid the Marquifs, "I will lend it to your Majefty upon thefe con"ditions: first, that you read it; fecondly, that you make use of it. But perceiving how that "fome of the new-made Lords fretted and bit their "thumbs at certain paffages of the Marquifs's "discourse, he thought a little to please his Ma ઃઃ 66 jefty, though he displeased them the more, "who were so much difpleafed already. Protesting unto his Majefty, that no one was fo "much for the abfolute power of a King as Aristotle; defiring the book out of the King's 66 hand, he told his Majefty, that he could fhew "him a remarkable paffage to that purpose, "turning to that place that has this verse: "A King can kill, a King can save, "And more than that a King can do. |