are less remarkable for their architecture, than for their size and decorations: their spacious courts and porticos, their halls and lofty apartments, with the pillars, the marble, the statues, and the paintings, that place them on a level with royal residences in the north of Europe. The Palazzo Doria is one of the finest, presenting three large fronts, enclosing a spacious court. Its stair-case, supported by light pillars of oriental granite, leads to a magnificent picture gallery. The Palazzo Ruspoli has a still finer staircase, consisting of four flights, of thirty steps each, each step being composed of a single piece of marble, nearly ten feet long and two broad. The Corsini palace is also remarkable for its size, its furniture, and its gardens. The Palazzo Farnese occupies one side of a handsome square. Twelve massive pillars of Egyptian granite support the vestibule; three ranges of arcades rise one above the other around a spacious court; and noble apartments follow. The Palazzo Costaguti and Palazzo Mattei are chiefly rich in paintings. The Borghese palace is remarkable for its porticoes, its columns, and its antiques. In the Palazzo Spada stands the celebrated statue of Pompey, at the foot of which Cæsar is supposed to have fallen. The Barberini palace has been much improved by the present prince, but serves chiefly to remind the reflecting Protestant of the wretched policy by which the illegitimate children and nephews of the popes have been formerly enriched. Here once reigned the famous beauty and humorist, Cecca Buffona, the mistress of cardinal Francisco Barberini, whose impudicity caused her to be publicly whipped in the streets of Rome.

Rome, like most other Catholic cities, is well supplied with inferior and antiquated hospitals. The largest, the Spedale di St. Spirito, is open indiscriminately to the poor of both sexes, the insane, and to foundlings. That of St. Michele is appropriated to the education of the children of the poor, but it receives likewise the sick and the aged. Here is also a house of correction.

The most splendid villas of Rome, as that of the Borghese, Farnesina, &c., are situated within the walls. The first was built by cardinal Scipio Borghese, the nephew of Paul V.; and, with its gardens and lake, occupies a space of nearly three miles in circumference. The interior is filled with antique and modern sculpture, pictures, and mosaics without, its grounds are covered with casinos, temples, citadels, aviaries, and all that a gorgeous and false taste, with wealth beyond calculation, could crowd together: Montfaucon says there is nothing better worth seeing in Rome.

The villa Pamfili-Doria, one of the finest in the neighbourhood of Rome, was erected in the seventeenth century, by the nephew of the Pamfili pope Innocent X., whose extravagant passion for his sister-in-law, Donna Olimpia Maldachini, is one of the most notable traits in his life. The grounds, woods, and gardens are truly delicious: the palace itself has all the generic features of such edifices, and is filled with pictures and statues, dreary and neglected.

The Villa Albani, raised in the middle of the last century by the late cardinal, and belonging

to the present cardinal Albani, is, according to lady Morgan, the most perfect and freshest of all Roman villas. It looks like some pure and elegant Grecian temple-a little Pantheon! dedicated to all the rural gods, with whose statues (the most perfect specimens of antiquities) its marble colonnades and galleries are filled. It might be deemed too ideal for a human habitation; yet is sufficiently commodious to be one; and, of all other villas, this alone realizes the preconceived image of fervid fancies of a true Italian villa. Its walls are encrusted with bassorelievoes-its corridors grouped with fauns and nymphs-its ceilings all azure and gold-its saloons perfumed by breezes, loaded with the odors of orange-flowers. Its gardens, studded with temples, command a view, terminated by a waving line of acclivities, whose very names are poetry. When I visited it, a distant blue mist veiled the intervening wastes of the Campagna, and the dews and lights of morning lent their freshness and lustre to a scene and fabric such as Love might have chosen for his Psyche when he bore her from the wrath of Venus. But, when the first glimpse of this vision faded, the true character of the Roman villa came forth; for artichokes and cabbages were flourishing amidst fauns and satyrs, that seemed chiselled by a Praxiteles! The eminentissimo padrone of this splendid villa rarely visits its wonders but in the course of a morning drive: and his gardens are hired out to a Roman marketman, to raise vegetables during the spring and winter. In summer even the custode vacates his hovel, and the Villa Albani is left in the undisputed possession of that terrible scourge of Roman policy and Roman crimes-the Mal-aria; the causes and effects all morally connected, and the strictest poetical justice every where visible.'

Rome contains, beside its celebrated Propaganda Fide, several literary associations, as the Arcadian academy, the archæological, the academia Tiberiana, the academy of the fine arts. A monthly publication, partaking of the nature of a review and magazine, appears under the title of Giornale Arcadico de Scienze, letere, ed arti; and, since 1819, there has been published weekly a Giornale encyclopedico, containing chiefly translations on scientific subjects, along with some pieces of poetry. Of the libraries of Rome, the largest, after the Vatican, are the Augustines', the Dominicans', and those of the Barberini, Chigi, Colonna, and Corsini families; that of Collegio Romano has a museum of antiquities and cabinet of natural history. The university library is called, from its founder, pope Alexander VII., the Alexandrine library; and the library del Emo contains a collection of medals and mathematical instruments, together with a museum.

In 1817 the inhabitants of Rome amounted to 130,000, a number which seems to have formed, with little variation, its population for about a century. Of these, no fewer than 9000 are said to be Jews, who are restricted to a particular quarter, the gates of which are closed every night. This place is very dirty, but a similar charge may be made against all modern Rome. The number of inhabitants connected

with the church, as priests, monks, or nuns, is computed at another 8000. The manufacturing establishments, though small, are in considerable variety, viz. woollens, silks, velvets, hats, gloves, stockings, liquors, pommade, and artificial flowers. Rome has a bank, and Monte di Pieta, or house for advancing money on deposited goods. Its foreign trade is limited to imports of colonial articles, and a few manufactured goods: its exports consist of the produce of the adjacent country, viz. olive oil, alum, vitriol, puzzuolano sand, anise, &c.

No part of the world has been more agitated by the French revolution and its consequences none perhaps so much improved-as modern Rome. Its nobles were, at the latter end of the sixteenth century, a race of banditti: laying waste their native city, and carrying desolation and rain into the bosom of domestic life. The people, always insurgents or slaves, were the most demoralised of Italy; and though the dark and cruel despotism of the clever Sixtus V., whose love of blood induced him to envy Elizabeth the cutting off of Mary's head, stemmed for a time the torrent of iniquities, and broke for ever the spirit of the Roman barons, yet at his death the people were but the more debased by the loss of their ferocity. During succeeding periods, on the testimony of all travellers, the civil and religious state of Rome was an anomaly in human society. The court of the Quirinal, like that of France under Louis XIII. and XIV., was directed by the intrigues of priests and courtiers: the cardinals governed by cabal, and all places were disposed of through their mistresses and their laquais. The princes or patricians, rich, idle, ignorant, and avaricious, were surrounded by dependents and parasites, the indigent followers of rank and opulence: the people, without domestic habits, lived like the commoners of nature, satisfied if bread and church ceremonies sustained life and amused it. The parasite came after the prince, and the beggar after the saint. The women of all ranks, divided into vestals and concubines, were either shut up in a convent, or let loose upon society, the mistresses of authorised paramours, and the wives of other women's lovers. The passions of all classes were unsubdued by education, unrestrained by law. Murder had its price, from a basket of figs to a purse of gold; and the murderer his asylum, from the high altar of the church to the cabinet of the palace. Assassination was a deed of nightly occurrence. In the midst of all this corruption of private manners, the inquisition placed its sbirri upon the intellect of the whole population. The capital punishments were barbarous, but rarely inflicted; and if the people sometimes suffered the torture, or submitted to the estrapado, they, in their turn, occasionally hung up a cardinal, or derided the vices of the conclave and the pontiff, through the medium of Pasquino. In 1786 cardinal Tortona so exasperated the people by his cruelties, in his office of grand inquisitor, that they dragged him from his carriage, and hung him on a gibbet in the street.

As there was no internal police, the public depended on the works of the Tarquins and the

Cæsars for their few accommodations: and the conduits for water, miraculously constructed during the darkest ignorance on the subject of hydraulics, were at the end of twenty centuries, and are still, the principal means of purification afforded for cleansing a city, which seems to have benefited but little by the advantages lent it by antiquity. The Cloaca Maximæ obtrude their neglected openings in vain; and streets lined with palaces, and palaces walled with marbles, have even now few sewers to carry off their accumulated filth.

Before Italy was conquered, Rome entered into the revolutionary projects of France. Hugo de Basseville, a man of letters and talent, was chosen by the national convention to sound the disposition of those who were no longer the population worked on by the eloquence of the monk Arnoldo, or the tribune Rienzi. Pius VI., who had refused to acknowledge the French republic, watched with jealous vigilance the motions of this emissary; and de Basseville affected to be occupied with the interests of the French academy at Rome. At length an imprudence on the part of de Basseville called forth the public opinion. After a dinner, given by him to the young men of the French academy, de Basseville drove with his wife and son to the Corso, permitting his footmen to mount the tricolored cockade. This was the signal of tumult. The street was accidentally or designedly filled with the common people and Trasteverini! A dreadful riot arose: de Basseville in vain sought to save himself by taking shelter at his banker's; he was pursued by the mob, and murdered. The first stab was given by a soldier of the pontifical guard. The French academy was next attacked and pillaged; the houses of foreigners were plundered; and, during the tumult, the virgin, whose name was the mot d'ordre, was seen in several of the churches to open her eyes (lest the people should open theirs), and to give testimony of the part she took in this crusade to her honor. But if, in 1793, an emissary of the convention was assassinated in Rome, in 1797 the Gauls of the eighteenth century had passed the Rubicon, conquered Romagna, the duchy of Urbino, and tht Marsh of Ancona. The murder of general Duphot at Rome, under the eyes of the accredited ambassador of France, urged on the fate of the Niobe of Nations.' The military occupation of Rome followed, and the proud capital of the world became a French province, by the name of the department of the Tiber!

Whatever reform, or feature of change, may be found in the circles of Roman society, belongs almost exclusively to the Cittadini of the best description, including persons of liberal profession, artists, some of the employés, and the mercanti di campagna, or gentlemen farmers or agriculturists, whose landed property has grown out of the sales of the church estates during the Revolution; and who, though chiefly resident at Rome, live by the produce of their farms. If something of cleanliness and order is visible in a Roman ménage, if stairs are found lighted at night, and rooms look not dirty by day, the innovation on ancient manners is only to be found in the dwellings of this respectable class.

It is in this class also that what little social intercourse is kept up at Rome is most frequent. It was this class that chiefly participated in the benefits of the recent changes; and they look back to the past with a regret in which personal interests and self-love may have no inconsider able influence. While the Roman shopkeeper (who lolls and lounges in his bulk all day, and asks a price à capriccio for his French and British wares), seeks his recreation at the pulicorda or the comic opera; while the inferior dealer knows no enjoyment beyond stuffing, with twenty others, into a hired calesh, on Sunday noons, and driving through the hot and dirty streets, per fare il pizzacarolo,' the cittadini have more refined sources of recreation; they hold a musical academia in each other's houses, or assemble to assist at a tragedia alla tavola' (the reading round a table some favorite tragedy of Alfieri or Monti); or, if the higher order, they attend the conversazione of some mezza dama, or half lady; a class of provincial nobility, who come from the cities of La Marca, or the legations, to pass the winter at Rome, and who, if permitted by courtesy to visit a signora principessa, are never presumed to be of her circle, nor admitted to the house of such ambassadors as rightly undersiand the true Roman dignità!'

ROMFORD, a market town of Essex, situated on the road from London to Colchester; seventeen miles south-west of Chelmsford, and twelve E. N. E. of London. This town is supposed by Stukeley to occupy the site of the Roman station Durolitum, and he conjectures that its present name is a contraction for Romanford, in which opinion he is supported by Mr. Lethieullier. Lysons, however, derives it from the Saxon words Rom and Ford (the BroadFord), in allusion to an ancient ford over a rivulet which flows past the western extremity of the town. Romford is first mentioned in the red book of the exchequer; where it is said that, in 1166, Roger Bigod, duke of Norfolk, held the wood of Romford by serjeancy, and payment of 5s. a-year. It is next noticed in 1277, at which time the manor formed part of the possessions of Adam de Cretingy. It afterwards passed to Thomas de Brotherton, earl of Norfolk, from whom it descended by marriage to the Mowbrays, dukes of Norfolk; but on the death of John, the fourth duke, without male issue, in 1477, it became vested in James lord Berkeley. The town of Romford consists chiefly of one long street running along the high road. Near the middle of the town stands the market-house and town-hall which were repaired in 1768, at the expense of the crown. The church, which is a chapel of Hornchurch, is an ancient structure, probably erected about the commencement of the fifteenth century, when the inhabitants obtained a bull from the pope, authorising them to consecrate a cemetery adjoining the town, for the burial of their dead, who had previously been carried to Hornchurch burying-ground. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Edward the

fatuous as an Indian fakeer, and sunk in the dusky niche of its splendid sty, vegetates the Roman patrician, or prince of the empire! The morning is lounged away by the heir of the Gregories and the Clements in a dusty great coat (the modern Roman toga), rarely changed at any season of the day for a better garb. An early, but not a princely dinner, follows; succeeded by the siesta and the Corso, a funereal drive in a long narrow street, relieved in summer by a splashy course in the Piazza Navona. The prima sera is passed in some noble palace, where, at the end of a long suite of unlighted rooms, sits the signora principessa, twinkling her eyes before a solitary lamp, or pair of candles, whose glimmer is scarce visible in the gloomy space, which a fire never cheers; while the caldanini, whose embers have expired in the atmosphere of her petticoat, is presented to the most distinguished of her visitors; and such a conversation ensues as minds without activity or resource may be supposed to supply: a sermon of the popular preacher, Padre Pacifico, if it be Lent; a cecisbio faithless or betrayed, if at the carnival, fill up the time till the opera commences, or until the only two genuine Roman houses open to society in Rome light up their Rouge et noir tables, the sole object for which company is received or for which company go.'

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Confessor, and consists of a nave, chancel, and north aisle, with a tower at the west end. In the east window of the chancel is a whole length on glass of Edward the Confessor. Not far from the church is a charity-school for forty boys, and another for twenty girls, founded and endowed in 1728; and at a short distance from the western end of the town are barracks for the accommodation of a regiment of cavalry, erected in 1795. Romford is governed by a bailiff and wardens, who, though forming no corporation, are empowered by letters patent to hold a weekly court for the trial of all causes, whether civil or criminal, high treason itself not excepted. privilege of holding a weekly 'market was first granted to the inhabitants by king Henry III. To the westward, about two miles, lies Hainault Forest, in which is a very remarkable tree, called Fairlop-oak, which Gilpin informs us, in his Remarks on Forest Scenery, is traced by tradition half way up the Christian era.' 'It is thirty-six feet in girt near the base or root, and spreads its branches over a circumference of 300 feet. Round the Fairlop-oak, on the first Friday in July, is held an annual fair. Markets on Monday for hogs, Tuesday for calves, sheep, and lambs, and Wednesday for corn, cattle, poultry, butchers' meat, &c.

ROMILLY (Sir Samuel), K. C., an eminent modern chancery advocate, was the son of a jeweller, of French extraction, who carried on business in Frith Street, Soho. Here he was born, March 1st, 1757, and, receiving a private education, was placed in the office of a solicitor, which he quitted to study for the bar, to which he was called in 1783. His chief practice was long confined to draughts in equity, but he gradually

rose to distinction in court, and agreeing in his general politics with the whigs, during the administration of Mr. Fox and lord Grenville, he was appointed solicitor-general. In parliament he was highly distinguished by his talent in debate, and particularly by the eloquence with which he pleaded for a revision of the criminal code, with a view to the limitation of capital punishment. On this subject he also composed a very able pamphlet. Sir Samuel also published a remonstrance against the creation of the office of vice-chancellor; and was in the height of his popularity, when a nervous disorder, produced by grief at the death of his lady, seems to have deprived him of reason, and in a fit of temporary frenzy he terminated his existence, November 2d, 1818.

ROMNEY, OLD, a market town of Kent, once a place of note, and a sea-port at the mouth of the Rother, but the river having changed its course to Rye, and the sea having receded, it has long since fallen to decay. Here is an old church in the massive circular style.

ROMNEY, NEW, a borough and market town of Kent, seven miles south-west from Hithe, and seventy-one and a half south-east from London. This place, though not so ancient as Old Romney, is recorded to have been a flourishing town at the time of the conquest, having had five parishes. The town consists chiefly of one broad, well-paved street, intersected by another smaller one. St. Nicholas' church is an ancient structure, consisting of three aisles and three chancels, with a square tower at the western extremity. The charitable institutions of the town are an hospital and a school-house. The markethouse is a modern building, standing in the main street. The chief trade of this place is grazing cattle on Romney Marsh. This marsh is a rich tract of land of about 50,000 acres, defended from the encroachments of the sea, by an embankment three miles in length, twenty feet high, twenty feet broad at the top, and nearly 300 at the bottom. Towards the sea it is defended by piles and stakes, at an expense of about £4000 per annum, which is raised by an assessment on the proprietors of the marsh. This is called Dymchurch Wall, along which there is a good road for carriages. The corporation consists of a mayor, twelve jurats, chamberlain, recorder, town-clerk, &c., and is one of the cinque-ports, though its harbour has long been destroyed; the hall, where the courts of the Cinque-Ports are held, is near the church. It sends two members to parliament, the right of election being in the mayor, who is returning officer, jurats, and commonalty. Market-day, Thursday.

ROMNEY (George), a modern painter, was born in Lancashire, in 1734. After an attempt of his father to settle him in trade, he was placed with an artist, and in 1762 came to London. In 1765 he gained a prize from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Sciences, for a picture of the Death of King Edmund, and in 1773 went to Italy for two years. On his return he enjoyed the most uninterrupted success in his profession, painting in one year portraits to the amount of £3635. He also gave illustrations of Boydell's Shakspeare. Romney died in 1802. VOL. XIX.

He is not always happy in blending his shades, particularly in his back-grounds, but his style of coloring is broad and simple, and in his flesh he was very successful.

ROMP, n. s. Fr. ramper. To gambol; a rude, boisterous, playful girl: to play rudely or boisterously.

She was in the due mean between one of your affected courtesying pieces of formality, and your romps, that have no regard to the common rules of civility.

Arbuthnot. In the kitchen, as in your proper element, you can laugh, squall, and romp in full security. Swift. Romp loving miss

Thomson. Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Men presume on the liberties taken in romping. Clarissa.

ROMSEY, or RUMSEY, a market town and parish of Hampshire, eight miles N. N. W. of Southampton, and seventy-four west by south of London. It is situated on the little river Test, which falls into Southampton Bay, and was formerly noted for its monastery of Benedictines, founded by king Edgar, and of which the daughter of king Stephen was an abbess. The church, formerly belonging to the monastery, is a noble edifice, built in the form of a cross, and arched with stone in the Saxon style; it contains several curious monuments. Besides the church, there is a meeting house for Presbyterians; an almshouse for six widows; a charity-school, and a free-school. There is also a town-hall, and an audit-house, below which are accommodations for the market people. The corporation consists of a mayor, recorder, six aldermen, and twelve capital burgesses. The principal. trade of the town is in shalloons, sacking, and paper, and it has been noted for the excellence of its ale. The market, on Saturday, is a good corn market.

ROMULUS, the son of Rhea Silvia, the founder and first king of Rome. See ROME. On a medal of Antoninus Pius, he appears like Mars Gradivus, with a spear in one hand, and a trophy on the opposite shoulder. It is very probable that several of the supposed figures of Mars, with a trophy so placed, belong rather to Romulus, who was the inventor of trophies among the Romans.

The whole story of the birth of this hero is represented in a relievo at the villa Mellini in Rome. It is divided into four compartments. In the first Mars is going to Rhea as she sleeps by the Tiber. In the second she is sitting with her twins in her lap, whilst Amulius seems to be upbraiding her. In the third the two infants, Romulus and Remus, are exposed on the banks of the river; and the fourth represents them as cherished by the wolf, whilst Faustulus stands surprised at their strange situation. This work is but indifferent; however, the particulars of it are to be met with in other works of better ages. The descent of Mars to Rhea is not uncommon; and the circumstance of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the wolf is very common on medals, gems, and statues.

RONALDSEY, NORTH, the most northern island of Orkney, two miles long, and one broad; six miles north of Sandy. The surface is flat, the soil sand, and clay. The coasts af

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ford sea ware, from which many tons of kelp are made annually.

RONALDSEY, SOUTH, the most southern island of Orkney, about six miles long, and three broad; bounded by the German Ocean on the east, by the Pentland Frith on the south and west, and by the Ferry of Water Sound, which separates it from Burray, on the north. The climate is excellent; the surface is pretty level; the soil various, but fertile. It has several good harbours, which will admit ships of 600 tons, as Widewall Bay on the west, and St. Margaret's Hope on the north. It is much frequented by lobster smacks. This island has three headlands; viz. Barsick, Halero, and Stoic's Head. RONCESVALLES, a valley in the province of Navarre, Spain, between Pampeluna and St. Jean Pied du Port, surrounded by mountains, one of which, the Ronceval, is among the highest of the Pyrenees. This valley is celebrated for the defeat of Charlemagne by Loup, duke of Gascony, assisted by the Saracens. A pillar erected on the spot, in commemoration of the victory, was destroyed by the French in 1794. The small town of this name is fourteen miles N. N. E. of Pampeluna.

RONDA, a large but uninteresting town of Granada, Spain, except in respect to its situation. This is most romantic, and its natural curiosities are not few. It stands on the summit of a rocky mountain, divided by a deep ravine or fissure, which winds around the town, the river rushing along its bottom. This ravine is full of abrupt cliffs and crags, lightly covered with earth: over the fissure there are two bridges, each of a single arch: one is at the height of 120 feet above the water, the other at that of 280 feet! This arch is 110 feet in span, and supported by pillars of masonry from the bottom of the river. Seen from this elevation, the Guadiaro is dwindled to a brook. Hardly any scene can be more striking than the view from below this bridge, of part of the houses and spires of the town, which seem to overhang the spectator. The public walk is paved with marble, and bordered with vine branches in trellises, which in hot weather afford an agreeable shade. Leather, and silk stuffs are manufactured here, and the environs are well cultivated, and fertile in corn, wine, and oil. Inhabitants 20,000. The plain abounds in cattle, and the hills in game. The Sierra de Ronda, a chain of mountains which takes its name from this town, is of considerable height, and extends all the way to Gibraltar. About a league south-east of the town is the Cresta de Gallo, so called from the supposed resemblance to a cock's comb. It is frequently the first land discerned at sea, on approaching

Cadiz, and contains mines of iron, tin, and lead. RONDELETIA, in botany, a genus of the monogynia order, and pentandria class of plants; COR. funnel-shaped: CAPS. bilocular, inferior, and polyspermous, roundish, and crowned. Species eleven, natives of the West Indies.

RONDE, RHONDE ISLAND, or REDONDA, one of the Grenadines, or dependencies of the island of Grenada, in the West Indies; situate about mid-way between Cariacou or Cariovacou, and the north end of Grenada, about six miles

north of Grenada, and eleven south-west of Cariovacou. It contains about 500 acres of land applied to pasturage, and the cultivation of cotton. Long. 61° 39′ W., lat. 12° 19′ N.

RON'DLE, n. s. From round. A round mass. Certain rondles given in arms, have their names according to their several colours. Peacham. RONION, n. s. fat bulky woman.

Fr. rognon, the loins. A

Give me, quoth I;

Aroint thee, witch, the rump fed ronyon cries. Shakspeare.

RONSARD (Peter) de, a French poet, born in Vendomois, in 1524. He was descended of a noble family, and was educated in Paris in the college of Navarre. He then became page to the duke of Orleans, and afterwards to king James V. Ronsard continued in Scotland with king James upwards of two years, and afterwards went to France, where he was employed by the duke of Orleans in several negociations. He accompanied Lazarus de Baif to the diet of Spires, and studied the Greek language with his son under Dorat. He cultivated poetry with such success that he acquired the appellation of the Prince of the Poets of his time. Henry II., Francis II., Charles IX., and Henry III. loaded him with favors. Having gained the first prize of the Jeux Floraux, the city of Thoulouse caused a Minerva of massy silver of considerable value to be made and sent to him., This present was accompanied with a decree declaring him The French Poet, by way of distinction. Ronsard afterwards made a present of his Minerva to Henry II. Mary queen of Scots gave him a very rich set of table plate. He wrote hymns, odes, a poem called the Franciad, eclogues, epigrams, sonnets, &c. Ronsard, though it is doubtful whether he ever was in orders, held several benefices in commendam; and he died at one of these, Saint-Cosme-les-Tours, in 1585, being then sixty-one years of age. Ronsard's poems appeared in Paris in 1567, in six vols 4to., and in 1604, in ten vols. 12mo.

RONT, or Goth. rian naut. An animal RUNT, n.s.stinted in the growth. My ragged onts all shiver and shake, As done high towers in an earthquake; They wont in the wind, wag their wriggle tails,. Peark as a peacock, but nought it avails. Spenser. ROOD, n. s. From rod. The fourth part of an acre in square measure.