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Additional Account Of The Gypsies.
ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES .
[ FROM TOWNSON ' S TRAVELS IN HUNGARY , JUST PUBLISHED . ]
T > Y the road side , from Debretzin to Tokay , I fmnd a large party - » of Zigeupers , the Hungarian appellation for gypsies . Hoyv adr imrably they are pourtrayed by Cowper in these lines ' , « I see a column of slow rising smoke O ' ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild : A vagabond and useless tribe there eat
Their miserable meal . A kettle , slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse , Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog , Or vermin , or , at best , of cock purloin'd From his acenstom'd perch . Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of eveiy hedge , Which , kindled with dry leaves , just saves tinquench'd The spark of life . The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags , and shows a tawny skin , The vellum of the pedigree they claim . ' *
Hungary may be considered as the seat of this people . They are here very numerous , and lead the same vagabond life they do in , other countries . Several of the later Hungarian Sovereigns have endeavoured to render them sedentary , but with not much success 5 they still stroll about the country as tinkers and musicians , but are not seen in such hordes as , formerly . It is but a tew years ago , ( J think , under Joseph II . ) that about a score of them were condemned and
executed in the Great Houtor country for being—Anthropophagists \ but , when it was too late , it was suspected that their Judges had been , too hasty in their condemnation . They were not seen in Hungary before 1418 . What their numbers are I could never learn ; but when the nei ghbouring pountry of the Ruccovine was lately ceded to Austria , of 70 , 000 inhabitants , one th ; usand were Gypsies .
Origin Of Drinking Healths.
ORIGIN OF DRINKING HEALTHS .
IN this country was pertinent and sensible Rowena , a beautiful daughter of Hengistus , general of the Saxons , who having the Isle of Thanet given him by King Vprtigern for ' assisting him against the Picts and Scots , obtained as rnuch ground as he could encompass with an ox ' s hide qn which to build a castle , which being completed , he invited Vortigern to supper : after the entertainment , Plengist
called for his daughter Rowena , who entered with great dignity and magnificence , earning a golden bowl full of wine in her hand , out of which she drank , and in the Saxpn language said , 'Be of health , Lord King . ' To this Vortigern replied , ' Drink health . ' This is the first health which we hear of in history , and boasts an antiquity of thirteen hundred years . ' The story adds , that King Vortigern , enamoured with , Rowena ' s beauty , married her in a short time after , and gave her father the whole kingdom of Kent .
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Additional Account Of The Gypsies.
ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES .
[ FROM TOWNSON ' S TRAVELS IN HUNGARY , JUST PUBLISHED . ]
T > Y the road side , from Debretzin to Tokay , I fmnd a large party - » of Zigeupers , the Hungarian appellation for gypsies . Hoyv adr imrably they are pourtrayed by Cowper in these lines ' , « I see a column of slow rising smoke O ' ertop the lofty wood that skirts the wild : A vagabond and useless tribe there eat
Their miserable meal . A kettle , slung Between two poles upon a stick transverse , Receives the morsel ; flesh obscene of dog , Or vermin , or , at best , of cock purloin'd From his acenstom'd perch . Hard-faring race ! They pick their fuel out of eveiy hedge , Which , kindled with dry leaves , just saves tinquench'd The spark of life . The sportive wind blows wide Their fluttering rags , and shows a tawny skin , The vellum of the pedigree they claim . ' *
Hungary may be considered as the seat of this people . They are here very numerous , and lead the same vagabond life they do in , other countries . Several of the later Hungarian Sovereigns have endeavoured to render them sedentary , but with not much success 5 they still stroll about the country as tinkers and musicians , but are not seen in such hordes as , formerly . It is but a tew years ago , ( J think , under Joseph II . ) that about a score of them were condemned and
executed in the Great Houtor country for being—Anthropophagists \ but , when it was too late , it was suspected that their Judges had been , too hasty in their condemnation . They were not seen in Hungary before 1418 . What their numbers are I could never learn ; but when the nei ghbouring pountry of the Ruccovine was lately ceded to Austria , of 70 , 000 inhabitants , one th ; usand were Gypsies .
Origin Of Drinking Healths.
ORIGIN OF DRINKING HEALTHS .
IN this country was pertinent and sensible Rowena , a beautiful daughter of Hengistus , general of the Saxons , who having the Isle of Thanet given him by King Vprtigern for ' assisting him against the Picts and Scots , obtained as rnuch ground as he could encompass with an ox ' s hide qn which to build a castle , which being completed , he invited Vortigern to supper : after the entertainment , Plengist
called for his daughter Rowena , who entered with great dignity and magnificence , earning a golden bowl full of wine in her hand , out of which she drank , and in the Saxpn language said , 'Be of health , Lord King . ' To this Vortigern replied , ' Drink health . ' This is the first health which we hear of in history , and boasts an antiquity of thirteen hundred years . ' The story adds , that King Vortigern , enamoured with , Rowena ' s beauty , married her in a short time after , and gave her father the whole kingdom of Kent .