The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas's Boston journal. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775, 1774-03-31
Same curious particulars IN regard to a frik
ing KkeneE of brjons.

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resemblance. Some contemporary
memoirs, however, make mention of difFe-:
rent twins, whole complexion, failure,
features and even inclnations refembled
each other in 70 great degree, that thole
whowere mott accuftomed fee them, were
often miitaken on their account. Theic
INTAKES are fuficient to jultify the Englifh
comedy of errors, and the fable of the
comedy of Menechmes, which Renard an
imitator of Plautus, has made appear with
70 much fuccefs on the French theatre. +,
Virgil makes the eulogium of two bro
theirs, who were the admiration of their
time, by the resemblance of their village, and
the conformity of their humour.
Not many years Gnce twins of about
twelve years old, were feen at London,
whole fature, completion, features, and
whole figure, appeared exactly the fame
Their parents took Pleafure in making them
wear cloaths of the fame form and Of the
fame colour, which often gave occahon to
iingular and dlvertirg adventures. They
had received the fame education, and fevc~
raj, who had taken ftria notice of them, af-
fure, that they nearly made the fame anf-
wers to the fame queltions'; whence it was
inferred, that their manner of coniidering
objects was the lame, and that they not leis
refembled one another in their way of
thinking and conceiving, than in the features
of the body that formed their external re-
Tendance.
The hiftory of the lords of Scinome, re-
lated by Paiauier, may alto ierve as de-
monftration, that nature fometimes takes
pleafure in copying herielf I" Nicholas
and Claudius de RofIia, twins, the one lord
of Scinome, the other of Origny, were born
the 9TH of April, 1913, with 70 great are
Tendance TO one another, that their nurfes,
in order to diftinguifh them, were obliged
to fix to them bracelets of different colours.
This conformity, which they brought with
them from their mothers womb, was not
only vifible in their fize, and the features
of their face, but alto in their manners,
geftures, behaviour, will, and inclination.
This induced their parents to clothe them
in the fame garb, and they had fome diff
Guilty themfelves to diitinguifh them. -
Charles ninth, was often pleafed, in the
midf of 6ve hundred gentlemen, to place
them both together, and confider them for
a long time, with the view, if pof1ible, of
finding iome mark of difference in them.
But after making them PATS and rePafs in
the croud, and appear before him, he could
never exactly difcern which was which, nor
could any of the company. The lord of
Scifome was very great friend of the lords
of Feryaques, and the wives of thefe two
lords had often mifaken his brother for
him. There were two particulars very re-
markable in them the one; that having
been as gentlemen brought up from their
youth in all forts ofmanly exerciies, among
Others, in playing at tennis, in which they |
were both very expert, though Origny fur
paiied his brother, who, from time to time,
had unequally matched himfelf to remedy
which, he left off playing, pretending to 60 |
for lome ncoeiiity of nature and fan az