Note 61 — W. CAREW HAZLITT.

Regale sorta di strumento simile all’organo, maminore.—Baretti Dizion. Ital. ed Ing. Bacon distinguishes between the regal and the organ in a manner which shows them to be instruments of the same class. “The sounds that produce tones are ever from such bodies as have their parts and pores equal, as are nightingale pipes of regals or organs.”—Nat. Hist. cent, ii., sec. 102. But, notwithstanding these authorities, the appellative regal has given great trouble to the lexicographer, whose sentiments with regard to its signification are collected and brought into one point of view by Sir John Hawkins, in his “History of Music,” vol. ii., p. 448, from whence this note is extracted. See also a note by the Hon. Daines Barrington to “Hamlet,” act iii., sc. 2, in the edition of Shakspeare, 1773, omitted in that of 1778.