wonderful intelligencer Another parcel of faults he finds against Crimalhaz I thank him for this War he has begun The numbers of my Foes enhance my Crown It does a worth on Kings as Beauties set To have our Rivals numerous and Great Numbers of Foes most commonly pull down Crowns And afterwards Crim. Kind Taffalet does for my presence call I am invited to his Funeral The little Champion with impatience waits To beg a Tomb before Morocco's Gates And rather than his lingring Fate delay I 'le with my Army take a walk that way His heat of blood and lust of Crowns shall cease Lasht to a Calm and coolâ—d into a Peace He was a kind man to invite him to his Funeral but believe it who will. I can never think Taffalet would come with an Army only to beg a Tomb before Morocco 's Gates c. Besides Crimalhaz was very uncivil to fly upon a man that came so kindly c. What a wonderful belief has Mr. Bays these are much like the objections in the Third Act against Tortures weak Engines that can run us down Or skew us up till we are out of Tune And Hell a feeble puny cramp of souls c. Because the Poet makes his Villain a Fellow that speaks scornfully of things and defyes every thing that opposes him as little and inconsiderable therefore he writes nonsense But something more he drives at in the two last Lines and says the Poet does as good as far I will not only murder him but lash him and cool him into a Peace a Climax much like that of showers of Arrows and of Rain Now how the Poet does as good as say so or how he makes a Climax in his speech all my study cannot search out I think his Lashing him into a Calm and cooling his heat of blood is of a piece with the rest And may as well signifie he will cool his blood by letting it out and calm his Ambition by cutting his Throat as well as this Line I 'le with my Army take a walk that way may signify he intends to fight him Just at this rate he finds fault with the last Lines of the Fourth Act. Moren Then with a gentle gale of dying sighs I 'le breath my flying soul into the Skies Wing'd by my Love I will my passage steer Nor can I miss my way when you shine there And says His reason why he cannot miss his way is excellent and undeniable Nor is his observation on six lines in the latter end of the act after Crimalhaz his execution spoken by Abdelcador much unlike See the reward of Treason Death 's the thing Distinguishes the Usurper from the King. Kings are immortal and from life remove From their low'r Thrones to wear new Crowns above But Heav'n for him has scarce that bliss in store When an Usurper dies he raigns no more Here the Poet describes the difference of Kings from Usurpers by their reward after death and Mr. Impertinent tells us 't is nonsense for death makes all men equal I may as well say that Mr. Drydens Notes upon Morocco and Mr. Cowleys Davideis are equal pardon the profanation for neither the Authors nor their writings are to be named ' i' th the same breath and prove it thus they are both but paper and Ink and therefore not different If the Poets discourse tended to nothing but the corruption of their bodies I am of his opinion that Death makes a King and an Usurper equal But this worthy Gentleman keeps constant to his Notions of Kings and as he has not only made so great a Fool of a King in his Boabdelin but by his sense of them through his Notes made out his opinion of them in general to be the same or worse then he has character'd there I wonder not at all at a Tenent that has been so long cherisht by him Another sentence Kings are immortal and yet dye The Poet is so far from such a contradiction that he calls it only removing from Life Yet if he had used Sir Positives own words the sense had been entire considering how the whole Speech affirms that Kings leave this Temporal Life for an immortal one But for a more glorious sentence when a man dyes he raigns no more Certainly a King 's a man and yet the Authour had said they raignd agen after they dye But I grow tired and wonder for what cause he could crowd such a Rabble of Iingles and Blunders together unless he courted the favour to be ridiculous which he of all mankind might have had without this trouble though perhaps nâ—t so plentifully But I perceive our Laureat has done writing of Plays and though impotent yet desirous to be fumbling still like Old sinners worn from their delight as one â—f his Prologues has it he desires to be whipt to appetite It had been much more to his purpose if he had design'd to render the Authours Play little to have searc'd for some such Pedantry as this Lyndaraxa page 17. Two ifs scarce make one Possibility Zulema p. 19. If Iustice will take all and nothing give Iustice methinks is not Distributive Benzayd p. 48. To dye or kill you is th' Alternative Rather than take your Live I will not live Observe how prettily our Authour chops Logick in Heroick Verse Three such sustain canting words as Distributive Alternative and two Ifs No man but himself would have come within the noise of But he 's a man of general Learning and aâ—l comes into his Plays 'T would have done well too if he could have met with a rant or two worth the observation Such as Alman page 156. Move swiftly Sun and fly a Lovers pace Leave Months and Weeks behind thee in thy race But surely the Sun whether he flyes a Lovers or not a Lovers pace leaves Weeks and Moneths nay Years too behind him in his race Poor Robin or any other of the Philomathematicks would have given him satisfaction in the poiâ—t Almanz. page 56. to Abdalla If I would kill thee now thy Fate 's so low That I must stoop e're I can give the blow But mine is fixt so far above thy Crown That all thy men Pil'd on thy Back can never pull it down Now where that is Almanzors fate is fixt I cannot guess But wherever 't is I believe Almanzor and think that all Abdallas Subjects piled upon one another might not pull down his Fate so well as without piling besides I thiâ—k Abdalla â—o wise a man that if Almanzor had told him piling his men upon his 〈◊〉 might do the feat he would scarce bear such a weight for the pleasure of the exploit But 't is a huff and let Abdalla do it if he dare But though your hand did of his murder miss Howe're his Exile has restrainâ—d his pow'r But though and howe're signifie both one thing Sir I kiss your hand 't is the first time I ever heard so much before He fids a Verse as
the Polish in it for he talks of a Copy much at the rate of the Cloak-bag But now to the Argument she will instruct him to do a deed that 's done c. Here hee 's at his old way of Begging the meaning but a wiser Body would have guest her meaning to have been that for his better understanding what she had already done she would give him more examples of the same kind for his instruction I am a Convert Madam for kind Heaven Has to Mankind immortal Spirits given And Courage is their Life but when that sinks And to tame Fears and Coward faintness shrinks Which he writes into tame Fears c. which quite alters the sense We the great work of that bright frame destroy And shew the world that even our Souls can dy The Poet is at his Mock Reasons But I am afraid the Commentatour is Crimalhaz is converted to Villany for the very Reasons he should be honest If Crimalhaz be beyond the fear of damnation and is possest that in being Ambitious Villanous and Bloody he does well and nobly 't is Nonâ—sense for him to call himself otherwise then a convert to Villany for Conversion and Apostacy are sense only as they respect the Opinion or Faith of him that speaks ' em A Roman Catholick shall tell you of such Protestants made Converts to his Religion and a Protestant of such Converts of Catholicks to his and so with Turks and Christians c. And yet they all speak sense If any good Character in the Play that believed Crimalhaz his Tenents ill had said he had been converted to Villany it had been Non-sense But hang consideration Mr. Dryden's above it But for his next Objection Riddle my Riddle can Courage become â—owardise or Immortality mortal What pretty Sophistry is this A Couragious man it is possible may turn a Coward which is the sense of the very words for when Courage in a man sinks and gives way to fear and Cowardise that Couragious man turns a Coward but not his Courage Cowardise No more then I can say of any thing that was white once and is now dyed black that the whiteness is become blackness But his Objections are many of them built upon this falacy to make reflections upon Incoherence in qualities instead of persons and things But then how does Crimalhaz say Immortality becomes mortal He says Heaven has given immortal Souls to Men viz. to those men whose Courages are so Courage as he thinks being the Life of the Soul. But those whose Courages can fade be corrupted and dye their Souls by consequence can do so too So he affirms that true Courage viz. that which cannot decline makes Souls immortal but Cowardise mortal And by such subtilties his Breast infect 'Till he his Generals Loyalty suspect No body can infect another with a disease which he has not himself or carries not about him some way or other Hametalhaz then must have suspition of the Generals Loyalty or carry the Disease about him else he cannot infect the King with it Did ever any man make such a pudder for nothing First Infect is Lashâ— as Beggars for stragling it transgresses its bounds and therefore Mr. Critick by Constable Law confines it home to the place of its Nativity It must be sense no where but where it refers to a Disease Well to compliment him it shall be so confin'd But then no body can infect another with a Disease he has not himself or carries not about him some way or other Dear heart thou art i' th right What dost thâ—u think of Nurses Nay Cats or Dogs in a Plague time that have carried infection with them yet have not had the Disease themselves So Hametalhaz had something or other as thou saist about him to make the King jealous of his General though he was not so himself Never was such stuff but 't is his Talent and there is an end And to that pitch his heightned Virtues raise That their perfection shall appear their Crime As Giants by their Height do Monsters seem Here he makes Giantickness the perfection of Humane Statuâ—e and says Giants are not Monsters only seem so to Mankind By consequence all that are not Giants are imperfect if not Monsters The Poet makes Giantickness c. and says c. That is Mr. Dryden makes and says it for him for he neither says nor implies any such thing Crimalhaz tells the Queen Mother he will extol Muly Hamets Virtues so highly that their perfection shall appear their crime as Giants appear or seem Monsters for their height But how he says or infers Giants are not Monsters and but only seem so to Mankind You have only Mr. Drydens word for and how much that has been worth hitherto in his Observations I leave his Readers to Judge Though indeed some are apt to think that Giants are not really Monsters though received so a Monster in its true definition being a Creature that either wants or has more parts than Nature requires to make up true proportions and Symetry And yet a Giant how much greater soever than an ordinary man may have all parts proportionable nor have more or less Arms or Legs or aâ—y other particular However if the reception of a Monster be more large and Giants are Monsters to say a thing seems to be what it is is no Nonsense Brave Crimâ—lhaz thy Breast and mine agree How Breasts can agree or quarrel any more than Arms or Legs I cannot tell And truly we believe him but if he cannot tell what agreeing signifies besides being friends he is not the best Commentatour I have met with We 'll Act his Death in State. Will she have a Play made on it and Act her self in it Now why nothing can be Acted but in a Play I cannot tell neither I am afraid he is not so Critical in his own writings Almah to Almanz. page 51. You bound and freed me but the difference is That shew'd your Valour but your Virtue this As if Valour were no Virtue though it be none of his Virtues others are pleased to compliment it with the title of a Virtue when they made Fortitude one of the Cardinal Virtues But perhaps he 'l distinguish between Valour in one degree and Valour in another for Valour is not always a Virtue there is a Brâ—tish Valour though very improperly for in Brutes 't is Courage Yes that answer is for his purpose for these two Lines are spoken of Almanzor Wâ—'l Act his Death in State And dash his Blood against his Palace gate A stately thing to dash a Pail full of Blood against a Palace gate This Commentator like Eustathius upon Homer observes more in every Line than the Poet e're thought on for I durst swear for him he never considered just how much the Emperours Veins held which Mr. Dryden has politickly found to be a Pail-full But I am afraid in observing the quantity he forgot the quality that it was the Blood of
't is used for the place of torments To write the Nonsense he stuffs in every Line would put the cramp in my fingers Well said Tom Thimble Snip Snap Repartee I hope the Nonsense thou hast written came from thee with less pain or thou wouldst never have had the Courage to have wrote so much on 't Since you have sullied thus our Royal Blood The Grounds and Rise of this past Crime relate That having your Offences understood We what we can't recal may expiate That is come since you have lain with my Mother tell the Truth how it was to give the reason why he lay with her is not the description of the Circumstances how he lay with her to have described those indeed had been perfect Drydenism A Womans frailty from a Womans Tongue As if it was a frailty to be Ravisht She like the young Queen confesses her self a Conspiratour in her own Rape c. Read but the immediate Lines Whilst pensively I in my Closet sate My Eyes paid Tribute to my Husbands Fate And whilst those thoughts my sinking Spirits seis'd His Entrance my dejected Courage rais'd The sudden Object did new thoughts produce My Griefs suspended lent my Tears a truce For then I otherwise employ'd my Eyes Whilst in his Aspect I read Victories And afterwards Having a while upon each other gaz'd He at my silence I his Eyes amaz'd Now let me ask him why such a Woman as she that desired to appear a Saint may not call it a Frailty to desist from her Tears and be diverted from her sorrows for her husband that dyed but Yesterday by her sudden admiration of any object whatever But Muly Hamet then your cruel Breast He ravisht her with his Breast having a white Skin c. Muly Hamet was so unkind to cut off the Queen Mothers Speech in the middle and this kind Botcher is pleased to piece it out But why Ravisht Sir Pol could no other Verb have followed Breast The Queen does not talk of Ravishing 'till twelve Lines after this and sure Muly Hamet was not so hot but he might stay a thinking while before the Sport began and so Muly Hamets Cruel Breast might be first supposed to have harboured some thoughts to her dishonour and some desires to be doing before he fell to it His alter'd Brow Wore such fierce looks as had more proper been To lead an Army with than Court a Queen He places a mans looks on his Brow and says his Brow wore looks c. In the last act the Queen says I should meet Death with Smiles upon my Brow. This is so notorious an Errour that 't is not a sufferer to the common Crowd but is Arraigned amongst the Capital sins of the Epistle This Common Barrater in Poetry is resolved to jar and quarrel with every thing Surely he has lived long enough to understand better one would think Has not he heard Brow used for the whole Face or Aspect of a man oftner than in a stricter sense Nay has he not in Granada said I cannot clear my mind but must my Brow If the Brow be taken strictly then Boabdelin has liberty to make mouths at Almanzor provided his Brow be clear still I wonder how fronti nulla fides would scape with him if the Latine Authours had the honour to be examined by him But for Mr. Drydens sake for once I 'le alter these two Lines and express their design'd sense in words at large and no Synecdoche 1. His alter'd Countenance wore such fierce looks c. 2. I should meet Death with Dimples in my Check or with wrinckles in my Chin for that is smiling This would be almost as good as the incomparable Line of Almerias Kil'd in my Limbs reviving in my mind And as a Ravisher I abhorr'd him more In that black form than I admir'd before She abhorrd him as a Ravisher in a black form c. this no body can make any thing of Let it be in that black form still and any body will tell you what to make of it by what the word that points to Our holy Prophet dares not see him fall I 'm sure had he my Eyes As if changing of Eyes would alter ones mind What says thy Lyndaraxa to this Page 93. Fortune at last has chosen with my Eyes And where I would have given it placed the Prize How often do expressions of this kind signify Eyes and inclination too Sure this Coffee-House Oracle thinks all Mankind his Cullies If he expects to be cry'd up for such stuff as this The Powers above would shrink at what he felt He has felt nothing yet as I know but her c. Sure the King had told him that for his offence the Law required his death and what means the Queen Mothers pleading for him but that supposing that Law were executed on him the powers above would shrink at what he felt Here bind the Traytour and convey him strait To Prison there to linger out his Fate Till his hard Lodging and his slender Food Allay the Fury of his Lustful Blood. That is here take this Letcherous fellow away carry him to Prison mortifie him and take down his Mettle that my Mother and my Women may live in quiet for him Since he 's so good at Burlesquing I may as properly apply it to Mr. Commentatour Here take this wretched Scribler away carry him to School agen lash him and mortify his Letchery of writing Nonsense that the Town and the Press may be at quiet for him My Soul Dull Man what has my Soul to do In such mean Acts as my betraying you Murder and Treason Without the help of Souls when I think good Such Toys I act as I 'm but flesh and blood This is written like one that thinks without a Soul as his Queen Mother does Such Villanies I act and think as I 'm but flesh and blood c. She says indeed she will act Villanies without the help of her Sâ—il as she is but flesh and blood but for thinking without her Soul I cannot find any thing like it For when I think good which indeed is no more than when I please reflects not at all upon the designing or managing of her Treasons or the acting of her Villanies but only upon the time when she resolves to be Villanous As if she had said let me but once resolve to be Treacherous and the acting of Treason is so customary to me that it comes easie and unstudied Hell No of that I scorn to be afraid Betray and kill and damn to that degree I 'le crowd up Hell till there 's no Room for me This is the principal huff of the Play and by consequence thickest of Nonsense c. But you shall see how he proves it The Queen Mother says she scorns to be afraid of Hell yet she plainly confesses she is afraid of it for she will kill and damn to a horrible degree to avoid it At this rate every man that
heard of more Heroick daring than either of these two Nay more these arms shall throw my head at thine Sure Pophyrius his throwing his head aâ— Maximim after it was cut off is something more Heroick and Poetical than Elkanah's Queen's crouding up Hell c. As prophane sinners are from Altars driven Banish'd the Temple to be Banisht Heaven Horrours and Tortures now my Iaylours be Who paints damnation needs but Copy me For if mankind the pains of Hell e're knew 'T is when they lose a Mistress as I do At the same time to be banisht and a Prisoner is a Bull I thought the banishment related to his Person and the Horrours and Tortures to the freedom of his mind but however had they both related to the same thing they had been sense for Banishment is a larger kind of Imprisonment for 't is confining men to such or such Countries the freedom of their native Country being taken from them Paints damnation Can a man paint paine or can a man be like damnation No but a man may describe damnation which is as good and may not unlawfully call it painting damnation and 't is supposed when he says Copy me he means describe me with all my miseries that attend me But now for the dullest objections that he has made yet In his Observations on the Mask he says He thinks they never understood recitative Musick nor Masks in Morocco Nor did Taffalet take delight in the represented spoyls Of Cyrus Cesar and Aeneas Toyles If the true Characters and customes of Moores in Morocco or Granada or of Indians in Mexico were to be exactly represented in Plays on those Subjects I fear Mr. Dryden has been as great a Transgressor as hee 'd make you believe Elkanah is To follow truth exactâ—y in the representations of forreign stories would be as Ridiculous as to imitate their habits exactly How ill and foolish would the dressing a Roman with naked Arms and Legs be or making a Solyman or an Almanzor and Almahide sit Cross Leg'd like Taylors or dressing Moores in Bootes and Moorish Women in â—rouses Nay there ought to be the same care in representing Characters as dresses How senselesly and inartificially has he made a long and idle description of Almanzors Gallantry by his encountring a Bull which though we all know is in use and in esteem at Granada how little and impertinent does the narrative of it appear here All Heroick actions of Virtue or Gallantry on the Stage being rated and valued by the rules of the place and Age they are presented in not by the sense of the Age or place when and wheâ—e they were first perform'd I 've been an actor in such Comick sport When in my Father Taffaletta's Court. He took delight i' th' represented spoyls Of Cyrus Cesar and Aeneas Toyles Observe what she calls Comick Cyrus Cesar and Aeneas Toyles Would'st thou have had her call'd them Tragick or Pastoral The Queen Mother perswades Morena to go in Masquerade which Morena thinks a very valiant thing saying I dare do any thing to show T' a Throne I change of Place not Passions owe. A generous brave thing to go in Masquerade If thou canst make out that what ever a man dares do must be very valiant Generous and brave the ten sheets of nonsense thou hadst the confidence to write are much to thy advantage and have past a very great compliment on thee Traytours rarely look like what they act Can the looks of Traytours be like Treason indeed as like as any of his Similitudes But not so like as some of Commentatours For â—ays has a very pretty poetical way of invention when he has occasion of a simile not contented with such common things as are in sense or nature such as the dull scriblers who as he says ne're reach an Excellence take allusions from he forms more Airy notions and so makes his Flights more sublime As page 23. Abdalla of Lyndaraxa Her tears her smiles her every look's a net Her voice is like a Syrens of the Land And bloody hearts lye panting in her hand A Syrens of the Land That is a Land-Mermaid A pretty fancied creature a Land Sea-monster I have heard of a whole Book in this style such another kind of Volume as Tom Thumb that would have done him a courtesie in this nature being richly furnisht with many such fancies and excellencies as a She-waterman an Iron Paretree a Wind-watermil and the like And though Bays has a perfection above others in that Mercurial art of filching yet I hope my instructions though to a man so well vers'd already may not be wholly disacceptable Besides her look's a net is so old a Phrase so stale an allusion that it has been in twenty third Form School-Boys Exercises But perhaps the Reader what ever his other Thefts are will conclude his similitudes his own by their marks Yet to convince you there is not the lest thing he will not steal his Almanzor says p. 69. You dash like Water back when thrown against the Wind. The Host in the Villain Slander returns back into the slanderers face as a man that pisseth against the Wind. But such Petty Larceny is not worth an Arraignment nor would his Brethren envy at his stoln Treasures Omnia si sic Dixisset Poyson'd How was this Murder hid till now And by what Arts was it disclosed by you Enter Queen Mother Here she enters abruptly and answers to what she did not hear That were too long to tell th' unhappy Son This Night too must the Fathers Fortune run O then the unkind Printer has mistaken her Entrance which should have been two Lines sooner which in the Acting I am sure is not mistaken And within three Lines she contradicts her self saying to him I 'le save your Life your Empress and your Throne O does she contradict her self so lâ—t her but where 's the fault to say Sir you will be kill'd to night How kill'd yes unless you take my Counsel which if you 'l follow I 'le save your life c. Which are almost the very words in the Play. On this Foundation I 've this Structure laid To lay a house upon a Foundation is not English. Therefore to lay a structure on a Foundation must not be English. Though all Houses be structures yet I hope al structures are not Houses one stone laid upon another is a structure Knowing how ill your kindness hee 'l requite If he should find you Author of my flight He will if he should is false English c. A very great oversight hee 'd requite for hee 'd requite he might as well have accus'd the Poet for letting My fair Eurdice my fair Eurdice instead of Euridice Pag. 47. escape or at lest go Unmentioned in his Errata for 't is a hainous oversight viz. a litteral fault Leave that to Providence but grant he shouâ—d He would not sure attempt a Womans Blood. At least when he considers how t' was don
City and another without the City at once is something difficult but this flight is pardonable to some we meet in Granada Osmin page 13. speaking of Almanzor Who like a Tempest that outrides the wind Made a just battel e're the bodies joyn'd Pray what does this Honourable person mean by a Tempest that outrides the wind A Tempest that outrides it self To suppose a Tempest without wind is as bad as suppâ—sing a man to walk without feet for if he supposes the Tempest to be something distinct from the wind yet as being the effect of wind only to come before the cause is a little preposterous so that if he takes it one way or if he takes it the other those two ifs will scarce make one possibility Muly Hamet was ne're taught To back but lead those Armies where be â—oâ—ght Though Muly Hamet had a Back as broad as Hercules yet he could scarce back whole Armies with it What cannot a nimble wâ—tted Commentatour find out His blood dear Prince shall pay for shedding thine Did his blood shed the others blood If I should tell thee this Pamphlets shall make thee amends for the writing of â—hine wouldâ—t thou say did this Pamphlet write the other To expiate thy blood I 'le let out mine His blood was good and had no crime in it But the shedding his blood was none of the best dâ—eds He by no force withstood Comes now this way to sacrifice your blood To Sacrifice blood is improper But for thee to write nonsense is not Immur'd within the walls of this strong Tower. That is wall'd within the walls That is any thing to please thee Draw up my Forces raise my Guards The Usurper had been just told that his Army was revolted and that Muly Hamet was Proclaimed King yet he talks of drawing up his forces and rayseing his Guards afterwards I am afraid Commentator not Crimalhaz talks too much Though his Army that was sent out to fight Taffalet was revolted yet 't is not to be supposed but the Imperial Pallace in Morocco which writers have related to be the greatest place of strength in that City had some forces in it to defend it But how few soever Crimalhaz had there yet for a man of Courage to oppose a pow'r that he knew would take off his head though with little hopes of success is not so great a wonder as Hum Buz takes it for There 's not one dart In Heav'n that would not strike the Murdrers heart Before his hand should touch her sacred breast Pray answer me one civil question how could he be a Murderer before his hand had toucht her sacred breast This Question may as civilly be answered as his objection against Treason e're it 's begin in the fourth act The resolved intention of Murder is enough to give the man that designs it the name of Murderer I wonder how Ben and Shakespear ventured in several of their Tragedies as one for example in Macbeth to write enter Murtherers at the beginning of a Scene when the Murder for which they were so call'd was not committed till after their entrance Though I am faln so low My fortune lost I may a Beggar grow That is though my fortune be lost I may grow poor As if every man that 's poor must needs Beg. I 'le to a Thousand deaths my life expose Before I will one inch of Empire loose How many lives had she to expose to a thousand deaths How many years hast thou liv'd and not heard such an expression as I 'le die a thousand deaths before I 'le do so or so An Inch of Empire is no great matter but she is a woman that speaks it and an Inch might be somewhat to her Well said Aâ—chwag there he hits it A smooty quibble tickles him and is so much in his Element that I doubt not but a shrug and a smile attended the conception of this jest But I 'le ask him why Mariamne may not be as unwilling to part with an Inch of Empire as Almanzor was to part with one stone out of Granada's walls pag. 12. And he shall buy it dear what his he calls We will not give one stone from out these walls Now to repartee upon him in his own beloved style A stone out of a City Wall is no great matter but he is a man who speaks it and a stone might be some what with him Well now let our Comical friend say he is aped for something for this balderdash is so like him that Imitation I fear will be the lest thing my Reader will accuâ—e me of for so saâ—etious a thought I 'le sing my â—uneral obsequies in these Arms. I 'le Ravish her Then throw my self and her into the Fire And Arme in Arme together wee l expire He sings after hee 's dead No sure he says he will sing before he dyes And though Funeral Obsequies are generally sung after mens deaths what if Crimalhaz is pleased to be particular and sing his himself before his death What Miracle of honour has fate sent Sure Heav'n acts Wonders Wonders no 't is none What have th' high'r Powers to do but to take care Of so much Vertue and a Face so Fair Sure Heav'n acts Wonders Wonders No 't is none That is the wonders is no wonder A rare Grammarian Let it be put in the plural number Sure Heaven acts wonders wonders No they are none What are no wonders Though in his admiration he says in the Plural number Sure Heaven acts wonders Yet when it more particularly relates to the saving of his Mistress both the foregoing line and the following lines shew the necessity of a singular number to express it by Sure Heav'n acts wonders wonders No the saving of my Mistress is none For what have the higher pow'rs to do but to take care of so great a beauty c. Subjects my homage pay but Monarchs thine To pay my homage is to pay that homage which is my due to another person But he means subjects pay me homage and I pay thee Is it not English for a Creditour to say to a Debtour Pay me my debt why may not pay me my homage signifie the homage that is due to me as well And saves her blood to be ally'd to yours By this alliance be means marriage but to be married and allied are as differens as Cousin and Husband Because we say Husband and Wife are married therefore we are bound if we come to particulars to say their bloods are married too and their hands are married A nobler Passion story never writ That turn'd a Traytour to a Proselite How could story write But Historians can write though story cannot And if he â—inds fault with this expression how will he be reconciled with such a one as this Fame reports or fame says such a thing Fame can no more speak than story can write for Fame is not what speaks but what is spoken of a man As story is not what