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A47917	A sermon prepared to be preach'd at the internment of the renowned Observator with some remarques on his life, by the Reverend Toryrorydammeeplotshammee Younkercrape : to which is annexed an elegy and epitaph, by the Rose-Ally-Poet, and other prime wits of the age.	Younkercrape, Toryrorydammeeplotshammee.; Rose-Ally-Poet.	1682 (1682)	Wing L1305; ESTC R21960	12,226	32

A SERMON Prepared to be Preach'd at the Interment Of the Renowned Observator With some Remarques on his LIFE By the Reverend Toryrorydammeeplotshammce Younke●crape To which is Annexed An ELEGY and EPITAPH By the ROSE-ALLY-POET And other Prime Wits of the Age. LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Langley Curtiss at the Sign of Sir Edmund-Bury-Godfrey near Fleet-Bridge 1682. Thrice merry or thrice doleful READERS Which you please ACcording to your various affections peruse these ensuing lines and know that Man is a Mortal that has strange fegaries and quirks and orders his reason at such an odd rate that he many times makes sport of their greatest misfortune their forc'd departure and constraint to take leave of the Suns bright Light There was a certain Prince who perceiving himself not well belov'd by his Courtiers yet not well able to discover who they were that bore him enmity in regard that his Enemies had impal'd their thoughts with dissimulation he resolv'd to pretend to fall sick and dye to be short so he did that is to say he fell sick and died like Endymion upon Latmus Hill and was laid forth The report of his death brought all Persons to see him his Friends to bewail him his Enemies to rejoice And the nit was that his ill willers open'd the wickets of their Breasts and while others spoke well of him others curs'd him as heartily calling him Tyrant and ungrateful and lading his memory with a hundred Scandals and Reproaches I 'le hold five shillings our Observator had read this story For he finding himself baited on all sides like a Whitsontide Bull resolv'd to be for a while like an Incognito Embassadour in the world that he might hear what People said of him To this purpose he desires a certain Crape Gown Gentleman to make him a Funeral Sermon while he was living that he might amend and correct his own commendations The Gentleman as who could deny the Foreman of his Faith answered his expectations and our dear Observator put it up in his Pocket and goes to the Tavern There that night it happen'd to be a dreadful Huzza night nothing but past Two of the Clock could move the Company and then the Devil of a Coach was to be got so that our dear Observator was constrain'd to totter home before a Link boy In that condition by what unlucky accident we know not he dropt the following Papers Heavens bless us quo we is our dear Observator dead and shall we stifle such a Panegyric as this Ventre diable by no means But quo another suppose he should not be dead why then he is alive But quo we suppose he should be dead what injury can it be to him so long as the Stationers are in being For we know there is nothing impossible with God and it may be a metaphysical puzzlement whether there be any thing impossible with a Stationer for a Stationer can make a Man write after he 's dead I 'le undertake that there are some men that have been dead these 40 years that shall still write on upon their account till the last Trumpet sounds so then if by their means the Observator do write after he 's dead what injury is it for him to die or to be dead I would fain know for his pay runs on still For my part I am apt to believe he is dead for his writings are the meer Skeletons of Reason Well but let him be dead or alive you have it here as it dropt out of his own pocket And Men have not the same priviledge that Women have For if a Woman tell ye she 's dead you must not believe her but if a Man tell you so you are not to give him the lie for fear of farther mischief Gentlemen I have no more to say i' the business and so without farther Complements Fare ye well A FUNERAL SERMON Preached at the Interment of the Renowned OBSERVATOR Pantagruel L. 2. c. 30. Then Eusthenes cryed out Ah Cruel Death thou hast taken from us the most perfect of Men upon which Pantagruel arose and betook himself to the greatest Lamentation that ever was seen in the world THE occasion of these words my Beloved was nothing but death the death of a certain person mortuus est extinguitur as 't is in the Original For Pantagruel the Son of Garagantua the Son of Grandgousier was a great Gyant who laid about him upon all occasions whether it were eating or drinking fight or sh●●● and as his name was Pantagruel so he represented Henry the second of France as the most venerable notes upon our excellent Author declare his adherents were call'd Pantagruelists or Popelings and he warred against he Andoullians who were the true Evangelics Now to bring the business down to our times the Pantagruelists were Tories or Popelings and the Andoullians were Whigs or Evangelics according to those wicked distinctions that are now used among us As for our venerable Author himself he was a great Doctor in his Time and a great Evangelic or Whig for he refus'd to kiss the Pope's Toe as you may read in his Life for which he suffer'd much Tribulation according to his demerits As for the Book it self it is therefore called Pantagruel because therein our venerable Author recites the Acts of the great Pantagruel as the Books of the Maccabees are so called because they relate the Attchievements of the Maccabean Brethren As for the Person that the great Eusthenes and the famous Pantagruel here lament he was calld Panurgus that is to say for I have not been so long a Disciple in the Colledge of the Inferiour Clergy where our deceased Brother sate Regent but I understand many pretty knicknacks especially those of Etymologies one that would be a Dominus Factotum a Polypragmon as it is in the Greek in English a Busie-body In another sense it signifies a crafty cunning Companion And thus Jupiter in Lucian's second Dialogue of the Gods reproaches Cupid with the Epithites of Geron and Panurgus old and deceitfully cunning So that upon good authority you may take Panurgus for a Busie-body or a great Deceiver which you please it being at your choice To this same Panurgus our once Divine Observator and dear Brother here departed and now going to his long home may be very justly resembled Panurgus became famous by maintaining disputes he confuted a man of all sorts of Sciences once by the motion of his fingers And what has not our Observator done by his Proing and Conning Has he not wrought miracles has he not confuted all the Andoullians that else would have over-ran the Kingdom like so many Locusts and caus'd all the Enemies of the Pantagruelians to piss Vinegar Yes marry has he yes my beloved I say he has done it don't to purpose too or as I may say with a vengeance Nay such was the reverence which the Pantagruelians and Papishes had for him that had he liv'd a little longer and

a thousand pities it was he did not a certain day in the year was to have been set apart at what time all the Pantagruelians and Papishes were to have met our dear Brother by the name of the most invincible Observator and he was to have met them and then was he to have pull'd down his Breeches in most solemn manner and they in like solemn manner were to have kneel'd and kiss't his bare Buttocks and then they were to have had a Sermon and to have gone to Dinner at the Half-Moon in Cheapside and the day itself was to have been call'd Baise-cul or Kiss-nock Day In the second place Panurgus was enamour'd of a great Lady in Paris but when she fell out with him and slighted his kindnesses wo worth the Lady such ill luck betided her For by vertue of a certain Drug which Panurgus strew'd upon her Garment and the Folds of her Sleeves as he kneel'd by her at Prayers all the Dogs i' the Church both great and small of all sorts came and piss'd upon her cloaths and spoyl'd her a Crimson Sattin Petticoat and a rich white Velvet Just-a-core In the same manner our dear Brother rather our Grand Master of Rhodes that beat down all before him with the Club of Observation was enamour'd of a Lady and they lov'd one another and caress'd one another and culebuted together for several years till at length unhappy and unfortunate as she was she fell out with him according to the custom of female Inconstancy But what was the fatal event Town-buzzing and Town-talk slur blur pur whur finger pointing sneering fleering Hum for that c. and all because the Lady refused to settle the land upon him In the next place Panurgus came to be a Cardinal For by that name as our Author of Blessed Memory would have it is meant the Cardinal D' Amboyse And why was he made a Cardinal Why for inventing a way of arguing without sense or reason by which he not only gravel'd the English Philosopher as you shall find in the 19th ch Book second v. 22. but also gravel'd and confounded several Devils themselves ch 18. v. 33. And this he did after he had been drinking all night and playing at Spurn point with the Pages At another time out of the profoundness of his Kitchin learning he discovered the great Mystery concerning salt Beef which lay hid till then under a strange Cabalistical Trifle and publickly maintain'd that the sooner the Monks rose the sooner the Pot was set on the sooner the Pot was set on the sooner the Meat would be boyl'd the longer it boyl'd the better it would be the better it was boyl'd the tenderer 't would be and the more acceptable to the Stomach the more acceptable the more nourishing By such idle methods of Argumentizing as these did our deceased Brother endeavour Tooth and Nail to acquire fame and a Cardinals Ha● He had read how Poole Bellay and others had the Honour to be damn'd in Scarlet as Antichrists Nobles for their indefatigable Industry in die Popes Service and a Cardinals Cap he had had my beloved as sure as a Gun had not that Hag of a Spinster Atropos clipt I will not say the plain Thread but the silken twist of his Immortality-deserving life just in the very juncture of Time or as I may so say in the very nick just when the Roman Catholick Lords in the Tower had concluded upon the business and there 's no Man can think they could have fail'd of their intercessions at Rome Nay I dare say my Beloved the Lord Stafford himself would have risen again rather than he should have gone without it And did he not deserve a Princely Purple Diademd ' ye think Has he not from the first beginning or at least as soon as he durst for his Ears been always snarling at the Plot has he not done all that lay in hispower to ridicule and render the Kings Evidence contemptible to the inexpressible joy rejoycing gladness comfort jocundness delight and pleasure of the drooping every where detected Offenders who had no friend to speak a good word in their cause till our deceased Brother here God rest his Soul first open'd for Madam Cellier and her Presbyterian Plot Has he not to this purpose fill'd the Town and Country with his weekly I may say almost daylyshreads of Wast paper stufft with Flim and Flam Tales of rosted Horses Antipendiums and Screws Has he not laboured like Sisyphus in Hell to engage the Nation in a universal quarrel about his pitiful personal peeks and silly foppish idle and impertinent squabbles and brabbles about Goats Wool all about Papist or no Papist And yet you may well believe my beloved that of twenty parts of the Nation hardly eighteen ever car'd a straw whether he were a Papist or a Pipin-seller Again my beloved was it not his weekly practice that he might render himself redoubted and formidable to his Antagonists the Enemies of Popery and Sham-Plots like the Devil in Isaiah to exalt himself upon the Mountain of the Congregation to blazon his Gentility and his Parts and like the Son of Vain-glory and self-conceit to cry with Oliver Nemo me impune lacessit and make Instances upon it On the other side to degrade and debase his Opposers to render 'em ridiculously contemptible and to reduce 'em to Mites and Atomes has he not all along outscolded Billingsgate and outrail'd all the Course Complements of Blooms-bury and Luteners-lane Ha● he not taken upon him to be the Phaenix of utterance Has he not taught the world in a most gentile and argumentative way to confound the Andoullians or Whigs and Dissenters with the convincing Epithites of Rogues sawcy Rascals Coxcombs Monkies Fools spawn of the Devil Scribling Varlets and comparing their expressions to the filth and nastiness of Piss-pots Close-stools and Common-shoars the certain effects of foul mouth'd Dotage peevish Choler and want o● better Reason Has he not outdone Ramus and Burgersdicius Smith and Keckerman in his impregnable Syllogisms of Ye lie 't is false may I be damn'd if it be true may my Soul be delivered up at the last day if it be so with severa● other Ferio's and Darapti's of the same nature the bold dashes of an Arbitrary Pen Has he not by this means stiffly defended the gasping cause of Popery in this Nation and furnish'd the Traytors themselves with words at least if no● with Arguments to defend and justifie thei● Treasons True it is there are thousands who belive that Oats and Prance have done their King and Country better service than ever our dea● Brother with all his Gentility and Grandeur or all his huffing and puffing and snarling against Parliament Priviledges could ever pretend to and I am apt to believe it among the rest But the never aim'd at Cardinals Caps 'T was the Cardinals Cap that our dear Brother had in his Head I have wish'd it upon his Head an hundred times However my