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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29192	An answer to two letters of T.B. by the author of The vindication of the clergy.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.; Eachard, John, 1636?-1697.	1673 (1673)	Wing B4213; ESTC R20172	27,318	74

as fast as they please provided they be subject to the Kings Laws and disturb not the peace of their Neighbours and I 'll ask no more nor trouble my head about them But whereas you tell me that no true Gentile English Spirit would have guess'd as I did when you make it out you was gentile in hussing our Clergy in general and every particular Member that comes in your way I will warrant every word and syllable I have said of you and your Family to be not onely Gentile but Right Honourable As for the many small Games and petit Catches you abound with I shall onely say Mum to them all and if you please to imploy some body else to pick the feathers off your Querpo I will inquire a little into the great Design of your Letter which is to magnifie your own way of talking or Wit as you call it and vilifie all others and then bid you good night Not that I would be thought to set up for a Wit of all the Trad● in Town but because I find my self bound by the Laws of Errantry like some Palph or Sancho to follow my Leader into any even the most Magnificently foolish Adventures Standers by may possibly see more than Gamesters without Spectacles and now my hand is in I will be so hardy as to descant a little upon your very Master-piece and if you be taken tardy here too I must request you also to burn your Common Place Book or quit the Pit In the first place Sir though you would seem to be highly incensed against a Quibble yet I perceive you know not what it is because you call conceits of the first and second Rate by that diminutive name For according to the best Authors that have written on this Subject a Quibble is nothing else but a Gingling and Chiming of Consonant words and this I must tell you is no less then a Figure in Rhetorick call'd Paronomasia saving your presence But Bishop Sanders in the very Sermon you Cite maintains this kind of Speeches to be Elegancies and flowers of Elocution when they are used sparingly without Affectation and only as Sawce to our Meat You might there have espied Ten or Twelve several places in the Bible where this Figure occurres whereof the good Advice of St. Paul is one if you please to take it and not Play with it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to mention no more From whence that right Learned Prelate takes occasion to Chastise those idle inconsiderate Persons who Scoff at the like Elegancies in Sermons and other Discourses concluding utterly against you viz. That 't is only Affectation in this as in every other thing that makes it tedeous or ridiculous But those Levities of mine you so judiciously call Quibbles belong Sir to another Figure in Rhetorick y●l●ped Homonymia when the words are Ambiguous and Ianus like look two ways at least And what ever you say or opine to the contrary these Sir will be not only Lawful but Useful and Elegant and have a Sting in them when you and I are dead Vossius was never Laugh'd at before for saying Hermolaus nomine non re Barbarus nor Heylin for Baiting the Pope's Bulls and telling us of one Iohn Selden whose Name needs no Titles of Honour do you see Sir how bold he makes with the Title of a Book purely for the Phancies sake Nor T●lly for his Ex agro Falerno depellantur Anseres the same word unluckily signifying both a Man and a Goose. I could for a need throw you an hundred more into the Bargain but as I told you before they must be used sparingly Now Sir would you have us blot out two several Figures in Rhetorick meerly to please you Must we get an Act of Parliament in all haste against latter especially which no Language in Europe can live without Even your own English is utterly ruin'd if you take it away all your Proverbs Tropes Metaphors and other Elegancies signifying no more than Chip in Pottage without their Allusions or Ambiguities And may not I take the same liberty of Speech that all the World has done before me for fear of angring you But I 'm confident what e're you say you don't really think such kind of Allusions ridiculous if you do you left your Memory surely in your other Breeches when you went last to the Press Pray Sir present my Services to R. L. and ask what 's the first Letter of that Gentleman's name who styl●s his Grace Guardian of Humane Nature and says May and Can are of the same Mood and Tense and talks of pure terse Good-man he would have said Terce hum●ne Nature newly drawn out of the Clouds Who plays most Childishly with the Reverend B. O. ● for saying the Writes like one Puffed up as if he meant that he was Fat and Bloated when he is soberly attempting to Cure the Tympany i● his Mind Who tells me I am as utterl● undone as ever was Oyster and that his Ca● was not free to be Roasted The same Figure all along to a Cows Thu●b These I only return you Sir to let the World see that however you hate these little things yet you can't forbear them more than others although by your quarrelling at them other-whiles you start a new Figure in Rhetorick called Autocatacrisis or Self-contradiction You complain indeed I now and then speak as some others have done before me and that the Humour is not my own as if you were for none but New Phancies new Stories new Proverbs new Old-saying● all spick and span New But if this be a Fault you have no reason to call it so of any man living For did you make those Forms of Speeches so frequent w●th you Dunstable Stuff Catching old Birds with Chaff From Top to Toe Tumble down Dick Courage Cakes The Story of the Oyster Hogs to Rumford Nov●rint Vniversi Sink or Swim The Whore of Babylon A Phancie of his Worships and Nineteen more I will not trouble my Head to remember Did you spin them all out of your own Brain Alas Sir they are not only Trite and Common but of as long standing as that of the Boy that made the Knife many of them are as Old as ever was Paul's or if that be yet too young as Old as Spilmans Trial Mr. Eaton's Goose or that of Iohn Hall the Capper you know where I am Nay had I nothing else to do I could Trace some of the most tolerable Humours in all your Works and shew the very Page and Line in Don Lucian and the other Don where you had them albeit you put them off for New as your Philautus does his borrowed Notions and own not those Old Gentlemen's kindness for fear of spoiling your Markets But for you to charge me with your own guilt Quis tulerit Gracchos For my part I love to speak in the Language of other men sometimes and do declare I suspect all things that have nothing but pure Terce

you like my Lord Mayors Horse or his Wifses Monkey to compare you to Esops Crow a Thief in a Mill a Dog in a Bath or a Dog in a Doublet and make you like any thing between York and London But I disclaim all such sneaking Comparions as having no Sting in their Tails I have odds enough of you besides and shall ever think me at the better end of the Staff so long as you continue only like your self In the next place I find my self much oblig'd to you for the choice Library you have assign'd me Wits Commonwealth Spencers Similitudes c. But that phancy Sir begins to grow stale and besides I wonder you left your own learned Works out of the Catalogue for I 'le assure you I make more use of them to quit scores with you than of all the Books in St. Pauls Church-yard However methinks you are vilely out in your Politicks here again I have read in Lucian another of my Authours Sir which you quite forgot of a certain Addle-headed Historian who having begun his Work with a solemn Invocation of the M●ses that they would inspire him migh●●ly made it his great business not so much to tell the truth as to praise and flatter his Emperour To be shot Sir when 〈◊〉 had Drawn up his Men and given the Enemy Battel and Routed them Horse and Foot for indeed it was done to his hand to shew how well he was vers'd in Homer he falls a comparing his own Prince to Achilles and the Persian King who fell that day by his hands to Thersites for Pureness as if it had not been more for his honour to have killed Hector or some such Valiant and Princely Hero than the despicable Thersites The Application Sir is easie and it goes thus If it had not been more for your Credit to have Conquered or to have been Baffled by a considerable Adversary and well provided than such a silly Creature as you have described and so ill Arm'd too I never saw the like on 't But above all things Sir I must desire you for the future to have a great care of a Mouse-Trap especially if it be Baited with a bit of Greek 't is not good Nibbling too far where there may be Danger in the Case For although it seems to be your Hogen Mogen design in this Epistle to take me to Task for my Greek yet I am affraid you were better to have kept within your own Element your beloved English Exercises still than have ventured out to so little purpose Your charging me with mistaking the Sense or the Authour or both in those two pieces of Greek is so Imposing that were that very Grandame alive that Taught you this kind of Confidence as your self somewhere tells us I believe she would scarce save you from a Whipping The ●●●st is an end of one of those golden Verses so highly prised anciently be the Sect of the Mumm●rs wherein you make me construe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Virtue and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●overty If you make me Sir I can't help it but upon consulting my Copy I find no such matter pray Sir next time when your hand is in make me render 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Great Turk and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pope and upon my word I will not take it half so hainously But to give you as much Rope as you can in reason expect let it be as you will have it let the one signifie Virtue but not as it is opposed to Vice Sir that 's your mistake but to Infirmity and implies only a Faculty or Power of doing a thing and the other Poverty Fate hard Fate Necessity or what you please provided it signifie something that doth either occasionally or necessarily Excite Quicken and Enforce the Faculty or Power aforesaid and I am content I could shew you several Authours that use the words to this effect but that they are Old ones whose Authority you don't use to value Howeeer the World may be in your debt for your New-found exposition of this place I shall hold to my Old one still viz. That whether we attribute a man's condition of Life to Fate with the Stoicks to Fortune with the Epicureans or to Providence with all sober Christians the Text will bear these and many more Senses Necessity is and ever will be a reasonable Spur to Action it will make us do our utmost and more then we thought to be in our power I must forgive my Trespassing Friend for once else I shall lose him for ever and so in other like Cases Hierocles who knew that Authour's mind better than you did mine Sir is much of the same Opinion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. The ancient Sages of Greece were wont to draw up the Sum and Heads of their Principles in certain Schemes Tables or Trees as they phancied for the benefit of their Pupills and in the Pythagorean Scheme Power dwelt hard by as I think at the very next door to Necessity to imitate what I told you before Now whereas you take Fate and Necessity to be one and the same because Curteous to shun that unruly word Necessitati translates the place for his Verse sake fato vicina pote●t as yet what if they should prove it to be sometimes two things For instance Sir your Fates may dec●ee what they please and my poor Scholar for whom all this stir and criticizing is be never the wiser but he is so well acquainted with his own circumsta●ces that he easily perceives a manifest Necessity he should study without consulting the Almanack of Fate if ever he intend to be a wise learned rich or great man knowing that this same poor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 can almost do Miracles and so much for that As for my other Greek remnant it seems I am out in my Author and then no wonder I mistake his meaning too But who is the Tyger now Sir can't a man cite a Comment for the Text without all this noise as if Hannibal were at the Gates or Apprentices in an uproar It were neither Felony nor Man-slaughter however you dispatch your Hue and Cry so fast after me But what if you should reckon without your Host Sir What if the Text have not taken new Lodgings lately but is to be found still where I left it l●st in plodding Aristotle's own House when you go that way next pra● call at the fourth Book of his Physicks chap. 19. 128. and you will either meet with that or one very like it i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Examine him accurately take out your Compasses for sureness set one foot at the Text the other on the Comment and see where you find those words but be sure you don't confess your errour indeed I was amaz'd to see you quote the very Chapter and then question your faculties as far as to deny a palpable matter of fact till I understood you trusted a scurv● Lexicon and