Disâ—ursive phansie yet all is so ill as it â—elates to Iudgment that knows when it has done well and said enough that I must leave both here and elsewher the burthen of the Song to the Reader and Him to find that it does its own work it self After this the Author comes to Town and gets one that lov'd Drolling to his Master if all Masters did so thou wouldst never get a place The Author 's Hypochondria where 's your hat and your leg to Hudibras got up into his brain and His head swel'd like ee'ne what you please In this Family he walk'd amongst the Innocent Hens bowed toward their pâ—w till He left them as Innocent as he found them with which Libertinage he was so transported that there being much more of the same still I wish all Fops at old Nick. But Lycanthropie I must take notice of that for the pain it cost me He says the Author has contracted the Distemper of Lycanthropy in so much that if there were any sheep here to wit in the 68 Page of the Rehearsal Transpros'd you should see him pull and suck Now I tell you Auditors that I have look'd in Thomas his Dictionary I find Lycanthropy indeed a sort of melancholy humour with which the parties that are affected Howl but that they believe themselves Wolves is more then He knows And I was the rather induced to misdoubt it because I suppose Trans does not think himself a Plant-animal nor for all his repeating and imitating the Rehearsal really believe himself to be Bayes But to something else Doctor P. yet again Well I see I must have t'other Tug at him for I would willingly shew you him in a Telescope though I can't in a Microscope if I die for 't He 's too big already Dr. P. I say tax'd Dr. H. for having New-fangled Divinity like yours but Created him Doctor of Divinity or ours Bayes is an Enemy to Controversial skill or the Calvinists Does he call them any where Controversial Fishes Bayes persecuted Germany taking it to be Mr. B. for which fault if he should raise up Bishop Bramhal's Ghost it would be angry as it had reason and rebuke him for it he shews you how in Rime Then comes once upon a Time the Guelfs and Gibbelines which of them were the Nonconformists in those days he can no more determine then which of us here at home you see He 's none of Us are now Schismatical then he says Bayes won't forgive Mr. B. nor for all our Jesting be Penitentiary Universal Hey ho Then he blames him for Preaching upon nothing but that particular Repentance which it seems he had chosen particularly for his Subject He speaks of the Name of God with Reverence literally but implicitely wholly without it Bayeâ— is the first Minister that has Commission 〈◊〉 Rail against all Nations but take notice it is void because it never was sealed by St. Thomas Britches again So often fumbling with them What ar't a Taylor Marry pray He bâ—n't worse Gentlemen have a care of your Pockets Let folks fear God Honor the King Look to their Chimneys There 's Piety Remarkable respect for his Majesty and an End of the wittyest froth of five of his Leaves more Skip soundly and you come to a huge deal of Sport about I. O. and the Letters of the Alphabet Fighting through Squadrons of Mutes Semi-vowels does any man know what they be and Liquids With these Bayes he says keeps himself in exercise as Cats whet their Claâ—s against they incounter Rats He had heard of Elephants whetting their Teeth but forgetting He is not now talking of Elephants Teeth he says Cats whet their Claws They do not they do not They onely claw the Hangings sometimes to stretch themselves as I am assured by a Lancashire witch that was One. Now pick what letter you will c. but I 'le swear I am ashamed to let any body know when this was the Entertainment that I stay'd longer in the Company Wherefore to pass quietly without noise as I can by such Dull nuts as Io Poean The Focus of Burning Glasses I meant to Ieer but I see I need onely repeat him The Stars smiling and the Fountains warbling nay and Tom Triplet too Quis enim tam durus ut in Te We come now at last to be told that I. O. He hath serv'd this whole Campaigne for betray'd the Enemies Design to the Rats and tormented the poor Letters worse then the Arrantest Dunce that ever made Acrostick Telestick or Anagram that I. O. I say though like his Couzen Bartholomew Trans could not pass by any shop but He must be buying was not the Person Bayes intended but the King Now it begins to work His Majesty before his happy and miraculous Restauration How if you had begun thus Scarce had the ruddy Aurora risen from the Bed of the aged Titan when c. But please your self Onâ—ly I would not willingly be tyred at the very beginning of a Speech Well Sent over a Declaration of his Indulgence to Tender Consciences but before the Toleration which is now pass'd came out Bayes put out his Ecclesiastical Policy in which the Grand Thesis upon which He Stakes the Fates of Princes and Conscience of Subjects to pass by your fiddle faddles is This That it is absolutely necessary to the Peace and Government of the World That the Supreme Magistrate of every Common-wealth should be vested with a power to Govern and Conduct the Consciences of Subjects in Affairs of Religion This say you being the Magisterial and main Point the rest of his Assertions may be reckoned as Corollaries without which it can never be justified First I confess I never heard before that Corollaries prove the matter that precedes but that Justifies the Corollaries He had the notions in his head jumbled together about Corollaries Postulat's and either could not find what the thing he meant to speak of was or if he knew that which was the right name to call it by because t' should seem it was not in His Iustine I have been wondring all this while why he said the Author's Preface would serve for a Post-script to the Bishop's book Now my Dream is out for I see he understands that a Consequence may Play at leap frog with a Proposition and that which is a Postulat one may calla Corollary If this World hold there 's hopes we may baffle the Irrefragable Doctor and the Master of Subtilities both by and by After some more Citations ouâ— of the Author Trans says Having 〈◊〉 enabled the Prince that is proved his Assertion by Corollaries dispensed with Conscience fitted up a Moral Religioâ— this is all impertinent now to the course of an Argument he the Author shews next how much those moral vertâ—â—â— are to be valued Affirming that it is 〈◊〉 necessary Princes should set up a stricter Goâ—vernment over mens Consciences Perâ—swasions And that it is less hazardous 〈◊〉 give Liberty
to their Vices then to 〈◊〉 Consciences Why this shews only how much the want of these Vertues is to be 〈◊〉 valued not how much they are to 〈◊〉 valued Thou alwaies provest â—liâ—d I expected to have heard what they would have given us and if a 〈◊〉 should have got something by being a Good Subject Go on But for what belongs to the use of their Power I thought you had meant the utility or usefulness of it Exercise of their power and be whip'd then If Princes will be Resolute c. Come welfare mine Hoast of the Taberd Thou do'st nought but spend 〈◊〉 I tell thee friend thou shalt no longer rime Next he speaks of well meaning men who Bayes says may be punished if they do contrary to what they are bid for all their meaning In conclusion he cites one Corollary morâ— to which the Grand Thesis it self 〈◊〉 says is subordinate There are two kinds of subordination one in order to Proof the other in order to Profit You shall not slink 〈◊〉 from being bold to what is in order to Proof though letting you do so would be in order both ways to youâ— Prâ—â—â—â— The Corollary iâ— If Prâ—â—â—s plâ—â—â— a 〈…〉 of the Church the 〈◊〉 presently Tâ—â—ters I say then Bayes does not lay down this in order to proving as a Corollary his Thesis But all this now as I told you is impertinent to the Canvassing that point where he left which is The Grand Thesis Onely I have trac'd his long maze of words and dodging thus punctually for I never intended to make a business of Him to see if I could find how the King was glanced at but perhaps we may come to it by and by In the interim he concludes once more this is the syntagm of Bayes his Divinity 〈◊〉 the system of his Policy the Principles of which confine upon the Territorys of Malmsbury You have been at it once before as a Rectory then I pass'd it now look to it self as a Frontier Thou art the imprudent'st Champion for Forâ—iâ— Iurisdiction or Toleration chuse you which that ever I knew Can't you let that Book alone we should forget if you 'd but hold your Tongue why 't is the only thing that is as great a Hudibras to your Church as Hudibras is a Leviathan to the Presbyterians Now comes a great deal of rambling Invective against Bayes for endeavouring to Couch his business so as by intangling matter of Conscience with the Magistrates Power no body should dare to meddle with it Why if he does that does not concern you for you are far enough from so much as handling the Question yet for ought I see We proceed Bayes being fortify'd with that Intanglement on one side took himself to be impregnable on the other since His Majesty must needs take it kindly that He gave him such an accession of Territory and That what That Bayes shewd him He ought to submit to His Instructions lest by vertue of Page 271. Bayes should not think him fit to Govern For still this the King must take kindly too or we can't look that Bayes should expect by vertue of your â—â—ference to be impregnable on both sides if that which you say is in Pag. 271. be true which I don't belieâ—e and shall not make a Journey to look I suppose the Book 〈◊〉 eâ—â—ant for any body that please to satisfie themselves And so I conclude this with saying that in respect of any words of His which I observe by you set down in this Book for your Quâ—tation of p. 271. contrary to your Custom recites none I see no reason for your saying The King is the person in any indecent way intended by Bayes from the beginning Well then we come to what Bayes has said and something we are sure of That is the before repeated Thesis which is a Universal Proposition and none of them meddle with any particular persons Actions Therefore it is only to be inqired of such an one whether it be true or no. Under the Title of unlimited Magistrate He undertakes to Examine the Matter And first he puts off his Cap and salutes the Company as Tumblers do before they begin excusing himself by reason of his private fortune and Education Truly we have not seen either over much Learning nor Manners yet as to the Education and for your Fortune I 'le look a little further before I believe 't is in earnest so bad as you make it But if thou be'st a poor Scholar let 's see if there be any hopes of thy coming to ought that 's good that way Thou art Respondent Bayes argues thus Princes ought not to forgo that Soveraignty which is absolutely necessary to Govern The Soveraignty over mens Consciences is such Ergo One would think now He should deny the Minor and let Bayes go on and if he did not know his way lose himself Or else find some fault ex vi Formae in the syllogism not a bit of either does He But first starting another Proposition of Bayes's That no Rites or Ceremonies can be esteemed unlawful unless they tend to Debauâ—â— men in their Practice or Conceptions of the Deity Upon which Trans Infert that 's not thy business still that if the Other be true no man is in Ingenuity bound to do God that service which we deny to follow too but let that pass To the Grand Argument which we have made such a Grand do about and which is or should be the Grand Subject and Conquest of this Grand Book â— instead of Answering He turns Oppâ—nent and praemising that the King has a terrible way of Kicking and will fling you to the Stable door that He kâ—ows all is but that the Priest may riâ—e him fine Language thâ—ugh to a Precipice Only tells you first That he is confiâ—eâ—t if Bishop Bramhal were alive he would rebuke Bayes for it Secondly That no Bishop nor any of their Chaplains would have Licensed his Book without certain Non-Obstantes Thirdly That the King though they be his Right does not love to hear of conceal'd Lands Whoever can find any more let them take it for the Discovery Now would any one believe that this man had read St. Thomas Nay or Iack Seton or Burgersdicius why he does not know what Arguing is He does not so much as Confute him with Not. He onely Imitates the School Master that when the Child desired to know what was the English of such a word asked him who wash'd his face Go Bayes go what do you Dispute with a Durty face Now I begin to take him for a Quaker for as broken Mystical Logick is a sign of Infallibility so having none at all is in earnest a sign of a mans private Fortune and Education Tell him of Modes Figures and Syllogismâ— he has a Toleration for that and will tell you again They are all but Forms invented by Aristotle who may have been some Primate or Metropolitan Bishop for ought he knows under
asks Is this the same thing now No sure but Bayes never told you he never talked but one thing all his life But do these two deserve to be brought to confront one another as contraries or does either confess the Accusation What should one talk further to a Corollary-maker for So in his further Quotations about Magistrates power Inward Conscience that 's a pure word too I wonder who inventd throwing away Butter upon basting of fat meat Can you tell me where a man may buy a piece of Red Scarlet to make a Coat for his outward back And the Wednesday Act he seems sometimes to leave out otherwhile to subjoyn words of the Authors that are not nor never were intended as I guess to be Relatives to the matter he cites before or else he will not or does not understand how that which he represents for contrary is consistent as it really is Here follows but two leaves and a half of most dissolute and groundless Invective that Railing is the most material part of Bayes his Religion his â—eâ—son his Oratory his Practice and the ultimate end of all his books For thy part if this be the way of Triumpâ—ing I believe it will be a most scanâ—alâ—â— thing ere long to get a victory There is nothing in my way that hinders me and so I may now go on to the Preface to Bishop Bramhall I believe the Reader has forgot any such thing was ever mentioned You should have plac'd your Title-page here Well the King puts out his Declaration of Indulgence March the 15th 71. Upon which Bayes fell into many warâ— and glowing Meditations which occasioned his writing this Preface First here Trans brings his Dilemmâ— again You should have mended it though or got a new one for take my word this has a hurt in the Fiddle Next he calls Bayes Incendiary Idle Fellow You are a Shâ—d and a Whit and a very Tim. Give him no more Ale he shall not have a drop more But what Bayes sayes of His Majesty and the Council being toward the later end of his Discourse I am forced to defer that a little he defers that which he is not come to lest there being no method in it I should be in a perpetual maze and never know when I am at my Iourney 's end Marry that 's a provident care indeed for a Mad-man for thou shewest plainly enough I think that thou art in a maze already He continues And here I cannot altogether escape the mentioning of I. O. again Is this Going on to the Preface Do'st thou take I. O. to be the Preface to Bishop Bramhall Prethee tell me in plain words and other folks too that never read word of any of your writings when you come to 't with your Going on and say Hic incipit the Rehearsal Transpros'd or Animadversions upon a late book entituled a Preface c. Now must I run I see to I. O. and a Garden of Flowers and never know but that I also am in a 〈◊〉 there and that I. O. may be a Thief or a Gardner or knows who but Why this is Lardella's Funeral On then Rabbi Harpocrates He the Author singles I. O. out and 〈◊〉 pretence runs down all the Non confâ—â—â—ists This being as he imagined the safest way to undermine and blow up 〈◊〉 Majesty's Declaration If he had run down His Majesty's Declaration he had undermined and blown up all the Noâ— conformists but to run down the Noâ— conformists I suppose is not to undermine or blow up but to take away the subject of His Majesty's Declaration The next thing in the Garden oâ— Preface if they be all one is thâ—â— Bayes you say undertakes to prove that Railing is both lawful aâ—d expedient Now this you say but that you make a conscience of doing it you could prove a sin by Scripture if you would No doubt it requires a great Doctor to do it But why should you make a conscience if any holds it lawful to rail to convince him by Scripture that it is not Nor is it worth ones while to teach him out of other Authors What confute him neither way Why then it seems if he does hold it lawful to rail he may hold it still if he will for Trans What art thou doing or what would'st thou do You say you could quote a place out of my Lord Verulam to his confusion why don't you It is not that where he distinguishes betwixt Idola Tribus and Idola Specus is it If it be you are much in the right for forbearing for that would explain to us how though all your Tribe have a large faculty at mistakes and railing yet you may have an extraordinary gift that way beyond them all and a particular cranâ—y by your self Now this comes of your crying I know what I know Therefore pray next time either tell us down right what you would be at or else I â—ad suppose the whole Play But I must shorten a little and not take notice of every thing out of tender consideration by what I now suffer of the patience and pains of my gentle Reader Otherwise it would be a shorter Penance to injoyn the reading of the whole Book of Martyrs then this of such a one Martyr as it were an easie thing in every line almost to make of you But now you will take a walk in the Garden and gather some of Bayes's flowers I would not advise you to smell on them though for they are all Roses and grow upon that that may chance prick your nostrils mark else The first you observe is that Bayes says Several of the Non-conformists themselves if a Chimney but take fire in the City are immediately crying Iesuits and Firehals To which you Reply I understand you Sir Why does Bayes suspect you to be a Iesuit I 'le assure you I onely suspect there is one that may be of that Religion that is a Coxcomb I don't desire to reflect upon any Societies of men It is not just nor civil and besides forein to my Matter and therefore I would not be so understood but else the World may distinguish if they please betwixt some of that Order that deserve esteem upon the true account of their Wit and others if you be one that have nothing to shew but a troublesome Industry and their being indeed Indefatigable Brambles So walk on And next you seem very tender that the people should cry out Iesuits and Popish plots upon accidents and I say too God forbid that any man be he of what Religion soever should be accused wrongfully But as for any course I see you take to make folks wiser you had better in my opinion have passed this Flower by but perhaps you could not But whereas you say next speaking to the Author Take heed the Reasons which sparkle in your your Discourse have not set their Chimneys on fire I must observe this is something that is darkly said and seems to intimate more
to do thus to talk himself very lightly of it Ironically cites Proofs of it out of what he calls the Fanatical Book of Martyrs and the Scotch History This Discourse takes up two leaves in him but I shall prosecute it no further Then he comes to Point of Honour and treats nicely taking no notice whom he imitates of the Lu More Quotations out of the Rehearsal They fly they fly Who first did give the lie Truly you are mistaken thy are onely gone to dinner Next we come to Symbolicalness which you tax the Author for having describ'd in several extravagant fashions I know not with what Fidelitie you have either collected or do present them to us I confess I am no Approver of swelling nor harsh expressions But whereas you say this Symbolicalness is a flower nay a flower of the Sun made at the Cock or Nags-head I say 't is pity neither of those houses had the Sun for their Sign that you might have been i' th' right But having not I can see little but that if it be a flower of the Sun it is the strangest of the kind that ever the Sun saw for it grows upon a mere imaginary or no ground at all But Mr. Bayes or Mr. Thunder or Mr. Cartwright why Mr. Trans or Mr. Toleration or Mr. Guy Faux he is not ashamed to be call'd Player by him that calls Preaching Playing his part and if you call him as many Names as Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus Bombast of Hohenheim he will be still ready to make an answer to Satan Lucifer Belzebub Leviathan Abaddon Well we have now seen the last flower and so here 's an end of the Garden I think wee 'l suppose it at least De bene esse The next thing thou tellest us is that thou hast laboured and moil'd like any poor Philistin in binding up this Sampson with his own words as fast you say as such a Proteus could be pinion'd It seems then you begin to perceive he 's loose again already He is so but the reason you Goose is not because he is Proteus but because your Cords were slight ones and the Knots slipt You should have cut off his Beard and have made a Simarr of it and then you had had him sure Well but Trans fain would do something though and let Bayes make more or less of it if he can Why you have been defying him all this while have you not Are you resolv'd now you can fend no longer nor prove no longer nor bind no longer to threaten him still as you are running away and part like Borgio Backward on Goltho many a look he cast And through his eyes his sparkling anger flam'd 'T is true no man can hinder you from knowing what you know and talking to your self however Well Your business Abel Princes have always found the Government over Conscience unsafe and unpracticable Oh are you come Their Right to such a Government stands firm then after all Then Trans as for the unsafeness of it if uncontroulable libertie prove safe All 's well But as for its unpracticableness I beg your pardon for that Would His Majesty would please to command me any harder matter if I did not do it I 'de nere answer Transprosal more This next leaf belongs to Ursula Mol Gifford and the Father of Lies let them ee'n agree together about sharing it amongst them The Miscellany ends in your saving Bayes's design was so much too hard for a man that it would have giddied any Goose. I never heard so much said for the Câ—â—dit of Geese before Are Geese brains so much better settled then then ours Let me ask you one question more if you please for this seems to hint something above common observation Do you every time you find a knotty place that is more difficult then ordinary in Bayes's Preface repair to some Goose or other to help you answer it It was proper and natural I confess to associate with Geese when you were at the Lake of Lemane and I suspected nothing then because of the place And it did not methought look so much like advising or consulting but onely like padling in a Dish of Tea or over a Cup of Coffee together But is it not rather to prepare an excuse for your self against you have occasion that you make this Comparison by which you may make a Grand Thesis for your self too to wit That a Goose is the ablest man From whence you may deduce Corollaries at pleasure and if any bodie excepts against what you say prove 't is irrefragable and all perfect Transprosal because no Goose could have done it better Nay then I 'le help you a little but it must be by a Quibble You know I have one with you you owe me Colossian Church So now take one of mine and then haply we may continue to trade on by Bill of Exchange hereafter Why the business is I think You say nothing to the Prefacer worth a rush besides your book has a puzling Title therefore now you have proved a Goose is the wisest and most solid thing I would have you talk no more of a Rehearsal Transpros'd or go to oppose Animadversions to a late Book c. but an Answer Since though she but hiss and we can't understand her Yet still you 'l have gi'n him a Goose for his Gander If this strictly speaking be no Quibble but a Pun now excuse me for you understand these things better then I but I am sure it s no Corollary Now we will pass to the Point you pretend to be most Zealous for you 〈◊〉 pag. 209. That some of the Nonconformists under the name of symbolical Ceremonies dispute the Lawfulness of those which are by our Church injoyned whereby now mark say you They can only intend that these Ceremonies are so applyed as if they were of a Sacramental Nature and Institution and that therefore they are unlawful You add further that the Author's Answerer handling this Place makes use of a Pertinent passage in St. Austin Signa cum ad res divinas pertinent Sacramenta vocantur I don't intend to meddle with any body but your self for I will not make more holes then I mend Possibly the other Nonconformists and we may come to agree kindly together for all this But Trans my Foe is thy self whom you see I shrewdly suspect to care for neither of us So then that which I am going to reply to is your commending that passage in St. Austin as Pertinent to the precedent Matter Take notice you have first said The Nonconformists can onely intend our Ceremonies are so applyed as if they were of a Sacramental nature What you mean by Applyed you explain where you say This is it they complain of that they are imposed upon them with so high a Penalty c. and by your Conclusion But here I say is their main Exception that things Indifferent c. should be made by reason of equal Penalty with
neglect of Sacraments necessary conditions of Church Communion So that all the Nonconformists in your understanding go about to prove is onely the unreasonableness or unlawfulness of the Penalty And you your self acknowledge that our Ceremonies are Indifferent things Now if after all you commend this Text as in order to its proving our Ceremonies to be Sacraments You give your self the what i st Oh The word no flesh can bear But if you commend it as pertinent to prove the Penalty unlawful you talk non-sense for it does not at all concern Matter of Penalty and so it is neither way a Pertinent but an Impertinent passage and you might as well have commended the Pertinency of the Cover of St. Austins Book But your aim I see every where is but to keep up the Iangle amongst us as long as you can and it seems we are not a little distracted already For there are two Books whilst I am now writing come out against you and the second finds fault with the first And if there be e're an addle Headed fellow to follow this ten to one but he picks one hole or another in us all Three but men of sense sure will have more Wit and if they do write mind their Business I am come now where the Quotation I meet is certainly one of the Sorâ—es Virgilianae you speak of for your own self Cum Tot sustineas tanta Negotia solus for thou seest I leave all and will upon thy own back But I must take notice now of your Apologizing here as several times you have done before for your so often speaking Latine You being now forsooth ee'n hardned in it I must tell you I have sometimes heard men taâ—k Latine Pedantically but you excuse yours so affectedly that I must say you are the first that ever I saw Pedantically decline speaking it If your Latine Citations are pertinent they need not be excused if they are not they can't be So pray trouble us no more like my Lady would be with My breeding hath not been so course To offend with Pertinacy we do believe it You may believe it c. for Latine or no Latine you 'r like to get but little here besides The Plot stands still and the Grand Thesis is all this while you are Courtesying taking its pleasure near Lambeth in a Gundalo This ramble of yours ends in the Author 's knowing it is not always safe nor Honourable to be of a Father's Opinion You don't mean to bring your Proofs out of St. Thomas or St Austin do you I shall not speak a word ex professo about their Controversie who affect in their Worship a simplicity free from all External Circumstances but such as are Natural or Customary which I am now come to Nempe superba manet Babylon spolianda Trophâ—is If you can find any thing formerly said that touches them either by Implication or Consequence much good do you And so you may take me for one of them my self if you please I am sure you are not that say they foul St. Austin with their Thumbs c. And so I skip both good bad and indifferent from this place to your Citation out of Bishop Bramhal whose Ashes by your leave shall not be Consecrated in the Form you do it As if That which he saw in matter of Doctrine he would not see in matter of Discipline No certainly nor He could not except his Name had been Cinna Quod non est Cinna videre potest At last you wish the Author may not prove An accursed Bay Tree And He wishes that you may not turn to a Huge Elephant but I hope there 's no danger You are deadly sly in your next Paragraph 〈◊〉 Our Church you say does piously declare that Kneeling at the Lords Supper is not for Adoration of those Elements and so of the other Ceremonies c. But the Romanists this is your Roman Empâ—re too Trans that comes in as often as you well cau frâ—m whence we have them who have Wine from the Canary's and Plums from Zâ—â—t and who said of old we would come to feed of their meat as well as eat of their Pâ—rridge Oh! This is the Alteration belike that you like a Minor Prophet under them said You think God has signify'd by what means he will effect do offer us here many a fair distinction and Declaration in very weighty matters To which nevertheless the Conscience of our Church hath not complyed And thus on Now I think it is plain enough whose cause you are Pleading but I will not bind you in such cords as you bound the Prefacer for I see well enough what hole you will slip out at if I should charge you here too home You will but cry like Falstaff when the Prince asked him if he had said he was a Sneak-Cup Did I Bardol You can't deny but you will own nothing Wherefore passing the rest of your Good morrow's which are as many as you could tell how to sum up I come to the end where you innocently conclude Which things I do thus sparingly set down onely to shew the Danger of Inventive Piety Why truly Trans and I will be very civil to you and since you say that 's your sole reason I will not deny it But then I expect you should be so civil to me as to acknowledge that I neither do not present and hint these things as absolutely concluding that you are neither Roman Catholick or Iesuite or Design Popery but onely to shew the danger there may possibly be of being wheedled and over-reached and cheated under many a mans pretending to be Consciencious onely against Cruelty and for a Brotherly and Christian Tenderness to one another To your long business about the Clause to the Wednesday Act and its binding the Conscience or no I answer it does not bind as Gods immediate commands do but it does as He commands us to obey the Magistrate who hath power to injoyn it But I find my self run into a World of Seriousness who as I am a Virgin never intended at first to meddle with any thing of you but that which thou would'st have us take to be Wit But when I find you come to forget Play with me but hurt me not Iest with me but shame me not You see what a troublesome Alteration you have brought upon the Company You might have writ Plays Governed the Coffeehouse drunk your Glass of Wine nay more too and I had ne'r contradicted you But if you must needs talk of Conscience cry Conformists have Bull's-heads and Nonconformists Durty Thumbs and tire a body's heart out with a Bramble and the Lake of Lemane Why 't is as bad as giving us the Que ditez vous And I must cry then Brother George hold my Band and At you if you were as big as Paul's Steeple Now I begin to grow sick again for I am looking to see what 's next in thy book Well I will not put my self