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The man-mouse taken in a trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margins of Eugenius Philalethes.
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Vaughan, Thomas, 1622-1666.
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fire be This is his Question and I beseech you mark his Answer to it It signifies saith this Interpreter Squibs and Crackers such as the Cardinals are entertained with at Rome for it does not meane Carabines and Canons This he proves by the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which is in the Context of this Oracle and implies a subsultation or skipping this way and that way And thus Reader he concludes that Zoroaster in this oracle did prognosticat of fire crackers and Squibs rather then Canons or Carbines Injoy thy owne sense thou Goose of Cham for I hope thou art none of her Swans much good may it doe thee Thou hast spoken very wisely and I am confuted no man knows how I was about to dismisse him here but come hither Sirrah with your Fire-squirts These fine Inventions have their Consequences I wish the Elders to be at the Charge to stuffe your Breech with these Squibs and fire crackers then procure you a Chariot such as you mention and convey you invisibly to Scotland This is a better Project than any of your Three Iockey will place you in Front for some miraculous Mortar-peece of the Kirk and 't is but planting your Buttocks in the Canon-posture you may squirt your sires if you squirt not something else for feare in the face of the English Armie and demonstrat the Presbyterie â Posteriori This is all the use I can find for you and now you may fall to But blesse us the Squib is return'd he hath left Zoroaster and skips this way have at you Eugenius but you are a saucy boy you feare him not you know 't is a meer Cracker Well! he fals to my Epistle sticks in his Chops and now my Latine is under Correction Orator is vestri implies a Solaecism I am absurd not apposit in my Expressions And why thou Goblin what was my Action in that Epistle did I not request did I not orare and am I not then an Orator may not the Action denominat the Person Goe read Quintilian and he will tell thee Vim sermonis esse in Verbis Materiam in Nominibus But thou hast a Reason shall prove my Absurditie the Length of my Letter is not sufficient Is it then their Length or Breadth that qualisie speeches or is it their Designe and Matter miserable Ignorant he cannot distinguish Rhetorie from Geometrie But I had almost forgot amidst all this Barrennesse and Non sense we have a full Banquet from the Clouds Presbyterian Manna hee fils his mouth with Sugar-plums and Carva's Sure hee hath a sweet tooth and the Gale of the Beast is too bitter for it Poore Alaz this is a Bit and a Bob. But why should I condemn him in this his own Conscience hath accused him and by his self â—onfession it is Levitie It seems then all his performance hitherto was false fire but now hee will shoote Bullets he intends to fall more closely on my bones but questionlesse he will spoile his Teeth Deare Reader if thou doest love me pray for me Poore young Eugenius he was sometimes a notable wag a saucie boy but what will become of him now I cannot tell Sure this great Oâ—k will eate him up Come you Clod-pate you Black-moore what sayst thou to me I fall upon the Peripatetics you say as superficiall Philosophasters Why superficiciall and Philosophasters too will not one of both serve learn to speak sense for shame you did not find this language in my Book But you go on shew wherfore Becaeuse they cannot lay open to me the very essence of the Soul Prethee what is the Sense of this Essence doest thou mean the very central inscrutable Essence or very being of the Soul or doest thou mean her substance and Nature I am very confident thou doest speak thou doest not know what thy self But thy Question is Can I tell the very Essence of any substantiall Thing to tell the Essence is a barbarous form of speech but I believe thou wouldest ask me if the Essence be intelligible or not Thou art indeed a fine fellow Doest thou presume to defend Aristotel when thou doest not understand him In good earnest diddest thou ever read Logic hast thou not read then of a twofold Definition Accidentall and Essential Come hither good-man fool put on thy spectacles and peruse my words once more The Peripateties when they define the Soul or some inferior Principle describe it onely by outward circumstances which every child can do but they state nothing Essentially Thus Eugenius But Alaz denies that any thing can be stated Essentially Tell me then to what purpose did Aristotel praescribe Essentiall Definitions Get thee gone thou great Owle put a Gag in thy Chops and do not any more shame thy mother Vniversity But now Mr. Mastix you are transformed you cast your skin as Serpents do but you are not wise as Serpents are you were lately a simple Philosopher now you will be a splenetic spider You spin your shallow brains into some thirty small lines which you spend like poyson on my person Buâ—Philalethes is no Fly to be raâ—â—â— with Cobwebs I will onely break thorough and say nothing Would you know what 's next Little do you think I have the opportunity to be reveng'd on you I have found you once more troublesome busie with my Mistris I mean with Nature here will I kick you knock you as I please Be sure I will strip you of Hide and Flesh I will pick your bones and bestow you afterwards on Cambridge for a Fool's Anatomie I tax the Peripatetics you say because they fansy God to have made the world as a Carpenter of Stone and Timber Verely If I tax them for any such fancy I have done them an Injury But in good earnest do I tell you that God made the world of Stone Timber or that the Peripatetics say any such Thing put on your spectacles again and bring your Nose to the Book my words are these The Peripatetics look on God as they do on Carpenters who build with Stone and Timber without any infusion of life Who builds here with Stone Timber think you God or the Carpenter Fie upon you You cannot understand Common Sense though written in your own native English But there are some hopes of you you speak something at last and tell me very boldly this is false Doe you 〈◊〉 know what I am that you should be so saucy with me well Sir you shall be met withall You tell me the Peripatetics give an inward principle of Motion to all Natural Bodies and therefore look not on God as on Carpenters who build without any Infusion of Life This must be your Consequence if what I said is false as you would make it But Mr. Mastix do they allow an inward principle of Motion to all naturall Bodies are you sure of it Hold hold if this be true then there is in these Europaean parts you know
to tayl it with an Interpretation Now at last you begin to be morall sure Alaz you would instruct us you to speak of sober Truths motions Cautions purified minds and improved Reasons When was your mouth made clean Sirrah Do you Live as you preach No you are a Wealthy Beggar you have all this and you want it But you are grown a Prophet you foresee you will be my Prisoner and you Petition me for your freedome Did I not tell you you were a Beggar But you present sent a Reason for your Liberty you are you say near a kin to me take heed saucinesle no more kin than Cat and Mouse But you continue troublesome and would fain get off fairly you would have me to allow you in your Actings and in that foolish Confidence you subscribe your self A Chip of the same Block Come hither Chip What dost mean by this Block the Philalethean family In this Sense thou art no Blockhead Thus Sirrah have I returned your Complement I have confuted the Bulls of your Pistle here you may soresee the Destiny of your Observatious They shall be winnowed and sifted into Atoms that you and your fellow-fool Des Chartes may mistake your grinded papyrs for your powder'd principles This Correction Sir will speak my Iustice you shall have your {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which shall stick unto you Mr. Mastix {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} you observed me first now I shall make bold to observe you And art thou come then Balthasar welcome to the Lists I see thou dost begin to bob but I shall passe thorough thee with a bare point Sure Alas I shoud deal gently with thee thou hast an affection to be thought my Brother Content thy self thou canst not be there was never a FOOL of my Fathers house I would now whisper thee in the eare but that 't is too late for thou hast disgrac'd thy selfe by Proclamation Tell me thou Woodcock hast thou considered at any time what thou hast written for all Times was there not a Censurer in Christs College to whom thou might'st submit thy Exercise and request his Correction Why how now Mastix hast thou fronted thy Discourse with a Bull rampant that by no shifts can be excused see here Let us begin to act according to the freenesse of our tempers and play the Tom-Tell-Troths And you indeed have done your part already My course is next Thou wouldst have me begin to Act when thou thy self dost tell me I have done already But this is a flaw to thy next Breach Thou wouldest have us both play the Tell-Troths and for my part I have thou sayst Thy course is next What both Tell-Troths and our Tales Contradictories Alaz where is thy Logic why this is a miracle more than all Magic Assure thy self one of both must lie O that Gill lived in these Dayes It were a just severity to horse thee next time thou doest appear in Pauls Church-yard and strip thy Buttocks of their skin Thou pitifull undon Thing I will make thee curse the houre thou didst eyer take Pen and Ink in hand I will render thee such a perfect Asse that when posteritie would expresse any thing that 's over ridiculous they shall say A Moore But he proceeds and to further his Ruine falls to again though with some feare for once more he calls me his Brother 'T is a Relation Mastix I can no way allow of my Brothers were all White Boyes there was not a Moore amongst them Come on then Sir Bubo for now your note is loose and you begin to howle I am you say Simon Magus-like Sirrah you lie and you must needs do so for you never saw Simon nor my self But I am very charitable and wish the Conversion of the Moores wherefore I shall rectifie your judgement in this point I am indeed more like Simon Peter for I am a true Christistian and no Schismatic But Alas you have something to prove it a Liquorsome Desire that I have to be thought some great man in the world And why a Liquorsome Desire doe I desire some Liquor when I desire Greatnes you did not learne this Epithet in Cambridge she poures no such Liquor out of her pocula Sacra But I passe by your foolings and tell you plainly I wil be as great as Truth can possibly make me I cannot indeed any further prosecute this desired Greatnes but I must first thanke thee for thy Designs whereby it seems it is to be obtained Prethee Mastix let us heare them for since the Projects are thine I beleeve I never studied them before First then I must but as you say I Would be thought to have found out some new truths hitherto undiscovered If it be thy mind that I have found out Truths never known to any whatsoever before me it is a malicious wilfull slander for nothing is mentioned in my Books but I cite other authors for it to confirme my self but if thou sayst I have only found some secrets of Nature which are kept in the hands of a few but were never publickly known in this sense I owe the Designe and I have found something that is hitherto undiscovered The second Project is to be more learned and knowing than Aristotle that great Light as thou doest blindly call him of these European parts for these many hundred yeers together and not only so but to be so far above him that I may be his Master that I may lug him and lash him as Harry Moore's Breech should be lash'd Pish here is a Project indeed to doe all this is nothing The Third Project is the same with the first I would be thought skilfull in Art Magic and what is this but to have found out new Truths Sirrah you have found not a new Truth but a new Trick in Arithmetic How to divide two into three To conclude he ends his Projects with a whine he sayes That Hopkins the witch-finder is a troublesome fellow if he hath been troublesome to thee his office tells me wherefore But now that we have defeated the Projector let us put the scold againe in the Ducking-stoole and plunge him well it may be we shall wash the Moore cleane The Clatter saith he of the Title of my Booke Anthroposophia Theomagica sounds not much unlike some Conjuration or Charme Say you so Sir I prethee tell me how many syllables more are there in Anthroposophia then in Antipsychopannuchia or in Theomagica then in Antimonopsychia I will not laugh in Print with thy foolish ha ha he I will leave that to the Readers who cannot choose but laugh at thee most heartily But he hath left Eugenius and falls upon Zoroaster that old reputed Magician he is angry with his Title too and expounds his Oracle like my Booke Be pleased to reade what he did write Audi Ignis Vocem That is in plaine English heare the Voice or Noyse of fire But what saith he can this voice of