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A31741 A Character of the true blue Protestant poet, or, The pretended author of The character of a popish successor Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724. Character of a popish successor. 1682 (1682) Wing C2028; ESTC R14676 5,012 4

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to Dishonour her But since he could Record his own Mother a Whore should we in reason expect better from such a Sordid Animal No it is impossible that Mud should produce any thing but Monsters In the next place he is a Man of so much Religion that he has often and in several Companies declared That Interest is his God and indeed according to the Dictate of his Interest has he ever acted As for a fresh Example for when he had to oblige a party Foolishly enough in every Coffee-house Ale-house and Tavern he came into owned The Character of a Popish Successor to be his But finding his hoped for reward still behind he has often said God Damn that Party they were ungrateful Rascals he presently resolved to change the Scene and answer those two Books called The Character of a Popish Successor and a Popish Successor Compleat which not two Months before he had with no small Vanity Boasted to be his In this how far he proceeded I cannot tell but he begun the great work for it has been seen by several in several Papers under his own hand The Verbatim words of one that was by accident lost by him but is still in being and may be produced are these I confess I am so proud of Publishing the Glories of that never to be forgotten Hero the Royal J. That I would not only with no little vanity have set my Name to this Loyal Panegyrick but with Triumph have laid both my self and it at his Highnesses Feet did I not fear the Injustice I have done that unexampled Envied Prince should I discover my self would create me such Mortal Enemies that I might with reason expect a Phanatick Stab for the ungrateful Oracles I have declared I believe indeed not only I but all Men of sence would fear to Insense so Powerful so Revengeful and so Dangerous a Party against them 'T is true I could have been more large in describing the Compendious Merits of his worthily famous Highness 's more then Princely Character did I not think it as Impertinent a piece of Rethorick as playing the Oraetour upon the Courage of Ajax and Subtilty of Ulisses it being no more then the understanding Reader and the Judging Admiring World are already sensible of And next the whole aim of the Subject is to do my King and Country Service First in Removing the doubts of a distracted People and delivering them from the unhappiest of all Conditions the living betwixt Hope and Fear like Erasmus 's Paradice hanging between Heaven and Hell and settling them in a true and solid understanding both of their own and Englands present State And secondly by dispelling that Cloud that Darkens the face of the Heir of England and rendring the true indisputable Virtues of the Royal J. both Conspicuous and Transparent And now swell'd with the pride of so glorious a design c. This was Abruptly left off and was an unpolisht part of a Preface to the Answers some of which I am sure he had writ before though they were never Publisht And then to make that Party believe he was growing Honest he visits all his former Acquaintance that were the D's Friends and which had for his owning the Characters deserted him The Lady S was one to whom he Confest he was much troubled for his Writing those Books but he was now resolved to Write himself into the D's favour again and to one Mrs. M who had been his Landlady five years he said he was both sorry and asham'd that he had Writ against his Royal H. but he was now a true Convert Answering his own Books he had Writ against him with all the Zeal Imaginable He likewise told all the Players that we was Writing the Convert Whig And further to promote that Interest which he declared was his God He wisely but very Impudently makes bold with two Great Lords Names viz. the Lord A and the Lord H pretending these Persons had sent to him about this Affair and had promised him three hundred Pounds a year to Write for the Court-Party and Answer his own Books Which I believe no Man of sence would give three pence for and most sweetly for them made himself this Complement that none could Answer S. but S. But this done cunningly at last to let them know what he expected or at last to see which Party would bid most for his Pen but finding that all his Leuring brought not his Falcons to his Fist he Sneaks back to his first station and fawns on them he had renounc'd and Curst telling them that these Reports which then flew about was only the Malice of the Tories against the True Blue Protestant Poet and That Paper or Preface of his which is inserted here was Writ by the way of Irony hoping they would not believe he could so much as think what he had Writ concerning his R. H. was truth and perhaps indeed he did not but all wise Men will also believe a Man of his principles never valued that in any case a Man that declares Interest his God wou'd no doubt were it in his Power Dethrone an Angel and Crown a Devil for his Advantage After all his Notorious Perjuries His Barbarous and Inhumane Beating of Women His Recording his own Mother a Whore rather then prick his own Finger His declaring Interest to be his God His Perfidious Deceitful Actions even to all Parties What can with reason be expected from such a Monster such a Despicable Coward but that he will at last for Fear or Interest Betray to ruin all those that have ever trusted him All this considered I wonder what any Party can expect from him if they Design to serve him as the Monkey served the Cat make use of his Paw to Scratch the Chesnuts out of the Fire I am affraid they will be mistaken to my certain knowledge he is very choise of his Clumsey Fists and he values not what any Suffers for him so he may Sleep in a whole Skin For in his most Meritorious piece of Service for the Whigs his pretending to be the Author of the two Books called the Characters which indeed were not half his but had they been his own intirely he never durst have Publisht them himself or owned them till he had seen the danger over but then and when he saw the Honour was like to be done the curious King Elephant that first forded the River Was he not like Sir Philip Sidneys Dametus creeping out of the Bush and Singing with a loud voice If the Man such praise must have What must I that keep the Knave And certainly Dametus by his great Wisdom and Matchless Courage was a type of our Hero I could enlarge much and instance many more notorious Actions of his but I am not willing to tire my self and the Reader any longer with such a dirty Subject I think I have said enough considering how easily every one may satisfie themselves in the truth of this Narrative to convince all Honest Men what a Rogue our True Blue Protestant Poet is and how they ought to avoid him LONDON Printed for A. Banks 1682.