lost To the same 〈◊〉 he speaks in his Epistle to Sir Nicholas Nemo p. 18. The removal of these viz. The Royal Society will not derogate from but illustrate the Kings renown and confirm England in the Reverence of his generosity and their Detestableness By the way what sense is this â— The Reverence of their Detestableness M. Stubbe saith in the Preface to his Legends That if there be any person worthy of his indignation that will justifie the rhetoricalness of the History of the Royal Society he will write about that and make the Comical wits renounce the Antient Orators as they do now the Philosophers A rare Censor of Rhetorick and Oratory this that doth not himself write Grammatical sense This I should offer to him if he were recover'd and fit to be discours't soberly with That I will shew more gross non sense in his writings than he can of pretended mistakeâ— in all the Virtuosi that ever writ I do not mean in the stupidity ignorance and incoherence of his reasonings only but in the frame of the very words But for a little more of his vapouring I have a thousand faults more to charge them with but I reserve them for another Treatise which if they do not submit to the Collâ—dge of Physicians and the two Universities I will publish In his Letter to his Friend Sir N. Nâ—mo p. 16. Submit O ye Virtuosi for fear of that dreadful Treatise If that be once publisheâ— you are more then irrecoverably lost For he hath told you you are so far gone already How he would have you submit he expresseth in Camp Rev. p. 15 viz. You must declare solemnly to the world that you understand nothing of ancient or modern Writers that is the best way he saith to secure yâ—ur credit from being thought Plegiaries and Cheats ibid. Non-sense again but that 's no News He adds if they would but get any one to teach them Latin and Greek â— it would have saved me some trouble as you will see in my Animadversions on their History Neither is this period true English If any one had taught M. Stubbe to write sense he might have saved me trouble as any one may see in my Animadversions on his But for a passage or two more As for M. Glanvill ' s Book it was perused by several of their members and corrected by them a broad falshood as I have shewn in my Preface and how much we are redâ—vable to a Society that could allow of that and would not at my reiterated importunities call it in or disclaim it let all Physicians judge Pref. to Camp And again p. 15. They might have appeased me Goodly would they have call'd 〈◊〉 these two Books viz. the HISTORY of the Royal Society and PLUS ULTRA but since they would not do that I suspect their intentions that they drive on Campanellaâ—â— project why else should they scruple at it If They will not call in and renounce all Books that offend M. Stubbe 'T is evident they drive on Campanella's projectsâ— There can be no other reason why they should scruple it Further in the Preface thus Nor would I have any man believe that there are so many eminent Physicians of the Royal Society for neither is the number of those admitted considerable I find 30 Doctors of Physick in the last years Catalogue and many if not most of them of the Colledge Few of note but have deserted it again The rest approve not of it so that all the talk will not amount to three understanding persons I am assured that 't is false that any of note except one or two have deserted it and M. Stubbe should tell us How those that remain have signified their disapproval Among several other very ingenious persons of the faculty of Physick I remember these of Note in the number of Fellows of the Royal Society Sir Geo. Ent Dr. Glisson Dr. Goddard Dr. Willis Dr. Whistler Dr. Walter Needham Dr. Iasp. Needham Dr. Clerk Dr. Allen Dr. Horshaw Dr. Merrett Dr. Croon Dr. Power Dr. Trustan one or two of these are understanding persons M. Stubbe saith not three would he tell us now which are the one or two that have understanding among them At this rate M. Stubbe makes the Colledge of Physicians as illiterate a Company as the Virtuosi And let any one in that famed body of Learned men be named in opposition to any thing he shall think fit to say and that person be he who he will shall be cast among the Fools and Illiterate I have more reason for this saying then I 'le mention here All the famous Doctors named excepting one or two are Prattle-boxes and Ignoramus's who can scape the lash of such a Tongue But I had almost forgot that to shew his candour and good nature he acknowledgeth some of the Society For he saith in the Preface to his Legends That he must be insensible of all merit that can derogate from Sir Rob. Moray Dr. Wren and Dr. Wallis and it doth not he tells us become any one that knows M. Boyle to think that he would abet a design to subvert Piety and the Protestant Religion It seems he allows Sir R. M. Dr. Wren and Dr. Wallis to be understanding persons and rather then leave out M. Boyle he shall be brought in too though but for a negative merit These are the excepted persons that have the honâ—â—r of some place in his favour The rest are Virtuosi and deserve all that contempt with which we depretiate the Illiterate and Fools But how comes Dr. Wallis that was branded by him with so many charges of illiterateness and ignorance and all things else of contempt as we have seen how comes this Gentleman now to be so highly in his Books It seems the Doctor is exceedingly improved in 10 or 11 years and hath got a great stock of merit since M. Stubbe writ against him or rather men shall have merit when M. Stubbe pleaseth and when he pleaseth they shall have none 'T is to be hoped that the rest of the Virtuosi in ten years more may get a little merit too and obtain from him at least a negative commendation And now what can any one think that reads these passages but that M. Stubbe is over-heated in his head This is the most charitable thought can be entertain'd of him I expect that hereafter he should make it his excuse and certainly 't will be a better Apology then that of serving a Patron I lately received a Letter of his which he writ to Dr. Merrett with a desire that I would print it in this Postscript 'T is very pleasant stuff and I here present it to the Reader for a little further entertainment A Letter from M. Henry Stubbe to Dr. Merrett Doctor of Physick and Fellow of the Colledge of Physicians Dr. Merrett HAving not yet seen your book wherein I am concern'd I cannot tell how far I am to resent it But I understand you are exasperated
been the course he hath taken I represented the Contents of his Book in a private Letter to Dr. Ingelo that afterwards coming to a Friends hands in London was printed by him and call'd the Chue Gazett for M. Cross lives at a place call'd Chue It was printed but there were not an hundred Copies of it and those all given into private hands that his shame might not be made publick In that Letter I presented a Collection of some of the Names he had call'd me which were as foul and scurrilous as the most ill-bred Ruffian could have vented in a distemper'd Huff I recited about sixteen of his gross Falshoods which were the broadest and silliest that ever were framed for they were so pitifully contrived that every one that knows me knew most of them to be false and he himself could not but know that they were notoriously untrue yea some passages of things he had said which he publickly denied again in his Book and with most solemn Invocations of the name of God have been attested to his face So that I am as much astonisht at the prodigious Indiscretion of this marvellous man as at his matchless Legends And in him I see an Instance how far Rage and Malice will carry a proud and intemperate Spirit He did not know nor care what he said so he could gratifie his wild Passion against me If ever you chance to light upon that Paper you will see that this Censure is sober and true In the same Letter I discovered the contemptible Impertinency of his Book which doth not as much against mine as M. Stubb did when he confuted the Errata of the Press I give a Specimen also of the Learning he shews in Schoolscraps and little ends of Verse and Childrens Phrases which are all the Reading he discovers These things are in brief represented in the Gazett and much more largely in a Latin Account of his Performance which I have ready by me After my Letter was abroad to divert his Trouble and Disorder he fell into a fit of Rhiming and writ scurrilous Ballads to abuse me further upon this occasion he was so given to versifying that he could not write a Note but it must be in Meeter As for instance sending to a Neighbour Minister to preach for him he presents his Request thus Good M. Battin You speak good Latin And so you do English too Your Neighbour Cross Is taking Horse And you must preach at Chue With such Poetry as this my Praises and those of the City of Bath were celebrated And so taken he was himself with his vein that I have heard he used to vaunt how much he was in a Poetick Dispensation above Hudibras But the likeliest course he ever took was the ingaging M. Stubb in his Quarrel He hath a Pen that is always ready to be retain'd in pay M. Cross as I was told by the Animadverter himself sent him his Book which he then despised and said even to me that he was an old that had been asleep these forty years and knew not what the World had been doing But 't is like M. Stubb did not know then what Advantage might be made of M. Crosses Friendship by one that would undertake his rescue The Reverend Disputer after this caress'd and courted him highly treated him at Bath and entertain'd him divers times with dear welcome at his House so that at last he was fastned How like these two are in their Genius's and Performances I may have an occasion to shew in a parallel What Assistance M. Cross can afford his Friend in the Cause against the Royal Society he shall not want I am told that he is doing that which is sutable to his Temper and Abilities viz. collecting the Legends that Himself and his Confederates have made and driven about concerning one of those they call the Virtuosi to furnish M. Stubb with them worthy work for a second Cobler of Glocester But their Labour will be lost and worse That Person despiseth their malicious Figments and will make some body repent the infamous Project And now while I am speaking of Legends I remember one by which I have been much abused to the GENTRY of WILTS as if I had spoken rudely and injuriously concerning them You Sir are of that County and I owe a Iustification of my self to you and those other ingenious and worthy Persons who have heard the Fable The occasion of the the false Report which 't is like you have been told was this I commended an Honourable Gentleman of your County and particularly for his Skill in Mathematicks adding that I knew none other in the parts where I was then being not in Wiltshire so acquainted with those Studies or to that purpose This hapned to be mistaken and mis-reported and after coming to the ears of some whose Tongues are their own they formed it into that abusive Falshood that went about I know you cannot believe me guilty of any thing so rude or if I were capable of such Folly or Incivility I should not have vented it against Persons by some of which I have been so highly obliged And when there are not Three Gentlemen that I know there for whom I have not a very great Honour and Esteem And particularly for your self I have all that Respect and Value which so many and so great Accomplishments both intellectual and moral as you eminently possess can claim from one that is sensible and obliged by innumerable Civilities to be SIR Your Affectionate Humble Servant Jos. Glanvill Postscript MR. Stubbe being resolv'd to charge the Enemy home as he told us hath publish't two other Books since that against me The First he calls LEGENDS NO HISTORIES against Dr. Spratt and M. Henshaw The other he names CAMPANELLA REVIV'D design'd to prove That the Royal Society is managing projects to introduce Popery In these worthy works I cannot tell which I shall admire most his impudence or his impertinence The former will sufficiently appear in the bare recital of some of his expressions which I shall present for a Taste The other vertue will require Animadversions which I suppose the Gentleman concern'd may bestow upon the Legends and the other Pamphlet I may perhaps take an occasion to examine The shorter work I undertake now as a Supplement to my Account of M. Stubbe's modesty and civilities And the First thing I take notice of is That this doughty man of Warwick sends publick Defiances before-hand to those he intends to assault and as I have read somewhere of the Great Turk in the pride of his puissance gives solemn warning where he intends to make War 'T is unbecoming his mightiness to surprise an Enemy He therefore informs M. Evelyn and Dr. Merrett what he intends against them Camp rev which is somewhat less it seems then he could do should he give himself the trouble For he saith he could make M. Evelyn ' s account of the Birch Tree appear as ridiculous as the
History of Salt-Petre 'T is like he understands that Tree He experimented something more than ordinary of it at Oxford and perhaps if he had right done him he would have more experience of another Tree But I must not stay to remark here He gives out That he will make the Lord Bishop of CHESTER smart and writ to one as I am credibly told that he was making inquiries into his Lordships Learning parts and qualifications for a Bishop How fit is he to be a visitour of Bishops But to confine my self to what is printed He gives notice in the Preface of his Legends of several Books more that he hath coming in pursuance of the Projects of his former Particularly he threatens one against my LETTER concerning ARISTOTLE a Design suitable to the Grandeur of M. Stubbe's mind That short Discourse was first only a private Letter written when I was not 23 years of Age and printed six or seven years ago Let the mighty man in the glory of his conquests insult over an essay of a green youth and take six years time to write against two sheets of Paper which for ought he can tell the Author by this time disrellisheth himself But the truth is I do not know whether I have any reason to do so or not having not read it over since Whatever other faults there may be in the Composure I 'm sure there is no Lying as M. Stubbe chargeth it according to the usual way of his civility I reported no matter of Fact concerning Aristotle or his Philosophy but from some good and approved Author though perhaps I should find trouble now in the particular citations because I want the opportunity of those Books that I then used and I have lost the Notes that I took from them Whether it will be worth my Labour to answer what M. Stubbe shall write against that young exercise of my Pen. I cannot certainly foresee but I shrewdly guess Perhaps the sole consideration of my youth when I writ it will excuse more faulâ—s than M. Stubbe's wit and spight together can discover or as much as pretend to find there If he confutes that Letter with the like Ignorance and impertinence as he hath used in his Animadversions on Plus Ultra T will be answer enough to print it again The Lyes he pretends it guilty of will I may expect be disproved by some that are so indeed for his Authors must spâ—ak what he would have them say and he tells a gross one in the few words in which he mentions the design of confuting me when he saith that I have never as much as read over Diogenes Laertius which were impossible he should know though it were true I only take notice further concerning this that according to that little cunning which I mentioned before He would fain draw in the Royal Society to be concern'd in that Letter of mine That so his intended Triumph might be greater and the Virtuosi prejudiced by his pretended advantages against it The Letter forsooth is joined to the Edition of my Scâ—psis Scientifica which bears the Arms and is dedicated to the Royal Society Pref. to Leg. That Book was indeed Dedicated to the Society but I was not then a Member of it And are Patrons of Books responsible for their imperfections If so 't were very bad news for the modest Dr. Willis to whom the cleanly discourse of Chocolate is directed The Prefixing the Societies Arms to my Dedication was the Stationers conceit and the mention of it puts me in mind of a ridiculous offence that was once taken against another Book of mine The Printer had set a flourish at the beginning over the Dedication 'T was a Cut of Henry 8. lying by a Tree which some took for an emblem of Protestantism coming out of his Codpiece Just such Arguments M. Stubbe useth to prove that the Royal Society have a design to reduce us to Popery And I remember when the Theatre at Oxford was newly built he very sadly told me and made a deal of tragical talk about it That They had pictured God the Father in the midst of the Cieling in the shape of an old man when the figure he meant was but a Mythological picture what particularly I have forgot I wonder this was not insisted on to prove that the Society designs Popery no doubt it had been as good a one as any he hath produced But I am a little stept besides my design of presenting some Instances of his rare modesty and civility in his last Books I shall now do it briefly He calls the Royal Society Trojan Horse Pref. to Camp and an illiterate Company p. 21. The Members of it Great Impostors Pref. 10 C. Fopps Pref. to Leg. and poor Devils in his Letter to Sir N. N. viz. Sir Nicholas Nemo And p. 21. in his Postscript speaking of the overthrow of the Royal Society He expresseth himself thus which not only all Doctors but all good men oâ—ght to endeavour That the disasters of the late Dutch War the Plague and Fire of London were less inconveniences than their perpetuity That these calamities admitted some remedy hereafter but the evils they are likely to occasion us would never be corrected by any humane Providence and I doubted not whether God would support us by his Prudence when they had debauched the Nation from all piety and morality as well as civil wisdom This was he saith part of the purport of another Discourse of his about the errors and cheats of the Virtuosi I now begin to repent that I have troubled my self so much with this hot-headed Impertinent for I perceive that no one is so fit to answer him as the Keeper of Bedlam I begin to pity him and to wish that The Colledge of Physicians to requite him for that grandeur he saith he designs for them would prescribe somewhat for him For certainly there is much ground to think that the phansie of his supposed great exploits hath blown him up to a great distraction Let us hear how he swaggers on It is said that my Animadversions on M. Glanvill contain little of matter to which I answer That they contain enough to have made twenty Uirtuost famous and would hâ—ve acquired them a memorial of ingenious and noble experimentators They contain enough to shew the Ignorance of that person who had so insulted over all Vniversity-Learning and particularly over the Physicians They contain enough since they contain more then They All Knew and think I have done great service to the Learned in shewing that these Virtuosi are very great Impostors To the Reader in Camp Again in the Dedication of his Legends to the Vniversities thus I have stooped the Talbots their Supporters for them and if ever They hunt well hereafter this Age knows whom they are obliged to In a Letter to Dr. Merrett which is after inserted He rants thus If you will proceed with them you must be trampled on with Themâ— who are irrecoverably
and the Cause after another manner than by this come off that He served a Patron He could lay all things that have the name of Royal as flaâ— as the Royal Society But he prudently tells you ib. Prae. p. 12. I will not suffer my self to be ingaged in any disputes that may contribute to the dissetlement of this Nation and Monarchy If he wouâ—d dispute he could shake our Monarchy and Setlemenâ—s But the Nation is not yet vertuous and generous enough to deserve his favours other Justifications would be better than this of a Patron but they would not be seasonable nor proper for this time Was ever Villany so impudent when it sought pardon Did ever confidence flout a Government so when it pretended to plead its Cause Can we desire greater proof of M. Stubbe's hypocrisie and disloyal inclination than he gives in this Preface And will he not despise the silly easiness of those that shall accept of his Apology Certainly he must needs swell with venome that cannot forbear spitting in the face of that Government which 't is his present interest to â—latter This 't is evident enough he hath done in the recited periods and it would have appeared farther if those who had his Book to License had not expunged some more impudent passages M. Stubbe made a great stir in the Country with his complaints that the Royal Society had castrated his Book and deprived it of its strength I was lately told by a Licenser one of my Lord of Londons Chaplains that it was well for him that those things were blotted out for he assured me they were such as deserved the Gaol and a Pillory at least For he impudently upbraided the King with the example of Queen Elizabeth in forbidding the King of France to build ships jeer'd the Illustrious Duke of York about his Sea-Engagement with the Dutch and twitted his Majesty with the management of that war These were the things that were put out but not by the Royal Society as M. Stubbe fabled but by other Licensers to whom he owes thanks for the present possession of his ears This is the zealous Defender of the Government against the Virtuosi let him now put his malicious cavilling wit upon the Tenters let him improve every dream of a shadow and fetch what consequâ—nces he can from every little appearance and if after all he can shew that the Royal Society have ever said or done any thing so â—adutiful or disrespectful to the Government as any one of these passages which he vents in his greatest fit of kindness to it I 'll for ever renounce the Virtuosi and become his humble proselyte Upon the whole carriage for my part I am perswaded that M. Stubbe intends no more in his present pretences for Monarchy than to jeer it and to try whether the friends of the Government are such pitiful Ignoramus's as to be satisfied with his ridiculous and almost treasonable excuses If there be any he can content so there is no doubt but he will laugh with his Democratical friends at the good nature of those tender-headed people that will be so easily caâ—oll'd And those others that are less soft and faâ—il must needs laugh at him when they see how ridiculously the pretence of Loyalty sits upon him and how he over-acts in his zeal In testimony of his great love and devotion to the King he thus subscribeâ— the Title of his rare Book of Chocolata By Hen. Stubbe Physician for his Majesty in the Island of Iamaica Now no doubt he is Physician for his Majesâ—y too in the Town of Warwick and he intends to be Physician for his Majesty in the City of London when he hath run down the Royal Society for then he saith he will remove thither and get all the practice But further in testimony of his Loyalty he calls one sort of his Chocolet Chocolata Royal this was that Chocolata that was the universal Medicine which cured all diseases in Iamaica when he made and sold it there and he thinks fit to honour Monarchy by calling it ROYAL I have an hundred very pleasant things to say of this Chocoletman of Iamaica as of his spitting fire in a fever and reading by the light of his spittle and other such wonders which he did and saw but they are not for my present purpose And now when I reflect upon the impudence and weakness malignity and impiety of M. Stubbe's Apology for his former vile writings I cannot but wonder much at the strange incogitancy of some that take the excuse of his serving a Patron and go away contented with it when this plea is pregnant with infinite villanies and mischiefs and is one of the most shameless Apologies that ever was offered in the world This I suppose I have proved but if any have so much favour for M. Stubbe upon the account of his present undertakings as to swallow such a morsel I shall no further oppose their kindness but only to desire them to look a little forward into my Book and to see there what the things are for which he needs their candour and pardon and if after they are informed they shall take the excuse of serving a Patron for a justification of his crimes let them but consider too whether it be not probable he is serving some Patron now and whether any heed be to be given to the ranting vehemencies and clamours of a confest mercenary Scribler And thus I think I have sufficiently chastised his APOLOGY by which he thought he had secured himself against all designs to represent him this I have undertaken for caution to those that might otherwise be in some danger of heeding him and of being misled by his pretended zeal for Monarchy and Religion into an ill opinion of the Royal Institution which he maliciouâ—ly slinders and having done this my following Representation of his pestilent spirit and temper will bear and I hope signifie to the purpose for which I intend it 'T is true personall matters in Controversies should as much as is possible be avoided and I dislike them much but M. Stubbe hath made them necessary in this and the account of him which I am to give will not be without its pleasure since 't is a description of a very strange Animal and such a one as is seldom seen out of Africa or the Country of Cannibals Having thus defeated M. Stubbe's excuses it may be thought fit that I make one for my self For the bare recital of the abominable things he hath disgorged cannot but raise a stench that is loathsom and offensive but I hope it will be considered that I could not have given sufficient caution against the malignity of this troubler of men without opening those Ulcers and letting the world see what filth and venome there is under the fairness of his pretences If any man think I have handled this Adversary with too much bitterness and severity he seems to forget that I have to do with M.
Stubbe Russians and swaggering Hectors are not to be treated with gentleness and soft words and I know should I deal with this Antagonist in a way of lenity and smoothness it would incourage his insolence and make him phancy that he is feared I have therefore thought sit to express my self here with more smartness than I do allow of towards men of common civility and good manners and 't is not my passion but judgment prompted me to it And now lest it should be suspected that my dealing so much with M. Stubbe hath infected me with the spirit of detraction I shall next give him those acknowledgments that I think may be his due I confess therefore that he is a man that hath READ he was for some years Sub-librarian at Oxford and so by his imployment was chained among the Books from thence he got great knowledge of Titles and Indexes and by that can upon any occasion let out a great apparatus of Authors and fill his margin with Quotations this must be acknowledged and it is no small advantage for shew and vain-glory and by this means he will seem to have the better of any man he shall oppose among such as are not able or not concerned to examine how he useth his Authors and how he applies them But whoever doth this will find that notwithstanding his pretence to great Reading he reads by Indexes and only collects those passages from Authors which he can suborn to serve his mischievous purposes That he understands not or wilfully perverts the Writers he cites That after he hath swaggered with their names and recited several scraps out of their works his Quotations prove nothing but that M. Stubbe is malicious and impertinent and makes the sayings and opinions he fights against of all this I have given specimens of proof in divers of the ensuing sheets by which it will appear that this confident man is one of the most notorious Impertinents that ever writ a Book And whoever attentively considers his Writings and observes the way of his Discourse must needs see that whatever he pretends to reading he is extreamly defective in judgment and understands not the way of close coherent reasoning Nor indeed can it be expected from one of his temper of brain his head is red-hot and consequently his thoughts are desultory and flirting so that he affirms suddenly whatever comes into his phansie not considering how it agrees with what he said before what it makes for his purpose or how it may be well proved He hath not the patience to ponder any thing deeply nor the judgment and staidness to weigh consequences and therefore writes and speaks in a vein of infinite impertinence and inconsistency This I may be permitted to say here because I have proved it in the following Papers And now what can such a mans pretended Learning signifie It may make him proud and troublesom captious and censorious but will never inable him to serve the world with any useful informations Nor is any mans reading any further to be valued than as it improves and assists his reason where it doth not this 't is either a feather in a Fools cap or a sword in a mad-mans hand a vain glorious impertinence or an instrument of mischief But I perceive my Preface begins to swell and therefore I only add further That whereas M. Stubbe reports in several places of his Books that the Virtuosi contributed to my PLUS ULTRA I will acquit those Gentlemen from being concerned in the composure of a Discourse against which the impertinent Animadverter raiseth such a clamour and assure the Reader that this his report is false And whereas in his Book against Doctor Spâ—att he saith That some some saw my Papers remitted to me blotted and altered this affirmation is a gross untruth also or a contemptible impertinence If he means as he designed to insinuate that the Virtuâ—sâ— remitted them to me blotted and altered by them or any other person 't is a loud falshood No man except my Transcriber ever saw my Book till it was printed nor did I alter any one word upon any manâ— suggestion so that his report in that sense which would have signified to his purpose is a shameless Legend in an other sense indeed 't is true but impertinent my Papers were sent home to me blotted and altered but they were remitted by my Amanâ—ensis as I sent them to hâ—m blotted and altered by my own hand without any otherâ— knowledge or direction and what can malice make of this 'T is a pretty artifice I observe in M. Stubbe to intitle every thing any man doth in favour of the Royal Society to that whole Body or at least to a Club of the Viâ—tuosi that so if he gain any advantages over any private member it may redound to the disparagement of the Society and raise the glory of his performances and therefore I must expect that much of this following Account shall be imputed to the assistance and contributions that he will say I had from the Virtuosi But to prevent his belying those Gentlemen in this and the concerning them in any of my failures I declare I consulted none of them for any of these Reflections I did not submit my Copy to their alterations nor did they or any other person ever see these Papers till they were printed so that whatever wrath they kindle in him it ought all to be directed against me and I assure him I despise both his displeasure and his favour I had other things to have added here but I cast them into the Postscript and I advertise but this more That there is a late printed Letter of the Learned Doctor Meric Causabons written to Doctor Peter du Moulin upon the occasion of my Plus Ultra and containing some Reflections on it I have answered the Strictures of that Reverend man in a particular Discourse which I think to publish when I next reckon with M. Stubbe TO MY Much Honoured Friend Francis Godolphin Esq SIR I Was just upon the Close of a short Treatise of the Religious Temper and Tendencies of the Modern Philosophy when M. Stubb's Book against me came to my hands I was glad to see that this Adversary at last appeared in the open Light For I love not Sculking and base Assaults in the Dark I had much rather be call'd to an Account for any thing I have written before the Learned and Judicious than to be confuted in Corners among those whose Judgments are either prepossest or incompetent This latter hath for some time been my hard Fate For after M. Crosse's Fardel against me was rejected by the Licensers both at Oxford and London for its incomparable Railing and impertinence He endeavour'd to expose me among his Cronies and Confederates by the Manuscript Libel He carrried it about from place to place and like a Scotch Merchant opened his Pack at each House in his Circuit He told his Tales to every Country-Farmer and acquainted
31. The true Anointed Ones of the Lord Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 2. Honest and faithful Souls Pref. to Good old Cause p. 16. and infinite more of such Elogies he bestows upon them But nothing of all this is Fanaticism nothing like my Canting in calling some of Aristotle's Dictates Heathen Notions This brief Specimen I have given you of M. Stubb's best kind of Civilities I shall now offer you some further Account of those of the First Sort. Dr. WALLIS you know is a Person of great and deserved Fame for Learning both at home and abroad upon that excellent man M. Stubb first fastned in a Defence of M. Hobbs against him I had occasion before to touch some instances of his Courtships bestowed on this learned Doctor then I promised more and with the particular Quotations of those This I intend now briefly In the Preface He tells his Reader That the Doctor is one who hath so merited by his Scurrility and Obscenity that his English Writings may become Appendixes to Pasquil ' s Iests or the merry Tales of Mother Bunch p. 1. The Doctor is one of his Comical Wits no doubt And p. 2. he saith one of us two is grosly ignorant viz. either Dr. Wallis the man of no Credit p. 5. or M. Stubb one of early Reputation abroad p. 2. Let the understanding Reader judge which it is and that he may not mistake our Author kindly directs his Judgment p. 6.49 and second Part p. 1.3.5.8 In which and other places he chargeth the Doctor with Ignorance Want of Learning intolerable Ignorance and Ignorance in the Principles of his Profession So that the Reader if he be not grosly blind must needs see which of them two it is that M. Stubb thinks to be grosly ignorant And further to express his Civility and favourable Opinion of the Doctor he saith He hath afforded us nothing hitherto but Falsities and Falsifications p. 5. calls him peevish Doctor p. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pigmy p. 20. Witty-poll p. 24. Quacksalver and Mountebank p. 25. Critical Bravo p. 49. Tender-fronted Theologue p. 5. of the second Part Contemptible Adversary p. 8. Scribe among the Pharisees Iourny-man to Adoniram p. 9. Full of Impertinencies Paralogisms and Gibberish in Divinity So notorious a Falsificatour and Teller of Vntruths so void of Humanity in this Contest and ordinary Civility That I can scarce hold saith he from telling you You are of your Father the Devil ib. And he goes on to mind the Doctor of his Pride Ambition and Disgraceful Speeches against the Godly Party and that Remnant the Army which under the Conduct of the Lord of Hosts upheld the Cause ibid. Thus briefly of some Civilities towards Dr. Wallis the First of those Comical Wits whom M. Stubb undertook to make ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom to speak in his Phrase Let us see next with what Ingenuity and Fairness he carried himself towards M. BAXTER in his Defence of Sir H. V. against Him This Reverend Divine was another of those he resolved to sacrifice to publick Obloquy as he hath done me Pref. of N. P. But let us see what way he takes to do it his old Method no doubt and so we find it Let us hear him Rhetoricate then One that is no Scholar at all not skilled in Latin Greek or Hebrew not versed in Ecclesiastical History or Philosophy c. But a meer Glow-Worm in Literature who borrowed his Light from the Darkness of the Night and the Ignorance of those he converseth with p. 32 33. of the Pref. to Good old Cause Whifler in Theology p. 33. one that transcribed Aulicus and the Grub-street Pamphlets to frame a Legend for the Catholicks of Kederminster p. 32. A Philistim or Shimei or Rabshaâ—â—h Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 11. whose Language against the Vanists may justly deserve that Reply of Michael to the Devil THE LORD REBUKE THEE ibid. Tedious impertinent p. 13. State-Tinker p. 37. Retailer of other mens Readings and Quoter of Quotations p. 43. His Discretion cannot be so little but his Abilities are less ibid. He chargeth him with Ignorance in the Preface to the Good old Cause and which is very pleasant he saith he remits it to others to demonstrate the Charge And before I have done with him I shall make him wish he had taken the same Course in reference to the Virtuosi He saith p. 18. of his Vindication of Sir H. V. That he may suppose M. Baxter is totally ignorant of Syriack and Arabick and that his Skill in Hebrew is as little which he referrs to M. Robertson to prove and thereupon he takes it for granted insulting in these following Words Dare He boast unto the World what time he spent in Impertinencies viz. Reading the Fathers and Schoolmen p. 13. and yet be ignorant of that which is almost the Unum Necessarium in his Function viz. Hebrew But why M. Harry must that be the almost Vnum Necessarium to M. Baxter's Function which not one of the Fathers in the Nicene Council whose Creed is so famous understood as you tell us in your Apology for the Quakers p. 85. of Light out of Darkness But Hebrew and other Languâ—ges shall be necessary or not as the saying this or the Contrary will serve his turn And 't is pretty to see how he chargeth M. Baxter with Ignorance in Syriack and Arabick which he saith are of great Vse for the Vnderstanding the Scripture ibid. p. 18. and yet implicitely affirms Quer. 13. of his Light out of Darkness That the Knowledge of Tongues leads us to many Senses of Scripture and to put our Trust in Man and again Qu. 18. That the first Christians were ignorant of Humane Learning and Heathenish Authors and that it was not only the Effect of Julian the Apostates Malice but Christian Prudence that went about to keep the People of God from reading Heathen Writers And yet these two Books speaking such contradictory things bear date the same Year onely indeed the Designs were very different and M. Stubb was to serve a divers Interest in them in the one to recommend himself to the Quakers and other wild Fanaticks and in the other to vent his Malice against M. Baxter And things in his Divinity must be affirmed or denied as there is occasion He is still consistent with one Principle Self But never was yet steady to any other Besides the Civilities mention'd I might recite innumerable others but I must hasten from this head Therefore of some few more briefly He calls Sir K. DIGBY That eminent Virtuoso the Pliny of our Age for Lying p. 161. of his Animad upon Plus Vltra and yet p. 20. he lays much stress upon the Authority of Pliny He styles the excellent History of the R. S. a nonsensical and illiterate History p. 173. And Pr. p. 4. He saith he observed the Tendency of it to be so pernicious that if the first Provocation viz. that which he had from my
that Reverend man see that it is not my Adversaries Love and Respect to Aristotle I deride but the ridiculous Expressions of his fond Admiration which he sufficiently discovered in that Conference that was the Occasion of my Book But enough of M. Stubb and M. Cross as to this particular 'T is evident enough that the former hath not that Kindness for Aristotle he pretends to serve his Designs against the modern Philosophers and the other can say nothing on his behalf more than what Freshmen use to talk of that new great Name they are taught to admire whatever Love he hath for Him And now as to what concerns the modern EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHERS I dare say they are slandered much by those their Adversaries that represent them as such Enemies to Aristotle For I know They have a due Esteem of him and allow Him an eminent place among the wise Men of Antient times They acknowledge the helps he hath afforded us and pay Respects to his Writings as they do to those of other venerable Authors They refuse not nor discourage the reading of his Books nor do they reject any of his Discoveries that may aid us in the Uses of Knowledge or Life yea they embrace them cheerfully and are glad when any useful Truth hath such an Authority to recommend it Thus much I dare undertake for all the Philosophers of the Practical way of whom I have any Knowledge But to make Aristotle a Dictator in Philosophy and to give him an absolute Empire over our minds to admire him as if in him were hid all the Treasures of Natural Wisdom and Knowledge and to be scrupulous in acknowledging that he was ignorant of any thing in Nature as Dr. Casaubon saith Fabricius was in his Reflections on my Plus Vltra such Fondnesses as these those Philosophers by no means approve but look on them as extremely prejudicial to the Advance of Knowledge and the Respect that is due to other excellent Authors both of elder and later times And I think by their modest Judgment of that Philosopher they rather secure the just Praise and Regard to Aristotle's Authority that is his due than any way diminish it For those that raise the Commendations of any man much beyond the Proportion of his Merit and lay more Stress upon his Authority than it will bear do indeed give an occasion to the Contempt of such an over-valued Person and the degrading him below that Respect which his worth might claim So that in earnest those doting men that talk such childish incredible things of Aristotle as I lately quoted from M. Cross are his real Enemies and expose him to Scorn and Opposition whereas the modern Philosophers who give him just but less excessive and flaunting Applauses do more really serve the Interest of his Name And what I particularly have writ against Him hath been designed chiefly to lessen the Hyperbolical Admirations of the little enslaved Sectators not to discourage any from the Study of Aristotle or a modest value of his Authority And that my Sense of Him and his Writings was the same then that I declared but now to be the experimental Philosophers Inclination in reference to that Philosopher may be largely seen in my Defence of the Vanity of Dogmatizing against that famous Adversary the Learned Albius especially p. 7. I have spoken there to the same purpose but 't is too much for my Laziness to transcribe AND now Sir methinks upon the Review of the whole it seems to me very pretty that one who labour'd so industriously and inveighed so bitterly against Monarchy Ministry Churches Universities Aristotle and all Humane Learning when some of these were actually overthrown and All in imminent Danger of Ruine that put on the Fanatical Vsurpers that needed no Spur by gross canting Flatteries of Them and deadly malicious Reproaches and Oppositions of those great concerns of the Kingdom to complete the Destruction They had begun That this man I say should talk as if he were the only zealous Person for the Interest of Monarchy Religion Vniversities and old Learning and the only Patriot that could defend them is a Confidence more than usual and such as very well becomes M. Stubb And on the other hand 'T is as pleasant to hear this Writer representing a Society that is a Royal Institution and consists of a great Number of the most loyal Nobility and Gentry and several of the most venerable Fathers of the Church Archbishops Bishops and divers other Ecclesiastical Governours and men of Eminence among the Clergy I say 't is very fine to hear M. Stubb setting out such an Assembly as an Enemy to Monarchy Religion Vniversities and Learning And we must believe upon the word of the Anti-Virtuoso That a great part of that Body are driving on Designs destructive to the Interests of Religion and the Kingdom and that the Loyal and Religious men of the ROYAL SOCIETY are so dull as not to perceive it while the more sagacious Doctor of Warwick sees those dreadful Projects clearly and therefore cannot be silent but must warn the Nation of the Danger Upon the Consideration of the whole Procedure one would think that M. Stubb had so great an Ambition to gain the Applauses of the envious and ignorant who are glad to see any thing that is worthy railed at and opposed that for their sake he is resolved yet further to expose himself to the Scorns of the sober and judicious And really he writes at that rate as if he were to defie the intelligent part of Mankind and design'd only to be read by those that would believe any thing he said at a venture because he writes against the Virtuosi The Truth of this Censure will appear when I come to my particular Remarques upon his Book which I shall presently do when I have taken a little notice of His other Designs which are yet behind viz. TO represent the Uirtuosi as ridiculous and odious to the Kingdom and to sacrifice me to publick Obloquy To effect the former He clapt his own Cap on the Virtuosi and calls them Prattle-boxes and then without any more ado They are ridiculous He describes them by the other part of his own Character as Persons of irreligious and dangerous Inclination and then they must be odious And when the Virtuoso-Mastix hath proved that these are not Complements but that his Comical Wits are so really like Himself all men no doubt will say that They are as he designed to represent them But if M. Stubb be no better at making Characters than he is at giving Names the Virtuosi I doubt will leave him without their Company to enjoy the Honours he projects for them For why of all things must they be called the Comical Wits I trow How came this to ramble into the mans head Of all the Names that courtly M. Cross bestowed on me there is scarce any that suits less And yet now I remember 't is not improbable but that M. Stubb
this barbarous Opiniatour I determined to avenge my Faculty on M. Glanvill for this p. 3. and so I am to be made a Sacrifice as well as the Chymaerical Gentleman Here was the Provocation I gave M. Stubb and this Book his Revenge One of the First things hâ— falls upon in it is to make it appear by demonstrative Proof that the Antients could cure cut Fingers Book p. 3. for here he receiv'd the Injury for which he determined to avenge his Faculty He proves this mighty Truth by many Testimonies and great Instances Podalirius and Machaon in Homer could do it Hippocrates writ about Wounds and Vlcers and therefore no doubt he could cure cut Fingers Yea Aristotle was descended of the Line of Aesculapius and 't is not to be question'd but he could prescribe a Plaister for such an occasion And how little the Antients stood in need of Modern Discoveries and Aids to cure cut Fingers any man may judge that knows what Scribonius and Galen have written and how this last Author compounds several Medicaments to that purpose ibid. Those Galenical Medicaments for cut Fingers he there also names And he assures us farther p. 159. That he that shall proceed according to the Notions of Elements c. in Compliance with the Antients shall not stand in need of any novel Method from the Virtuosi to salve a cut Finger Forsooth This Sir is one of the first Blows he gives the Victim which must needs fall under such fatal Strokes But what a serious impertinent is this The man no doubt can prove by force Of Argument a Man 's no Horse Hudib He puts me in mind of a certain Preacher that I once saw who at a Funeral very largely undertook to prove That All men must die This he did in M. Stubb's Method by Instances and Authorities Adam died and Eve too as did Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Rebekah Iacob and Rachel the good men and the good Women so it befel Moses and Aaron David and Solomon Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar and so he went on to reckon up who had died till his Glass hasten'd him to his Authorities where he shewed his Learning and proved his Proposition by the Testimony of Poets Philosophers and Fathers and by that time he had done with Virgil and Ovid Aristotle and Plato St. Bernard and St. Ambrose 't was time to make an end M. Stubb writes at the rate that the Reverend Man preach'd For can he think in earnest that either I or any body else ever believed or said That None of the Antients could cure a cut Finger or if I had was such an Assertion fit to be learnedly disproved If one should affirm that the moon is a green Cheese or that M. Stubb is sound in his Head would a wise man argue seriously against such an absurd Asserter 'T is true indeed these words are mine The Vnfruitfulness of those Methods of Science which in so many Centuries never brought the World so much practical beneficial Knowledge as would help towards the Cure of a cut Finger is a palpable Argument that they were fundamental Mistakes and that the Way was not right Plus Ultra p. 7 8. But what Do I speak of the Methods of Physick Chirurgery or any practical Art If I had done so M. Stubb had had reason But it was nothing thus I had not to do with any thing of that Nature but was discoursing of the Infertility of the Way of Notion and Dispute concerning which I affirmed that it produced no practical useful Knowledge viz. by its own proper native Virtue and my Sense was the same here as it was in that Expression of my Vanity of Dogmatizing p. 132. of Editâ— second 'T would puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable Discovery made by the direct sole Manuduction of Peripatetick Principles So that I never dreamt of denying That those Philosophers of elder times that went that way had practical beneficial Knowledge Yea or that they were Discoverers of many excellent and useful things But that they learnt that Knowledge from the disputing Methods of Physiology or made their Discoveries by them These were the things I denied and I have the excellent Lord Bacon with me in my Negative as I may have another occasion to shew I grant therefore to M. Stubb since he is so zealous to secure this Honour to them That Machaon and Podalirius in Homer could cure cut Fingers and that Galen might make Diapalma and other Medicaments for that purpose but unless he can prove they did it by the direct Help and Conduct of the Notional disputing Physiology he will not sacrifice me to publick Obloquy here nor say any thing in which I am at all concern'd You see Sir we are like to have great matters from an Undertaker that begins with a ridiculous Cavil and the general Repose and Tranquillity you may think will be well establish'd by one that maliciously perverts an innocent Sentence to make it an occasion of a Quarrel Thus he enters hopefully and if I might pass a general Censure on his Work as he doth upon my Letter concerning Aristotle p. 11. It should be this That 't is an elaborate spightful Impertinence This I now say and if I do not prove it let me be in your Esteem the same that my Adversary is in the Opinion of all sober men It will I suppose sufficiently appear to you in the following Observations and particularly in this next viz. II. HE doth not at all by any thing he hath said prejudice the main Design of my Book which was to shew That Knowledge hath been highly advanced in these later Ages beyond its Pitch in more Antient Times and consequently that there is no reason we should acquiesce and sit down in the Dictates of Aristotle or any other of the â—lder Philosophers but being encouraged by many excellent Helps and Advancements we should endeavour its further improvement I gave instances of the Increase of Knowledge in Chymistry Anatomy Arithmetick Geometry Astronomy Opticks Geography and Natural History and shewed what Advantages we have from modern Philosophick Instruments and from the Institution of the Royal Society of all these I discours'd as far as I thought necessary to my purpose without arrogating to my self great maâ—â—ers in any of those sorts of Knowledge or designing Ostentation of Learning as M. Stubb accuseth me p. 2. But my aim only was to prove and to illustrate my Subject by such of the main Instances of modern Improvements as I could collect and of these I gave an Account in the way of an Historian from Authors of note though I seldom name them but shall hereafter in my Answer in those particulars where M. Stubb attaques me and I hope give you to see that I affirm nothing from mine own head in reciting matters of Fact in which Fiction would be impudent and ridiculous Thus I have told you the Design of my Book and the chief things treated of in it And
now one would think that nothing less should be worthy the Courage of such a valiant Wight as M. Stubb than the main Subject You will expect no doubt he should attempt to prove that the Antients had greater Advantages for Knowledge than latter times that the things I mention as Modern Improvements were known to remote Antiquity or that they are not Helps for the Increase of Knowledge This should have been the Work of one that promiseth such mighty things that was resolved to readvance the Aristotelians and to make the Virtuosi odious But he hath not thought fit to attaque the Comical Wits this way He designed to make them ridiculous and for that he thought something less would serve than confuting them He falls upon the Errata of the Press and then crows over the Author of Plus Vltra He carps at some little things about the Philosophical Instruments Chymistry and Anatomy and in his Phansie breaks them to pieces and then forsooth all the other parts of my Book which he hath not touch'd like Glass-Bubbles fall to Dust He cavils at some by-passages that relate not to the main Business and instantly Plus Vltra is reduced to a Non-Plus He confutes his own Imaginations and then wonders at my Ignorance He takes the Credit of the Inventions I mention from the Authors to whom I ascribe them and gives it to others of the same Age or not far from it and so the Antients are readvanced and the Virtuosi undone This is the man of great Deeds that will set up and pluck down what and whom he pleaseth that will erect the Credit of those Authors who are so happy as to have his Favour and lay the Royal Society as he elegantly and modestly useth to express himself as flat as a Pancake But that those mention'd are all the Exploits he hath done notwithstanding his Boasts I shall shew under the next head to which I shall pass presently after I have taken notice That the other Anti-Virtuoso M. Cross durst not attempt as much as this No He found an easier way he betook him to his Dunghil and charged me stoutly from thence he pick'd little critical Quarrels with the Latin of a single sheet of mine written for a private purpose and containing nothing of the main Controversie He endeavours to shew largely that I am like an Ape and that I have not the knack of writing solemn Epistles For my Plus Vltra he saves himself from the Trouble of answering it by telling his Reader in short that the modern Improvements I mention in Chymistry Anatomy Arithmetick Geometry Algebra Geography Astronomy Opticks and Natural History are no more than what every Bookseller knows and so it is not fit for a man of his Learning to spend his time so impertinently as to say any thing about them This Sir is the most pleasant Antagonist that ever any man had But we shall have an occasion of saying somewhat more of him anon therefore I now pass forward with M. Stubb and come to prove concerning his Animadversions That III. THey are mere Cavils and that he affirms groundlesly and falsly and talks impertinently and reasons weakly These I shall prove by Instances and there is scarce any thing in his Book but falls under one or other of those Censures But first I crave your leave to mark how my Adversaries are disagreed among themselves about my Account of modern Improvements Dr. Meric Casaubon in his Reflections on my Book p. 35. saith That it is an exact Account of late Discoveries M. Cross makes them such known things that every Bookseller is acquainted with them whereas M. Stubb reckons them false and fictitious For the Censure of the sober learned man I can with no Modesty own it I intended no exact Account nor am I able to give such a one as can pretend to be accurate I only collected such Instances as I thought sufficient for my Design to encourage Philosophical Hope and Endeavours For M. Crosses Judgment of them Either every Bookseller knows them to be true or false If this latter why had he not got some Bookseller to have informed him that he might have proved it and confuted me But if every Bookseller knew them to be true what becomes of his Friend M. Stubb and how will he answer my Inference of the great Advantage the later times have from those Improvements above the Helps that were enjoyed by Aristotle and high Antiquity But I must leave M. Cross to reconcile himself to his Champion and the Interest of his own Assertion as well as he can and descend to the Proof of what I have affirmed concerning M. Stubb's Performance This it is true makes a formidable shew of invincible Strength and he marches in the Van of an Host of Authors but with them he fights Chimaera's and takes Castles in the Air that his Imagination built He directs his force against things that I never said or meant and most of his Authors shoot besides me So that with mighty Stroaks he cuts the Air and hurts his own Arm by his Strength but doth prejudice to no other Adversary with his mightiness This will appear by the particulars which I come now to represent and I observe 1. That in the Entrance of his Reflections he affirms confidently a thing which he doth not know whether it be so or not and which would be impertinent to his purpose though it should be granted It is in these words p. 2. The Authors he mentions he never saw Roundly affirmed Certainly he hath dealt with some Spirit or with his Familiar M. Cross for this How else should he know what Authors I have seen who can tell this but my Attendant Genius or the Seer of Chuè who knows all things belonging to me by Dreams and an occult Quality This divining man indeed affirms in his Libel That I have no Books in my Study but Plays and Romances whenas he never saw my Study nor any man else of his Acquaintance that could inform him and as luck would have it I have not one in English of either sort This 't is like was M. Stubb's Intelligencer for M. Cross writes of me with as much Confidence as if he had been at my Christning and stood by me ever since and with as much Truth as if he had never seen me or known more concerning me than he doth of the Man in the Moon Well! but if it be so That I never saw the Authors I mention what is that to M. Stubb's purpose I was giving an Historical Account of the Improvers of several sorts of Knowledge And might I not from other good and approved Writers name the Inventers or Advancers of this or that Discovery except I had seen it in the original Author Is there no Credit to be given to the Testimony of learned men May not one write an History of Things and Actions that he never saw and have not most of the Historians that ever were done thus
May not I say that Columbus discover'd the new western World or that Fust or Gothenberg found out the Mystery of Printing or Flavius Goia the Compass except they had told me so themselves And if it be usual among the most unexceptionable Relaters to collect their Accounts from other Testifiers what can M. Stubb make of it if he could prove that I never saw most of the Authors I mention How much he himself is acquainted with the Books he quotes we shall anon find some things whereby to pass a Judgment Thus M. Stubb begins with a peremptory Assertion of a thing which is false in the Latitude of his Affirmation and which he could not possibly know whether in any more restrain'd sense it were true or not And his immediate next words contain another most gross and confident Falshood And all his Discourse about the Mathematicks and Mathematicians procured him no other Acknowledgments from a Learned and Reverend Prelate to whom he sent one of his Books than a Reprimand for intermedling with what he understood not ibid. I have heard from credible Persons that M. Ieanes the Polemick Writer who was well acquainted with M. Cross was wont to call any lusty by a name which for the sake of some worthy Persons I shall not mention on this occasion M. Stubb's Friend of Chuè knows what I mean He may do well to advise him to take care of such broad unconscionable Falshoods though I confess a man of his Practices is the most improper Person in the World for such a Service The Period I last quoted from M. Stubb is a gross Vntruth I sent my Plus Vltra but to one Bishop besides that Reverend Father to whom it was dedicated and that learned and excellent Person was so far from sending me a Reprimand to use M. Stubb's word that he was pleased to write me a most obliging Letter of Thanks And my own venerable Diocesan accepted of that Book and the Direction of it to him with a great deal of Candour and Kindness and never signified the least Dislike to me of it So that I should have wondred much at this Clause and divers others of like kind If I had not heard a Character of M. Stubb at Oxford and did not know Him and his Familiarity with M. Cross but now I shall not be surprised though every Sentence were a Legend But 2. he offers something for proof of his first Saying viz. that I never saw the Authors I mention as it follows ib. p. 2. who ever heard of such men as Maximus Palanudes Achazen and Orentius And who ever heard of such things as Errata of the Press If I had a mind to play at this little Sport and would retort I might ask him who ever heard of such People as the Abbigenses spoken of in his Vind. of Sir H. V. p. 13. or of such a man as Iâ—lice mention'd p. 113. of this Book No doubt he 'l lay the fault at the Printers doors And why did he not see that the Names he quotes from me are like Errours Doth he not know there were such Persons as Maximus Planudes Alhazen and Orontius and there is not one of these that differs more then a Letter from the Names over which he so much insults The latter he charitably supposeth to be a Mistake because he thought he could make the man ridiculous and disable him from signifying to my purpose but of that by and by If he could have found that the other two had been pitiful Fellows also as he pretends this was then Palanudes should have been corrected by Planudes and Achazen by Alhazen And 't is very strange that M. Stubb could not see that Achazen was a Mistake of the Press when as Alhazen stands within five Lines of him in my Book whar a blind thing is Malice when it hath no mind to see Well There were such men as Planudes Orontius and Alhazen and Vossius saith enough of the least considerable of them to justifie my transient mention of their Names Anno 870. eluxit Maximus Planudes qui Diaphanti Arithmeticen Commentariis illustravit Voss. de Scient Mathem p. 311. And even of Orontius he speaks thus celebre Nomen fuit Orontii Finei Delphatis qui Arithmeticae practicae publicavit Libros quatuor p. 316. But M. Stubb saith of him in Scorn He was so famous a Geometrician that when Sir H. Savil as I remember was to seek of an Instance of a pitiful Fellow this was the man he fixed on ib. p. 2. Would not any one from these Words and their Relation to those that go before conclude that I had reckoned Orontius among the Improvers of Geometry To what purpose else doth the Animadverter speak of him as a contemptible Geometrician But if he will look again into my Book he will see that I mention not Orontius under that head but name him and only so among the Authors in Arithmetick And have not I as much reason to say That M. Stubb never reads the Books he writes against as He to affirm that I never saw the Authors I mention But M. Stubb could not give his Studies so much Diversion as to consider what he said Well I name Orontius among the Arithmetical Writers and 't is an evident Argument I never saw him because he is a pitiful Fellow at Geometry Is this Logick old or new 'T is a sort M. Stubb useth often but I believe he can shew us nothing more pitiful in Orontius But if Vossius may be believ'd Orontius did not need so much of M. Stubb's Pity even in Geometry He tells us Anno 1525. ac 30 proximis claruit Orontius Fineus qui de Geometriâ scripsit Libros duos item Demonstrationes in sex Libros priores Euclidis Ad haec de Quadraturâ Circuli inventâ demonstratâ de Circuli Mensurâ ratione Circumferentiae ad Diametrum de multangularum omnium regularium Figurarum Descriptione aliáque de Sc. Math. p. 65. And that his Performances in these were not altogether so contemptible as the Anti-Virtuoso would insinuate we may see a Reason to think from the Place he held among the Mathematicians of his time according to the same Author Primus hic Matheseos regius in Galliis Professor fuit ibid. But let Orontius be what he will in Geometry M. Stubb is impertinent in what he saith about him and I am not concerned For the other Author Achazen in one Line but Alhazen within five Lines before Confidence it self hath not the face to deny that there was such a man or that he was a great Author in Opticks for which I mention his Name there where M. Stubb found Achazen to make a Wonder of You see Sir what an Adversary I have that will not suffer the misprinting of a Letter to escape him excellent Corrector of the Press What pity 't is that M. Cross had not found out these three Errata that he might have had something to say
of the World viz. Alexandria and the adjacent Countries This the Virtuoso could not see because so much History was above his reach p. 16. and the Reasoning is as much above it as the History He next quotes another passage of mine relating to the same business viz. That since the minds of Christians are enlightned with the Raies of the glorious Gospel they have less reason to bow down to the Dictates of an Idolater and an Heathen Hence M. Impertinent concludes that we must bid farewel to the Rhetorick and other Works of Aristotle which I had afore recommended and he adds that we must shake hands with Seneca Epictetus and Plato p. 16. This follows like the rest because we may not bow down and give an implicit Veneration to an Heathen Authority Therefore we must bid farewel to all the Works of those Authors As if there were no Difference between using their Works and servilely adoring them 8. He perstringeth a passage cited out of Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and what I add viz. That The Universe must be known by the Art by which it was made Here I am sent to answer Dr. More 's Dialogues where he explodes the Mechanism of Nature ibid. p. 16. Before I descend to the particular Answer to this I take notice that M. Stubb runs up and down and flirts from some things to others which have no Coherence among themselves or in my Book He falls upon my Discourse about Philosophical Instruments and then without any occasion given suddenly steps back against a passage in my Preface that hath no relation in the world to his Discourse as p. 10. In the same Paragraph he leaps forward again to the 124. page of my Plus Vltra and largely confuâ—es a Sentence or two there The next Motion is back to a passage p. 25. that had nothing to do with what he was saying and so every where he writes as he dreams But to omit other Instances of this here I come to shew the Impertinence of this last Cavil By Plato's Saying I understood no no more than that God made all things in Number Weight and Measure and I suppose that Mechanism may be used as far as it will go Now Geometry assists men in mechanical Disquisitions which are helps for the Knowledge of Nature and Causes This was all I intended for I do not believe that all the Phaenomena are merely Mechanical So that Dr. More 's Dialogues do no way oppose my Sense He explodes not the Mechanism of Nature as M. Stubb tells us but such a Mechanism as is supposed to suffice for all the Effects of Nature without help from any immaterial Agent This may be seen easily by those that read the Book and endeavour to understand it But M. Stubb reads by Indexes and Catches which is enough for the purposes of a Caviller Having thus explained my meaning I need not be concerned in what he adds in his Review p. 170. c. For all his Arguments are impertinent in reference to my sense and I may take occasion ex abundanti hereafter to prove that they are trivial and childish in reference to any other For they can do no execution even upon the mere Mechanical Hypothesis But 9. to let that alone now I cannot forbear noting here the intolerable Impudence and Lying of this man p. 173. where he goes on with the Impertinence he begun p. 16. He tells us there That his Opinion had been amply maintain'd of late by Dr. Hen. More in opposition to what the Royal Society lays down in their History viz. That Generation Corruption Alteration and all the Vicissitudes of Nature are nothing else but the Effects arising from the meeting of little Bodies of differing Figures Magnitudes and Velocities Than which Opinions saith he there can be nothing more pestilent and pernicious and Dr. More albeit a Member of this Society heretofore for be allows nothing to it now yet a pious one professeth that this Mechanical Philosophy inclines to Atheism neither would he approve of those Deductions as necessary but ridiculous when I upbraided him lately with that nonsensical and illiterate History Upon my reading of this Paragraph I resolved to write to Dr. More to know whether he had deserted the Society or whether those other passages were true I writ accordingly and that learned Doctor was pleased to return me the following Answer in which you may see the insufferable Impudence of this Prodigious Romancer A Letter from Dr. More to I. G. giving an Account how M. Stubb belies him p. 173. SIR I Thank you for yours which I received by the hand of your Friend and Neighbour M. C. Before I received your Letter I had not read half a Page in your Antagonists Book for I had only seen it once by chance in one of our Fellows Chambers but had no leisure as yet to read it my time being taken up with other matters And therefore I was wholly ignorant of those passages p. 173. till your Letter gave me an occasion to enquire after the Book and to read all there that concerns my self At which I must confess I was much surprised especially at that particular passage which was pointed me to by another Letter from a Friend the day after yours that passage I mean wherein he makes as if I were not still a Member of the Royal Society but had left it grounding his Assertion upon this Reason For he allows nothing to it now It was a great marvel to me that he should pretend to know better than my self whether I be still of the Royal Society or no. For I take my self still to be of it and I am sure I have not left it And as for the Reason he would build his Conclusion upon in that sense as it will seem to sound to all men at the first reading namely That I allow them no Respect nor have any Esteem for them now it is grosly false For the great Opinion I have of their experimental Philosophy I have at least two moneths ago amply testified in my Preface to my Enchiridion Metaphysicum when I did not at all dream of any such passage of your Antagonist concerning me in his Book And do particularly note how serviceable their Natural Experiments in matter are to the clear Knowledge and Demonstration of the Existence of immaterial Beings So far are they from tending to Atheism And 't is invidiously done of your Adversary to commend me for Piety with an unworthy and odious Reflection on the Society as if men were less pious for being thereof whenas I dare say there are as pious Persons of that Society as there are out of it and it is a gross mistake in him that he looks upon that Mechanick Philosophy which I oppose to be the Philosophy the Royal Society doth profess or would support But the Philosophy which they aim at is a more perfect Philosophy as yet to be raised out of faithful and skilful Experiments in
granted that two pair ordinarily hinder the Sight though in M. Stubb's old Gentlewoman and young the Case is different and if I had allowed the Consequence this had been enough to have carried M. Cross's Cause against the two Glasses in Telescopes Thus I must be ignorant because I was not impertinent But doth M. Stubb think that every one is unacquainted with Opticks who doth not know that double Spectacles mend the Sight in some whose Eyes are weak or dis-affected Must all be Ignoramus's that have not met with the old Gentlewoman his Acquaintance and the young Gentlewoman that he knows with Cataracts in her Eyes who use two pair of Spectacles or must he needs be ignorant that meeting two false Propositions in a Syllogism contents himself to deny one and that the denial of which most evidently tends to the nulling the Argument and rendring it ridiculous I propose not these Questions to justifie my own Knowledge but to represent and shame M. Stubb's childish trifling and malicious Impertinence 12. As to the large Discourse that follows concerning Telescopes I shall treat fully on the Subject and answer the Animadverter's Cavills in the Book where I particularly examine his Authorities and in that all other things which are worth an Answer shall be consider'd For the present I take notice that this whole Discourse is an elaborate Impertinence for he proves not that Telescopes are no late Invention nor yet that they are not Helps for Knowledge He pretends indeed to shew that their Reports are sometimes uncertain but yet will not be understood totally to discredit the use of Telescopes in celestial Discoveries as he cautions p. 47. And so what he sâ—ys is impertinent to the main Business though it may seem to confute some passages of mine concerning those Glasses But let M. Stubb urge all he can for the fâ—lliciousness of Telescopes a Sceptick will produce as much to prove the Deceitfulness of our Eyes and I 'll undertake my self to offer such Arguments against the Certainty of Sense as M. Stubb with all his Sagacity shall not be able to answer But how comes M. Stubb to say in the Entrance of this Discourse p. 29. That he was sure M. Boyle is in the same errour with M. Cross Let us see upon what ground he built his Confidence in this first Instance by which he impugns Telescopes Why M. Boyle complains that when he went about to examine those appearances in the Sun call'd Maculae Faculae solares he could not make the least Discovery of them in many Months which yet other Observators pretend to see every day yet doth M. Boyle profess that he neither wanted the conveniency of excellent Telescopes nor omitted any circumstance requisite to the Enquiry Thus the Animadverter and hence he is sure that M. B. is in the same errour with M. C. That Telescopes are fallacious Let this be an Instance how this Swaggerer quotes Authors and let the Reader look into the place cited from M. Boyle If he do so he will see That that Honourable Person saith nothing there that tends to the proving the Deceitfulness of Telescopes much less that he believes them fallacious I have not the Latin Translation of those Essays but in the second Edition of the Original English I find the Discourse to which M. Stubb referrs p. 103. where the excellent Author imputes it not to the Glasses that he could not for several Months see the Maculâ— and Faculae solares but seems a little to blame those Astronomers who have so written of the Spots and more shining parts as to make their Readers to presume that at least some of them are almost always to be seen there which he conjectures was occasion'd by their so often meeting such Phaenomena in the Sun ib. But these for many months our Learned Author could not discover by his Telescopes not because of their Fallaciousness but for that during many months they appeared so much seldomer than it seems they did before These are the words of that Honourable Gentleman ubi sup And now how doth it appear hence that M. Boyle is in the same errour about the Deceitfulness of Telescopes with M. Cross Is it sure that he thought those Glasses fallacious because he could not see the Maculae and Faculae in the Sun when they were not there what are we to expect from this man in reference to the other Authors he cites when he so grosly and impudently mis-reports so known a one of our own who is yet alive and sees how maliciously the Caviller perverts him I shall examine his carriage to other Writers in my next Book and in that shew that most of the Arguments he brings to argue the Fallaciousness of Telescopes prove only the Diversity and Changes of the Mediums and of the celestial Phaenomena not the Deceit of those Glasses But I am concluded to be altogether unacquainted with Telescopes as well as ignorant of Opticks p. 46. because I say That They alter the Objects in nothing but their Proportions by which I meant that they make no Alterations in the Figures of Bodies but represent them as they are only in larger proportions And I am ignorant in Telescopes for saying so For 1. Some Telescopes invert all Objects and 2. the Dioptrick Tubes represent the Light and Colours more dilute and remiss 3. Some represent some Objects greater 4. Some no bigger or rather less 5. Some Objects are magnified but not so much as others These are Arguments of my Ignorance or M. Stubb's Impertinence For my Ignorance I have told M. Stubb that I am ready to confess a great deal more than he can prove me guilty of And whether he hath shewn it here as he pretends let the Reader judg If some Telescopes invert all things that 's nothing to his purpose for I spoke of the ordinary Tubes Nor is there any change of the Figure of Objects when they are inverted Though in the largest Tubes the Light and Colours are more remiss yet that makes no alteration of the Object and I said the Glasses alter'd the Objects in nothing but their Proportions Though some Objects in some Tubes are represented no bigger or rather less than they otherwise seem yet that 's nothing against what I say For Telescopes ordinarily magnifie 'T is their remarkable property and that for which they are used and though some Objects are not magnified as much as others yet they are confess'd to be magnified and that 's sufficient or though some are not 't were nothing as I just now observ'd I note these obvious things as my eye runs over my Adversaries Book They are enough to justifie what I said and to shew M. Stubb's Impertinence I shall discover it further when I come to consider these things more deeply I represent the easiest matters now that all Readers may see what a pitiful Caviller this man is that boasts such mighty matters and counts all men ignorants and Fools but himself
13. And 't is notoriously evident in this next Instance I had said Chymistry hath a Pretence to the great Hermes for its Author how truly I will not dispute But M. Stubb will make me dispute whether I will or no. For after he had recited these words he saith he can tell me what he is sure I am ignorant of The Egyptians did never attribute to Hermes the Invention of Physick or any part of it p. 50. How doth this Scribbler confute his own Dreams who said that the Egyptians attribute to Hermes the Invention of Physick or any part of it How easie is it to pile up Authors against any Writer if a man may take this Liberty of making him say what he pleaseth I say Chymistry hath a Pretence to Hermes for its Author And M. Stubb confutes me by proving the Egyptians did never ascribe the Invention of Physick to Him And what then the usual Conclusion follows M. Stubb is an industrious Impertinent But will he say There is no ground for my Affirmation that Chymistry hath a Pretence to Hermes for its Author He quotes VOSSIVS for the Derivation of the word from the Greek p. 51. If he had read out that leaf in Vossius he would have found a reason for that passage of mine That learned man tells us Transiit Alchymia Disciplina ad nos ab Arabibus sive Mauris Mauros verò ab Aegyptiis accepisse autumant Egyptii rursum edocti existimantur ab Hermete seu Mercurio Trismegisto Vos de Philos. c. 9. p. 68. This Saying of Vossius had been enough to justifie so transient a passage But again SENNERTVS is an Author against whom M. Stubb saith he hopes there is no Exception p. 58. This Author he quotes in that Page If he had here either read out the Chapter which he cites he would have seen another reason why I say Chymistry hath a Pretence to Hermes for its Author For thus that celebrated Writer Post Diluvium à plerisque sive Inventio sive Propagatio Chymiae ad Hermetem Trismegistum refertur ab eo Ars Chymica dicitur hodie Ars Hermetica Vas Hermetis Sigillum Hermetis provulgantur Omnes Chymici hactenus censuerunt ut scribit Albertus Magnus quòd Hermes fit Radix super quam omnes Philosophi sustentati sunt Sen. de Natura Chym. cap. 3. This is another instance how well M. Stubb himself is acquainted with the Authors he quotes and an evidence that he reads only such Scraps of them as he thinks make for his turn And may it not reflect Shame upon a man of his Pretences that his Adversary should be justified by the very Books he himself cites and even in the same Chapter and Leaf whence he takes passages from them yea and in a thing too that relates to his own Profession And here I cannot but take notice of an other instance of his Knowledg◠in the Authors with which he hath the most reason to be acquainted He tells us p. 112. That Dr. HARVY in his two Answers to Riolanus and his Book of Generation no where asserts the Invention viz. of the Circulation so to himself as to deny that he had the Intimation or Notion from Caesalpinus which Silence saith he I take for a tacit Confession How true this is may be seen in the Book he last mentioned De Generatione Anim. Edit Amst. p. 309. There Dr. HARVY in express terms assumes the Invention to himself in these words CIRCVITUM SANGVINIS admirabilem à me jampridem Inventum video propemodum omnibus placuisse M. Stubb tells us That His Ambition of Glory made him willing to be thought the Author of a Paradox he had so illustrated yet such was his Modesty as not to vindicate it to himself by telling a Lie ubi sup This we see he did if Cesalpinus was the Author That this last named Person was the Inventer of the Circulation M. Stubb labours much to prove and struts mightily in his supposed performance I shall not undertake to examine that matter now only I cannot but take notice that M. Stubb is impertinent in all that Discourse For if Caesalpinus be the Author the Invention is however modern for he writ his Quaest. Medicae not above eighty years ago and in them it is pretended he discover'd the Circulation And I am the less concern'd in all the Animadverters voluminous Nothing about the Author of that Discovery because I took care before to prevent such Impertinences but I see M. Stubb will be impertinent do I what I can to prevent it I ascribe the Invention to D. Harvy as almost all men now do except the Animadverter but take notice withal that not only divers Antients but some Moderns have had the Glory fastned on them among these I mention this CAESALPINVS and add For these though either of them should be acknowledg'd to be the Author it will make as much for the Design of my Discourse as if Harvy have the Credit and therefore here I am no otherwise concern'd but to have justice for that excellent man Plus Ult. p. 16. But M. Stubb's malice against Dr. Harvy and spight against me would not permit him to discern that he had no reason here to fall on this Controversie and 't is nothing to him whether he have reason or not He follows the Impetus and writes on if it happen to be to purpose 't is well if not he cannot help it AND now Sir I am quite weary of discovering the Falshoods and Follies and Impertinences of this insulting man The Instances I have given are enough for my present purpose They will more abundantly appear in the further Animadversions I intend in those I shall take all things to task in which I may be thought to be concerned But for that work I must have time I have other things enow to do which 't is more my Concern and more my Inclination to mind And that Business will require me to examine a multitude of Authors which I have reason to be confident M. Stubb hath mis-reported and abus'd I have given you a taste already of some of his dealings with the Writers he quotes I shall present the World with a great deal more of the same kind in my next ingagement But that will be a thing of Labour and 't is not so agreeable to my humour neither and therefore the execution of this my Design will be the slower I Thought here to have added an Account of my other Antagonist M. Cross But that Adversary is to be pitied all that he can do in the Controversie is but to call Names and invent Stories and make scurrilous Rhimes These are the Arms he hath used against me ever since our Controversie began I speak not this in a way of contemptuous Abuse but with all that seriousness with which I can affirm any thing which I do most heartily believe This I say and I am sorry I can say no better of him hath
against M. Starky about a Postscript bearing my name Sir There is nothing therein spoken positively but upon supposition If one may judge of your abilities by what you have writ against the Apothecaries then These words are not â—ctionable at least till the case be decided in Physick And 't is but fiâ—ting that you suspend your process till I appear against you in Print which I will do next Term and appeal in the judgment of the Colledâ—e or what Members thereof you 'l chooseâ— It is all one to me For whosoever differâ— from my judgment where I oppose you will but injure himself and betray his ignorance in Physick But Sir to let you see how civil I am to my own faculty if you will desert the ROYAL SOCIETY and endeavour to adjust the differences rather then to widen them betwixt Physicians and Apothecaries and joyn in the common interest and support of our profession against the Quacks and Virtuosi I will be ready so far to gratifie the desiresâ— of some of your friends and mine as to add aftâ—r the debate betwixt you and me upon the case That I do believe your haste and passion might occasion the miscarriage and that your abilities are not to be measured of by any single failure I beseech you consider the interest and honour of our profession in your quarrels and let us not out of passion against the Apothecaries destroy our selves and give advantage to the multitude of Quacks under the protection of the Royal Society and the pretence of making their own Medicaments You see with what success I have managed the quarrel in behalf of Physick against the Uirtuâ—â—t Desert these ignorant and insolent persons and let me not be blown up behind by the divisions of the Colledge the Grandeur whereof is my Design If you will comply herein I will treat you civilly enough If you will proceed with â—hem you must be content to be trampled on with them who are irrecoverably lost You sâ—â— what miserable Apologies the Wit of Dr. Spratt and the reviâ—ing of the Bishop of Chester hath produced What man of Common sâ—nce would associate with such Partisans 'T is your interest and 't is for your credit to abandon thesâ—â—atch doterels I know my advanâ—ages over that book of yours which I write against â—nd your repute will extreamly depend considering the odium you are under upon my â—ibility to you The world will laugh to see our pens revenge themselves in Westminster-Hall Let us not divert any eye from scorning the Royal Society That is the interest of every English man I 'm sure You may tell them from me that their dull Letter to me is answered and that I will bestow a Preface on Glanvill and the rest when that against you is publish't which is not yet gone to the Press because I attend the news of your depâ—rtment who I hear are upon disclaiming the Royal Society the Declaration thereof will be enough to make me Your very humble Servant H. Stubbe Warwick Aug. 16. 1670. Dr. Merrett sent me his Answer to this Letter and I had made it publick having his permission to do so but that my Postscript swells to too great a bigness Nor indeed doth it need any Deâ—â—ant to render it contemptible and ridiculous Only this I think â—it to insâ—rt out of the Doctors remarks That whereas the Quack of Warwick saith he hears He is deâ—eâ—â—ing the Royal Society to which he threatens and invites him The Doctor professeth his great and just esteem of that Honourable Assembly in the words that follow I shall save my self the labour of apologizing for the ROYAL SOCIETY whose repute with foreign Princes and learned men of all sorts witnessed by their pens and the imitation of the like Societies by themâ— The resort of Ambassadors to their Meetings and the many Books publisht by the Members thereof evidence to the world the ignorance and insolence of this pitiful Scribler He goes on owning his relation to them with great respect and though he confesseth that for a year or so he hath by his occasions been often diverted from their meetings yet adds that he hopes to frequent them more for the future Thus we see in another instance how impudently M. Stubbe romanceth in his Stories of persons withdrawing from the Royal Society He names but two of those he pretends to be declining from it viz. Dr. More and Dr. Merrett and I have I suppose presented such effectual confutations of his bold falshood from both these learned Gentlemen as would make any man blush but M. Stubbe I shall make no other remarks upon the recited Letter Every Reader will make enough for the credit of the writer He tells us in one of his last Books That he hath some vertues of the most celebrated times I hope he doth not mean veracity or modesty If he would let us know what the celebrated Times were in which the Qualities I have noted from his writings were Vertues 't would be a discovery and I 'le assure him none of the Virtuosi would take the honour from him of finding out the new vertues or being the most eminent in them But now I remember he hath already given hint enough for the discovery For in the Preface to his laâ—e Book of Chocolate He saith of Presbytery that it is malice and disingenuity heightned with all the circumstances imâ—ginable in men this 〈◊〉 Hell We know he celebrated the Times in which the Creatures and Supplanters of Presbytery reigned and there is no doubt but They abounded as mâ—ch with those good Qualities which he makes the essence of Presbytery as any men this side the place he speaks of And since Those were his celebrated Times we may learn easily what were the vertues and in how high a degree M. Stubbe pâ—ssâ—sseth â—hem he is blind that doth not see For my part However ignorant I am otherwise He hath sufâ—â—ciently informed me in this and there is no doubt but after what I have done in the foregoing Account I must expect further exercisâ— of his celebrated vertues towards me Iâ— his râ—ge and â—â—ight were â—o kindled only â—y a Cut finger How will he be inflamed by the wounds my representation of his impudence falshoods and impertitencies hath given him Let him now raise his malicious pride to itâ— most ridiculous height and spit his most spightful scorns and contempts upon me from it Let him set his cavilling invention on work for more falshoods and slandâ—rs to vilifie and debase me and call in his friend M. Cross to help him out of his Storehouse of Lâ—gâ—nds and Reproacheâ— Let him wrest my 〈◊〉 and confute his own dreams and the Eâ—â—ata of the Press to stuff up a Book of mâ—re folly and impertinâ—nce or which it may be he may think the wiser course Let him neâ— give me up to the Common pens as he threatens to be laught at and leave them to prove what he hath couragiously affirmed as he did