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A modest plea both for the caveat, and the author of it with some notes upon Mr. James Howell, and his sober inspections / by Roger L'Estrange.
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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A Modest Plea Both for the CAVEAT AND The AUTHOR of It. WITH SOME NOTES UPON Mr. IAMES HOWELL AND His Sober Inspections By ROGER L'ESTRANGE Laudatur ab his Culpatur ab illis Horat. LONDON Printed Aug. 28. 1661. For Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy lane A Modest Plea REport speaks me a Prisoner for my last Pamphlet and if I knew who raised it or would have it so I would in earnest thank them for it First as the greatest honour they can do me to bring my Innocence upon the Stage and make me suffer in a Cause which every honest man prefers before his Being Next I should thank them for assisting toward the Discovery of the Kings Enemies which beyond doubt those people are that will torment themselves for a Reflection that concerns no other I say again there is an appearance of a Confederacy but I sixe nothing upon Persons whoever says There he means mee is in the right if he be one of the Conspirators otherwise not They know their own Affections best and I my own meaning which yet I take to be so plainly expressed as that no Englishman can make a Question of it This General Rumour has made me call my Papers and my Thoughts to shrift and neither in the One nor in the Other do I find any thing according to my judgement of my Duty that suits not with the strictest Obligation of it So let my Soul find Comfort as I believe the King is betrayed and if I had the honour of His Majesties Ear I would present him with my particular reasons for that opinion My expectation was that some of the Seditious Stationers and Lecturers of whom I have complayn'd should have been call'd to accompt and not to have been threatned my self effectually for complayning of them If there be any matter of exception I offer up my whole Life to the Scrutiny of the whole World and if from the first Moment of the Quarrel to this Instant they prove me Guilty either of the least remisnesse toward the Kings Cause any the least complyance with his Enemies or the least colour of Irreverence toward his Person I am content to lose my Head for 't I have now serv'd his Majesty in being and his blessed Father these One and Twenty years without either asking or receiving any thing Let him that charges mee make the same challenge T is a wise Precept That of Machiavell Encourage ACCUSATIONS and suppresse CALUMNIES I ask no more but to be either followed home or Let alone I come now to enquire into the Subject of the Controversie the Caveat it self which with great reason is by some Opposed and with as much by mee Defended for Their DIANA lyes at Stake My Repute Safety Freedome and which is more then All the Soul of every Loyal Subject the King himself But to be Thristy of my Time and Paper where lyes the Exception what Law does it offend either of Honour Conscience or of the Nation Does it presume to taxe the King or his Councill to kindle Iealousies betwixt united Brethren or to enflame the Rest into Impatience and Distemper Does it excite Revenge or Tumult If it does any of this I 'll bind my self to be his Slave that shews me where That is let it be Try'd by Indifferent Iudges and taken in Coherence for to catch here and there a snap is to destroy my meaning and at that rate ye may make Quidlibet ex quolibet Treason of the Law and pick Blasphemy out of the Holy Bible But Blam'd it is and why Not for the Preface I hope That only advises Warynesse and gives the Reasons for it There 's not a day that passes without seditious Lectures in the City some Openly others more Covertly bidding the People to prepare for a Persecution and Then ah Lord sayes Hancock give the King ANOTHER Heart a NEW Heart Lord and make him Thy Servant Meade seconds his Fellow-Schismatick with a word of Consolation but be of a good Heart says he Ye do not know what a year nay what a MONTH may bring forth This did he repeat so often and with such an Accent upon MONTH that upon my Soul I thought it related rather to the Timing of a Plot then to the pressing of a Duty for the Emphasis was much stronger upon the Time then upon the Exhortation This was a little above a Fornight since and in my own Hearing to which Add that the whole Crew are of the same Leaven I hope there is no harm in This and as little in charging Tyton a Stationer with dispersing Treason since his Majesties return for there 's a Combination betwixt the Presse and Pulpit to do mischief Now to the Matter of the Book wherein I shall omit nothing considerable First Note that to the 17. Page 't is a Reply upon I. H. his Cordiall The first Two Pages are only Prologue the Third is Mr. Howells the Fourth Mine and there I begin Telling I. H. that as the Cavaliers have liv'd true to their Prince upon a Rule of Honour Loyalty and Conscience so are they as well dispos'd to Dye for him if occasion require without the Aid of borrowed CORDIALS In the Fifth and Sixt Pages I fault his using of the word Reward as not becoming a Subject to his Prince for whether we receive any thing or nothing our Duty is still the same My Seventh Page only acquits the Cavaliers of causing the Kings wants or pressing them and fairly checks I. H. for being over-busy with that Argument In the 8 9. Pages I. H. objects and answers I deny his Twenty Cavaliers to One of the other side and with due Reverence to His Majesties Prerogative to bestow where and what he pleases I affirm that divers unknown persons are recommended to his Royal Favour who are very unworthy of it Page Tenth I blame the Authour of the Cordial for entring further into the Kings Actions then becomes him Pag. 11. I. H. exhorts us to Patience in expectation of a Reward and I tell him that we never serv'd for wages but it is our Duty to be Patient The Twelfth â—age carries the best Colour for a Cavil but first I 'll recite it and then explain it to a Syllable We find the Court dangerously thronged with Parasites Knaves represented to the King for Honest men and Honest men for Villains a watch upon his Majesties Ear to keep out better Information seditious Ministers protected and encouraged Libells against the Authority and Person of the King dispersed even by his Majesties sworn Servants and to Discover Treason is of a consequence in some respects more hazzardous then to commit it To this I explain my self that divers persons whom I know of dangerous principles and scandalous Report are crept into Office and Preferments These are the Parasites I mean and when I am commanded I shall name them That many Knaves have been represented for Honest men is evident in several whom His
in question should prove to be a kin to the Other we may be very well excused if we suspect his Cordiall and if we rather trust our own Eyes in our own Concern then anothers Spectacles In that contest betwixt One Tyrant and many if the Noble Assembly had baffled the Army then Oliver had been the Monster but Fortune would have it otherwise and so the Lot fell upon the NOBLE ASSEMBLY but not a half-penny matter to us whether the Dragon kill'd the Saint or the Saint the Dragon Some Subjects are like Common-Wooers that may safely swear that they love Twenty several Wenches Best in Four and Twenty hours and to such humours no Government comes amisse that carries either Interest or Novelty along with it He that expects the fixing of that sort of people might better wait till a River should either stop its course or run it self weary Labitur Labetur in omne volubilis aevum Others there are who I verily believe did take that Legislative Rabble for a Parliament and such we must not blame for calling it so Yet for the Cavaliers that never were nor are nor ever can be of That Judgement we should do very ill to chuse an Advocate out of that number or to expect much good from a Physician that could not help himself But too much time is spent in Preamble for which the Gentleman whom it concerns may thank himself I knew at first who wrote the Cordial but truly I had no Ambition to measure Pens with Mr. Howell and my Remarks upon the Mistake did not so much as glance upon the Author No sooner were the Inspections Publick but my Stationer comes to me by Mr. Howell's Order with a sleevelesse Story how ingenious a piece that same Cordial was how much His Majesty was pleased with it with great Additions too in favour of the person that composed it Some part of This in the second Impression of my Caveat I barely mentioned and so left it Upon Thursday or Friday last out comes another miserable Paper done by the same hand and in justification of the Former which I must needs take notice of for divers Reasons whereof I swear the Author and the thing it self are none The Copy was pressed upon my Stationer a very honest and a Loyal person as yet unfinished who gave me notice of the proposition but without any thought of undertaking it With much ado I prevailed with him to comply with the good Gentleman and out comes Gravity it self under the Form of SOBER INSPECTIONS c. The very Title speaks the Author no Physician and he that stands condemned to read the Text may swear he is no Conjurer He writes himself Historiographer Royal and tells his Tale to shew his Office Yes and a dainty Tale it is A Toledo Captain met Philip the Second a hunting and taking him for a Private person told him he was going to Court to demand a Reward for his Services The King asked him if he had not received his Pay He said Yes but 't was long a Comming However he 'd to the King for an Ayúda de costas something to drink Well sayes the King but in case his Majesty will give you nothing why then let him kisse my Mules Tail cryes the Captain Hereupon the King ask'd him his Name and bids him bring his Certificat next day to the Council and hee 'd procure him admittance The Captain appears Well Sir saies the King What was 't you said yesterday the King should do to your Mule if so and so In our Authors own words The Captain being nothing at all danted said Truly Sir My Mule is ready at the Court-gate if there be occasion The King for This Orders the Captain 400. Crowns present and 2000 Ryals Annuity The Condition of the English Cavaliers is much more considerable says our Historian for the Spanish Captain had all his Arriers paid him which our Cavaliers have not pag. 4. Most Logical and profound for as Tenterden-steeple was the cause of Godwin Sands even so Good people Love one another But can the great Defender of our Cause spy out no other Difference betwixt the Captains case and Ours then matter of Pay That want of Modesty and Reverence though the King lik'd it never so well ought to have been Reprov'd and Punish'd Suppose the bluntnesse of the man hit the Kings Humour Yet was it not the lesse below his Dignity even to suffer so exemplary a Boldnesse but much more to Reward it therein preferring his Fancy to his Honour Not but that Monarchs are Men as well as Subjects and may be allowed their Appetites and Likings yet beyond question This was an Oversight in Philip to lay himself so open for when the Court had once gotten the length of his Foot and that they found there were more waies then good to Profit and Preferment it would have been no wonder to have seen That Prince served and attended by Tumblers and Buffons in stead of Statesmen The Gentleman hath many other pretty fragments of Story which being exceedingly beside his Purpose I reckon not much to mine wherefore let them rest But in good manners something we will afford him in Requital which his INGREDIENTS and his COMPOSITION put me in mind of The late Lord Coring after a dear ill-dressed Dinner at Bruxells sends for mine Host and treats him with this Complement Friend says he I do take Thee for one of the best Cooks in Christendome ' bate but two faults The One is Thou hast the worst Ingredients in Nature The Other is Thou putt'st them the worst together This is the Fortune of some Writers too as well as Cooks Touching our Authors Calculation of Twenty Cavaliers preferr'd for One Roundhead I have already spoken what I thought fit and modest in my Caveat but since it is Mr. Howell's pleasure to re-enforce it rather then presse the point too far we 'l grant it but then Twenty of Mr. Howell's Cavaliers reckoning himselfe for One will not make half so many of Mine In his Sixt Page he tells us that divers great Kings have been enforced to raise and reward those that were once their very Enemies FOR A TIME And why FOR A TIME if a body may ask But this shall be discoursed at Length and Leisure In short he tells us what he told us before and winds up Thus. To conclude he who with a sober and well-brass'd judgement will examine that Cordial will find that there is never a Line Word or Syllable therein but breathes out the spirit of a perfect Cavalier as above twenty other several pieces of the same Author publish'd upon Emergent occasions do breathe besides there is no fretfull drug or the least Corrosive dram in it but all gentle lenitifs therefore he wonders how it should stir up such Malignant humors in any unlesse it were in them who having something lying upon the stomach made wrong use of that Cordial to cast it up We will allow the Gentleman to be a perfect Cavalier a perfect Republican if he pleases a perfect Protectorian a perfect Any-thing rather then disagree about his Perfection but I would he had not appealed to his Pieces And truly if he had spared the Malignant humours and the Queasie Stomach he talks of it would have been never the worse for the Author of the Cordial But now he finds himself so much deceiv'd in his Operations I hope he 'l mend He sees his Cordials prove Vomits and let me forget my own Name as he has done his if what Mr. Howell gives to move Choler does not provoke excessive Pleasure THE END * Note Pag. 12. pâ— 1. pâ— 4. pa. 11. pa. 12. pa. 18. pa. 38. pa. 39. Pag. 42. Pag. 43. Pag. 48. The Kings Actions not to be question'd Enformation lawful Private persons not to advise Prâ—nces without Leave A common grievance His Majesty vindicated The Kings Bounty is Free Pag. 38. Pag. 37. Postscript Tyranny it self is no Discharge of Duty Disloyalty a double Crime Loyalty an indispensable Duty Loyalty extends to thought word and deed A due respect to His Majesty Pag. 15. False Friends p. 29. An honest Principle pa. 46. I. H. I. H. I.H. I. H.