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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37425	The Compleat mendicant, or, Unhappy beggar being the life of an unfortunate gentleman ... a comprehensive account of several of the most remarkable adventures that befel him in three and twenty years pilgrimage : also a narrative of his entrance at Oxford ... likewise divers familiar letters, both Latin and English sermons, poems, essays ...	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Price, Thomas.	1699 (1699)	Wing D830; ESTC R7553	60,443	192

that means to know himself This Vice is so well known to be an Enemy and to have a malicious Influence upon the common Conversation of the World that we find the Wiser part of it very cautious and vigilant how they admit a proud Person into their Society there being beside the constant noise and impertinence a perpetual hazard of wrangling and quarrels if not of Murther and Tumults depending upon it Beside this in the second place I represented Pride as the Grand Abbettor of most of our Civil and Ecclesiastical Feuds and Divisions it is indeed a most prolifie Vice there being few Sins to which in some respects it is not either a Parent or a Nurse but more especially to our Religious Debates and Contentions If we trace the Heresies and Schisms from Simon Magus his days down to our own we shall find Pride still a principal Actor in every Scene though perhaps in a different Shape and Dress There hath been nothing though never so Sacred but upon this account hath been prostituted and mis-used when Diotrephes seeks Preheminence the Dictates of an Apostle must be rejected nay even the Divinity of our Saviour God blessed for ever must be trampled upon when Arius wants a Footstool to climb up to his affected Greatness In a word if we could examine the Occurrences of all Ages we shall find that the Pride of some animated and supported by the Malice and Revenge of others hath been the black Original of all the Wars and Blood that has been shed for these many Years I urg'd several other things as a further Representation of the mischievous Consequence of Pride but those for brevity sake I shall omit here The last thing I proposed was the Life and behaviour of our Blessed Saviour as the most convincing Argument to perswade us to Charity and Humility First I represented his whole Life as one continued Scene of Innocence Humility and Holy Actions I shew'd from his own words how solemnly he protested against and disdain'd the Honour and Applause of the World I seek not my own Glory saith he I receive not my Honour from Men my Doctrine is not mine but his that sent me My Father dwelleth in me and he doth the Works He did not do any of his miraculous Actions with any kind of Pomp or Noise but with an humble Calmness and Complacency agreeable to the Prophecy no Acclamations could alter or subvert the composure of his Mind the greatest of his Triumphs we ever read of was that of his riding to Ierusalem and then too instead of praising and magnifying himself he only bid them tell the Daughter of Zion That her King came to her Meek and sitting upon an Ass and a Colt the Foal of an Ass as is Recorded by the Evangelist Mat. 21.5 He was no less eminent in bearing Affronts Revilings and Persecutions In the great Article of all his Crucifixion he was so far from shewing any manner of Passion or Bitterness even against those that had falsly betrayed and condemned him that instead of Aggravating their Guilt he Compassionately intreats his Father to forgive `em representing it rather as a Sin of their haste and Ignorance than Revenge In these and many other Instances I propos'd the Example of our Saviour's Life and Doctrine as the most convincing Arguments to Charity and Humility and then to conclude I urg'd that the most natural way to express a true Veneration and Esteem for any Person was to come as near as possible to his Likeness and Similitude Our utmost Love without this looks like Dissimulation and Pretence 't is doubtless therefore the highest Concern of any one that pretends to be his Disciple and to have a Value and Regard for him to transcribe his Godlike Copy to imitate him as far as we can in the several Vertues of his Life and to observe all his Holy and Divine Precepts of which this is one of the foremost Learn of me for I am meek and lowly in Heart CHAP. X. Vpon the Restoration of King Charles he leaves his Curacy and goes to London makes several insuccessful Attempts to get Preferment and afterwards in a deep discontent and Melancholly leaves the Town with a Resolution to return into the Country in quest of New Adventures UPon the delivery of the Copy of my Sermon the worthy Gentleman made me a very handsom Present and withal was pleased much beyond my Desert to commend the happiness of my Expressions the manliness of my Stile and the contexture of my Discourse and moreover directed me in my Methods of Study and gave me a Catalogue of the Books that were most proper to be read to improve my Judgment and ground me in the true Principles of the Doctrine of the Church of England In this happy State I pass'd off Divers comfortable Months till the Kings Restoration and then I thought considering my Father had first spent his Estate and afterwards Sacrific`d his Life in the Service of the Crown upon the Representation of my condition I could not fail of getting some sort of Preferment When I came to London I found Multitudes in my own Circumstances abundance of worthy Gentlemen that had wasted their whole Fortunes in the Kings cause and were now watching about Court for some kind of business that might Entitle them to a subsistance in their declining Years For my own part I try'd all the methods that the Nature of my Case would bear but all to no purpose the King was advis'd it seems to Encourage and Caress his Enemies and to depend upon the generosity of his Friends which as some about him told him was a high Argument of Policy and Wisdom whether it was or not I think may be easily discern'd from the future success of things but that 's Forreign to my purpose I stay'd in Town expecting the moving of the Waters seven or eight months at least and in the interim had contracted an Acquaintance with several Gentlemen that came thither upon the same Errand with one especially who above all the rest I perceiv'd to be a person of extraordinary Parts and Disposition with him I often met and condol'd the Misfortune of Loyal Men and could hardly refrain among our selves from making some Reflections upon our hard Usage This Gentleman as he told me had spent Eight Hundred Pound per Annum in the Wars and what was worse had a Wife and several Children in the Country that must unavoidably fall into publick Extremity if the King did not do something for him It would grieve and surprize a man to hear him give a Relation of his Sufferings and indeed it was a very Melancholly and Astonishing Prospect to see so many brave Men in a Neglected Starving Condition whilst those that had been the Grand Instruments of the Rebellion nay in some measure that had been actually engag'd in the Murder of the King advanc'd to considerable Places of Trust and Profit In short I continued in this wretched State

enough to qualify him to set up for himself and moreover he told me he was so well satisfied in his own Perfections and in the advantages that were consequent to the Employ that if he were but once able to raise Money to keep some Attendance and build a Stage or two he did not question but in a short time he should be able to keep his Coach and Four as well as the best of `em By this time we were come within half a Mile of Thame and now the next motion was where to Lodge being both strangers we were resolv'd to strike into the first Substantial Inn we came at as near as I remember 't was the Five Bells where indeed we had very Comfortable Accommodations in all Respects The next day being Market-day the Doctor was resolv'd to go out with his Pacquets and accordingly had a Stool fixt in a convenient place where he could best mount to make his Harangue to the People but this notwithstanding 't was a publick day did not prove so successful as Wheatly it seems the place as he call'd it was too young his meaning was there had been one of the same Profession too lately there and so there was no good to be done We went from hence to Alesbury where we staid the Night following and the next day came to Leighton Buzard in Bedfordshire the Doctor still exposing his Pacquets at every Town we stopt at but with very little success this Scurvy Brother that had rang'd the Country before him had spoil'd all Well there was no good to be done at Leighton neither and so my Camerade concludes to lay aside his pretensions for the present and make the best of his way to London and accordingly told me he would go and send his Satchel with the Carrier which of a sudden was grown too heavy for him and then come and drink a parting Cup and take a Solemn Farewel of me Having travelled together for three or four days with the greatest Freedom and Familiarity I could not suspect that he could have any Design to betray me at last but finding him stay longer than ordinary I began to be a little Jealous that after all the Doctor had dropt me To make short of the matter I got out of Bed where he left me and from a very small Enquiry found that he had both pickt my Pocket and rifled my Satchel and what was worse left me in Pawn for the Reckoning too This I thought was a Miisfortune at least equal to any of my former I was wrackt at once with a Thousand dismal terrors and apprehensions and that which tormented me most of all was how to dis-entangle my self from the Scurvy Ale-house sometimes I think upon one Expedient and sometimes upon another at last I conclude Honesty was the best Policy and the safest way to bring me off and therefore resolve to declare my Condition to my Landlady and commit my self intirely to her Charity CHAP. V. Wherein he gives a short Account of his Rencounter with his Landlady writes a begging Copy of Verses and a Letter to a Gentleman in the Town who gives him Money to pay his Reckoning and recommends him afterwards to a School c. PUrsuant to my former Resolution after I had put on my Cloaths with a great deal of trembling and consternation I call'd for my Landlady and began to give her a doleful Relation of my Condition she heard me with some kind of Patience and Pitty at first but when I came to that part of it which related to the Reckoning she grew in a Instant so outragious and violent that I cannot fancy any thing in Nature so cruel and brutish The best word I could get from her was Rogue Thief Cheat and Villain and no punishment less than hanging or Bridewel was bad enough for me I offer'd her all the Equipage and Books my worthy Companion had left me but all would not do the Books she said were of no use to her beside they were Latine and might be Popery for what she knew and so she would not entertain ' em Nothing would serve but I should be lockt up in my Room till her Husband came home to get a Warrant to carry me before a Justice of Peace and indeed there was no Remedy but I must endure this hard Sentence however I had the opportunity of conversing with the Maid in the Interim that as good Fortune would have it was washing in the Yard directly under the Window who told me very Compassionately upon the Recital of my Condition that there was a worthy Gentleman in Town that in all probability would take Pity of me and that if I would write a Letter she 'd find a method to get it convey'd to him This honest Motion I lik'd extreamly and truly as Cases stood I thought 't was the best Expedient my unhappy Circumstances would admit of I must confess indeed that I had a very sharp Conflict with my self before I could so far vanquish my Modesty to settle my Resolutions in that Point and then too I was as much confounded and disturb'd to think what Method and Terms were most suitable to recommend me with the greatest Innocence and Advantage but this was not long under debate but the Muse steps in and offers her Assistance and indeed I accepted of it under the notion that the Relation of my Circumstances in a short Copy of Verses might be something out of the Road of Common Begging and so to work I went and wrote what follows From an unhappy Wand'rer in Distress Accept and pardon Sir this bold Address Believe him 't is a rigid Turn of Fate Has brought the wretched Pilgrim to your Gate Oh pity him for 't is the only time He e're was known to beg Relief in Rhyme But Peace base Iilt to urge me on forbear Wouldst thou betray me now in my despair Canst thou than this no better way contrive To keep thy poor distressed Friend alive No let him die for that 's a less offence Than to incline him thus to Insolence Besides already to my Cost I know That humane Life is so expos'd to Woe That it can ne'r requite the Pain I 'm at To forster up the Sickly peevish brat I see that after all that I can do Still Grief and Pain and Secret Ills pursue But yet methinks before my Iourney 's end 'T is strange if my hard Fate should not unbend Life's but a Lottery and one good Cast Makes some amends for all the bad ones past In spight of Fate there must be some Reserve Then sure 't is hard in th' interim I should starve Haste then my Muse to yonder happy place And humbly there plead thy poor Master's Case Shew him where he in deep Confusion stands Hanging his Head and lifting up his Hands Blaming the Cause that brought both him and thee Thus to transgress the Rules of Modesty Then for these Rhymes I charge you there be Iust Own 't was