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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47170	A rod for Trepidantium Malleus, or A letter to Sam. Reconcileable	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1700 (1700)	Wing K201; ESTC R216624	6,666	29

you are in your Understanding And indeed Sir I cannot forbear finding fault with your Method as well as your Manners and censuring your Prudence as well as your Modesty I don't say Chastity 'T is highly reasonable to think that young Men of twenty or thirty years of Age should better be wrought upon by Persuasion than Bum-brushing But remembring you are a mighty lover of Stories and Verses which as they are surreptitiously scrap'd up here and there are as odly jumbled together and profusely and blunderingly flung away without Design and to no end in your Books be pleas'd kindly to accept of such as may chance to drop from my Pen. A certain Apothecary sends his Man to administer a Clyster that was prescrib'd by a Physician for a Gentleman his Patient who was sorely afflicted with the Head-ach the man enters the Gentleman's Chamber who demands Who 's there answer is made the Apothecary What has the Doctor order'd me A Clyster A Clyster quoth the Gentleman you Villain you Rascal the Doctor 's a Fool to send a thing to put in my A to cure my Head and so drove him out of the Room What Lines of Communication you have found out between the Head and Tail of a Scholar I know not but it seems very preposterous to suppose that diminishing the podicical Covering should increase the Understanding I doubt Birch-Clysters don't work kindly A Patient's Fancy does very much assist the Doctor 's endeavours and therefore I doubt you have but little success in your Practice because your Patients cannot be persuaded into a good Opinion of their Physick for they have a natural aversion to pain I find you are one of Co atch's followers your Medicines are all Acids And now Sir having considered your Case I find Distraction the best excuse I can make to my self and others for these enormous excursions of your nonintellectuals which makes me a little commiserate your Case and heartily advise you in your very next interval to read Dr. Echard's Letter to the Author of Hieragonisticon and use his Prescriptions they exactly hit your Case pray don't neglect it delays being dangerous He says you must avoid all hot things as Coffee and Tobacco and I believe not without reason for they are apt to dry up the Brain and when things are too dry they will crack but above all you must avoid writing Books till you find the Distemper pretty well asswag'd and then too but moderately for fear of a Relapse But if you can't forbear till then pray whatever you write in your fit which is but all you write read over in an interval before it goes to the Press and then I doubt not they will all receive their fate as truly tho not as duly as if they were burnt by the hands of the common Hangman Indeed some of those already publish'd have answered the end propos'd 2d and last New Years Gift to the Crispians page 11. and have prov'd good Physick A Friend of mine lays 'em in a convenient Place where the reading one Leaf is a gentle Purge and then 't is sent after the Operation the fittest use they can be put to And Sir was there no other reason why they should suffer but because they are too bold and saucy with their Author that was enough for while they are Jesters to others they make a jest of him You seem in all your Writings to drive very hard for the Buskins but I must tell you they are too noble an Ornament to adorn your Farce for what you write is as much below that reproved Author as a Bartholomew-fair Droll is below Seneca's Tragedies I must acknowledg you have hammer'd hard for a little Wit to divert the World and therefore the World 's very ungrateful it won't accept the Will for the Deed and 't is really very hard that you should print Books at your own Charge and be at the Expence both of Purse and Brain to please and all in vain yet you have this comfortable Solace in the experience you have gain'd you have found out the best way of putting off your Books of any Man in England I am told that when you was not long since chewing the Cud without dividing the Hoof in Noah ' s Ark as you call it you was telling a Story of a Man that cry'd Pears twelve sixteen twenty a Penny and none would buy till at last he cry'd Pears for nothing and then he soon empty'd his Basket so said you is it with my Books Why Sam what an unhappy Fellow art thou to lay the Rod in the way thus For who do you think won't reply the reason why the Pears would not sell was because they were not good I remember a Passage I once met with in a Dramatick Poem call'd The Folly of Priest craft Father Politico who bears the Character of a plotting intriguing Priest orders his Man Manuel to read the Intelligences which he had receiv'd out of the Country what Men there were in the several Counties that were fit Tools to work with in building up the Catholick Cause and among the rest There is a Fellow of a broad Face and no Brains the want of which is supply'd by a great stock of Impudence which enables him to rail against Popery in Billingsgate Language without two grains of Sense or Reason He gets a good quantity of Money in the Year and preaches in a little Shed at the end of his House Then mark him down says Politico and send an hundred Pounds to make his Shed bigger there are more converted to us by hearing bad Sermons against Popery than by hearing good ones for it Whether this is worthy the Consideration of your Antagonists must be left to them and how far the Story reacheth their Case But I am very apt to think should they be at the Charge of printing all you write rather than you should be silent it would prove for the good of the Cause you oppose and one of your Books against any Opinion will make more Converts to it than ten good Books writ for it I find old Ishmael you are resolv'd to keep us in uncertainty to what Party you belong and make us think you are a Man of no Religion by your quarrelling with all as wrong I did believe you a Presbyterian if any thing till I met with those scurrilous Sarcasms upon the two great Men of the Age of that Persuasion 2d New Years Gift for the Crispians p. 35 36. Dr. B s and Mr. H w. 'T is mean and pitiful to rake the Ashes of the Dead as you do of the Doctor you know the old saying De mortuis nil nisi bonum but 't is intolerable to stamp 'em with Falsities I can find no truth in what you would insinuate tho I have often endeavour'd it and can make no shift to free it from the name of a Lie but that it is too gross to deceive And I doubt not but you thought your self

a fitter Man to speak to the King in the name of the Dissenters than he that did it whom the World knows to be a learned Man and needs no Encomium from any but his own Works as you have often implicitely seem'd to assert That would have been the ready way to have reviv'd the obsolete name of Fanatick and to have given the King just cause to reflect upon on the Liberty given to Madmen as he must have judg'd them by their Representative You needed not to have taken the trouble to acknowledg your self a Man of but little Prudence as you do in the thirty second page of your second New-Years-Gift for I never yet could meet with the Man thought you had any You tell us a Story William Pen and the Quakers either Impostors or Apostates p. 30. that a Quaker Woman coming into a Church and disturbing it by her speaking was ask'd by a Boy Who sent her there that Day she reply'd God No said the Boy then you would not have spoken so many things contrary to the Scriptures neither can I imagine the Devil sent thee for I thought he had more wit than to send such a Fool about his Work and the Quaker never disturb'd 'em afterward Who sent you I cannot determine but I wish the recital of your own Story may have the same Effect upon you and keep you from making any farther disturbance by your foolish Scrible Could you look a little into your own Constitution that would mightily help towards it for there You 'd find Your Body made for Labour not your Mind I fear should it come to be known who is the Author of this Letter by any of the Judicious I shall incur their Displeasure most are apt to think that you aim at nothing more than the honour of being thought worth answering and would be glad of having any thing writ against you to introduce something more of your incontinent Scrible into the World Should it prove so in this I heartily beg their Pardon and hope I shall never again be guilty of Midwifeing any of your Brats or be the Cause of provoking you to plague the World with more of your Stuff Indeed if you 'l be as good as your word I need not much fear it in this Cause for you tell us 2d Friendly Epistle to G. Keith fol. 20 34 That you never intend to write one word more upon this Subject that is of Baptism unless a Reply by any worthy Divine or Scholar of theirs makes it necessary Can you think or suppose a worthy Divine and a Scholar to be without any thing else to do than to trouble his Head about you and till then you cannot expect any one should besides Man such a one would as much scorn to draw a Pen against thee as a well bred Gentleman to draw his Sword upon a naked Cit. I understand you threaten very hard any that shall dare to appear in Print against you and yet you see 't is done In the name of him you shall happen to pitch upon to rail at as the Author of this Letter I send you defiance in six Lines of Sir Carr Scroop to my Lord Rochester upon his Lordship's having written something against him Rail on poor feeble Scribler speak of me In as bad terms as the World speaks of thee Sit swelling in thy Hole like a vex'd Toad Thy Venom and thy Malice spit abroad Thou canst hurt no Man's Name by thy ill word Thy Pen is full as harmless as thy Sword Philosensus POSTSCRIPT PErhaps some who may chance to peruse this Letter may cavil at and find fault with the Method I have taken and the Stile I have used in writing to the Quakers Beetle head Those that do I desire to accept of this for Answer I have endeavour'd as much as I could to imitate the Gentleman and fight him at his own Weapons and therefore I have foisted in several Stories and some of them abruptly that I might come as near I could to my Copy And if I 'm accus'd for being so severe upon him take his own Reason for the same thing in his Book call'd William Pen and the Quakers either Impostors or Apostates c. page 61. Quacks and Juglers and foolish pretenders to any thing are not to be treated as wise and sober Men Answer says the wisest of Men a Fool according to his Folly lest he be wise in his own Conceit Prov. 26.5 FINIS