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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36898	The Dublin scuffle being a challenge sent by John Dunton, citizen of London, to Patrick Campbel, bookseller in Dublin : together with small skirmishes of bills and advertisements : to which is added the billet doux sent him by a citizens wife in Dublin, tempting him to lewdness, with his answers to her : also some account of his conversation in Ireland, intermixt with particular characters of the most eminent persons he convers'd with in that kingdom ... : in several letters to the spectators of this scuffle, with a poem on the whole encounter.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1699 (1699)	Wing D2622; ESTC R171864	245,842	426

Madam have I sent you the true Reason for my leaving Counsellor H and betaking my self to a Private Life wherein not only Antiquity pleads for me but the Example of Cowley and the best and greatest Men of the Age. And Madam as I am charm'd with a private Life and with every day a green Prospect so there is a dainty one adjoyning Mr. Orson's House my present Quarters where I often wander up and down to think of you and the Dear Valeria I told you before 't was my fortune to Travel and even in Dublin it self I am not without my Rambles One I make to represent Drapers Garden The other Stepney Fields Another St. Iames's Park And when I pass through Skinner Row where the Scuffle was methinks I am in Cheapside and shall soon be at the Raven in Iewin-street the only House on Earth I love Pray Madam let me know if it stands in the old place 't is a mighty Pleasure for us Travellers to hear how Matters goe in England But as much as I love the Raven I thought my self very happy at Mr. Orson's I mean as happy as I cou'd be without Valeria But how uncertain are worldly Comforts For I had not Madam sojourned many days at Mr. Orson's House but I fell sick as I said before of the Bloody Flux the usual distemper of the Country and many times fatal so that I might have iust Apprehensions of a speedy dissolution of my Earthly Frame I being at best of no strong Constitution To say I had no fear of Death at all upon me under these Circumstances would savour more of an hardned insensibility of Heart and Pagan ignorance than the Piety and Consideration of a Christian but herein an enumeration of the particulars of my past Life was presented to me and things appear'd with very different Aspects but yet not so frightful but that through the Divine Goodness I had hopes left of the Remission of all my Sins upon the sole Account of my Saviour's Merits but I dare not be so presumptuous as to say my Faith amounted to an assurance of my Eternal Salvation Yet I may say I began more seriously than ever to consider what I was whence I came and whether I was going For Madam as I said before a near prospect of Death makes the World and all things in it appear with a quite different face from what it did The belief I shou'd now dye made me to think why I liv'd where I shou'd be buried and what wou'd become of me after Death I now began to review the whole Course of my Life and whether if Time wou'd unweave my Life again to the first thread I wou'd live just as I had done Ah! Madam the fashion of the World passes away and a sick-bed presently convinces us of the Vanity of Riches Honours Pleasures How mean and contemptible do these things appear in the Eyes of a dying Man They can't help us to a good Conscience give a Minutes ease or save from the Grave Sure I am whilst my Distemper lasted wou'd any one ha' given me the whole World I cou'd ha' thought of nothing but the Terrors of Death the certainty of Iudgment the Glories of Heaven the Torments of Hell the Comforts of a good Conscience and what I must do to be saved with the necessity of a good Life and 〈◊〉 through Mercy I am now recover'd I hope to the end of my Life I shall think of the World just as I did when I thought I was leaving it and to this end I desire Death may be much in my ●houghts and the remaining part of my Life a continual Preparation for it We read of one that every time he heard the Clock cryed well now I have one hour less to live I wish I cou'd imitate this good Man however I will look upon every day as if it were my last that so when Death comes in earnest I may be ready and willing to dye and after Death I doubt not but my Body will rise again I will therefore no longer spend my Hours in pampering of that which will be food for Worms But I will not Madam enter upon all the Conceptions and Idea's I had in this Sickness of the future World some of 'em being perhaps more the fancy of my own Brain than any true Representation of the thing it self But it having pleased Almighty God to make my Illness of a short Duration I shall from the more Melancholly Scene of Death pass to the more pleasing Actions of Life and take the liberty to acquaint ye that I now began to visit my Friends and to take some innocent Diversion abroad But Madam no Pleasure is lasting with me I find for I had not been long recovered and able to walk abroad but I was hurry'd from my Dublin Paradise I mean Mr. Orson's House for Mr. Wild who manag'd my Auction being just now arriv'd from London I was forc'd to remove to Mr. Landers's in Capel-street that I might be nearer my Business Mr. Landers's Character resembles that of old Jacob being a plain but sincere hearted Man and his Wife as good a Landlady and one of the best of Nurses for an infirm Person which was then my Condition nor must I forget honest Kate their Servant whose Readiness and Care to please me supply'd her want of Understanding Point-work But that my Condition in my Absence from Valeria might truly resemble that of a Pilgrim who is continually in motion I was forc'd to remove yet nearer my Auction upon the Information I receiv'd of my Porter 's being turn'd Thief so that from Landers's House I remov'd to Mr. Cawley's at the Tennis-Court in Wine-Tavern-street Mr. Cawley is a very humble and agreeable Person civil and obliging to all his Lodgers and I must say to do him right to me in a very particular manner and so was his Wife also who is a very ingenious discreet and prudent Person and both of 'em express'd an uncommon concern at my parting with them which was not until I came for England Nor must I forget my Kinswoman Iuggee as I us'd to call her who was their trusty Servant Thus Madam I have briefly given you an Account of the Reasons and Causes I had for my several Removes from one Lodging to another and how happy I was in meeting with kind Landlords And were I in England again and I cast longing looks that way evry day I 'd say more in their Praise but oh this cruel distance well had I the same advantage of speed to send unto you at this time in this place as they have from Scandaroon when upon the coming in of any Ship into Harbor they use to send their Letters by Pigeons to Aleppo and other Places I say Madam had I such an airy Postilion I 'd send ye these Occurrences more at large Madam If you shou'd ask me which I lik'd best of my four Lodgings my Answer is I look'd upon

last consented to the Act provided it might be committed where they might not be seen Whereupon being brought into one Room he alledged they might be seen from this Place and in another that they might be seen in that Place and still found some Exception upon that account but at last being brought into such a Place where could be no Reason for such a Plea yet he alledged that it was not so Secret but that the Eye of God would be upon them even there and that unless his Eye too as well as all others could be shut out he durst ●ot do it by which means he not only preserved his Integrity but converted a Harlot Secondly Beside the Eye of God upon you who is to be your Iudge you have the D●vil with you who does mean to be your Accuser The Devil is Pimp-General to the World not a piece of filthiness Dorinda ever commits but he is as one at it by his Enticements to it He finds and furnishes with fuel for Lust. And as he knows all ye do now so he will tell all ye have done hereafter where and when and with whom you have play'd the Whore Thirdly Besides the Eyes of all without you there is Dorinda the Eye of your Conscience within you which will also be one Day a Thousand Witnesses against you In Consideration whereof doubtless it was that Pythagoras gave that good and wise Counsel of his That no Man should commit any filthiness either with another or alone by himself which Self-pollution is a sort of potential Murther and that above all others he should stand in awe of himself that is dread and fear his own Conscience as I formerly hinted to Patrick Campbel Now Dorinda if the following these Directions don't Cure your raging Lust then in the Eighth Place when you are tempted to Uncleanness seriously think on what is behind viz. Death Iudgment Heaven and Hell and the serious Thought of any one of these is enough to extinguish the Flames of Lust. Dorinda Death is behind Thee Thou canst not live for ever here thou must dye and you know not how soon perhaps it may be in the very Act of thy Uncleanness and how dismal Dorinda would your Condition be if that should befal you What can befal a Person more dreadful than to be catcht and cut off by Death in the very Act of Sin But secondly Not Death only but Iudgment also is behind Dorinda thou must not only Dye but be judged too for thy Uncleanness after Death For Whoremongers to endure the Eye of God upon you This Consideration was effectual to Preserve Paphnutius who being wearied with the Sollicitations of a tempting Dalilah at last consented to the Act provided it might be committed where they might not be seen Whereupon being brought into one Room he alledged they might be seen from this Place and in another that they might be seen in that Place and still found some Exception upon that account but at last being brought into such a Place where could be no Reason for such a Plea yet he alledged that it was not so Secret but that the Eye of God would be upon them even there and that unless his Eye too as well as all others could be shut out he durst not do it by which means he not only preserved his Integrity but converted a Harlot Secondly Beside the Eye of God upon you who is to be your Iudge you have the Devil with you who does mean to be your Accuser● The Devil is Pimp-General to the World not a piece of filthiness Dorinda ever commits but he is as one at it by his Enticements to it He finds and furnishes with fuel for Lust. And as he knows all ye do now so he will tell all ye have done hereafter where and when and with whom you have play'd the Whore Thirdly Besides the Eyes of all without you there is Dorinda the Eye of your Conscience within you which will also be one Day a Thousand Witnesses against you In Consideration whereof doubtless it was that Pythagoras gave that good and wise Counsel of his That no Man should commit any filthiness either with another or alone by himself which Self-pollution is a sort of potential Murther and that above all others he should stand in awe of himself that is dread and fear his own Conscience as I formerly hinted to Patrick Campbel Now Dorinda if the following these Directions don't Cure your raging Lust then in the Eighth Place when you are tempted to Uncleanness seriously think on what is behind viz. Death Iudgment Heaven and Hell and the serious Thought of any one of these is enough to extinguish the Flames of Lust. Dorinda Death is behind Thee Thou canst not live for ever here thou must dye and you know not how soon perhaps it may be in the very Act of thy Uncleanness and how dismal Dorinda would your Condition be if that should befal you What can befal a Person more dreadful than to be catcht and cut off by Death in the very Act of Sin But secondly Not Death only but Iudgment also is behind Dorinda thou must not only Dye but be judged too for thy Uncleanness after Death For Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Heb. 13. 4. Then again There is Heaven behind a State of Pleasure Joy and Happiness beyond all that the World hath or ever had Then Dorinda if at any Time you are tempted to Uncleanness Iay Shall I for a bru●tish Pleasure lose my Heaven Lose my Happiness Can the Company of all the Men in the World had I the Enjoyment of them all countervail the loss of Heaven And Lastly Dorinda There is Hell behind And who are to be turned into this burning Lake Why the Wicked and amongst the rest Adulterers and such-like Desilers of the Image of God and Members of Christ and Temples of the Holy Ghost Then Dorinda argue with they self and say What shall I go to Hell for a Bill●t Doux Have I a mind to be damned for an Assignation Shall I plunge my self into Fire and Brimstone there to lie and roar to all Eternity for the little short nasty Pleasure which is had in the Embraces of a Leud Person Thus Dorinda at any Time when you come under the Temptations of Lust call to mind Death Iudgment Heaven and Hell and you will by God's Grace be so wrought on in that Meditation that you will both fly the Acts and detest the Thought of Uncleanness And how Dorinda you may perhaps upbraid all this as a Sermon as is usual for the Libertines of the Age to do I shall not be much concern'd at it if it happen to be so I think no shame to own that I am descended from the Tribe of Levi by Four successive Generations and was likewise Allied to it by my first Marriage wherein never was any Man more happy They that Honour God will Honour his Ambassadors and they that despise them