devotion to Ozmin proceeds farther then being a Pilgrim for his â—ake she offers to dye for him and fall a Sacrifice for Ozmins safety Doeâ— she adore Selin or make him a God if she falls a sacrifice to appease his anger None of my Actions can 〈◊〉 Iudges bâ— But they who 've soul enough to love like me He by they and soul which are of different numbers would infer that many men have but one soul. None of thy reasons oâ—n fit Iâ—dges be Bus they who 're dull enough to prate like thee I 'm certain he that reads this Pamphlet and believes there went three head pieces towards the production of this Rarity will infer that one rational soul will o're stock twenty such Scriblers No Sir thou doest belye his Name He calls him Sir first and then gives him the lye and wrongfully For he does not belye his name when be calls him his Prophâ—â— As I take it there was something else â—aid about the Prophet besides his name in which he belyed him But Notes is a Courtier and has found out that Sir is a compliment and the lye an affront and therefore this Line is faulty or the Character of Muly Hamet that Scharomaucio like flatters and abuses in one breath Am is the Rhime to Namâ— toâ— it should be Nam But Hameralhaz takes no notice but goes on He was not so witty at observations as Bays or no doubt he had stopt to have taken notice of so great a fault Your Mistriss too must your misfortune find That could not be she could not loose a Mistriss This is almost as Politick a reason as 〈◊〉 page 〈◊〉 of a Prâ—nce and a Rival If a Prince Court her whom I adore He is my Rival and a Prince no more Well here 's one excellency in Bays 't is a perfection in a Poet to keep constant to his style and I assure you this does for his Plays and 〈◊〉 Notes are all of a piece Besides he says 't is his Fate and his Prophet has doom'd him into the Bargain yet calls it his misfortue as if that happened by chance that were necessitated How many hundred times has misfortune and Fate been indifferently used without relating to the chance of the one and the necessity of the other No Titles his eternal will confute Here he makes the will which is 〈◊〉 facultas to be opinion for nothing can be confuted but opinion It had been nearer sense though it had not been sense if he had said confute understanding Because the Wâ—ll in men subject to passions is caeca facultas therefore the eternal will of a Divinity is caena facultas with Mr. Commentatour It had been more for his purpose to have affirm'd that the understanding that is if measured by his had been 〈◊〉 facultas for his has not the best Opticks I have met with She is a Beauty and that Name 's â—er guard Here he makes the Quality of a Woman to be her name If I should say thou art a wit as a complem at it might pass but for a name 't would be severe for 't is the greatest Nick-name that was ever put upon thee But then why nothing confuted but opinion I thought argument might be confuted and yet men may hold arguments quitâ— contrary to their knowledge or opinions as I doubt not but thou hast done many or thy Pamphlet had never swel'd so big Good Fateâ—x as due should be to Beauty given Give a Debt is none of the best sense but give a man his due will be sense as long as thou writest Nonsense and art laught at for it Beauty which decks our Earth and props his Heaven Whose Heaven Mahomet is not spoke of in five Lines But I am satisfied he is spoke of and to what can his refer to but Mahomet then how Beauty props Heaven he must tell us for most think is sends more to Hell then Heaven If thy great reading in so many Years has not inform'd thee how Beauty props the Mahumetan Paradise Thou art too old now to learn When Heaven to Beauty is propitious It pays those Favours it but lends to us Heaven pays favours to Beauties but lends them to men Favours are gifts He gave debts before and now he lends gifts Why must Favours be always gifts He might have gone on and said that the Poet pays gifts for be talks of paying favours as well as lending them But I perceive the modest Commentatour thought his argument had Nonsense enough before and therefore to have proceeded any further would have been superfluous With patience hear the Language of the Skie Heaven when on Earth it does some Change sore sheâ— Does 〈◊〉 above what we must read below Here for want of Philosophy he calls Heav'n the sky and the Language of the sky as he discribes presently is Hail a fine white Language which Hail be thinks ingendred in the sky he has never heard of the middle Region If Hail because the Poet calls it the Language of Heav'n viz. An omen of â—ill in Morocco as is afterwards exprest must necessarily be engendred in Heav'n I may as well tell Bays that his Bundle of Errata's are Written in his fore-head and no where else The ethereal walk was uninhabited No walk was ever inhabited What does he take inhabiting for sitting lying and sleeping I thought Gardens and galleries had been part of Habitations as well as Bedchambers or Closets A Mourning Garb of thick black Clouds it wore Penance is done in White and that white is no Garb besides garb includes motion and meen c. Because for one offence Penance is done in white therefore there must be no other doing of Penance or no Penance can be done but in white Then white is no garb he should be a great Wit by his ill Memory In the first Act he askt if Fetters were the crape or the Purple that Princes mourn in which was as much as to say that dress only could be a garb but here garb has a larger commission and includes motion and meen But then why crape and Purple should be garbs and not white crape or any other sort of white dress is too nice a criticism for my understanding The clouds dishevel'd from their crusted Locks Something like Gems coin'd out of Chrystal Rocks Besides the nonsence of crusted locks of Clouds dishevel'd is never made a verb but if it were to dishevell Gems from locks is nonsence but 't is as proper as coining of Gems no body stamps Iewels Why not Crusted locks of Clouds as pardonable an allegory as fleeces of Clouds in his discription of Ships I 'me certain dishevel'd is a more pardonable verb then elemented an Adjective Thy Mortal Elemented son in Granada Then because Iewels cant be stampd therefore Gems cant be properly cal'd coin'd out of Christal Rocks What does he think of money that has been run in a mould is not that coine as well as stampt money Why then must the verb Coine
then expect now no more of that Stamp his last fury being spent in his Love in a ` Nunnery And to convince you of this truth he is now grown as Ill-natur'd as Old Women in their decay of Beauty who make it their business to rail against all that 's young Thus the best Title he can allow this Stripling Poet is to call him Great Boy and indeed that is his Fault if it be one To be but a few Years past Twenty and to show how much he thinks him a Boy as one not able to answer for himself he quibbles upon his God-Fathers and at every pinch to make out a feeble Iest he cryes Oh Elkanah well said Elkanah read Philosophy Elkanah As if he supposed the Reader would be infinitely taken with the Novelty of such a Name as Elkanah But hold what have I done Indeed I was too much to blame to tell the World he is Old When Mr. Drydâ—n as he has declared himself designes to please none but his fair Admirers the Female part of his Audience and for them to know he is in Years is very severe however in the same Epilogue he answers for himself and says But yet he hopes he 's young enough to Love 'T is in this Garb unhappy Princes mourn To pass by his Impertinent question are Fetters the Crape or the Purple that Princes mourn in here he says Muly Labas confesses himself a man of mean Courage and his reason is this because if a man mourns or complains he must be a coward Now whether he takes mourning for blubbering or howling I cannot tell but certainly to make a Prince sad and concern'd for a King and Fathers unjust displeasure his being the cause of a Mistriss Imprisonment and the occasion of a War between her Father and his might be pardonable in any mans writings but he who dares reflect on Mr. Dryden But he is so far from being a Coward that others think the Poet in the whole Speech proves the quite contrary and wonder Mr. Dryden should be so ill a Judge Yet Fortune to great Courages is kind 'T is he wants Liberty whose Soul 's confin'd My thoughts out-fly c Great Courages are here the same thing with unconfin'd Souls and the sense is Great Courages or unconfin'd Souls are unconfin'd by the kindness of Fortune that is Great Courages are valiant by chance or by good luck Now every man but our Commentator that is every Rational man and one that had but Brains enough to carry the Sence of two Lines in his head would have construed it thus yet Fortune that reduces Princes to Fetters is kind to those of Great Courages for as the following Lines express it gives e'm an occasion of manifesting their Courage To the short Walk of one poor Globe enslav'd A walk of a Globe Now by Mr. Settles Leave a Globe is a round thing and a thing improper to be walked upon for a woman on a Globe is the Emblem of Fortunes Inconstancy Well argued witty Mr. Dryden If he means such a kind of of Globe Alexander was enslaved to Aristotle was very unkind to give his Pupil the trouble of Conquering a World when an Astronomers Library might have satisfied his Ambition But we must suppose Mr. Dryden to be of his Indians Belief that the World is no Globe and that the Earth is like a Trencher and the Heavens a Dish whelmed over it when he says My Eyes no Object met But distant Skies that in the Ocean set Or if he will allow the World to be round perhaps he may have the same opinion of Alexanders expedition as some Old Women have of Captain Drakes Navigation for I shrewdly suspect his Faith to be as Ridiculous as his Reason and having heard him call'd Alexander the Great supposes him to have been some huge heavy monstrous creature that the Earth shook under him and consequently 't was not a Globe fit or safe for him to walk on But to judge more favourably of him for this is most to his advantage it may be he tells us a Globe is a round thing to shew us his Skill in Mathematicks My Soul mounts higher and Faâ—â—s Pow'r disdains And makes me reign a Monarch in my Chains c. But then wherein do his thoughts out fly Alexanders Alexanders thoughts were too big for a World and Muly Labas his for a Prison as if he should say he scornd the World but I scorn a Jayle I am a greater man than he because he was a greater man than I. This Argument is one of the best he has in all his Notes for the generality of them neither are nor look like Arguments But this is a little degree advanced above the Crowd for this looks like an argument though it be none For first he mistakes the whole design of the speech in mistaking what thoughts those are of Muly Labes and Alexander which the Poet makes his comparison upon Because desâ—res of greatness and ambition are thoughts therefore there can be no other thoughts or at lest the Poet can mean no other But the whole speech proves that the Poet makes the comparison between the thoughts of their 〈◊〉 and the satisfaction of their Souls not the extent of their wishes dominions or prisons which was the more satisfied not which was the greater Man Alexander thought himself confined in a World and Muly Labas thought himself free in a Prison He was a Slave in Empires and this a Monarch in Chains Thy rage brave Prince mean Subjects does despise None but thy Son shall be thy Sacrifice Here his Old Emperour is a brave Prince and why Because he is so Bloody-minded a man that for Recreation of killing he must pick out â—his son for his Sacrifice I would fain ask him if it had not been famous in Solyman when he strangled Mustapha had Mustapha real'y been that Traytor he suspected him This dazling Object my weak sight invades That is comes before my weak sight Ever since A horrid stilness does invade my Ear. After so excellent a Line Invade will be sence no where else Such Beauty would make Dungeons loose their shades Shades for darkness I Why not Sir Positive When I fond Woman in a borrow'd shape Was a Conspiratour in my 〈◊〉 Rape Here Morena repents of her hard â—argain and why Because she calls her self fond woman but I should think that a woman of a perfect Character â—ow great or reasonable soever her passion was may in modesty call her self fond for running away from her Father on any soore But Mr. Dryden can make his perfect Characters fond Bawdy and Impudent and not know they are so or at lest never blush for their being so as for Example His beloved Almahide Who being present amongst other Granadin Damsels at the Famous Tryal of Skill alias the Bull-baiting and seeing the Butcher-like discords that arose between the Bear-garden assembly of the Zegryes and the Abencerrages where for a quarrel raised at
and so wilfully dull as this Farce of a man has done The Poet says Kings Bounties act like the Suns smiles Therefore says Notes a Kings Bounty acts like a smile Prethee take the Sun in and be not more unkind to him here than in your Annus mirabilis to shrink him into a Star was severe but to make a Cypher of him is a little too hard Then he says Bounties are very like smiles Nay now King and Sun are both lost and the dispute lyes between â—ounties and smiles and they too are like one another not act like one another the comparison being in their resemblance not in their effects Did ever any man so chop and change and confound things and qualities actions and beings so dully and to so little purpose then his Epistle makes one more remark that those Sands are not properly barren that produce Monsters and poysons I cannot say they are strictly barren but I can say that this is not the first time they have been call'd so But I am certain Sands that produce nothing else can as improperly be call'd fruitful for the production of Monsters as a Dutch-woman can be so call'd for the Birth of a Sooterkin or Land so called that bears nothing but Weeds I am certain such Sands are more properly barren than Granada could be empty when Almanzor and Almahide were out of it Almanz. We leave the City empty when we go But you shall see what Mr. Dryden calls Barren In his first Page of the Indian Emperour he says of Mexico Corn Wine and Oyl are wanting to this Ground In which our Countries fruitfully abound And twelve Lines aâ—ter he says No kindly showers fall on our Barren earth To hatch the seasons in a timely Birth Here he calls Spain a Barren Earth which in the first two Lines was a more fruitful Country than Mexico producing Corn Wine and Oyl which Mexico did not How much more barren then must Mexico be and yet he told you that was a happy Climate in the first Line On what new happy Climate are we thrown But a Barren Country fruitfully abounding with Corn Wine and Oyl shall and must be sense for 't is very unreasonable that our Grand master in Poetry should be less Authentick then Aristotle in Philosophy Why not Dixit Dryden as well as Dixit Aristoteles Perhaps you have mis-interpreted his Breast This Phrase is not very proper Proper enough for so modest a Poet. He who forced Favourâ— both from Fate and Fame Made War a Sport and Conquest but a Game Forcing Fate is altering on 't which is ill Divinity in Morocco Pray what Religion was Zulema of when he said page 19. Would you so please Fate yet a way would find Man makes his Fate according to his mind Was not he a Mahumetan too And what says Abdelmedeck speaking of Almanzor page 17. Fate after him below with pain did move And Victory could scarce keep pace above Which last two Lines if he can show me any sense or thought in or any thing but bombast and noise he shall make me believe every word in his Observations on Morocco sense A nameless Lord would perswade the King that Crimalhaz has put a very honourable trick upon him with running away to Atlas with his Army which should defend Morocco against Taffalette as he says a while after and that honest Crimalhaz Has from the common rout Of the worlds Beauties singled honour out The common rout of Beauties is excellent sence If he that speaks it be of opinion that honour is the worlds greatest Beauty I think it pardonable in him to call inferiour Beautys the common rout of Beautys in comparison of that But now for the greater fault the Lords perswading the King that Crimalhaz c. I wonder where the fault lyes for the Lord to judge of the intentions of Crimalhaz which he gives you his reason for and tells you how he may possibly mean honestly You know that Crimalhaz his high Command Was formerly in Muly Hamets hand He who forced Favours both from Fate and Fame Made War a Sport and Conquest but a Game And therefore he perhaps to act some Deed Which Muly Hamets glory may exceed Has for his Mistress from the common Rout Of the worlds Beauties singled Honour out And that which makes him his Designs disguise He 'l make his flight of Honour a surprize as showers Luxurious grown The Luxury of showers I never understood but that Rain takes no pleasure in its Luxury I am certain Then he has heard Luxury in Men is their taking pleasure in such or such an excess which showers cannot do is Luxury used in no larger sense Has not he heard of Luxurious Branches of Trees and yet though Trees are as little Epicures in taking pleasure as Rain yet Luxurious Branches is not Nonsense As Mountains Bulwarks are at Land but Rocks at Sea That is Mountains if any body should misplace 'em and whâ—p 'em up and carry 'em into the Sea would turn Rocks ipso facto Why must these Mountains at Land be thrown into the Sea are there not enough there already Let those serve turn and save him that trouble Out-face his Treason e're its rise begin Men bashful are â—'th ' nonage of a sin That is out-face that which is now Treason before it be Treason He 's at his Politicks agen just at the old rate Why is not Treason Treason till it is set a foot and put in action I was of opinion that a resolution or a designe of Rebelling against a King might be Treason but as before he would not allow thoughts could be guilty of Blâ—sphemy now thoughts cannot be guilty of Treason Besides the English of its rise beginning is naught Treasons rise cannot begin of it self No I am of his mind but if Crimalhaz design'd to be a Traytour no doubt he 'd be so kind to lend his helping hand to put his Treason forwards Your thoughts can't reach the flights which Treason takes If he means by flight the Wit of Treason it must be thus Treason 's a witty thing you do not understand he takes her for as errant a fool as himself Whatever the Poet means by the flights of Treason if he had made his King tell his Mother whom he supposed virtuous she had understood the flights or subtleties of Treason it would have been as gross a Compliment as to tell a chast Woman Madam you understand the tricks and intrigues of Iilts and Whâ—res I think that the Complimenting the Queens Knowledge and understanding in Treason would have reflected upon her conversation and experience in it But no matter he would have every Body as little Complimental as his Almanzor and because he makes no respect of Persons like the Fox in the Fable c. Kings that want Armes do not want Majesty Heav'n is still Heav'n though 't lays its Thunder by Which he Prints Heav'n is not Heav'n He made an Errata at the end of his