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A51432	Brutes turn'd criticks, or, Mankind moraliz'd by beasts in sixty satyrical letters upon the vices and follies of our age / written in Italian by Signiore Moscheni ; and now done into English with some improvements.; Lettere missive e responsive delle bestie. English	Moscheni, Carlo.; Savage, John, 1673-1747.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2851; ESTC R8606	59,503	228

being willing to be enroll'd amongst those that write Apologies Subscribing Yours c. LETTER LIII The Ape to the Monkey Vpon Curtezans THe Soldier and Curtezan in my opinion are so very like that it would be accompany'd with impossibility to venture to decide which Profession ought most to be avoided The Curtezan vends her Beauty and Merchandizes the gifts of Heaven and Nature with the vilest Usury For he that is poor must not think to be admitted into her Conversation whose heart is always Mercenary The Soldier submits his Life and Liberty for a few pence and a little painful Pay If this is wanting he either licenciously Mutinies or runs a Rebel to those places where he thinks Rewards and Stipends are more frequent and just Hope is the Soul that gives Motion to both these Bodies One is not better dispos'd to Assaults Battels or Slaughter of Enemies than through hopes o●… a Reward with promises of the Sacking some besieg'd City or Plundering a routed Army The other allur'd by rich Presents and betray'd by golden offers what hazards will she not undergo to ruin no less her hated Riva●… than belov'd Gallant for she has ever more regard to her own Interest than either the Life or Estate of her dear Narcissus The Soldier 's more cruel than the fiercest wild Beast and as much a stranger to Pity as Faith a●… loose lascivious Woman's perfidy is clear her Deceit apparent her Cruelty manifest and her Reasons plain She is never at rest till she 's reveng'd of a Friend that advises her against Pollutions she gets by but yet she seems to differ from the Soldier in this that her Practice being to promote the delights of the Senses she cannot well be said to act with force or violence Nevertheless considering the World has long since bestow'd on Soldiers the glorious Epithets of Great and Magnanimous and on the contrary on Whores those of Vile and Infamous I conclude that a Soldier ought to be more esteem'd of in a civil Common-wealth than a loose and idle Curtezan Thus much I have been able to write to obey not contend with your sublimer Genius and I would humbly intreat your singular goodness not to refuse your Answer to the inclos'd Question I have sent you whereby you may acquire perpetual Fame whilst I confessing my self all along an Admirer of your wondrous Abilities conclude Yours oblig'd without power to make any tolerable return but which will nevertheless be always the earnest endeavour of c. LETTER LIV. The Monkey's Answer Vpon Politicks I Would willingly comply with your desires to answer the enclos'd but being to discourse of Political Affairs which require so acute a Judgment to conceive the occult reasons of the Statists I know not whether I shall be able to write any thing to the purpose it being rather a supernatural than ordinary Undertaking to establish sound and unalterable Maxims of Government for their great variety of circumstances incline 'em the more to mutability But since you have oblig'd me to it I must obey and tell you that in my opinion the ruin of Republicks arrises either from Wars or a greater Force such as Earthquakes Whirlpools Fire Thunder Inundations Plagues or the like If therefore a Republick should find it self expos'd to any one of these sad Accidents and the miserable Citizens consequently forc'd to chuse new Members you require of me whether their number ought barely to be equal to the old tho' there should not be enough to act in the several Courts of Justice or other publick Stations or whether they have power to augment themselves to a number necessary for the Defence of their Lives Laws and Liberties For answer therefore I say that Rulers being to have no other end in their Actions than Justice and the publick safety of their Subjects they ought not to take greater care of themselves For dominion over others was not invented that he who was possest of it should only have regard to his own Honour or Interest but the safety and defence of his People Plutarch gave this definition of a Republick Respublica est quoddam Corpus compaginatum ex membris quod Divini muneris beneficio animatur summae Aequitatis nutu agitur quodam lumine rationis regitur So that if in a natural Body there be but one only Soul that reigns in a Republick Suppose there be one Supream Authority which nevertheless may admit many Members how can this Supream Authority operate for common Benefit if it be depriv'd of any of its parts An House forsaken by its Inhabiters quickly falls to ruin a Ship depriv'd of its Pilot is soon lost Now Lastly if the number of the new Citizens ought to be greater or lesser than the old I say that having regard to the publick necessity of Administring Justice they ought to be suitable to the occasion But to prevent the many disorders that may happen through Emulation or Contention which often have pernicious consequences I should think it more consonant to publick Good that the numbers of 'em should be equal whilst it is not to be doubted but that will keep an union in their minds beget mutual Affection nourish Peace and is indeed the very Soul which maintains and preserves a civil Body Accept of these my hearty Endeavours and believe me always proud to acknowledge my self Yours c. LETTER LV. The Musk-Cat to the Linx Vpon Dogmatists FOlly sown and scatter'd through the World busies most Men living and extends its tyrannical Scepter over an infinite number of People who are continually pecking and abusing one another so that if I had a mind to discourse fully on all the Follies that some have said and others have done I might grow more Volumnious than Atlas would be able to support with his Shoulders Nveretheless you having desir'd to know which is the greatest Folly in the World I shall endeavour to comply with your Commands tho' I am unable to Act my own wishes I affirm then that the greatest of all Follies is not Boasting a descent from the Trojan Horse nor desparing of ever being able to accomplish one's desires But in endeavouring to make Coxcombs sensible of their Errors when they obstinately believe themselves always to be in the right and this I have found true by Experience when I have thought fit to convince a Person of his Bigottry or a Physician of his Ignorance It remains only now that I desire to know as I have several times done why you that have so excellent Printers in your Province should seek to have your Works printed elsewhere Pardon and approve of my well meaning whilst I rest c. LETTER LVI The Linx's Answer Vpon Licencers THe daily complaints of those that raise their Reputations by the Press ought to be a Rule for me to Print my Works under my Eyes to avoid those errors that the negligence of the Printer often throws upon the Author But because of two Inconveniencies the