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A letter sent to George Wither, poetica licentia Esquire, by a plain dealing friend of his to prevent his future pseudography.
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Alethegraphus.
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1646
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Wing L1617; Thomason E365_24; ESTC R38553
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could reach was a Cavalier then would you often put your forefinger to your thumb and looking through perspective wife could you discern a tree at any distance you apprehended it to be one of the Enemies Scouts or if you discovered many bushes together you fancied them to be a Body of Horse and would not advance one foot till having sent out divers Scouts for discovery they upon return gave you assurance that they were not enemies then would you again begin to march and your Souldiers to laugh and scoffe at your cowardise The Kings forces rising from Glocester and the place sufficiently relieved both Armies endeavouring to gain advantage to give the other battell you being thus daily alarum'd with terror and ambuscadoed wit frights to prevent your own engagement tamely delivered up your Commission yet durst not go from the protection of the Army till you came nearer home but by the way a skirmish happening at Aburn Chase you posled to a kinswomans house of yours not farre off where by report you crept into a hogges-stye and the skirmish ended to prevent future frights hastily conveyed your self to your Farm at Wanborough where two dayes after you heard the great Guns play which was at the fight at Newbury and supposing it to be what indeed it was told your wise that God had exceedingly blessed you that you were not there for had you been you should have been killed in regard your eye-sight was so bad you should not have known a friend from a soe nor have been able to make an escape and this is the summary of your Martiall Acts and which I hope will be able to dispossesse you of that lying spirit which causeth you to perswade the world that you have valour as for the drawing and brandishing your sword you so often boast of for the preservation of the common liberties and defence of the Parliaments I conceive it a great happinesse to the State that you never drew it in earnest for had you so done perchance the Sunne beames might have reflected upon the faire glosse thereof having not been much worn in the rain to make it rustie and caused such glances into your eyes being something purblind that you would have supposed it to have been lightning and immediately written a book thereof and declared that the heavens did fight against you As for your good affection you so often reiterate it hath not appeared by your warlike deportment as the premisses may truly satisfie you nor by your free contribution on the Propositions for that was very small and that onely to creep into the good opinion of those in Authroity thereby to gaine some place of benefit as indeed you obteined but perchance you may object that your good affection may appeare by the adverse parties plundering of you this your losses you know to be your great gaine although you are ashamed to acknowledge it which may seem a Paradox to others who as yet cannot unfold the riddle but I can make it plainly appeare for your losses although you abused the Hnourable House of Commons by making them believe that they amounted unto 2000 l. did not extend to the value of 300 l. although you should inventory horse-collers and hog-yokes for you had sold most of your cattel bullocks hogs and sheeep and received money for them and lost very little Corn not above three or foure load and that in the straw as appeares by the testimonie of divers of your honest neighbours given in by them to the Honourable Committee for the County of Surrey sitting at Kingston and for this your small losse considering the great you pretended you gained from the by you deceived Parliament for reparation many great Sequestrations in Surrey viz. of the goods and estate of Judge Foster Master Denham then high Sheriffe Captain Andrewes Captain Hudson Captain Brodnix and many others which amounted to a very great summe it is therefore evident your gain far exceeded your losse besides you would have much added to your gain at a place near Egham in Surrey I conceive by the new fashioned trick called plunder for I never heard of any authoritie you had for it had you not been prevented by one Master Ayling who with eight or tenne Musquetiers seized your self and some of your Troop and supposing you had by Legerdemain conveyed something into your Boots or sleeves of your velvet Jacket enforced your self to pull off both and your Troopers would not assist you seeing your pusilanimity in subjecting your self to such base termes In what else your good affection hath been expressed is unknown to me and I believe to all men onely you might be conceived to be for the Parliament did you not daily abuse the Members thereof because not againstit if there be not a neutralitie in you As for your abuses injuries and Scandalls I will be as brief as I may and yet I shall be troublesome unto you Your injuries to particular and personated men and especially to Sir Rechard Oinslow who upon strict examination was found to be Justiciarius ex merito justificatus you Stultus ex debito condemnatus have been already in part censured by the highest Court of Justice although your subornation conspiracy be not as yet punished and if your basenesse be not therein made apparant to you and your Judgement rectified I feare I shall in vain endeavour it Your aspersions laid upon the Committee of examinations taxing them with injustice and that they heard not causes with an equall ear your own cause might cleare and inforce you had you but common reason to acknowledge your error and give your self the lie for there was not one Article that you were accused for in your scandalous Pamphlet intiruled Justiciarius justificatus but you were asked what you could say thereto and what witnesse you had thereof and the answer you could make to all and every question was that you had no witnesse but that it seemed so to you to be ought not this do you think to be by them voted injurious that had no other circumstantiall evidence or proof then your shallow and malicious surmise and the contrary of every scandall made apparant Concerning the insufferable aspersions by you laid upon divers Members of both Houses of Parliament by terming them rotten Members Rebells Traytors Hypocrites Knaves Lyars Swearers Drunkards Whoremasters with much other very opprobrious language vomited forth in your Book entituled Opobalsomum Anglicanum pressed out of a shrub but it may be more truly called Venenum Diabolicum extracted from a malevolent braine And therein expresse that divers Members were chosen by indirect means as by employing friends crouching to equalls scraping acquaintance with strangers feasting the Cobler and Smith all which your self did onely conceive you had scarce a friend to employ to gain you an election at Guildford in Surrey you neglected not Letters in Print wonderfully declaring your own abilities and disparaging others you feasted Tailors Tapsters and Hostlers and upon the day of Election earnestly solicited George the Hostler of the red Lion there to put on his best clothes to go to the Guild-hall of the town to give his voice for you whomaking a scruple thereof you despaird of your election took your horse mmediatly rode out of town as it was time to do for the Burgers of that Corporation being very well affected to the publick good and dependent upon reason had unanimously resolved nemine contradicente and accordingly did elect a worthy Patriot of their countrey to be their Burgesse but your hope is that no man being personated therein you shall escape unpunished but I hope as every Member ought to be immaculate so to be jealous of their integrity and to wipe off that dirt you have thrown in their faces will enforce you to declare whom you intended thereby that the guilty if any may be found out or if none that you who seemingly dip your finger in the dish with them yet would trayterously foment a division may be brought to condigne punishment and made exemplary to all knaves for the future The premisses taken into serious consideration and your excellent service well weighed the Parliament cannot but in justice reassume your Petition for arreares and order the same to be immediately paid and grant your late Petition for a place of 500 l. per annum But the contemplation of your deserts had almost made me forget a friendly advice which is that you would no more compaâ— your self to an English mastiffe fâ—r a mastiffe hath his eares cropt a collar about his throat his tail bob'd and is chained up especially in the day time it may be let loose in the night for the preservation of his Masters goods and in stead thereof worrieth some harmlesse and innocent passenger and so is hanged I know I have been tedious troublesome to you yet much more might be spoken in the blazoning your self and actions in their true and proper colours but Ne me Crispini scrinia Lippicompilasse putet I shall conclude with a wish that my Letter may find its desired effect that you henceforth surcease from vilifying honest men and deifying your self which will be no small joy to Your plain dealing friend Alethegraphus FINIS
A LETTER Sent to George Wither Poetica licentia Esquire by a plain dealing friend of his to prevent his future Pseudography Printed By Benevol Typographus sometimes Printer to the said Master Wither Published For the better information of such who by his perpetuall scribling have been screwed into an opinion of his worth and good affection to the publick And are to be sold By the Cryers of new new new and true newes in all the streets of London 1646. Old acquaintance FOR so give me leave to tearme you having not been till of late much estranged from you since you lived in the Bishoprick of Durham when she lived there also which now is your wife but then wife to a poore man in London who by report perished for want of bread Having perused divers of your scandalous Pamphlets and Satyricall times which I find most ridiculous vaingloriously applauding your own valour good affection and merit and injuriously aspersing divers noble Gentlemen of known integrity and fidelity nay abusing many famous and trusty worthy Members of this ever to be honoured Parliament I thought fit to present you with these lines if possible to prevent your future Scribling and being stigmatized at least with the name of lying and Scandalizing Bard. It hath been a maxime that whosoever chanted his own praises was was a fool though deserved what then must he be that exalteth himself so much as you do without any merit As for the unparaleld valour heroick Acts and martiall atchievements you seem to challenge to your self in your book entituled Campo Musa all men that know you conceive your braines are infatuated with hopes of being thereby made Governour of some Castle in the ayre or else you would have declared so much at Barmodus or some place where every man that knew you did not know the contrary but if you are so bewitched as to conceive you have valour or have done any thing in Armes worthy of a Lawrell Crown I shall endeavour to liberate you from those charâ—â—es by declaring truly how you were admitted unto Arms and how you used them during your short continuance in them You cannot but remember that when these unhappy distractions did first commence the King had diserted the Parliament and the sword began to be unsheathed that you having no land of your own lived a poore Tenant to certaine Lands at Wanborough in Surrey when in my opâ—nion your Russet coat did better suit your condition and quality then the Scarlet Plush and Velvet you are now by the fortune of the Warres leaped into At that time there being a Troop of Horse raised in that County for the service of the Parliament the truly worthy Gentlemen intrusted by the Parlia with that county whom I may truly call the preservers deliverers of their country for had it not 〈◊〉 for their perilous undertakings and most indefatigable endeavours that County had been made long ere this the Subject of the Enemies fury and utterly ruined by plunder fire and sword as to their eternall honour all the honest inhabitants will acknowledge These Worthies I say esteeming by an outward appearance to have a good affection to the Cause they so faithfully prosecuted did contrary to the motion of many well affected honest and Religious men who had more nearly scrutinized your actions and made discovery of your self ends conferre the command of that Troop upon you Being thus mounted in Authority the first martiall employment you were put upon was to march into Kent to secure the Malignants there from attempting any thing in prejudice of the State which service to your eternall fame be it spoken you performed with such alacrity that in short time you secured most of their good Horses by seizing them into your custodie and appropriating them unto your self so that your Farm at Wanborough was now well stocked with brave horses your Lady like Mistris had a gallaâ—t white Palfray to mount her self on and a stately gelding for her man in a Livery to attend her now the world began to mend with you in sight Your second Martiall employment was to keep Farnham Castle that the Enemy should not possesse themselves thereof where immediately you grew such a Graduate in military affairs that in your Pamphlet entituled Se defendendo you accuse those worthy Patriots before mentioned that they neglected to supply you with necessaries for the making of Baricadoes Palisadoes and other defences but give me leave to digresse a little tel you a story of a sick man that sent for a Physician who coming to him the sick man asked him what his disease was the Physician answered that it was Flatus Hypocondriacus that tormented him afterwards some of the sick mans friends coming to visit him asked him what was the cause of his malady the sick man not knowing his disease told them he was very sick of a hard word so you had borrowed some hard words as Palisadoes and the rest out of some history of Warre for at that time I am certain you neither knew what they were nor the use of them nay such a novice were you in Armes that you scarce knew how to spanne a Pistoll or being spanned to fire him It was not long after when the King marching towards London with His Army you with your Troope were 〈◊〉 Supreme Authority commanded to Kingston upon Thames and from thence the Kings Forces advancing as farre as Brainford you were ordered to march by London to joyn with my Lord Generalls Forces at Turnham green but hic dolor now were you to come near an Enemy Oh what a hard matter it was to get you out of London but being come thither what â—n agonie were you in some of your Souldiers supposed you were in the cold fit of a Feaver others feared you were troubled with the passion of the heart but the Enemy retreating to the other side of the Thames did something mitigate your passion and restore you to your almost lost sences The next newes I heard of your Troop was when Prince Rupert beat up their quarters at Crowell near Chinnar and did some hurt thereto although the Souldiers made a reasonable good escape yet the Generall Officers demanding where the Captain was and why he was not more carefull in keeping Scouts abroad his Souldiers were inforced to answer that they had not seen their Captain a long time for indeed you had at that time secured your person for many moneths sometimes in Surrey and sometimes at the Queens Armes at Holborn bridge The next and last of your warlick imployments was to march with my Lord Generall to the relief of Glocester in which march were many remarkable passages first to see how like a magnanimous and undanted Achâ—lles you marched every day in the head of your Troop untill you approached something near the Enemies quarters but ah then the old Tremor cordis the old pannick feare began to seize you then every object that your dâ—m sight