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B09153 Theatre of wits ancient and modern attended with severall other ingenious pieces from the same pen [brace] viz. I. Faenestra in pectore, or, A century of familiar letters, II. Loves labyrinth: A tragi-comedy, III. Fragmenta poetica, or, Poetical diversions, IV. Virtus redivivi, a panegyrick on our late king Charles of ever blessed memory concluding with A panegyrick on His Sacred Majesties most happy return / by T.F. Forde, Thomas. 1661 (1661) Wing F1548A; ESTC R177174 187,653 418

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the Virgin saluted him and bad him Good morrow Bernard whereat he well knowing the jugling of the Friers made answer again out of St. Paul Oh said he your Ladiship hath forgot your self it is not lawful for women to speak in the Church John King of England being wished by a Courtier to untomb the bones of one who whilst he was living had been his great enemy Oh no said the King would all mine enemies were as honour ably buried The Egyptian Calyph offering an English Embassador his hand in his glove the Embassador answered Sir we come not to treat with your glove but your self When a Pyrate said to one of his fellows Woe to us if we be known an honest man in the same ship replyed And woe to me if I be not known Luther was wont to say He would be unwilling to be a souldier in that army where Priests were Captains because the Church not the Camp was their proper place Plato being demanded how he knew a wise man answered When being rebuked he would not be angry and being praised he would not be proud Marquess Pawlet there being divers factions at Court in his time yet was he beloved of all parties and being asked how he stood so right in the judgment of all He answered By being a willow and not an oak Diogenes was wont to say when the people mock't him They deride me yet I am not derided I am not the man they take me for Rather than want exercise of his patience he would crave alms of dead mens Statues and being demanded why he did so He answered That I may learn to take denial from others the more patiently Marius was never offended with any report went of him because he said If it were true it would sound to his praise if false his life and manners should prove it contrary A Steward once replyed to his passionate Lord when he called him knave c. Your Honour may speak as you please but I believe not a word that you say for I know my self an honest man Philip of Macedon professed himself much beholden to his enemies the Athenians for speaking evil of him For said he they made me an honest man to prove them lyars When Diogenes was told by a base fellow that he once had been a Coiner of money He answered 'T is true such as thou art now I once was but such as I am now thou wilt never be Socrates when one asked him why he took such a ones bitter railing so patiently Answered It is enough for one to be angry at a time Dion of Syracuse being banished came to Theodorus Court suppliant where not presently admitted he turned to his companion with these words I remember I did the like when I was in like dignity Socrates being perswaded to revenge himself of a fellow that kick'd him answered If an ass had kick'd me should I have set my wit to his and kick'd him again Another time being told that one spake evil of him He replyed Alas the man hath not as yet learned to speak well but I have learned to contemn what he speaks Diogenes being told that many despised him answered It is the wise mans portion to suffer of fools When Dionysius the Tyrant had plotted the death of his Master Plato and was defeated by Plato's escape out of his Dominions when the Tyrant desired him in writing not to speak evil of him the Philosopher replyed That he had not so much idle time as once to think of him knowing there was a just God would one day call him to a reckoning When once an hot-spur was perswaded to be patient as Job was He replyed What do ye tell me of Job Job never had any suits in the Chancery Mr. Bradford was wont to say that in Chricts cause to suffer death was the way to he aven on horsback Jugo an ancient King set all his Nobles being Pagans in his Hall below and certain poor Christians in his Presence-chamber with himself at which all wondring he told them this he did not as King of the Drones but as King of another world wherein these were his fellow-Princes It was the saying of a merry fellow That in Christendom there were neither Scholars enough Gentlemen enough nor Jewes enough because if there were Scholars enough so many would not be double and treble beneficed if Gentlemen enough so many peasants would not be ranked among the Gentry and if Jewes enough so many Christians would not profess usury Socrates was wont to say to Alcibiades when he met him among gallants like himself I fear not thee but thy company Alexander when a Commander of his in the Wars spake loudly but did little told him I entertained you into my service not to rail but to fight Illyricus when one asked him why the old Translations of the Bible had no vowels I think saith he that they had no consonants for they could not agree among themselves Doctor Reynolds his Lecture in Oxford ceasing by reason of his sickness some desired him to read before he was well recovered The Doctor said He desired so to serve God that he might serve him long Erasmus was wont to say in his time That to Preach with many Ministers was but Perfricare frontem linguam voluere Epiphanius having stayd long at Constantinople and being to take ship to return home again said He was leaving three great things a great City a great Palace and great Hypocrisie Charls the Great when he was shewed by a Duke a Royal Palace and all the rings and sumptuous ornaments and jewels said Haec sunt qui nos invitos faciunt mori These are the things that make us unwilling to die Erasmus was used to say That the dunsery and idleness of the Monks of his time made him a Student The Athenian Commander being asked what God was said He was neither bow-man nor pike-man nor hors-man nor footman but one that did know istis omnibus imperare A noble Commander in the Wars having taken great spoils said to a souldier behind him Tolle istos Ego Christianus When Cajetan told Luther he should be banished Luther answered Si non capiat terra capiat coelum A great man comming to Aquinas and offering him a Bishoprick he leaning on his elbow in his Study replyed Mallem Chrysostomam in Matthaeum The same Aquinas when he was entreated to take a Cardinals place answered Sepulchrum cogito non gradum sublimiorem Luther and his Wife with four children were in a boat and being in a great storm were like to be cast away Luther laughing aloud said Oh how the Devil would rejoyce if we were all drowned Plato discoursing unto one of the contempt of death and speaking strangely upon it was answered That he spake more couragiously than he lived To whom Plato replyed that he spake not as he lived but as he should live Caesar Borgia being sick to death said When I lived I provided for every thing
of all that had the happin … see and hear him Witness Mr. Speakers 〈◊〉 to his Majesty on the 5th of Novem. 1640 〈◊〉 before my eyes with admiration sayes th … eloquent Orator as the mouth of all the … mons of England the Majesty of Great 〈◊〉 the glory of times the history of honour 〈◊〉 the First in his forefront placed by descent … tiquity King setled by a long succession … nued unto us by a pious peaceful government concluding with this serious and loyal promise And all our Votes shall pass that your sacred Majesty may Long Long Long reign over us To which no doubt all that heard him said Amen Such was his pious and paternall care over his people that the most sullen ingratitude could not but acknowledge him the Father of his Country teaching his people obedience to his Laws not so much by Proclamation as Example as he was Imperio Maximus so he was Exemplo Major as Paterculus sayes of Tyberius or as it is said of Lycurgus that famous Law-giver he never ordained any thing to others which he did not first exactly observe himself So chast was he in his embraces so pious in his devotions so just in all his actions that the Law-maxime of Rex non peccat was never more true of any King than of Him Behold him at the Councill Table and there we shall find him by the testimony of one of his greatest enemies principall in all transactions of State and the wisest about him but Accessaries for he never acted by any implicit faith in State matters He had more learning and dexterity in State affairs undoubtedly sayes that Cook ruffian than all the Kings in Christendom And herein if ever the good words of an enemy are true It is reported of our Henry 4th that he stood more upon his own legs than any of his Predecessors had done in cases of difficulty not refusing but not needing the advice of others which might confirm but not better his own judgement But this is far greater and truer commendation in Charls who succeeded so wise a Prince as James the first the greatest Master of King-craft as he used to call it that ever swayd the English Scepter But as our Charls his wisdome was great in that he was able to advise yet was it greater in that he was willing to be advised being never so wedded to his own opinions but that on good grounds he might be divorced from them for though some of his enemies have reported him wilfull and too tenacious to his own resolves one who knew him bettet then all of them though perhaps their malice was greater than their ignorance affirms and that without suspition of falshood that though in his childhood he was noted to be very wilfull which might proceed from that retiredness which the imperfection of his Speech not fitting him for publick discourse and the weakness of his limbs and joints as unfit for action made him most delight in yet afterwards as he shaked off his retiredness so he corrected in himself the peccancy of that humour which had grown up with it there being no man to be found sayes my Author and it is verbum Sacerdotis of an evener temper more pliant to good counsel or less wedded than he was to his own opinion Indeed as he was long and serious in deliberating so was he just and true to his resolves and resolute in the execution of them Let us attend him to the Chappell and there we shall see him so pious and dovout in prayer so reverend and attentive in hearing that we may justly conclude his piety to be as a rich Diamond in the Ring of his royall virtues Constantine alwayes heard Sermons standing acknowledging thereby what reverence is due to the Word of God the irreverence that hath since crept into our Churches may well make us bewail the loss of that laudable Example of our English Constantine who alwayes bare a great regard to the Church and Church men whom he reverenced for their function and loved for their fidelity so much a friend was he to all Church men that had any thing in them beseeming that sacred Function that he hazarded as he says himself his own interest chiefly upon conscience constancy to maintain their rights whom the more he looked upon as Orphans under the sacrilegious eyes of many cruel rapacious reformers so he thought it his duty the more to appear as a father and patron for them and the Church He was at once a dutifull Son and an indulgent father of the Church esteeming it with that good Emperor a greater honour to be a member of the Church than Head of an Empire Nor was he onely a gracious Patron of the Church but also a resolute Champion in behalf of the Hierarchy as well remembring that Prophetick Apothegm of the King his father No Bishop no King his own experience being too great a Comment upon that truth to be by him neglected or by us forgotten Bassianus the Emperor refusing the name of Pius would be called Foelix on the contrary our Charls chose rat her to be informiatly Pious than irreligiously prosperous well knowing that piety shall not want its reward in a better place A King so religious so devout that if all his subjects had been like the King we might then indeed have had a Kingdom of Saints If we enter his Courts of Judicature thereshall we behold Justice with her sword and ballance equally dividing and impartially weighing out the rewards of virtue and punishments of vice poverty never excluding the Innocent nor power absolving the nocent and though the Asylum of his mercy was never shut to the meanest supplicant whom the rigour of the Law had cast yet was he alwayes inexorable to the supplications of the greatest offender if found guilty of willfull murther Agesilaus wrote to a Judge in behalf of his Favourite Si causa bona pro justitia sin mala pro amicitia absolve But hath not our Charls delivered up the greatest of his favourites to the sentence of the Law did his power ever shield the most powerfull offenders from the stroke of justice though himself were wounded through their sides As his justice was blind to all relations his hands were continually open to receive the Petitions of his meanest subject not like Demetrius who threw the Petitions of his people into the water He was always ready and expectant to receive them and never better pleased than when he took them from the hands of the poorest Petitioner justly meriting the style of James the fifth of Scotland who was called The poor mans King Worthy was the Speech of that Goth a King of Italy who speaking of his Subjects said Messis nostra cunctorum quies Our harvest is their rest Such was the vigilancy of Charls whose waking eyes secured all his flock from being a prey to any subtle Mercury No forreign invasion daring to land upon our coasts
in the Church like a Bishop but as he was Duke going guarded like a Tyrant Whither thinkest thou the Bishop shall go when the Duke shall be damned King Edward the 3d. having the King of France prisoner here in England and feasting him one time most sumptuously pressed him to be merry The French King answered How can we sing songs in a strange Land Calvin answered his friends with some indignation when they admonished him for his healths sake to forbear studying so hard What said he would you that my Master when he comes should find me idle Spiridion a godly Bishop in Cyprus having not what else to set before a guest that came to him in Lent set him a piece of pork to feed on and when the stranger made a scruple of eating flesh in Lent saying I am a Christian and may not do it Nay therefore thou mayst do it said he because to the pure all things are pure Dr. Preston on his death-bed said He should change his place not his company A certain stranger comming on Embassage to Rome and colouring his hair and pale cheeks with vermilion hue a grave Senator espying the deceit stood up and said What sincerity are we to expect at this mans hands whose locks and looks and lips do lye Sir Horaetio Vere when in the Palatinate a Council of War was called and debated whether they should fight or not Some Dutch Lords said That the enemy had many peeces of Ordnance in such a place and therefore it was dangerous to fight That Nobleman replyed My Lords if you fear the mouth of the Cannon you must never come into the field Sir John Burroughs receiving a mortal wound in the Island of Rhees and being advised not to fear death but to provide for another world He answered I thank God I fear not death and these thirty years together I never arose in the morning that ever I made account to live while night A learned Frier at a Council complaining of the abuse of the Clergy Preaching before the Emperor wished him to begin a reformation of the Clergy à minoribus The Emperor thanked him for his Sermon and said He had rather begin à majoribus from the better sort of the Clergy Aristippus being told that Lais loved him not No more saith he doth wine nor fish yet I cannot be without them The Lord Burleigh being at Cambridge with Queen Elizabeth viewing the several Schools said Here I find one School wanting and that is the School of Discretion Henry the 4th told the Prince his Son Getting is a chance but keeping is a wit A Philosopher that hearing his creditor was dead kept the money which he had borrowed without witnesses a night or two but after some strugling with his conscience he carried it to his Executor saying Mihi vivit qui aliis mortuus est though he be ded to others he 's still alive to me Severus the Emperor having passed through many adventures at last died in our land overladen with troubles weighing with himself what his life had been he brake forth into these speeches I have been all that might be and now am nothing the better Scipio viewing his army said There was not one who would not throw himself from the top of a tower for love of him Hildebert Bishop of Mentz said of the Roman Courtiers Employ them not and they hinder you Employ them in your causes and they delay them if you sollicite them they scorn you if you enrich them they forget you When Antonius had made away his brother Geta after the first year of their joynt Empire he entreated Papinianus a famous Lawyer to plead his excuses Who answered It is easier Paricidium facere quam excusare thou mayst said he command my neck to the block but not my tongue to the bar I prize not my life to the pleading of an evil cause Simonides being asked what did soonest grow old among men Made answer A benefit Apollonius ●hianaeus having travelled over all Asia Africk and Europe said There were two things whereat he marvelled most in all the world the first was that he always saw the proud man command the humble the quarrellous the quiet the tyrant the just the cruel the pitiful the coward the hardy the ignorant the skilful and the greatest thieves hang the innocent A Philosopher being asked how he could endure so ill a Wife as he had The answer which he gave was I have hereby a School of Philosophy in my house and learning daily to suffer patiently I am made the more milder with others Alexander seeing Diogenes tumbling among dead bones he asked him what he sought To whom the other answered That which I cannot find the difference between the rich and the poor Demonax asked one a question who answered him in old obsolete affected words Prethee fellow said he where are thy wits I ask thee a question now and thou answerest 400 years ago Albertus Duke of Saxony was wont to say that he had three wonders in one City viz. three Monasteries For the Fries of the first had children and yet no wives the Friers of the second had a great deal of corn and yet no land the Friers of the third abounded with moneys and yet had no rents A Captain sent from Caesar unto the Senators of Rome to sue for the prolonging of his government abroad understanding as he stood at the Council-chamber-door that they would not condiscend to his desire clapping his hand upon the pummel of his sword Well said he seeing you will not grant it him this shall give it him When Anne Bolen that vertuous Lady had received a message from Henry the 8th that she must instantly prepare her self for death answered That she gave him humble thanks for all his favours bestowed upon her as for making her of a mean woman a Marchioness of a Marchioness a Queen but especially seeing he could not on earth advance her to any greater dignity that he would now send her to rest and reign upon Gods high and holy throne When Tully was asked which Oration of Demosthenes he liked best He answered The longest Diogenes said of one That he cast his house so long out at the window that at last his house cast him out of the door having left nothing rich except a nose There are two saying fathered on two great Counsellors Secretary Walsingham and Secretary Cecil one used to say at the Council-Table My Lords stay a little and we shall make an end the seoner The other would oft-times speak of himself It shall never be said of me that I will defer till to morrow what I can do to day Adrian the Sixt said A Physician is very necessary to a populous Country for were it not for the Physician men would live so long and grow so thick that one could not live for the other It was a bold answer Captain Talbot returned Henry the 8th from Calais who having received special
to kill me and in me to die without fear it is in you to banish me and in me to go to it cheerfully When Athanasius was banished by the Emperor Julian he said unto his friends that came to sorrow with him in his disgrace Courage my children this is but a little cloud which will vanish presently Fabius Maximus having spoiled Tarentum and made it desolate with all kinds of cruelties when his Secretary came to ask him What shall we do with the enemies gods He answered Let us leave the angry gods unto the Tarentines Scanderbeg had it in particular in all his encounters and military actions always to begin his first Stratagems of Victory with the death of the head saying That the head should be first cut off and the rest of the body will fall alone and that he knew no kind of living creature that could survive the head being taken off It was a witty speech of him that said That mens actions were like notes of musick sometimes in spaces and sometimes in lines sometimes above and sometimes beneath and never or seldom straight for any long continuance Rubrius Flavius being condemned by Nero to lose his head when as the Executioner said unto him that he should stretch forth his neck boldly he answered Thou shalt not strike more boldly than I will present my head Croesus King of Lydia seeing Cyrus's souldiers running up and down the Town of Sardis he demanded whither they did run They go to the spoil of the Town answered Cyrus They take nothing from me replyed Croesus all they carry away is thine and not mine Signifying that the spoils of souldiers are the losses of the Conqueror rather than the conquered One demanded of Symonides why he was so sparing in the extremity of his age For that said he I had rather leave my goods after my death to my enemies than in my life-time to have need of my friends When Antisthenes the Philosopher was in extream pain he cryed out Who shall deliver me from these miseries Diogenes presenting a knife unto him said This if thou wilt and that soon I do not say of my life replyed the Philosopher but of my pain One demanded of Cercidas the Megalapolitane if he died willingly Why not said he for after my death I shall see those great men Pythagoras among the Philosophers Hecateus among the Historians Homer among the Poets and Olympus among the Musicians A Babler demanding of Aristole if his discourse were not strange No answered he but yet a man having feet should not give himself so long patience to hear thee The Embassadors of Lacedemon being come to the King Lygdomnus he making difficulty to hear them and feigning himself sick the Embassadors said We are not come to wrestle with him but to speak with him Lewis the 11th of France one day went into the kitchin whereas he found a young lad turning the spit he demanded his name of whence he was and what he did earn This turn-spit who knew him not told his name and that though he were in the Kings service yet he got as much as the King For the King said he hath but his life and so have I God feeds the King and the King feeds me The Emperor Maximilian answered a Merchant who besought him to make him a Gentleman I can make thee much richer than thou art but it is not in my power to make thee a Gentleman Pope Julius the 2d having had a long feud with the Emperor Frederick against whom he had fought 12 Battels being one day gently admonished by the Arch-Bishop of Ostia how St. Peter his Predecessor was commanded to put up his sword 'T is true said Julius our Saviour gave the prime Apostle such a comand but 't was after he had given the blow and cut off Malchus ear Diogenes said That Troy was lost by horses and the Common-wealth of Athens by asses Alvaro de Luna whom John King of Castile advanced and loved above all men of his Realm said to them that admired his fortunes Judge not of the building before it be finished He died by the hands of Justice Lewis the 13th King of France being but a child when crowned tired with being ●o long eight hours in the Church and bearing the Crown on his head with divers other heavy vests upon his body was asked what he would take to take the like pains again He answered For another Crown I would take double the pains Those of the Religion petitioning Lewis 13. for a continuance of holding their cautionary Townes as Hen. 3. and Hen. the great had done He told them What grace the first did shew you was out of fear what my Father did was out of love but I would have you know that I neither fear you nor love you The Marshal de Saint 〈◊〉 comming to Sir Edward Herbert then Embassador from the King of England for the Rochellers after a counter-buff with Luynes the Constable and told him in a friendly manner you have offended the Constable and you are not in a place of security here Whereunto he answered That he held himself to be in a place of security wheresoever he had his sword by him The Duke of Suilli was a Favourite to Henry the 4th whom he had reduced from a Roman to be a Reformist when he was King of Navar onely and perswading him to become Roman again the Duke bluntly answered Sir you have given me one turn already you have good luck if you give me any more Lewis the 13th when but a youth he went to the Country of Bearn at his entrance to Pan the Inhabitants bringing a Canopy to carry over his Head He asked whether there was ever a Church in the Town And being answered No He said he would receive no honour in that place where God himself had no house to be honoured in William Prince of Orange to content those that reproved his too much humanity said That man is well bought who costs but a salutation A President of a Parliament in France whose friends came to see him at his new house began exceedingly to commend it for the rareness of the Workmanship and the goodness of the stone timber marble and such like You mistake said he the stuff whereof it is made the house is onely b●● de testes les fols of foolsheads Bias one of the seven wise men of Greece sailing in a ship where some fellows were that had given themselves over to lewdness and yet in a storm were calling unto their gods for help He said unto them Hold your peace for fear lest the gods should know you be here Alexander Severus was wont to say That a Souldier is never afraid but when he seeth himself well apparelled and his Belt furnished with money Dionysius the Tyrant said We should deceive children with dice and cock-alls and men with Oaths Alexander the Great when one wondred why he not onely not kill'd his enemies but took them to
because the Scripture no where denies it and reason it self speaks the use of it to be verbum visibile it setting forth Christ and his Passion to our eyes as the Word preached doth to our eares and we have alwayes been taught that the Fye is the aptest Scholar If it be not a Preaching action now it is because we have it not to see else to what purpose did our Saviour command us to use it in remembrance of him That all should receive the Sacrament of the Supper because all have been Baptized is an argument framed onely by the Confuters thereof for none that I know who plead for a free admission but make some exception from this general rule as infants fools and excommunicate persons for that all have a right to eat is an argument never maintein'd the onely question being who have this right and who have not That Infidels Ideots and Children have not all agree for reasons too plain to be questioned That scandalous persons have no right we denie not neither onely say they are not to be accounted so till excommunicated Nor can that man be lawfully accounted guilty in the sence of the Law till proofs have convicted and sentence determined him to be so For to denie a man the priviledges his birth allowes him till the Law determine that he hath forfeited them is an injustice and no command of Christ or Scripture Sure I am the Master in the Parable reproved not his servant for admitting him without the wedding garment it was their part to invite all and if any would presume to come unfitted it lay upon himself to bear the sentence of their Lord the Apostle telling us as it is a dutie upon every one to examine himself so he comes upon his own peril to eat and drink his own damnation And because he that eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks his own damnation yet it followeth not that the Sacrament should be denied them For who knows not that though a man have been loose and careless in his conversation yet God may work a change in him in an instant even in the very act of Administration And certainly no meanes ought to be denied any man that may conduce to if happily not produce that good end for which all the Ordinances of the Gospel are ordained But I forget I intended a Letter not a Dispute since without controversie I am Sir your Friend and Servant T. F. To Mr. S. S. Sir I Am not at all infected with that itch of Disputation how contrary it is to my more peaceable temper all that know me can witnesse But having routed the main body of your arguments I shall now scatter your reserve It is said the Church of Ephesus is commended for trying and judging of men But it is clear by the next words that this trial was of their doctrine not of their lives and that they were found false Apostles Neither can this if it were as is pretended authorize a particular Minister to that which may be lawful to the Church it being too tender a thing to be trusted with one man alone to determine for what inconveniences would thence follow may easily be imagined The Priests indeed as you say were commanded to make a separation between the clean and the unclean but it was of beasts for the sacrifices as the Texts express themselves And St. Peter saith God had shewn him that he should not call any man common and unclean And St. Paul tells the Corinthians that he had no power to judge them without That Christ gave the Supper onely to his Apostles is plain but it is as plain that one of them was a Judas and what select company was ever in this world wherein was not some close hypocrite and no Devil to the white Devil I have done with your arguments and shall now sound a retreat to my self and resolve to draw my pen no more in this quarrel For I know not whether this kind of duelling be not forbidden by the late Act if it be not I wish it were for I love not to contend with my friends with any other weapons than love and service When you conquer me at those weapons I must forget your merit or that I am Sir your friend and servant T. F. To Mr. T. F. Sir HAving lately not without pleasure and profit read your Church-History by which you have not only indebted our Church in particular but the whole Common-wealth of Learning in general my memory continually upbraided me with ingratitude till I found out this way to convey my resentments For though our Returns of thanks ought to be large and universal as your merit yet your goodness I hope will not refuse the single gratitude of private persons In that number though the last and the least I am bold to tender my mite A task indeed better befitting a more equal pen since none is able to do it but your own But I know your modesty is as great as your merit the highest worths being always accompanied with the lowest humiltie May your name ever live who have rais'd so many to life and rescued their memories from the tyranny of oblivion Amongst many others I am particularly obliged to your courtesie in the remembrance of that good man Mr. Udal whom by kindred I am something related One of whom we have this tradition that he was the first man King James asked for when he came into England and being answered that he was dead the King whose judgment was an exact standard of learning learned men reply'd By my sal then the greatest Scholar in Europe's dead And certainly by his own party if they may be admitted for competent Judges it is not yet resolv'd whether his Learning or his Zeal were greatest and they think they justly boast him a Confessor if not a Martyr for that Cause which since hath paid those scores with Interest Now though I am no heir to his opinions yet a small affinity to his Person makes me embrace the opportunitie of proffering you that Intelligence you complain to want the rather because perhaps no man can now do it but my self and I have a Relation of all his Trials Censures and Sentence written by himself which I doubt not may give you a satisfactorie account in what you desire If you please to command it I shall be ambitious to serve you and the truth therewith But I could wish you would review that passage in the 31 Sect. After the Execution of Udal c. for he died at the White Lyon just as his pardon was procured and was buried at St. Georges Southwark And so I leave him to his Rest wishing his good name and doctrines may survive his discipline Sir you have not onely engaged Learning but Religion to perpetuate your labours Fame is much in arrears to your Desert and therefore cannot in justice but continue that veneration in length to your memorie which it yet wants in