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The transproser rehears'd, or, The fifth act of Mr. Bayes's play being a postscript to the animadversions on the preface to Bishop Bramhall's vindication, &c. : shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery.
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Leigh, Richard 1649 or 50-1728.
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whole party if you could then perswade every particular person of them that you gave him no provocation I confess this were an excellent and a new way of your inventing to conquer single whole Armies To see the superfetatious Miracles of Art here in the Accumulative Vertues of a single Hero He ranges his multiply'd self Horse and Foot in battell array he places all his Cannon with fewer hands than Briareus by 98. and in the same breath sounds a Charge with as many Trumpets as mouths and gives the Signal to himself to fall on this you may boldly challenge for your non ultra it is as high as you can go So now come in Thunder and Lightning that is the Bishops Historian in those two shapes and this way of making one Person represent a Dialogue between two is very artificial indeed yet this is perform'd with a little alteration of the voyce for besides the diversity of dress and posture that of the Tone and Accent is no less considerable in an Actors Representation of many Persons at one and the same time 't is but ratling in a big and hoarse voyce I am the bold Thunder then squeaking in a shrill and tender the brisk Lightning I and the business is done this now if you mark it is extraordinary fine and very applicable to the Bishops Historian for he saith Some that pretend a great interest in the holy Brotherhood descry Popery in every common and usual chance a Chimney cannot take fire in the City or Suburbs but they are immediately crying Iesuits and Fire-balls Now what does our Transproser do but transverse this thus I strike Men down I fire the Town Where by the way it is a marvel our Author when he call'd his Book the REHEARSAL TRANSPROS'D forgot to add the PREFACE to Bishop Bramhall's Vindication TRANSVERS'D that double Elegancy would have been as pretty as two Flowers growing on one stalk And this I mention the rather because I sind he is a profest Critick in Titles for pag. 308 309. observing by chance the Title age of this Book A Rationale upon the Book of Common-Prayer of the Church of England by A. Sparrow D. D. Bishop of Exon. With the forme of Consecration of a Church or Chappel and of the place of Christian Burial by Lancelot Andrews late Lord Bishop of Winchester sold by Robert Pawlet at the sign of the Bible one would have thought that Sign might have atton'd for all in Chancery-Lane This he tells us was an Emblem how much some of them neglected the Scripture in respect to their darling Ceremonies So that the Animadverter cannot be better employed next than in writing another Book of Animadversions upon Title-Pages And because it is a Task so agreeable to his Genius I could wish if all other preferments fail the Gentleman might be advanced to the Office of Title-Licenser then Robert Pawlet and Iames Collins might shut up their Shops for any trading in Rationales or Ecclesiastical Policies and if he shall appear sufficiently qualified to discharge this trust I would have him removed next or if he please Translated to the greater Dignity of revising Prefaces if he be not averse from that because Prefaces as well as Epistles Dedicatory fell under the inspection of Arch-Bishop Laud. But seriously had not our Author Entituled his Pamphlet the REHEARSAL TRANSPROS'D we could have given it a more express Name unless there be some mystery more than ordinary couch'd in the word TRANSPROS'D which is the REHEARSAL TRANSSCRIB'D for in Transcribing more Verses of the REHEARSAL than he hath Transpros'd his Play-Observations seem rather to have answer'd the latter Title Besides his Verses before cited pag. 170. of his Animadversions I strike men down I fire the Town Pag. 62. He has hal'd in the two last Verses of the Song which the two Kings of Brainford sing descending in the clouds for a Couplet in a Song gives a better Ragoust to a Controversial Discourse then Bacon to an Olio or St. Auâ—tin to a Sermon Pag. 12. His Animadversion on these words of the Writer He knows not which way his mind will work it self and its thoughts amounts to no more than this that our Clergy-man was taken violently with a fit of Love and Honour and being sick of Prince Volscius his disease there was no other cure but this Charm Go on cries Honour tender Love says Nay Honour aloud commands pluck both Boots on But safer Love does whisper put on none And though the Writer protested He was neither Prophet nor Astrologer enough to foretell what he would do the Animadverter being both tells us it is precisely For as bright Day with black approach of Night Contending makes a doubtfull puzzling Light So does my Honour and my Love together Puzzle me so I am resolv'd on neither Though the Verses come in to no more purpose then one of Bayes his Similes Again for Bayes his Verses will serve for all occasions as well as his Prologue for all Plays pag. 202. he has borrowed these from the singing Battle Villain thou lyest Arm Arm Valerio Arm The lye no flesh can bear I trow If Mr. Bayes as you tell us pag. 17. was more civil then to say Villain he might have taught his Actors better manners All these besides the two last verses of the event of the Battle you have diligently Collected and for the most part faithfully transcribed unless in these last recited where for Gonsalvo in the Rehearsal you have put in Valerio and by the alteration of that one word have made it your own just so Mr. Bayes us'd to do with many a good notion in Montaign and Seneca's Tragedies yet though your Title promise us so fairly you have not Transpros'd three whole Verses in all your Book But be it the Rehearsal Transpros'd or transcrib'd or if you will Reprinted for your Pamphlet is little else but a Second Edition of that Play and Mr. Hales his Tract of Schism though methinks you might have so much studied the Readers diversion and your own as to have exercised your happy talent of Rhyming in Transversing the Treatise of Schism and for the Titles dear sake you might have made all the Verses rung Ism in their several changes I dare assure you Sir the work would have been more gratefully accepted than Donns Poems turn'd into Dutch but what talk I of that then Prynnes Mount Orguil or Milton's Paradise lost in blank Verse But as it is you give us quotations of whole Books like him who wrote Zabarella quite out from the beginning to the end professing it was so good he could leave none behind how like is this to our Transcriber yet whatsoever I omit I shall have left behind more material passages before his Edition of Hales p. 176. It is no absurdity now to say your Text is all Margent and not only all your Dishes but your Garnish too is Pork And thus much for your Regula Duplex changing Prose into Verse and Verse
the Painter is the Character given Abbot by one of our State-Historians none of Lauds greatest friends that his extraordinary remisness in not exacting strict Conformity to the prescribed Orders of the Church in point of Ceremony seem'd to resolve those legal Determinations to their first Principle of Indifferency and to lead in such a habit of Inconformity as the future reduction of those tender Conscienc'd men to long discontinued Obedience was interpreted an Innovation From hence any man may judge what construction is to be put upon the arch-Arch-Bishops Accusation of Laud for informing against the honest Men that setled the Truth which he call'd Puritanism in their Auditors For which the good man represented Laud as a Papist to King Iames. So every stickler for the Church of England was term'd in the Language of those times But if his Marrying the Earl of D. to the Lady R. when she had another Husband was not the unpardonable Sin it may seem strange that neither the Arch-Bishop nor our Writer should absolve him when we cannot in charity conceive but God did upon that his Penitent and Submissive acknowledgment which we find recorded at large in the History of his Life p. 59. Sure I am the most inveterate Enemies of this gallant Prelate have not so blackt him as the Pens of the Arch-Bishop and our Animadverter for to report him to the World in the 1 Character Sir E. Deering tells us he had muzzled Fisher and would strike the Papists under the fiâ—t Rib when he was dead and gone And being dead that wheresoever his Grave should be Pauls would be his Perpetual Monument and his own Book his Epitaph Nay in that infamous Book call'd Canterburys Doom we are told that at his Tryal he made as Full as Gallant as Pithy a Defence and spake as much as was possible for the wit of man to invent and that with so much Art Vivacity and Confidence as he shewed not the least acknowledgment of Guilt in any of the Particulars which were charged upon him So eminently remarkable were his Accomplishments which the most Malicious could not dissemble nor the most Envious conceal His sharpest Adversaries were his boldest Encomiasts and when they intended Libels made Panegyâ—icks At the same Bar condemning themselves and acquitting this Great Man who after he had been an honour to the higest place in our Church which was higher yet in being his was Translated to a more Glorious Dignity in the Church Triumphant received therewith the joyful Aâ—thems of a Quire of Angels and instal'd in White Robes according to the usual solemnities of Saints sent thither as it were before to assist at the following Coronation of his Royal Master and to set the Crown of Martyrdom on the head of that Heroick Defender of the Faith Now methinks our Author had he any spark of Vertue unextinguish'd should upon considering these things retire into his Closet and there lament and pine away for his desperate folly for the disgrace he hath as far as in him is brought upon the Church of England And though the comfort is an ill man you may believe him when he speaks against himself cannot by reproaching fix an ignominy yet the same thanks are due to his honourable Intentions and his Endeavours are not the less commendable For to say the truth he has out pitcht the Executioner half a Barr so dextrous is he in severing the Head from the Body at one blow that were he Probationer for the Headmans Office I am confident he would carry it in a free Election on without the least Opposition and so he might become a more serviceable Member of the Commonwealth then he is at present Seriously 't is great pity a man of such Accomplishments should be lost when no body can deny but he is every way qualified to fill the Place and Quality of Squire Dun. Especially if they saw how passing well he lookt in the cast Robes of a Malefactor Woe be to the Bishops if ever he procures a Patent for that Honour they cannot in reason expect any greater favour then to have the Traytors Quarters removed from the City Gates and their own hung up in the room Axes are the most necessary because the most powerful Arguments against the Clergy they confuted him whom Fisher could not Well these Bishops are the men have ruin'd all they brought the late King to the Block and have contributed to all our miseries ever since How came Cromwell Ineton and Bradshaw trow to merit their â—yburn Pomps and second Funeral Solemnities Sure 't was through some mistake that those who were but Accessaries and under-Instruments of our late troubles should be thus highly honor'd above the Principals the Prelates No doubt but it was a great Affliction to this Gentleman poor soul to see the Heads of his Master and the other two well deserving Gentlemen rais'd to that ignominious Eminency on purpose to be pointed at by the Beholders and what is worse expos'd without their Hats to the rude violence of the Weather when for ought appears it was an Exaltation they never sought and they have been undeservedly advanc'd to that Pitch of Greatness which Bishop Laud and two or three of the Villanous Clergy had theâ— had their deserts should have climb'd But since they are there much good may it do 'um with their places For after all the fatal Consequences of their Rebellion they can only serve as fair Marks unto wise Subjects to avoid the Causes And now shall this sort of Men still vindicate themselves as the most zealous Assertors of the Rights of Princes At best they are no better Subjects then Jesuites or well-meaning Zealots betwixt whom as the best of Poets draws their Parallel there lyes no greater difference then this They dare kill Kings and 'twixt you here 's the strife That you dare shoot at Kings to save their Life This Doctrine of killing Kings in their own Defence you may safely vindicate as your own it was never broacht before And from such unquestionable Principles may we reduce your Account of the late War p. 303. Whether it were a War of Religion or of Liberty is not worth the labour to enquire Which-soever was at the top the other was at the bottome but upon considering all I think the cause was too good to have been fought for Which if I understand not amiss is nothing but Iconoclates drawn in Little and Defensio Populi Anglicania in Miniature Besides the War as most gave out at first was for the removal of Evil Councellors but because as we are told pag. 252 A new War must have like a Book that would sell a New Title our Author who has a singular knack in giving Titles to both has founded the late War upon the more specious and plausible names of Religion and Liberty These which he has assign'd for causes of our Rebellion being the same with those for which the Netherlanders took up Arms against their Lawful