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B05023	Familiar letters. Vol. I. Written by the Right Honourable John, late Earl of Rochester, to the Honble Henry Savile, Esq; and other letters, by persons of honour and quality. With letters written by the most ingenious Mr. Thomas Otway, and Mrs. K. Phillips. Publish'd from their original copies. With modern letters, by Tho. Cheek, Esq; Mr. Dennis, and Mr. Brown.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.; Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685.; Cheek, Thomas.; Phillips, Katherine, fl. 1658.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Ayloffe, W. (William).	1699 (1699)	Wing R1745A; ESTC R182831	73,342	242

to others may ever enjoy it Your Self that Your Days may be always pleasant and Your Nights easie and that You 'll be pleas'd to forgive this Presumption in Your most Humble and most Obliged Servant T. BROWN THE BOOKSELLER'S Preface HAving by the Assistance of a Worthy Friend procured the following Letters that were written by the late Incomparable Earl of Rochester the Originals of all which I preserve by me to satisfie those Gentlemen who may have the Curiosity to see them under his Lordship's Hand I was encouraged to trouble others of my Friends that had any Letters in their Custody to make this Collection which I now publish Indeed the Letters that were written by the above-mention'd Honourable Person have something so happy in the Manner and Style that I need not lose my Time to convince the World they are genuine I may say the same of Mr. Otway's Letters that they are full of Life and Passion and sufficiently discover their Author And that this Collection might be compleat I got some that were written by the Fam'd Orinda Mrs. Katherine Phillips to be added to the rest together with others by some Gentlemen now living that the Reader might have a Variety of Entertainment Our Neighbouring Nations whom I don't believe we come short of in any respect have printed several Volumes of Letters which met with publick Approbation I am satisfied that if the Gentlemen of England wou'd be as free and Communicative to part with theirs we might shew as great a number and as good a Choice as they have done It has been used as an Objection against publishing things of this Nature That if they are written as they ought to be they shou'd never be made publick But I hope this Collection will disarm that Objection for tho' the Reader may not understand every particular Passage yet there are other things in them that will make him sufficient Amends I have only a word more to add Upon the Noise of this Collection several Gentlemen have been so kind as to send me in Materials to compose a Second which is now printed and on the Printing the Second I have procured as many of the Lord Rochester's the Duke of Buckingham and Sir George Etheridge which will almost make a Third Volume which if I can compleat it shall be publish'd next Trinity-Term and therefore those Gentlemen that have any Curious Letters by them written by those Honourable Persons and are willing to oblige the Publick by letting them come abroad are desired to send them to me who will take Care to have them faithfully Transcrib'd for the Press and Printed in the Third Volume which will be intirely theirs and no Modern one mixt with them A TABLE Of all the LETTERS in this Volume SEveral Letters by the late Earl of Rochester to the Honourable Henry Savile Esq from p. 1. to p. 50. The Earl of L 's Letter to the Honourable Algernoon Sidney p. 51. Algernoon Sidney's Letter against Arbitrary Government p. 60. Two Letters by another Hand to Madam from p. 67. to p 72. Love Letters by Mr. Otway from p. 73. to 87. A Letter from to Mr. G p. 88. A Letter to the Duke of Vivone by the Fam'd Monsieur Boileau Translated by Thomas Cheek Esq p. 91. A Letter by Mr. Dennis sent with Monsieur Boileau's Speech to the Academy of Paris upon his Admission p. 102. Monsieur Boileau's Speech to the Academy Translated by Mr. Dennis p. 106. Letters of Courtship to a Woman of Quality from p. 118. to p. 133. A Letter of Reproach to a Woman of Quality p. 134. A Letter of Business to a Merchat's Wife in the City p. 136 Letters by the late celebrated Mrs. Katherine Phillips from p. 137. to 152. A Letter to Mr. Herbert p. 152. A Letter to C. G. Esq in Covent-garden p. 156. To the Perjur'd Mrs. p. 163. To the Honble in the Pall-mall p. 168. A Letter to my Lady p. 173. A Consolatory Letter to an Essex-Divine upon the Death of his Wife p. 179. A Let to the fair Lucinda at Epsom p. 183. To the same at London p. 185. To W. Knight Esq at Ruscomb in Berkshire p. 189. To a Gentleman that fell desperately in Love and set up for a Beau in the 45th Year of his Age p. 197. The Answer p. 200. A Letter to his Honoured Friend Dr. Baynard at the Bath p. 202. A Letter to Mr. Raphson Fellow of the R. Society upon occasion of Dr. Conner's Book entituled Physica Arcana seu Tractat. de Mystico Corporum Statu to be Printed by Mr. Briscoe p. 213. A Letter to the L d North and Grey p. 218. To a Friend in the Country p. 221. Books printed for and sold by R. Wellington AN Italian Voyage or a compleat Journey thro' Italy in 2 Parts with the Characters of the People and a Description of the Chief Towns Churches Monasteries Tombs Libraries Palaces Villa's Gardens Pictures Statues and Antiquities as also of the Interest Government Riches Forces c. of all the Princes with Instructions concerning Travels the second Edition very much enlarged by a Modern Hand price 5 Shillings The whole Works of that Excellent Practic Physician Dr. Tho. Sydenham wherein not only the Hist and Cure of acute Diseases are treated of after a new and accurate Method but also the shortest and safest way of curing most Chronical Diseases translated from the Original Latin by John Pechey of the College of Physicians price 5 Shillings A General Treatise of the Diseases of Infants and Children collected from the best Authors viz. Etmuller Willis c. by John Pechey of the College of Phisicians price 1 Shilling and 6 d. The Family-Physician or a choice Collection of Remedies for all Diseases incident to Human Bodies whether internal or external useful in Families and serviceable to Country People To which is added the English Wine-Cellar being the best Method for making English Wines and Metheglin with a Collection of Cosmetick Remedies for the preserving the Beauty and Complection of Ladies never before publish'd by George Harman Philo-Chymist Servant to Sir Kenelm Digby till he died price 3 Shill Familiar Letters By the Right Honourable JOHN LATE Earl of ROCHESTER VOL. I. TO THE Honourable HENRY SAVILE Dear SAVILE DO a Charity becoming one of your pious Principles in preserving your humble Servant Rochester from the imminent Peril of Sobriety which for want of good Wine more than Company for I can drink like a Hermit betwixt God and my own Conscience very like to befal me Remember what Pains I have formerly taken to wean you from your pernicious Resolutions of Discretion and Wisdom And if you have a grateful Heart which is a Miracle amongst you Statesmen shew it by directing the Bearer to the best Wine in Town and pray let not this highest Point of Sacred Friendship be perform'd slightly but go about it with all due deliberation and care as holy Priests to Sacrifice or as discreet Thieves to

Sight and Hand makes it almost impossible This may excuse me to Every-body and particularly to You who have not invited me much unto it but rather have given me cause to think that you were willing to save me the labour of Writing and your self the trouble of Reading my Letters For after you had left me sick solitary and sad at Penshurst and that you had resolved to undertake the Employment wherein you have lately been you neither came to give me a Farewel nor did so much as send one to me but only writ a wrangling Letter or two concerning Mony and Hoskins and Sir Robert Honywood's Horse and tho' both before and after your going out of England you writ to divers other Persons the first Letter that I received from you was dated as I remember the 13th of September the second in November wherein you take notice of your Mother's Death and if there were one more that was all until Mr. Sterry came who made such haste from Penshurst that coming very late at Night he would not stay to Dine the next Day nor to give me time to Write It is true that since the Change of Affairs here and of your Condition there your Letters have been more frequent and if I had not thought my Silence better both for you and my self I would have written more than once or twice unto you but tho' for some Reasons I did forbear I failed not to desire others to write unto you and with their own to convey the best Advice that my little Intelligence and weak Judgment could afford particularly not to expect New Authorities nor Orders from hence not to stay in any of the places of your Negotiation not to come into England much less to expect a Ship to be sent for you or to think that an Account was or wou'd be expected of you here unless it were of Matters very different from your Transactions there that it wou'd be best for you presently to divest your self of the Character of a Publick Minister to dismiss all your Train and to retire into some safe place not very near nor very far from England that you might hear from your Friends sometimes And for this I advis'd Hamburgh where I hear you are by your Man Powel or by them that have receiv'd Letters from you with Presents of Wine and Fish which I do not reproach nor envy Your last Letter to me had no Date of Time or Place but by another at the same time to Sir John Temple of the 28th of July as I remember sent by Mr. Missonden I guess that mine was of the same Date By those that I have had I perceive that you have been misadvertiz'd for tho' I met with no Effects nor Marks of Displeasure yet I find no such Tokens or Fruits of Favour as may give me either Power or Credit for those Vndertakings and Good Offices which perhaps you expect of me And now I am again upon the Point of retiring to my poor Habitation having for my self no other Design than to pass the small remainder of my Days innocently and quietly and if it please GOD to be gathered in Peace to my Fathers And concerning you what to resolve in my self or what to advise you truly I know not For you must give me leave to remember of how little Weight my Opinions and Counsels have been with you and how unkindly and unfriendly you have rejected those Exhortations and Admonitions which in much Affection and Kindness I have given you upon many Occasions and in almost every thing from the highest to the lowest that hath concern'd you and this you may think sufficient to discourage me from putting my Advices into the like Danger Yet somewhat I will say And First I think it unfit and perhaps as yet unsafe for you to come into England for I believe Powel hath told you that he heard when he was here That you were likely to be excepted out of the General Act of Pardon and Oblivion And tho' I know not what you have done or said here or there yet I have several ways heard That there is as ill an Opinion of you as of any even of those that condemned the late King And when I thought there was no other Exception to you than your being of the other Party I spoke to the General in your behalf who told me That very ill Offices had been done you but he would assist you as much as justly he could and I intended then also to speak to Somebody else you may guess whom I mean But since that I have heard such things of you that in the doubtfulness only of their being true no Man will open his Mouth for you I will tell you some Passages and you shall do well to clear your self of them It is said That the University of Copenhagen brought their Album unto you desiring you to write something therein and that you did scribere in albo these Words Manus haec inimica Tyrannis Ense petit placida cum Libertate quietem And put your Name to it This cannot chuse but be publickly known if it be true It is said also That a Minister who hath married a Lady Laurence here of Chelsey but now dwelling at Copenhagen being there in Company with you said I think you were none of the late King's Judges nor guilty of his Death meaning our King Guilty said you Do you call that Guilt Why 't was the justest and bravest Action that ever was done in England or any where else with other Words to the same effect It is said also That you having heard of a Design to seize upon you or to cause you to be taken Prisoner you took notice of it to the King of Denmark himself and said I hear there is a Design to seize upon me But who is it that hath that Design Estce nostre Bandit By which you are understood to mean the King Besides this it is reported That you have been heard to say many scornful and contemptuous things of the King's Person and Family which unless you can justifie your self will hardly be forgiven or forgotten For such Personal Offences make deeper Impressions than Publick Actions either of War or Treaty Here is a Resident as he calls himself of the King of Denmark whose Name as I hear is Pedcombe he hath visited me and offered his readiness to give you any Assistance in his Power or Credit with the Embassadour Mr. Alfield who was then expected and is now arrived here and hath had his first Audience I have not seen Mr. Pedcombe since but within a few Days I will put him in Mind of his Profession of Friendship to you and try what he can or will do Sir Robert Honywood is also come hither and as I hear the King is graciously pleased to admit him to his Presence which will be somewhat the better for you because then the Exceptions against your Employment and Negotiation wherein you were

Colleague will be remov'd and you will have no more to answer for than your own particular Behaviour I believe Sir Robert Honywood will be industrious enough to procure Satisfaction to the Merchants in the Business of Mony wherein he will have the Assistance of Sir John Temple to whom I refer you for that and some other things I have little to say to your Complaints of your Sister Strayford's unequal Returns to your Affection and Kindness but that I am sorry for it and that you are well enough serv'd for bestowing so much of your Care where it was not due and neglecting them to whom it was due and I hope you will be wiser hereafter She and her Husband have not yet paid the Thousand Pounds whereof you are to have your part by my Gift for so I think you are to understand it tho' your Mother desired it and if for the Payment thereof your being in England or in some Place not far off be necessary as some pretend for the Sealing of some Writings I think that and other Reasons sufficient to perswade you to stay a while where you are that you may hear frequently from your Friends and they from you I am wholly against your going into Italy as yet till more may be known of your Condition which for the present is hard and I confess that I do not yet see any more man this that either you must live in Exile or very privately here and perhaps not safely for tho' the Bill of Indemnity be lately passed yet if there be any particular and great Displeasure against you as I fear there is you may feel the Effects thereof from the Higher Powers and receive Affronts from the Inferiour Therefore you were best to stay at Hamburgh which for a Northern Scituation is a good place and healthful I will help you as much as I can in discovering and informing you of what concerns you tho' as I began so I must end with telling you That Writing is now grown troublesome to Your Affectionate Le London Aug. 30. 1660. The Honourable Algernoon Sidney's LETTER Against BRIBERY AND ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT Written to his Friends in Answer to Theirs perswading his Return to England SIR I Am sorry I cannot in all things conform my self to the Advices of my Friends if theirs had any joint-concernment with mine I would willingly submit my Interest to theirs but when I alone am interested and they only advise me to come over as soon as the Act of Indemnity is pass'd because they think it is best for me I cannot wholly lay aside my own Judgment and Choice I confess we are naturally inclin'd to delight in our own Country and I have a particular Love to mine I hope I have given some Testimony of it I think that being exil'd from it is a great Evil and would redeem my self from it with the loss of a great deal of my Blood But when that Country of mine which us'd to be esteem'd a Paradise is now like to be made a Stage of Injury the Liberty which we hoped to establish oppress'd all manner of Prophaneness Looseness Luxury and Lewdness set up in its heighth instead of Piety Virtue Sobriety and Modesty which we hoped GOD by our Hands would have introduc'd the Best of our Nation made a Prey to the Worst the Parliament Court and Army corrupted the People enslav'd all things Vendible and no Man safe but by such evil and infamous means as Flattery and Bribery what Joy can I have in my own Country in this Condition Is it a Pleasure to see all that I love in the World sold and destroy'd Shall I renounce all my old Principles learn the vile Court-arts and make my Peace by bribing some of them Shall their Corruption and Vice be my Safety Ah! no better is a Life among Strangers than in my own Country upon such Conditions Whil'st I live I will endeavour to preserve my Liberty or at least not consent to the destroying of it I hope I shall die in the same Principle in which I have lived and will live no longer than they can preserve me I have in my Life been guilty of many Follies but as I think of no meanness I will not blot and defile that which is past by endeavouring to provide for the future I have ever had in my Mind that when God should cast me into such a Condition as that I cannot save my Life but by doing an indecent thing He shews me the time is come wherein I should resign it And when I cannot live in my own Country but by such means as are worse than dying in it I think He shews me I ought to keep my self out of it Let them please themselves with making the King glorious who think a Whole People may justly be sacrific'd for the Interest and Pleasure of One Man and a few of his Followers Let them rejoyce in their Subtilty who by betraying the former Powers have gain'd the Favour of this not only preserv'd but advanc'd themselves in these dangerous Changes Nevertheless perhaps they may find the King's Glory is their Shame his Plenty the Peoples Misery and that the gaining of an Office or a little Mony is a poor Reward for destroying a Nation which if it were preserv'd in Liberty and Vertue would truly be the most glorious in the World and that others may find they have with much Pains purchas'd their own Shame and Misery a dear Price paid for that which is not worth keeping nor the Life that is accompanied with it the Honour of English Parliaments have ever been in making the Nation Glorious and Happy not in selling and destroying the Interest of it to satifie the Lusts of one Man Miserable Nation that from so great a heighth of Glory is fallen into the most despicable Condition in the World of having all its Good depending upon the Breath and Will of the vilest Persons in it cheated and sold by them they trusted Infamous Traffick equal almost in Guilt to that of Judas In all preceding Ages Parliaments have been the Pillars of our Liberty the sure Defenders of the Oppressed They who formerly could bridle Kings and keep the Ballance equal between them and the People are now become the Instruments of all our Oppressions and a Sword in his Hand to destroy us They themselves led by a few interested Persons who are willing to buy Offices for themselves by the Misery of the whole Nation and the Blood of the most Worthy and Eminent Persons in it Detestable Bribes worse than the Oaths now in fashion in this Mercenary Court I mean to owe neither my Life nor Liberty to any such Means when the innocence of my Actions will not protect me I will stay away till the Storm be overpass'd In short where Vane Lambert and Haslerigg cannot live in Safety I cannot live at all If I had been in England I should have expected a Lodging with them or tho' they may

we are alone The talking of the Devil puts me in Mind of the Parsons I had the Benefit of the Clergy this Week I mean the Company of two honest unbigotted Parsons I drank a Bowl to the Manes of our Immortal Friend one that was as witty as Necessity and discover'd more Truths than ever Time did One that was born to unchain the World that struggl'd with Mysteries as Hercules did with Monsters and like him too fell by a Distaff After so mournful a Subject I'gad I 'll make you laugh The Duce take me if I did not last Week assist at the Ceremony of making a Christian nay more Sir I was Honos sit Auribus a Godfather who am Your Affectionate Friend and Servant c. Mons BOILEAU's LETTERS TRANSLATED By THO. CHEEK Esq To the Duke DE VIVONE upon his Entrance into the Haven of Messina My LORD KNow you not that one of the surest ways to hinder a Man from being pleasant is to bid him be so Since you forbad me being serious I never found my self so grave and I speak nothing now but Sentences And besides your last Action has something in it so great that truly it would go against my Conscience to write to you of it otherwise than in the Heroick Style However I cannot resolve not to obey you in all that you command me so that in the Humour that I find my self I am equally afraid to tire you with a serious Trifle or to trouble you with an ill Piece of Wit In fine my Apollo has assisted my this Morning and in the time that I thought the least of it made me find upon my Pillow two Letters which for want of mine may perhaps give you an agreeable Amusement They are dated from the Elysian Fields the one is from Balzac and the other from Voiture who being both charm'd with the Relation of your last Fight write to you from the other World to congratulate you This is that from Balzac You will easily know it be to his by his Style which cannot express things simply nor descend from its heighth From the Elysian Fields June the 22d My LORD THe Report of your Actions revives the Dead it wakens those who have slept those thirty Years and were condemn'd to an eternal Sleep it makes Silence it self speak The Brave the Splendid The Glorious Conquest that you have made over the Enemies of France You have restored Bread to a City which has been accustom'd to furnish it to all others You have nourish'd the Nursing Mother of Italy the thunder of that Fleet which shut you up the Avenues of its Port has done no more than barely saluted your Entrance its Resistance has detained you no longer than an over civil reception So far from hindring the Rapidity of your Course it has not interrupted the Order of your March you have constrain'd in their their Sight the South and North Winds to obey you without chastizing the Sea as Xerxes did you have taught it Discipline you have done yet more you have made the Spaniard humble After that what may not one say of you No Nature I say Nature when she was young and in the time that she produc'd Alexanders and Caesars has produc'd nothing so great as under the Reign of Louis the XIV she has given to the French in her Declension that which Rome could not obtain from her in her greatest Maturity She has made appear to the World in your Age both in Body and Soul that perfect Valour which we have scarce seen the Idea of in Romances and Heroick Poems Beging the Pardon of one of your Poets he had no reason to say That beyond Cocitus Merit is no more known Yours My LORD is extoll'd here by the common Voice on both sides of Styx It makes a continual Remembrance of you even in the Abodes of Forgetfulness It finds zealous Partizans in the Country of Indifference It puts Acheron into the Interests of the Seine Nay more there is no Shade amongst us so prepossest with the Principles of the Porticus so hardned in the School of Zeno so fortified against Joy and Grief that does not hear your Praises with pleasure that does not clap his Hands and cry A Miracle at the moment you are named and is not ready to say with your Malherbe A la fin c'est trop de Silence En si beau suject de parler As for me My LORD who know you a great deal better I do nothing but meditate on you in my Repose I fill my Thoughts intirely with your Idea in the long Hours of our Leisure I cry continually How great a Man is this And if I wish to live again 't is not so much to return to the Light as to enjoy the sovereign Felicity of your Conversation and to tell you Face to Face with how much Respect I am from the whole extent of my Soul My LORD Your Lordship 's most humble and most obedient Servant BALZAC I Know not My LORD whether these violent Exaggerations will please you and whether you will not find that the Style of Balzac is a little corrupted in the other World however it be in my Opinion he never lavish'd his Hyperboles more to the purpose 't is for you to judge of it But first read if you please the Letter from Voiture From the Elysian Fields June the 22d My LORD THo' we poor Devils who are dead do not concern our selves much in the Affairs of the Living and are not exceedingly inclin'd to Mirth Yet I cannot forbear rejoycing at the Great Things you do over our Heads Seriously your last Fight makes the Devil and all of a Noise here below it has made it self heard in a place where the very Thunder of Heav'n is not heard and has made your Glory known in a Country where even the Sun is not known There are a great many Spaniards come hither who were in the Action and have inform'd us of the Particulars I see no reason why the People of that Nation shou'd pass for Bullies for I can assure you they are very civil Persons and the King sent 'em hither t'other Day very mild and quiet To tell you the truth my LORD you have manag'd your Affairs very well of late To see with what speed you fly o're the Mediterranean-Sea wou'd make one think you absolutely Master of it There is not at present in all its extent one single Privateer in safety and if you go on at this rate I can't see how you 'd have Tunis and Algiers subsist We have here the Caesars the Pompeys and the Alexanders they all agree that you exactly follow their Conduct in your way of fighting But Caesar believes you to be superlatively Caesar There are none here ev'n to the Alaricks the Gensericks the Theodoricks and all the other Conquerors in icks who don't speak very well of this Action and in Hell it self I know not whether you are acquainted with that Place there

Your most obliging Commands to me to write and should beg frequent Letters from Your Ladiship with all possible importunity and should by command from my Lucasia excuse her last Rudeness as she calls it in giving You account of her Honour for You under her own Hand but I must beg Your Pardon now and out-believing all I can say upon every one of these accounts for really Madam You cannot tell how to imagine any Person more to any one than I am MADAM Your Ladiship 's most faithful Servant And passionate Friend ORINDA June the 25th Priory of Cardigan Lucasia is most faithfully Your Servant I am very glad of Mr. Cowleys success and will concern my self so much as to thank your Ladiship for your endeavour in it TO THE Honourable BERENICE Dear MADAM I Have been so long silent that I profess I am now asham'd almost to beg your Pardon and were not Confidence in your Ladiship 's Goodness a greater Respect than the best Address in the World I should scarce believe my self capable of remission but when Your Ladiship shall know more fully than Papers can express how much and how many ways I have suffered you will rather wonder that I write at all than that I have not written in a Week when You shall hear that my Dear Lucasia by a strange unfortunate Sickness of her Mother's has been kept from me for three Weeks logger than I expected and is not yet come I have had some difficulty to live and truly Madam so I have and more difficulty to be silent to You but that in earnest my disorder was too great to write Dear Madam pardon and pity me and to express that You do both be pleas'd to hasten hither where I shall pour all my Trouble into your Bosom and receive thence all that consolation which I never in my life more needed than I now do You see Madam my presumption or rather Distraction to leap from Confessions into Petitions and those for advantages so much above my merit But what is that that the dear great Berenice can deny her faithful Orinda And what is it that Orinda would not do or suffer to obtain that sweet and desired Converse she now begs of You I am confident my Lucasia will suddenly be here to thank You for Your Charity which You will by coming express to me and the Obligation You will put upon her by it both which shall be equally and constantly acknowledged if You will please to hasten it by Your faithfully affectionate Friend and humble Servant ORINDA Nov. 2. 1658. TO THE Honourable BERENICE I Must confess my self extreamly troubled to miss a Letter from your Ladiship in a whole fortnight but I must beg You to believe your Silence did not occasion mine for my Ambition to converse with You and advantage in being allow'd it is too great for me to decline any opportunity which I can improve to obtain so much happiness But really the Box of Gloves and Ribbons miss'd a conveniency of going and a Letter that attended them partakd in the same misfortune and by this time and some days before it I hope they have reach'd You for they were sent away above a Week ago and if so all that I can tell You of my Desire to see Your Ladiship will be repetition for I had with as much earnestness as I was capable of begg'd it then and yet have so much of me Beggar in me that I must redouble that importunity now and tell you That I gasp for You with an impatience that is not to be imagin'd by any Soul wound up to a less concern in Friendship than Yours is and therefore I cannot hope to make others sensible of my vast desires to enjoy You but I can safely appeal to Your own illustrious Heart where I am sure of a Court of Equity to relieve me in all the complaints and supplications my Friendship can put up Madam I am assured You love me and that being once granted 't is out of dispute that your Love must have nobler circumstances than mine but because the greatness and reality of it must be always disputed with You by me there must of necessity remain the obligingness of Your Love to weigh down the Ballance and give You that advantage over me in Friendship which You unquestionably have in all things else and if this reasoning be true as sure there are all Sciences in Friendship and then Logick cannot be excluded I have argued my self into handsom necessity of being eternally on the receiving hand but let me qualifie that seeming meanness by assuring You that even that is the greatest testimony of my esteem for Your Ladiship that ever I can give for I have a natural Pride that I cannot much repent of which makes me very unwilling to be oblig'd and more curious from whom I receive kindnesses than where I confer them so that being contented to be perpetually in Your debt is the greatest Confession I can make of the Empire You have over me and really that Priviledge is the last which I can submit to part withal to be just done in Acts of Friendship and that I do not only yield You in all my Life past but can beg to have it continued by Your doing me the greatest favour that ever I receiv'd from You by restoring me my dear and honoured Berenice This Madam is but one Action but like the Summ of an Account it contains the Value of all the rest and will so oblige and refresh me that I cannot express the satisfaction I shall receive in it I humbly thank Your Ladiship for the assurance You have given me that You suddenly intend it and that You were pleas'd to be accountable to me for Your stay till Christmas which being now at hand I hope You will have neither Reason Importunity nor Inclinations to retard the Happiness You intend me Really Madam I shall and must expect it in these Holidays and a disappointment to me is the greatest of Miseries and then Madam I trust you will be convinc'd of this necessity there is of your Life and Health since Heaven it self appears so much concern'd in it as to restore it by a Miracle And truly had you been still in danger I should have look'd upon that as more ominous than the Blazing-star so much discours'd of but you are one of those extraordinary Blessings which are the Publick Concernments and are I trust reserv'd to be yet many Years an Example of Honour and Ornament to Religion Oh Madam I have abundance to tell you and ask you and if you will not hasten to hear it you will be almost as cruel as Arsaces but you will come and if you find any thing in this Letter that seems to question it impute it to the continual distrust of my own Merit which will not permit me easily to believe my self favoured Dear Madam if you think me too timerous confute me by the welcome Experiment of your

Company which really I perpetually long for and again beg as you love me and claim as you would have me believe it I am glad your Ladiship has pitch'd on a place so near me you shall be sufficiently persecuted with Orinda I know you will pardon me for not acquainting you with the News you heard from other hands when I tell you there is nothing of it true and the Town is now full of very different Discourse but I shall tell you more particularly when I have the honour to see you and till then cannot with conveniency do it I easily believe Dous factious but in those Disputes I think he discovers more Wit than Wisdom and your Ladiship knows they are inseparable I shall lose the Post if I do not now hasten to subscribe what I am always ready to make good that I am more than any one living Your Ladiship 's most faithful and most passionate Friend and Servant ORINDA Decemb. 30 1658. TO THE Honourable BERENICE WIth the greatest Joy and Confusion in the World I receiv'd Dear Madam your Ladiship 's most obliging Letter from Kew and thus far I am reconcil'd to my own Omissions that they have produc'd a Shame which serves me now to allay a Transport which had otherwise been excessive at the knowledge that I am to receive that notwithstanding all my Failings you can look upon me with so generous a Concern I could make many Apologies for my self and with truth tell you That I have ventured Papers to kiss your Ladiship 's Hand since I receiv'd one from it but really Madam I had rather owe my Restitution wholly to your Bounty than seem to have any pretence to it my self and I will therefore allow my self utterly unworthy of having any room in your Thoughts in that I have not perpetually begg'd it of you with that Assiduity as is suitable to so great and so valu'd a Blessing and I know that tho' a Sea has divided our Persons and many other Accidents made your Ladiships Residence uncertain to me yet I ought to have been restless in my Enquiries how to make my Approaches to you and all the Varieties and Wandrings and Troubles that I have undergone since I had the honour to see your Ladiship ought not to have distracted me one moment from the payment of that Devotion to you which if you please I will swear never to have been one jot lessen'd in my Heart as ill and as seldom as I have express'd it but now that my good Fortune has brought me once more so near your Ladiship I hope to redeem my Time by so constant and servent Addresses to you as shall both witness how unalterably I have ever lov'd and honour'd you and how extreamly glad I am still to be preserv'd in so noble and so priz'd a Heart as yours and that I may the sooner be secur'd of that and restor'd to your Converse I must beg your Ladiship to find some occasion that may bring you to London where I may cast my self at your Feet both in repentance of my own Faults and acknowledgment of your Goodness and assure you that neither Lucasia nor any other Person ever had the Will the Power or the Confidence to hinder the Justice of my most affectionate Service to your Ladiship and tho' you fright me with telling me how much you have considered me of late yet I will venture upon all the Severity that Reflection can produce and if it be as great as I may reasonably fear yet I will submit to it for the Expiation of my Failings and think my self sufficiently happy if after any Penance you will once more receive me into your Friendship and allow me to be that same Orinda whom with so much goodness you were once pleased to own as most faithfully yours and who have ever been and ever will be so And Dear dear Madam Your Ladiship 's most affectionate humble Servant and Friend K. PHILLIPS This was wrote but a Month before Orinda died To Mr. HERBERT I Receiv'd your two Letters against Hypocrisie and Love but I must tell you they have made me no Convert from Women and their Favourite for who like Simonides wou'd give nine scandalous Origins to Womankind for one good one meerly because the Follies and Vices of that Sex deserve it and yet hope ever to make your Account of them Or who with Petronius Arbiter would tell the Lawyers Quid faciunt Leges ubi sola pecunia regnat Aut ubi paupertas vincere nulla potest Ipsi qui Cynica traducunt tempora cena Nonnunquam nummis vendere verba solent Ergo judicium nihil est nisi publica Merces Atque eques in cause qui sedet empt a probat Thus English'd by Mr. Barnaby Laws bear the Name but Money has the Power The cause is bad when e'er the Client 's Poor Those strict-liv'd Men that seem above our World Are oft too modest to resist our Gold So Judgment like our other Wares is sold And the Grave Knight that nods upon the Laws Wak'd by a Fee Hems and approves the Cause That the Bar is but a Market for the Sale of Right and that the Judge sits there only to confirm what the Bribe had secur'd before and yet hope ever to escape when you come into their Hands Or what Man that has his Interest before his Eyes wou'd tell this dangerous Truth That Priests of all Religions are the same No no Plain-dealing must be lest to Manly and confin'd to the Theatre and permit Hypocrisie and Nonsence to prevail with those pretty Amusements Women that like their own Pleasure too well to be fond of Sincerity You declaim against Love on the usual Topicks and have scarce any thing new to be answer'd by me their profess'd Advocate if by Repentance you mean the Pain that accompanies Love all other Pleasures are mixt with that as well as Love as Cicero observes in his second Book de Oratore Omnibus rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est In all things where the greatest Pleasures are found there borders a satiety and uneasie pain And Catullus Non est dea nescia nostri quae dulcem curis miscet amaritiem Nor am I unknown to that bright Goddess who with my Cares mingles a sweet pleasing Bitter But I take this Pain in Love to proceed from the imperfection of our Union with the Object belov'd for the Mind forms a thousand entrancing Idea's but the Body is not capable of coming up to that satisfaction the Mind proposes but this Pain is in all other Pleasures that we have none of which afford that fulness of Pleasure as Love which bears some proportion to the vehemence of our Desires Speak therefore no more against Love as you hope to die in the Arms of Sylvia or not perish wretchedly in the Death of a Pumpkin I am Your Friend c. LETTERS BY Mr. THO. BROWN To C. G. Esq in Covent Garden MAY I be forced to turn

with a Swanskin Wastcoat That is if you must needs at this Age make Love to shew your Vigour take care to provide store of Comforters to support your Back The Answer WEll but heark you Friend Harry And do you think now that forty Years if a Man shou'd ever come to it is as fumbling a doting Age in Love as Dryden says it is in Poetry Why then what will become of Thee who hast made such wicked Anticipations upon thy Nature's Revenue that thou art utterly non-solvent to any Matrimonial Expectations Thou that in thy Post-haste of Town-Riot and Excess overleapest all the Measures of Time and art got to be Fifty in Constitution before thy Age writes Thirty Enjoy thy acquir'd Jubilee according to thy wonted Course but be assur'd no Body will ever be able to enjoy thee The Woman-Prodigals feed upon Husks when they have any thing to do with thee thou empty'd raky dry Bones My Rheumatical Person as such will be allow'd some Moisture and Gray Hairs only tell you the Sap is gone down to the Root where it shou'd be and from whence thine has been long since exhausted into every Strumpets Cavern about the Suburbs confound your Widows and put your own Farthing Candle lighted at both Ends under one of their Bushels if you please I find I have Prowess enough for the best Maidenhead in Town and resolve to Attempt nothing under that Honourable Difficulty And so much for the Women To his Honour'd Friend Doctor BAYNARD at the Bath My Dear DOCTOR I Have not writ to you these two Months for which I expect to be severely reprimanded by you when you come to Town And yet why shou'd you wonder at such a poor Fellow as I am for being backward in my Payments if you consider 't is the Case of Lombard-street nay of the Bank and the Exchequer it self you see I support my self by very honourable Examples at this present melancholy juncture when with a little alteration of Mr. Cowley's Words a Man may truly say Nothing of Ready Cash is found But an Eternal Tick goes round However to make you some amends for so long a Delay I come to visit you now like Noah's Dove with an Olive-branch in my Mouth that is in plain English I bring you news of a Peace of a firm a lasting and a general Peace for after this merry rate our Coffee-house Politicians talk and pray do but consider if it were only for the Pleasure of such an Amusement what will be the happy Effect of it In the first place this Peace will soon beget good store of Money the want of which though we are sinful enough in all Conscience is yet the most Crying Sin of the Nation and this Money will naturally end in a great deal of Riot and Intemperance and Intemperance will beget a jolly Race of brave Diseases with new Names and Titles and then My dear Doctor you Physicians will have a Blessed Time on 't As for the Lawyers who were it not for two or three Noble Peers some of their Never-failing Clergy-Friends a few well-dispos'd Widows and stirring Sollicitors that keep up the Primitive Discipline of Westminster-hall wou'd perfectly forget the Use of their Lungs they too will see glorious Days again I was told a Melancholy Story t'other Day of two hopeful young Attorneys who upon the general Decay of their Profession were glad to turn Presbyterian Divines and that you 'll say is a damn'd Time indeed when Lawyers are forc'd to turn Peace-makers But as the World grows richer People will recover by degrees out of this State of Laziness Law Suits will multiply and Discord make as splendid a Figure in the Hall as ever Head-strong Squires will Rebel against their Lady Mothers and the Church no longer connive at the abominable Sacrilege of Tythe-Pigs and Eggs converted to Lay Uses And then as for the honest Good-fellows of the Town whose Souls have mourn'd in Secret ever since the unrighteous Abdication of Claret how will they rejoyce to see their old Friend sold at Twelve-pence a Quart again What matter of Joy will it be to his Majesty's Liege-People that they can get drunk with half the Cost and consequently with half the Repentance next Morning This will in a particular manner revive the drooping Spirits of the City Sots for nothing goes so much against a true Cheapside Conscience as an expensive Sin As times go now a younger Brother can hardly peep into a Tavern without entailing a Week's Sobriety upon himself which considering what Occasion there may be to drink away the Publick and Private Calamities is a sad Mortification Wine indeed is grown a sullen Mistress that will only be enjoy'd by Men of some Fortune and not by them neither but upon Solemn Days so that if these wicked Taxes continue Canary it self tho' a Confederate of ours is like to meet the Fate of condemn'd Criminals to return to the dismal Place from whence it came an Apothecary's Shop and to be distributed about by discreet Nurses in the Primitive sneaking Gill. 'T is true the Parliament as it became those to whom the People had delegated their Power thought to obviate these grievances by the Six-penny Act and laying a Five hundred Pound Fine upon Cellar Adultery but the Vintners an impudent Generation broke through these Laws as easily as if they had been Senators themselves nay had the Boldness to raise new Exactions upon the Subject This obliged one half of the Town at least to come down a Story lower and take up with dull English Manufacture so that half our Wit lies buried in execrable Flip or fulsome Nottingham To this may be ascribed all those Phlegmatick Sickly Compositions that have loaded of late both the Theatres most of which puny Butter-prints like Children begot by Pockey Parents were scarce able to endure the Christening and others with mighty pains and difficulty lived just long enough a Methuselah's Age to be Crown'd with Damnation on the third Day But when Money circulates merrily and Claret is to be had at the old Price a new Spirit will appear abroad Wit and Mirth will shake off their Fetters and Parnassus that has made such heavy returns of late Years will trade considerably It would be too tedious to reckon up all the other Advantages that the Kingdom will receive by this joyful Turn of the Scene but there are some behind which I must not omit because the Publick is so nearly concern'd in them We have a World of Married Men now that to save Charges take St. Paul's Advice in the Literal Sence and having Wives live as if they had none at all and so defraud both them and the Government but upon the happy Arrival of Peace they 'll vigorously set their Hands to the Plough again and the Stale Batchelors too will find Encouragement to marry and leave behind them a pious Race of Fools that within these Twenty Years will be ripe to be knock'd in the Head

another nature to communicate to you which I am confident will highly please a Gentleman of your Curiosity Dr. Connor of the College of Physicians and Fellow of the Royal Society hath now publish'd in Latin his Evangelium Medici seu Medicina Mystica de Suspensis Naturae Legibus sive de Miraculis He designs in this Book to shew by the Principles of Reason and Physick as likewise by Chymistry and Anatomy that the Natural State of any Body can never be so much over-turn'd or the Scituation of its parts so extreamly alter'd but it may be conceiv'd in our Mind He treats of Organical Bodies and the Human in particular But because some Persons who never gave themselves the Trouble to be fully informed of what he means have been pleas'd to censure his Undertaking as very Extravagant I have his leave to lay open his Tenets before you who are own'd by all that know you to be so great a Master in all parts of Learning and chiefly the Mathematical Now the chief Heads of the Matters that he treats of are as follows I. Of the Nature of a Body particularly an Organical one where the Structure and Natural State of the Human Body is explain'd II. How many ways the Natural State of the Human Body is said to have been Supernaturally alter'd III. Of the Laws of Motion and of the three different Suspensions of the same in order to explain all Miracles IV. How it can be conceiv'd that Water can be changed into Wine V. How it can be conceiv'd that a Human Body can be Invulnerable Immortal and can live for ever without Meat as after the Resurrection VI. How a Human Body can be conceived to be in a Fire without burning VII How we can conceive that an Army can pass through the Sea without drowning or walk upon the Water without Sinking VIII How it can be conceived that a Man can have a Bloody Sweat IX Of the different ways a Human Body can come into the World where is given an Account of its Generation by Concourse of Man and Woman X. How we can conceive a Human Body can be form'd of a Woman without a Man as Christ ' s. XI How to conceive a Human Body to be made without Man or Woman as Adam ' s. XII How to conceive a Human Body dead some Ages since to be brought to Life again as in the Resurrection XIII How many ways it cannot be conceiv'd that a Human Body can he Intire and Alive in two places at the same time XIV Of the Natural State of the Soul and its Influence upon the Body XV. Of the Supernatural or Miraculous State of the Soul united to the Body The Doctor desires and I 'm sure you 'll own 't is a very reasonable Request that Gentlemen wou'd be pleas'd to suspend their Judgments till they see his Reasons which he will ingenuously submit without any Presumption on his side to their better Undestanding He is the more encouraged to publish his Thoughts about these Matters because some of his Friends to whom he has communicated his Reasons have told him That none but such as will not rightly understand him and People of that Complexion are never to be convinc'd cou'd deny what he maintains because his Reasons are not grounded upon any Metaphysical Abstract or Hypothetical Notions but entirely upon the visible Structure of the Humane Body When your Affairs will permit you to come to London you and I will take an Opportunity to wait upon the Doctor who I know will give you what farther Satisfaction you can desire And now Mr. Raphson I hope you have finish'd in your Country Retirement your Treatise de Spatio Infinito Reali which the Learn'd World has so long expected from your Hands All your Friends here earnestly long to see you in Town and particularly my self who am Your most Obliged Friend and Servant T. BROWN TWO LETTERS BY CAPT. AYLOFFE To the Lord North and Grey My LORD YOU seem to wonder what shou'd be the reason that Men in Matters of Gallantry generally have incurr'd the Censure of Inconstancy when Women prove Faithful even to an Inconveniency One reason I believe is that we hate to be long confin'd and their Conversation soon palls tho' what may be assign'd with greater plausibleness I think is that those very Favours a Woman grants to her Lover increase and continue her Affection but withal lessen his Mens Passion almost always extinguish with Possession and what is the Parent of a Woman's Tenderness is the Paricide of ours We seldom adore longer than we desire and what we aim at most can be conferr'd but once In our Sex there is not that fatal Distinction but as a Virgin after yielding has dispossess'd her self of that Jewel which every one was willing to have purchas'd and only courted her for I believe the Demonstrations of Love from Women are more real than ours there being too frequently more of Vanity than Verity more of Study than Affection in our Pretences But it 's no small wound in a Woman's Heart that constrains her to speak and I really am of Opinion that she can hardly love more violently who confesses she loves at all A word sometimes drops from their Mouths which as it was undesign'd gives a clearer Evidence of a growing Inclination than all the Elaborate Actions and Affected Languishings the greatest part of Gallants put in practice A Lovely Face is certainly the most agreeable Object our Eyes can behold and the very Sound of the Voice of one we dearly love is beyond the softest Harmony Yet by I know not what Fate I have seen the Juncture when both were without any effect and this more than once The Latitude I fancy which we take in our Addresses makes the Impression but feeble Variety of Objects distracts the Choice and we conserve our Liberty while we are pitching upon a Tyrant The Indulgence of one Woman who is not extreamly charming makes some sort of Reparation for the slighted Vows we vainly offer'd to a cruel Beauty Few Men are so much in Love as to be Proof against the continued Scorn of the most agreeable Phillis We ask to obtain not to be deny'd and that can find the same Satisfaction in every place will hardly be long confin'd to any one Not but that Women speaking generally are not so perfidious as Men and it is Injustice are well as Malice in us to treat 'em as we do They deserve really more than Policy will permit us to shew 'em they do Your Lordship 's humble Servant AYLOFFE To a Friend in the Country YOU have now at length left scouring the Watch and teizing the Exchange-women bid adieu to Bourdeaux and taken up with Barrel-ale You are all the Morning galloping after a Fox all the Evening in a smoaky Chimny-corner recounting whose Horse leap'd best was oftenest in with the Dogs and how readily Lightfoot hit the cooling Scent and reviv'd your drooping Spirits with a prospect