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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

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

News-monger for a wretched Subsistence and beat up fifty Coffee-houses every Morning to gather Scraps of Intelligence and fatherless Scandal or to Curse my self more emphatically may I live the restless Life of some gay younger Brother's starving Footman of the Temple who between his Master's Debts and Fornication visits once a Day half the Shop-keepers in Fleetstreet and half the Whores in Drury-lane if I am not as utterly weary of hunting after you any longer as ever Statesman was of serving the Publick when the Publick forgot to bribe his private Interest Shou'd I but set down how many tiresome Leagues I have travell'd how often I have shot all the City-gates cross'd Lincolns-inn Fields pass'd the two Tropicks of the Old and New Exchange and doubled the Cape of Covent-garden Church to see you I shou'd grow more voluminous than Coryat and you 'd fancy your self without doubt engag'd in Purchase's or Hackluyt's Itineraries As you are a Person of half Business and half Pleasure which the Wise say is the best Composition in the World I have consider'd you in your two Capacities and order'd my Visits accordingly Sometimes I call'd upon you betimes in a Morning when nothing was to be met in the Streets but grave Tradesmen stalking in their Slippers to the next Coffee-house Midnight-drunkards reeling home from the Rose industrious Harlots who had been earning a Penny over-Night tripping it on foot to their Lodgings Ragmen picking up Materials for Grubstreet in short nothing but Bailiffs Chimney-sweepers Cinder-women and other People of the same early Occupations and yet as my ill Stars contriv'd it you were still gone out before me At other times I have call'd at Four in Afternoon the Sober Hour when other discreet Gentlemen were but newly up and dressing to go to the Play but to as little purpose as in the Morning Then towards the Evening I have a hundred times examin'd the Pit and Boxes the Chocolate-houses the Taverns and all places of publick resort except a Church and there I confess I cou'd no more expect to meet you than a Right Beau of the last Paris Edition in the Bear-garden but still I fail'd of you every where tho' sometimes you ' scaped me as narrowly as a Quibble does some merry Statesmen I cou'd name to you Is it not strange thought I to my self that every paltry Astrologer about the Town by the help of a foolish Telescope should be able to have the Seven Planets at a Minute's warning nay and their very Attendants their Satellites too tho' some of them are so many hundred thousand Miles distant from us to know precisely when they go to Bed and what Rambles they take and yet that I with all my pains and application shou'd never take you in any of your Orbits who are so considerably nearer to me But for my part I believe a Man may sooner find out a true Key to the Revelations than discover your By-haunts and solve every Problem in Euclid much easier than your self With all Reverence be it said Your Ways are as hard to be traced as those of Heaven and the Dean of P who in his late History of Providence has explain'd all the several Phaenomena's of it but his own Conversions is the fittest Person I know of in the World to account for your Eclipses Some of your and my good Friends whom I need not mention to you have cross'd the German Ocean made the Tour of the Low-Countries seen the Elector of Bavaria and Prince Vaudemont and might if they pleas'd have got drunk with a dozen of German Princes in half the time I have been beating the Hoof up and down London to find out you So that at last after a World of mortifying Disappointments taking a Martial in my hands I happen'd to light upon an Epigram of his address'd to Decianus a very honest Gentleman it seems but one that was as hard to be met with as your self And this Epigram suiting my own case exactly I here send you a Paraphrase or Imitation of it call it which you please Ne valeam si non totis Deciane Diebus Lib. 2. Ep. 2. In some vile Hamlet let me live forgot Small-Beer my Portion and no Wine my lot To some worse Jilt in Church-Indentures bound Than ancient Job or modern Sh found And with more Aches visited and Ills Than fill up Salmon's Works or Tilburgh 's Bills If 't is not still the Burden of my Prayer The Day with you with you the Night to share But Sir and the Complaint you know is true Two damn'd long Miles there lye 'twixt me and you And these two Miles with little Calculation Make four by that I 've reach'd my Habitation You near Sage Will 's the Land of Mirth and Claret I live stow'd up in a White-chappel Garret Oft when I 've come so far your Hands to kiss Flatter'd with Thoughts of the succeeding Bliss I 'm told you 're gone to the Vexatious Hall Where with eternal Lungs the Lawyers bawl Or else stole out a Female Friend to see Or what 's as bad you 're not at Home for me Two Miles I 've at your Service and that 's civil But to trudge four and miss you is the Devil And now if you are not incurably lost to all sence of Humanity send me word where it is you pass your Evenings or in one of your beloved Catullus's Expressions Demonstres ubi sunt tuae tenebrae But if you think that too hard upon you for I wou'd not be thought to invade your Privacies appoint some common Meeting-place the Griffin or the Dog where with two or three more select Friends we may pass a few Hours over a Righteous Bottle of Claret As you ever hope that Heaven will be merciful or Sylvia true to you let this happy Night be some time this Week I am Your most obliged Servant T. BROWN London June 20. 1695 To the Perjur'd Mrs. THis Morning I receiv'd the News which knowing you to be a Woman I confess did not much startle me that is spight of all your Promises your Vows and Obligations nay and in spight of your Interest too which you Women so seldom sin against you had sacrificed my worthy Friend Mr. and are to be married next Week to that nauseous that insupportable that everlasting Beast Upon which I immediately repair'd to my Friend's Lodgings and because I knew but too well how nearly he had taken you into his Heart I carried him to that blessed Sanctuary of disappointed Lovers a Tavern the better to prepare him for the News of your Infidelity I plied him warmly with the Juice of the generous Grape and entertain'd him all the while with the most horrible Stories of your Sex that my malice cou'd suggest to me which Heaven be prais'd was fruitful enough upon this occasion for I don't believe I forgot one single Instance of Female Treachery from Mother Eve of wheedling Memory down to your Virtuous self At last when

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