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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

be the first as being more eminent than I I must expect to follow their Example in Suffering as I have been their Companion in Acting I am most in Amaze at the mistaken Informations that were sent to me by my Friends full of Expectations of Favours and Employments Who can think that they who imprison them would employ me or suffer me to live when they are put to death If I might live and be employ'd can it be expected that I should serve a Government that seeks such detestable Ways of Establishing it self Ah! no I have not learnt to make my own Peace by persecuting and betraying my Brethren more innocent and worthy than my self I must live by just Means and serve to just Ends or not at all after such a Manifestation of the Ways by which it is intended the King shall govern I should have renounced any Place of Favour into which the Kindness and Industry of my Friends might have advanc'd me when I found those that were better than I were only fit to be destroy'd I had formerly some Jealousies the fraudulent Proclamation for Indemnity increased the Imprisonment of those three Men and turning out of all the Officers of the Army contrary to Promise confirm'd me in my Resolutions not to return To conclude The Tide is not to be diverted nor the Oppressd deliverd but God in his time will have Mercy on His People he will save and defend them and avenge the Blood of those who shall now perish upon the Heads of those who in their Pride think nothing is able to oppose them Happy are those whom God shall make Instruments of his Justice in so Blessed a Work If I can live to see that Day I shall be ripe for the Grave and able to say with Joy Lord Now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace c. So Sir Arthur Haslerigg on Oliver's Death Farewel my Thoughts as to King and State depending upon their Actions No Man shall be a more faithful Servant to him than I if he make the Good and Prosperity of his People his Glory none more his Enemy if he doth the contrary To my particular Friends I shall be constant in all Occasions and to You A most affectionate Servant A. SIDNEY To Madam I Have News to tell You You got a new Subject Yesterday tho after all perhaps it is no more News to You than it would be to the Grand Seignior or the French King For You Madam either find or make Subjects where-ever You go It is impossible to see You without surrendring ones Heart to You and he that hears You talk and can still preserve his Liberty may for ought I know revive the Miracle of the Three Children in Daniel and call for a Chamlet Cloak to keep him warm in the midst of a Fiery Furnace But really Madam I am none of those Miracle-mongers I am true Flesh and Blood like the rest of my Sex and as I make no Scruple to own my Passion to You so You Madam without incurring the Danger of being questiond by the Parliament may pretend to all the Rights and Priviledges of a Conqueror My Comfort is that all Mankind sooner or later must wear you Chains for You have Beauty enough to engage the nicest Heart tho You had no Wit to set it off And You have so plentiful a share of the last that were You wholly destitute of the former as I have already found to my Cost You have but too much You could not fail of harming the most Insensible For my own part I confess my self an Admirer or if You please an Adorer of Your Beauty But I am a Slave a meer downright effectual Slave to Your Wit Your very Conversation is infinitely more delicious than the Fruition of any other Woman Thus my Charming Sovereign I here profess my self You devoted Vassal and Subject I promise You eternal Duty and Allegiance It is neither in my Power nor Will to depose You and I am sure it is not in Your Nature to affect Arbitrary Sway. Tho if you do Madam God knows I am a true Church of England-man I shall never rebel against you in Act or Thought but only have recourse to Prayers and Tears and still stick to my Passive Obedience Perhaps Madam you ll tell me I have talked more than comes to my share but being Incognito I assume the Liberty of a Masquerader and under that Protection think my self safe But alas did You know how I languish for You I dare swear my Charming Sylvia You would bestow some Pity upon AMYNTAS To Madam I Have never had the Happiness of Your conversation but once and then I found You so very charming that I have wore Your lovely Idea ever since in my Mind But it is not without the least Astonishment that I receiv'd the News of what befel You tother Day it still makes me tremble and leaves a dismal Impression behind it not easie to be imagin'd For Heaven's sake Madam what could urge You to so cruel a Resolution that might have prov'd irreparably fatal to Your self and matter of perpetual Affliction to Your Friends What Harm have I and a Thousand more of Your Adorers done You that You should so terribly revenge the supposed Infidelity of another upon them Or Why should You whom Beauty and Wit have put in a Capacity to subdue our whole Sex lay to Heart the Vnkindness of one Lover who may proceed to a new Election when You please If I had Vanity enough to aspire to be Your Privy-Counsellor I wou'd e'en advise You to bury the Remembrance of what is past and either to punish all Mankind as You easily may tho I need not instruct You how or else to chuse some happy Favourite out of the Throng of Your Servants and shower Your Favours upon him If Sincerity and Truth may bid for the Purchase of Your Heart I can help You to one that thoroughly understands Your Worth and accordingly values it that would be damn'd before he would abandon You for the greatest Princess in the Vniverse that would chearfully die for Your sake and yet only lives out of Hopes that he may one Day merit Your Esteem by his Services I fancy Madam You now demand of me where this strange Monster of Fidelity is to be sound Know then that he lives within less than a hundred Miles of Red-Lyon-Square and that his Name is Oh! pardon the Insolence of this Discovery his Name is AMYNTAS There is another Letter that accompanies this and was written a Week ago which I had not Courage enough to lay at Your Feet till now LOVE-LETTERS BY Mr. THOMAS OTWAY To Madam My TYRANT I Endure too much Torment to be silent and have endur'd it too long not to make the severest Complaint I love You I dote on You Desire makes me mad when I am near You and Despair when I am from You. Sure of all Miseries Love is to me the most intolerable it haunts me

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

matter I know another that has a fine Stable of Horses and a third that values himself upon his great Library yet one of them rides out but once in half a Year and t'other never looked on a Book in all his Life Admit your City-Friend loved you never so well yet he 's old which is an incurable Fault and looking upon you as his Purchase comes with a Secure that is with a Sickly Appetite while a vigorous Lover such as I am that has honourable Difficulties to pass through that knows he 's upon his good Behaviour and has nothing but his Merits to recommend him is nothing but Rapture and Extasie and Devotion But oh your are afraid it will come to Old Limberham's Ears that is to say You apprehend I shall make Discoveries for 't is not to be supposed you 'll turn Evidence against your self Prithee Child don't let that frighten you Not a bribed Parliament-man nor a drubb'd Beau nor a breaking Tradesman nay to give you the last satisfaction of my Secresie not a Parson that has committed Symony nor a forraging Author that has got a private Stealing-place shall be half so secret as you 'll find me upon this occasion I 'll always come the back-way to your Lodgings and that in the Evening with as much prudent religious Caution as a City Clergyman steals into a Tavern on Sundays and tho' it be a difficult Lesson for Flesh and Blood to practise yet to convince you Madam how much I value your Reputation above my own Pleasure I 'll leave you a Mornings before Scandal it self is up that is before any of the censorious Neighbourhood are stirring If I see you in the Street or at the Play-house I 'll know you no more than two Sharpers that design to bob a Country-fellow with a dropp'd Guinea know one another when they meet in the Tavern I 'll not discover my Engagements with you by any Overt-acts of my Loyalty such as Drinking your Health in all Companies and Writing your Name in every Glass-window nor yet betray you by too superstitious a Care to conceal the Intrigue Thus Madam I have answered all the Scruples that I thought cou'd affect you upon this matter But to satisfie your Conscience farther I am resolv'd to visit you to Morrow-night therefore muster up all the Objections you can and place them in the most formidable posture that I may have the Honour to attack and defeat them If you don 't wilfully oppose your own Happiness I 'll convince you before we part that there 's a greater Difference than you imagine between your Man of Phlegm and such a Lover as MIRTILLO To W. KNIGHT Esq at Rascomb in Berkshire Dear SIR YOu desir'd me when I saw you last to send you the News of the Town and to let you see how punctually I have obey'd your Orders scarce a Day has pass'd over my Head since but I have been enquiring after the freshest Ghost and Apparitions for you Rapes of the newest date dexterous Murders and fantastical Marriages Country Steeples demolish'd by Lightning Whales stranded in the North c. a large Account of all which you may expect when they come in my way but at present be pleas'd to take up with the following News On Tuesday last that walking piece of English Mummy that Sybil incarnate I mean my Lady Courtall who has not had one Tooth in her Head since King Charles's Restauration and looks old enough to pass for Venerable Bede's Grandmother was Married Cou'd you believe it To young Lisanio You must know I did my self the Honour now and then to make her Ladiship a Visit and found that of late she affected a youthful Air and spruc'd up her Carcase most egregiously but the Duce take me if I suspected her of any lewd Inclinations to Marry I thought that Devil had been laid in her long ago To make my Visits more acceptable I us'd to compliment her upon her Charms and all that where by the by my dear Friend you may take it for a general Rule that the Uglier your Women are and the Duller your Men they are the easier to be flatter'd into a Belief of their Beauty and Wit I told her she was resolv'd to act Sampson's part and kill more People in the last Scene of her Life than other Ladies cou'd pretend to do in the whole five Acts of theirs By a certain awkard Joy that display'd it self all over her Countenance and glow'd even through her Cheeks of Buff I cou'd perceive this nauseous Incense was not unwelcome to her 'T is true she had the Grace to deny all this and told me I rallied her but deny'd it so as intriguing Sparks deny they have lain with fine Women and some Wou'd-be Poets deny their Writing of Fatherless Lampoons when they have a mind at the same time to be thought they did what they coldly disown I cou'd not but observe upon this and several other occasions how merciful Heaven has been to us in weaving Self-love so closely into our Natures in order to make Life palatable The Divines indeed arraign it as a Sin that is they wou'd make us more miserable than Providence ever design'd us tho' were it not for this very Sin not one of them in a hundred wou'd have Courage enough to talk in publick For my part I always consider'd it as the best Friend and greatest Blessing we have without which all those merry Farces that now serve to entertain us wou'd be lost and the World it self be as silent and melancholly a sa Spanish Court 'T is this blessed Vanity that makes all Mankind easie and chearful at home for no Body's a Fool or a Rascal or Vgly or Impertinent in his own Eyes that makes a Miser think himself Wise an affected Coxcomb think himself a Wit a thriving gay Villain think himself a Politician and in short that makes my Lady Court-all believe her self But to quit this Digression and pursue my Story On the Day abovemention'd this dry Puss of Quality that had such a furious longing to be Matrimonially larded stole out of her House with two of her Grave Companions and never did a Country Justice's Oatmeal-eating Daughter of fifteen use more Discretion to be undone with her Father's Clarke or Chaplain Gray's Inn Walks was the place of Rendezvous where after they had taken a few Turns Lisanio and she walked separately to the Chappel and the Holy Magician Conjur'd them into the Circle From thence they drove home in several Coaches Din'd together but not a Syllable of the Wickedness they had committed till towards Night because then I suppose their Blushes were best concealed they thought fit to own all Upon this some few Friends were invited and the Fiddles struck up and my Old Lady frisk'd about most notably but was as much overtopp'd and put out of Countenance by the Young Women at Somerset-house with the New Buildings Not to enter into a Detail of all that happen'd

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-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