a Glass of Wine with you but that I have extraordinary business with yonder Gentleman at present But pray meet me to morrow about three of the Clock at the With all my heart replyed Seignior Christiano and then took his leave of him Turning again to me That Jesuit said he entertain'd me very civilly at Rome but I don't like his company in London Why Sir said I is he a Jesuit He is so replyed he I remember him a great deal better than Oates does Don John That those Sir said I who receive moneys from the French Agents should exclaim against French Pensioners that a Jesuit should cry down Popery is no more news than that an old Bawd should inveigh against Fornication that a Libertine should struggle for Toleration may be because in the height of his Politicks he may fancy that the letting loose the Lyons in the Tower or three or four thousand Bears would most properly conduce to the good of the Subject But I wonder that the people of England should be cajol'd into Fears Discontents and Mutinies by such an unreasonable and ridiculous distinction as of the Court and Countrey Party For have the Courtiers no Estates No Interests in the Countrey Have not they Liberties and Priviledges appertaining to them as well as the rest of His Majesties Subjects Are they not as fit for His service who have been abroad and have learn'd the experience in Foreign Countreys and know their Designs and Policies are they not as fit for his Great Council as if they had only strutted after a Pack of Dogs or walkt up to the knees in Puppy in their own Grounds all the dayes of their lives I do not speak this to reproach any Countrey Gentleman No Nation in the World has more or better qualified for all Honourable employments than this of England has in every County but I speak it against those who object against any Gentleman though every way well qualified only because forsooth he is a Courtier as if a man could not be a Good Subject and a Good Patriot at the same time and in the same place Why any body should fear that they should be instrumental to the Bringing in of Popery I cannot tell But I am sure a man may observe more Devotion in the Kings and Dukes Chappels than in any other Churches or Chappels in England But of all the men living they have the most reason to be against Tyranny if there was the least reason to fear it For search the Histories of all Ages and you will find that under Tyrants none of the Subjects were more in danger than those who immediately attended upon their persons What a miserable condition were the very Cronies of Alexander Nero Domitian c. in The Officers of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio at this day though fine and gay are the veriest Slaves of the Turkish Empire and a Bustling English Countrey Fellow would sooner chuse to dangle on a Gibbet than to stand sixt and starcht in such a posture of silence and mortification as they are forc'd to do many hours together Why then is this unreasonable this silly distinction 'T is they replyed Seignior Christiano who make a difference between the King and his People that make this distinction they who would destroy the King and his Government alwayes begin with his Council and his Court. This is but the repeated practice of these restless and Diabolical Politicians and according to the methods and growth of the late Rebellion you may trace them in all the waies that directly led to the last Hellish Conspiracy No Vermin that were ever run down ever left such a stink behind them all the way for these twenty years we have had the second part to the same tune of Lying Libelling Reviling Swearing Forswearing Caballing Canting and Covenanting So that I do not wonder that you in your * Visions of Thorough Reformation p. 230. last Book that was Printed before the discovery of their Hellish Conspiracy should so positively foretel their Doom who had so diligently observ'd their practices I do not reply'd I pretend to be either a Prophet or a Poet but when his Majesties Declaration was read I was startled to find them playing the same Game over again so exactly that a Body can scarce distinguish their Conspiracy in 83. from their Villany in 62. which they then confest and for which some of them were executed for the ends and design were the same and that too was managed by a Council of Six as I have observ'd in that Book I alwaies fear'd that they would grow desperate and certainly concluded that they would never be quiet until they had again either ruin'd the Government or themselves Yet the particulars which the King has declar'd to all his Loving Subjects and which they themselves have confest and acknowledged more waies than one are so astonishing that I tremble to think that ever it should enter into the hearts of men to destroy so excellent a Prince so wise and just a Government by such Barbarous and bloody means as would make the most wretched slaves afraid to think of Attempting against the most cruel and Tyrannical Moors and Infidels and most of all amazing is it to consider that men of Honour Estates and good Education as they say they had should ingage themselves in so unnatural and barbarous a Conspiracy for Gods sake how shall we wipe off that huge scandal that is brought upon the English Nation before all mankind upon Christianity before Infidels and Vnbelievers upon the Reformation before Papists by this unnatural and cruel Treachery There 's a question indeed reply'd Seignior Christiano for a Politician to ask I can carry you to several people in this Town that can do it in the twinkling of a Cows Thumb How is that said I Why the Fanaticks lay it upon the Church of England they say that most of the Conspirators were Conformists Well! they confess then said I that there was a Conspiracy but I say that they that were ingag'd in it were no more of the Church of England than those who cut off King Charles his Head are of the Church Triumphant He that rebels against his Sovereign is no more a Member of the Church of England let him go to Church as oft as he will than those Jews were of Christs Mystical Body who oft came to him and throng'd him and yet at last denied and Crucified him But Sir that I may by any means be somewhat instrumental to the preventing men from running into such dangerous Courses for the future Pray let me know some of those Principles by the which they at first are insensibly wheedled and drawn into these fatal practices for the present The truth is Sir reply'd he the first and last Movers to these Enormities let them pretend what they will are the Devils of Pride Ambition and Covetousness But because 't is the trick of such Politicians to puzzle the understandings of men
Muezims and Dervices a Bar and half Pray Sir one word more of Comfort I am sure you know that every mans fate is written in his forehead Why truly Sir reply'd He if a mans time be come he must die or in short if a mans time be come he must be gone and never be troubled for the loss of your men perhaps in all your Turkish Empire you cannot find a quarter so many who are predestinated to be kill'd before Vienna therefore once more blow up the Trumpet in Zion go out once more to fight the Lords Battels and if any of those Janizaries die that had a hand in the death of the Grand Seignior we will be mindful to Ibrahim the 2â— atone for them and if they be not dispos'd for your Paradise we will take care to convey them to their fellow-labourers in our Saints Everlasting Rest The Vizier seem'd very well pleased for he went away smiling and besides a messenger told him that his Successor the Grand Vizier who was so unsuccessfull in the last Campaign was strangled by the Aga of the Janizaries at Belgrade Which gave him great content He was no sooner got out of sight but the Jesuit return'd again and finding the Earl all alone My Lord said He truly we laid a dangerous train which might have blowen us all up the Metaphor was carried on a little too far for had the Turks taken Vienna we had lost a good Colledge there and no body knows how far they would have ravag'd further 'T is true We are bound by the * Hospin Laws of our Founder to promote the glory of our Order though with the Ruine of Christendom but we must not do it by making all the world Turky therefore our Brethren the Presbyterians and Independents were too too Zealous to wish the success of their Arms before that City they push on all their business with too much violence and lay themselves too open to the World and this is the reason that all their designs miscarry What a yelping and bawling did they keep when they pursued us from one hole to another when as they might to their own knowledge have taken us napping in their own Conventicles but they to gain their ends by running us down before the people have so overshot themselves that they have broke their own Necks For our part we can spare a few men as well as the Turk and don 't so much value that they over-reacht us as that they betray'd themselves the discovery of their conspiracy hath confounded all our Measures for a whole Age and we may gape as long for a Fifth-Monarchy as the Jews for their Messias if they do not carry things more prudently for the future Let all things at home therefore be husht and forgotten and 't will be enough that the Turks keep the Game a going though they do not win all In the mean time we may so play Ours as to establish Christs Throne in due season to the utter confusion of all Turkish Popish Arbitrary Tyrannical Monarchy and this is the Business I am about and so farewell As soon as he was gone And fare Thee well thou pool and Buffoon reply'd the Earl Do you talk to me of Establishing Establishing and of Fixing a Fifth-Monarchy you may as well perswade me to keep the fifth Commandment I hate all Fixings and Settlements Were I confined to any fixt posture but a few days the corroding humours in my Blood would eat more holes in my Carcass than there is in a Nutmeg-grater and I should wear more Taps than a Porcupine has quills I must fan my blood with perpetual motion or I die I die with restless grief as the old man of Verona whom the thoughts of a Confinement to those bounds He never in his life had past kill'd as dead as a door-nail I cannot indure the thoughts of Constancy to any one thing therefore tell me not of an Established Government nor of a Church upon a Rock my head builds Castles in the Air my very Soul has the Nettle-springes I cannot indure any repose my whole life was continual Stratagem and indefatigable Ambuscado I delighted in cabals nothing like Midnight Castles secret Conspiracies and tragical Changes and to have my part of skulking from one danger to another with the letchery of Just escaping what I most justly deserved I hate all Religions especially that which pretends to be unchangeable and can be so little while a Friend to any man that were there none other now in the world but Antony Ashley Cooper Antony would fall out with Ashley and Ashley with Antony and Cooper with Both and there would be Civil Wars in my self for evermore It was the pleasantest thing in the world to see with what delight he crept away and stole out of the Company and indeed we were glad to be rid of him for we were as weary of him as he was of himself He was no sooner gone but you see Sir said my friend what the case of Mankind is at this day you have heard the whole mysterie of iniquity unravel'd by the bustling Gentleman of the Age and you may easily conclude what the fatal consequences of such Clashing and malignant Combinations may be you may see in the very Vrinal of the aforesaid Earl the Complexions of all the Fanaticks of England and know the reasons that they should have such projects and whimsies in their Pates they have all of them a swinging dose of adust Choler in their blood which is the reason their heads are so full of wild Capricio's and politick Systems so that the supreme Magistrate under whom they live hath as much need of a Regiment of Physicians as of Dragoons of a Magazin of Hellebore as of Gunpowder and if all the Enthusiastick knaves and fools were to be confin'd 't is a question whether Bedlam or Newgate should be the more populous The Rabbins hold that this feral Venom was infused by the sting of the Serpent into the forbidden fruit and since has tainted more or less all Humane Race Therefore where it prevails above the reason of the man it turns him into a Devil and produces all those disinal effects that ruffle the World it makes men Traiterous Heady Highminded Disobedient c. It makes them unquiet uneasie fills them with strange desires and stranger imaginations and devices to accomplish them no mad or desperate Lover ever suggested to himself such distant fetches to obatin his ends hence our Politick Illuminati utterly despairing of attempting any thing at home since the discovery of their late villainous Conspiracy have the folly to imagin and the wickedness to desire that the Mahometans may so alarm and disorder all Christendom that the King who to a Miracle hath kept us in peace may upon some account or other as might thence happen be engag'd in such Circumstances of a War as to give them fresh opportunities of a Rebellion I suppose Sir said I this
Evidence in a Controversie betwixt a Turk and a Christian And that most of the Assembly of Divines came from the Vniversities of Aleppo or Scanderoon for Mr. Ricaut tells us that the success of the Mahometan Arms produces an Argument for the Confirmation of their Faith that whatsoever prospers has God the Author for it and by how much the more successfull have been their Wars by so much the more hath God been an owner of their Cause Now do but examine the tenth proposition condemned at Oxford 1683. Possession and strength give a right to govern and success in a Cause or Enterprise proclaims it to be lawful and just to pursue it is to comply with the will of God because it is to follow the Conduct of his Providence This is the Doctrine of Owen Baxter and Jenkins and of all the great sticklers for the good Did Cause but I think the Laws of England and the Arms of Germany and Poland have almost put it out of fashion But moreover they do so fully agree in their Sanguinary positions and Violent Practices that our Saints Militant propagate the Faith of the Gospel by the Doctrine of the Alcoran and are therefore the worst of all Christians by thus sympathising with Turks To qualifie a man to be a true Christian according to the Peace as well as the Purity of the Gospel We will take Grotius his Word and Rule for once in his Book de veritate Christianae Religionis page 400. His words are these Revocatur etiam eâdem Occasione ipsis in memoriam arma Christi Militibus assignata non esse qualibus Mahumetes nititur sed Spiritûs propria apta expugnandis Munitionibus quae se adversus Dei cognitionem erigunt pro scuto siduciam pro Lorica Justitiam c. They call to mind upon the same occasion that the Arms assigned to the Souldiers of Christ are not such as support Mahomet but such as properly belong to the Spirit being fitted to the pulling down of strong Holds that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God for a Shield Faith and for a Breast-plate Righteousness of Life On the contrary Sir said I the way of Catechising mankind with Ammunition and sanctifying the Nations with Powder and Shot is the avowed doctrine and practice of the Dissenters and to joyn with Turks rather than with Papists for such they call the men of the Church of England does not come by any new way of inspiration into the Pericranions of the Saints for Cartwright popt that notion into their heads long ago as Mr. * Novemb. 5. 1683. Pelling observes in his excellent Sermon preached before my Lord Mayor at Bow But shall they have the rewards of Saints shall they receive the Crown of Righteousness that wish siccess to the Arms of Infidels Oh Heavens to what an height of wickedness are they now arrived They who had need of a Turkish Veil to hide their Hypocrisie have now more need of one to hide their Villany if they had any Shame for that for which an Atheist would blush and yet they call themselves the Reform'd Christians What mortal Tongue can tell the sad consequences of the taking the Imperial City What Crowds of innocent people would have been massacred What abominable rapes committed What terrours and desolations would those Ravaging Barbarians have carried along with them like a flood What Rivers of Blood would they have sent before to the very German Ocean My very Heart trembles at the thoughts that any such imaginations should ever enter into their O Sir replyed He I perceive you are a Novice too in these Cases let me propose one thing to you What do you think of those persons that would have sacrific'd the Garrison of Tangier to the Fury of the Moors rather than have missed of their designs in England Considering indeed how much the wellfare of Christendom depended upon the protection of Vienna it was a diabolical thought to wish it in the hands of the Turks but considering withal how much the Reputation of England depended upon the preservation of the Garrison and People of Tangier it was no less dishonourable no less unchristian-like to abandon them to the Moors Pray Sir who did so said I They said he who refused to comply with his Majesties just demands when he so earnestly and so frequently mov'd them for Supplies for that Garrison at that time so much in danger Now let us weigh the Case the first was the Result of the flashy Politicks of the Zealous of the Land over a Pipe and a Pot in a Tavern or an Ale house but the latter was the deliberate determination of those who in particular stiled themselves the Patriots of their Country and were the most active of all the great Council of the Nation assembled in Parliament 't is true they were not many of them but they had got such a trick of starting Bugbears at that time that the Loyal the Wise and the Honest knew not which way to turn themselves You know said I that the Nation was then in great danger of the Papists at home But reply'd He the Spanish Pilgrims that so affrighted us it seems were driven out of Spain to the Coasts of Barbary and not visible in these parts Sir said I again was it not reported to be a Nest and Harbour for Papists They said He that can make a Turk a true Protestant can by inverting the Rule make a Church of England man a Papist when they please No no Sir they knew as well they were no Papists as that they themselves were no Christians if they be none who designed the Ruine of so good a King and of so Righteous a Government and had not his Majesty whose Goodness extends it self to all his Subjects as far as the Sun shines when He had more need of their Help at home taken care to preserve them at his own excessive Cost and Charges they must have been all lost But for a further touch of the piety of our true Protestant Numidians and to determine the point Consider that our own Countrymen are dearer to us by the Laws of Nature and Nations than Foreigners and consider that the Moors are the worst sort of Mahometans the very spawn of Incestuous Saracens and the most barbarous Mongrels of all mankind and therefore show me now if you can in the Histories of all the Commonwealths that have been since the world began such an Instance of unnatural Barbarity When did the Athenians Lacedemonians Romans or Carthaginians ever do the like how many emblems of Honour and Reward do we meet with in ancient Coins ob Cives servatos for the saving the lives of fellow Citizens sed haecest fides Punica this is treachery with a vengeance and not to be parallel'd by any but those Rebels who after they had destroyed their King and Master put the Moors to less trouble and sold their fellow Subjects to them for Slaves Well delenda est Carthago if
Sacred Name in a piece of Paper and do these Christians make nothing to blaspheme it upon so trivial an account Oh! Jesu if thou be God as the Christians say thou art as thou by the hands of Amurath the Second didst revenge the perfidious dealing of Ladislaus the Hungarian King and punish him for his Perjury so look upon these people that dishonour thy Name and take vengeance on them for their Blasphemy Then turning to us You are said he civil Persons and I heartily thank you for your goodness towards me but I 'll return to Turky and rather endure the meanest slavery of that place than the wickedness of this So away he went in great hast and fury putting me in mind of Hathny a Nobleman of the Indians who being told that the Spaniards went to Heaven renounc't his Baptism protesting that He would rather go to Hell with the unbaptiz'd than to live in Heaven with so cruel a people He was no sooner gone but we fell into the company of a Gentleman that was of the Reformed Church and born in Romania He had been throughly acquainted with all the Scruples and Controversies which the Rigid and Factious Calvinists and other Sectaries had raised in Bohemia Hungaria Misia and Transylvania and whilst He was in England had a full account of our Ecclesiastical Government given him to his full satisfaction and being withal a Person of good Learning and fine Conversation we were extremely glad to meet him but our first Respects were interrupted with the loud talk of two Clergymen one of them saying What a noise have we had this whole Age about a few insignificant Ceremonies my Living would be worth 40 l. per Annum more were it not for these Ceremonies 't is they make so many Dissenters they keep people from coming to Church Then your Father had an hard Bargain of it when He bought that Living for You replyed the other 't was well it was not known that it was actually void when He bought the Presentation What was that either to him or me replyed he again if there was any going to the Devil in the Case his little Atturney had his Fee for that Journey besides you know my Father is a Presbyterian and so he did not act contrary to his Conscience because He thinks it Lawful And to save my self I told him that if He let me know what it cost him that I would not take it for I would not break my Oaths for all the Preferments in England but a deuce take these Ceremonies I wonder at our Bishops and Governours that they should stickle so much for them for now the Plot is discovered they say they are willing to come to Church but for them You are troubled about Ceremonies said the other and I have as much reason to be concerned for the Substance for my part I can get no Preferment the Bishops are the most partial men in the World and where they take a fancy think no preferments too much whilst others may e'en lick their fingers and starve I have had a good mind to Johnsonize or Allsopize a long time But now the Plot is discovered as you say I am resolved to be a swinging Tory for the dissenting Preachers are quite broke How do you know that said he Why reply'd he a Tradesman in London said That he had about Fifty Pounds owing him by them and when he lately went to demand it he was told that they wondered that he should be so impudent as come for money in time of persecution Mr. Halicius for that was the Gentlemans name could no longer forbear them but turning to him that last spoke As for you Sir said he it signifies not a farthing whether you be of a Conventicle a Mosch a Synagogue or a Pagode for you are resolved to be of no Church until you see which way the Wind lyes by the Weather-cock upon the Steeple But for that Gentleman that is Instituted and Inducted into the Nine and Thirty Articles of the Church of England let me advise him when he parts with the Ceremonies ee'n to throw the small Tythes too into the bargain for I do assure him they will scarce be contented with the great ones at last If the experience of the late Plunderings and Sequestrations here in England will not convince him Dr. Basier can tell him what vexatious troubles and controversies they have from little beginnings raised in all the Eastern Provinces of Christendom and what a squabble they afterwards made about Episcopacy at Moras vaherheli in the year 1657. even whilst the Turks were knocking at the fore door and the Jesuits at the back Sir said I without going over the Water one would think that what King Charles the First foretold would befall the Trimmers in his dayes might forewarn those of our * See Pryn Repub. p. 16. Those now called Moderate Men they will then said he call Malignant and the inequality injustice and oppression they will then endure will too late discover to them to their cost that they have undone themselves with too much discretion and obtain'd nothing by their unjustifiable cautious compliance but to be destroyed at last But for those people who raise and object these scruples upon the account of their Tender Consciences it has been enough discovered wherein that Tenderness consists and 't is as manifest that they have no Conscience at all and they as little who comply with them I do verily from my heart believe that there are some in the world that make Objections and dispute against some Ceremonies and Forms of Prayer in the Liturgy wherein there are publick Devotions appointed for every day of the year Morning and Evening who do not once in a Month pray in private I am very plain I say I do believe it What signifies the Surplice to so black a Villain as Ferguson Why should such a Messenger of Satan as Oates scruple to pray for all that travel by Land or by Water Do you think the Ring in Matrimony any great Nusance to such an Hellish Cheat as Meed Or that they value the Sign of the Cross the Banner of the Obedient and Holy Jesus who are Rebellious Traytors at home and joyn with impure Infidels abroad Whether they were both convinc'd or asham'd I cannot tell but they march'd off and as they were going This I must say said Mr. Halicius in all the world where ever I come that there never was in any Church since the plantation of the Gospel more Pious Learned Ingenious and truly faithful Clergy-men than there are at this day in the Church of England and if these and all other lukewarm Trimmers were spued out of it it would be much better for the Body of it and for the Head too We were now walking still onward until in a shady solitary place we saw a Non-conformist Preacher fall in among a company of women who were very Rich in their Garb they seemed somewhat
piece of Policy very necessary to Rebellion reply'd Seignior Christiano it is forbidden by the Law of Moses by the Doctrine and example of our Saviour and his Apostles but our Politicians value no Laws of God or Man and knowing that if a Prince do not reign in the hearts of the People that they will be apt to forget those Laws too and lift up their hands against him have therefore spread about such swarms of Libels Invectives false reports unjust Aspersions and Reflections upon the King his Ministers his Councils his Affairs both by Sea and Land at home and abroad A man truly Sir said I should have a great care how he gives credit to some reports He had need as he tenders the Salvation of his Soul replyed Seignior Christiano have a care of hearing the least evil spoken of his Prince or of entertaining the least dishonourable thought concerning him lest he be insensibly wheedled into that disobedience which is the prevailing sin of this unnatural and perfidious Age. T is strange said I it should be the prevailing sin of this Age under so good a Prince ' T is so replyed he and it has too much prevail'd upon the pretences of doing honour to God But if they honour not the King whom they have seen how can they be said truly to honour God whom they have not seen they honour God by Rebellion just as they love their Brother by Sequestration But Sir so very prostigate are the loose fancies of some men that they suffer their Allegiance to flag by letting their thoughts sink into a mean opinion of their Sovereign because he is of the same Common Nature of the same Composition of flesh and blood with the rest of Mankind Not considering that though he be but a man by nature that He is as the Angel of God and a King by his grace By his grace I say who out of the Abundance of his Mercy is pleas'd to govern us by one who can have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way for that He himself also is compassed with infirmity Should the destroying Angel keep his residence amongst us with Armies of Locusts with the Nusances of Plagues and Pestilences and with whole troops of the Messingers of sudden death to execute the Sentence speedily upon the offenders should he awe us with flaming Lightnings and loud thunders we should say unto our King as the Israelites did to Moses Exod. 20. v. 19. speak thou with us and we will hear but let not God speak with us lest we die 'T is certain said I that the wickedness of a Prince can never justifie the rebellion of the People but 't is as certain that the most virtuous the most just the most Prudent Prince in the World can never utterly avoid the revilings of some or the murmurings of others But Honi soit qui mal y pense I am sure that what ever evil opinion any Subject has of his Sovereign ariseth from an heart much more evil from the complicated evils of discontent ambition pride false zeal or covetousness And what ever mean opinion others may at any time have arise from a wrong one Some are as Romantick in their Fancies as those Fables and Legends that speak of no Princes but what are born with Roses Crowns and Flowers on their Breasts Others again are as ridiculous in their relations of monstrous Excrescencies and deformities in the Bodies of those they account Tyrants the Jesuits reported that Queen Elizabeth had a great black Beard and others could not indure the thoughts of the Sovereignty being in a Woman Thus some Fantastical prejudices or other possess and corrupt the fancies of men that have not that due reverence and esteem for their Sovereign which they ought to have and upon as light occasions on the other hand are moved to the highest expressions even of extravagant Veneration and duty We now saw a tall young man walking all alone towards a thick and shady Grove but so discompos'd and so desperately melancholy he seem'd to be that we fear'd he had been going to lay violent hands on himself for he oft-times drew his Sword half way out of the Scabbard then putting it up again smote himself on the Breast then biting his lips and turning himself several times about we perceived that his eyes sparkled his visage was pale and being now near enough to him we could hear him say Perfidious dissembling treacherous and cruel Woman Woman did I say Viper Toad Serpent an Angels face but a Devils heart Syrens voice Crocodiles Tears Basilisks eyes I 'le rend her from my soul though I pluck my Heart-strings in pieces with her O Nature Why hast thou made such a Plague for us as Woman How came they by this fatal power over us Why should we love them Why should we obey them What! woman rule Damn'd tyrant Woman What! Harpies and Furies set on Thrones From this moment I wage eternal War with all the Sex and by this light with this hand will I pluck her down be she what she will that sets up her self above the most contemptible wretch of a man that has but half an Arm and but one Eye You are in the right indeed young man reply'd a Jesuit that was just by him It is not fit it is not natural for a Woman to rule and govern should they sway the Scepter that hold the Distaffe Should a Woman be Sovereign when a man is the head of the Church The young man answered him not a word but was on a sudden very strangely altered for pulling his Hat over his Eyes hanging down his head and almost in a swoon the Tears gusht in full streams from him and he said My dear but cruel Orinda unkind Orinda what have I done to deserve your scorn and hatred indeed I know not what I have done but that I may never offend you more adien for ever adieu from this Moment I go into everlasting Banishment in yonder dark Shades and solitary Rocks will I sit and mourn with the faithful Turtles and there Spend the remainder of my lingring Years 'Till I at last dissolve in Sighs and Tears What Psalms Psalms Cry'd the Non. Con. who dropt the Libel and was come so near as to hear these last lines What! Psalms quoth he A Godly Youth a Godly Youth I warrant him No Sir said Seignior Christiano He is not so merry poor Youth He is troubled in mind pray do you comfort him up if you can To comfort the Afflicted is not only my Business but delight said he and then applied himself in a long Harangue of incoherent and impertinent Cant. The Youth took no manner of notice of him but now and then sigh'd and said Orinda As soon as he perceiv'd his malady he chang'd his note Fie Fie said he What ruine your self for a Woman are there not others as good as she as Beautiful And if any of them prove kinder is it