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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56492	Mr. L'Estrange refuted with his own arguments being a reply to his late impertinent pamphlet entituled L'Estrange no papist : in farther justification of the informations sworn against him, before the lords of the secret committee / by J.P., Gent. ...	J. P., Gent.	1681 (1681)	Wing P59A; ESTC R5424	14,607	35

Mr. L'Estrange REFUTED With his own ARGUMENTS BEING A REPLY To his late IMPERTINENT PAMPHLET ENTITULED L'Estrange No Papist In farther Justification of the Informations sworn against him before the Lords of the Secret Committee By J. P. Gent. Allatres licet usque nos usque Et gannitibus improbis lacessas Certum est hanc tibi famam negare Nam te cur aliquis sciat fuisse Ignotus pereas miser necesse est Matt. l. 5. Ep. 60. LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin in the Old-Baly 1681. Mr. L'Estrange REFUTED With his own ARGUMENTS SUrely Mr. L'Estrange you must either dote or else your Parliament-scar'd Senses are not yet returned to their Lodging For certainly you seem to have left them behind yee at the Hague as if you had laid 'em in pawn for some odd score Here 's a Piece of Gallimawfrey indeed a silly Oglio of Fiddle-cum-faddle and feeble threats as void of Salt as a Witches Feast Lord Mr. L'Estrange that you should be no better a Marksman than so You have been aiming at five Affidavits or rather Informations this five Weeks and yet have not come near the Mark by the full length of your Bow For Heavens-sake leave off your scribling wash that same demangeson of yours in Spring Water or Fasting Spittle every Morning and kill that which else will kill you Otherwise you will certainly expire with a Goose Quill in your hand and the last blasts of your Breath will be L'Estrange No Pa for e're you can say pist you will dye with a twang of Conscience A man would wonder how such an Obsolete Quondam as Mr. L'Estrange should pretend to be a Judge of Sence and Grammar Let any man of Sence and Grammar but look upon his last Right Worshipful Garden of Eloquence his nonsensical defence of himself and see where he can find those Tulips and Gillow-flowers of Sence and Grammar which he believes himself so much the Master of A man may perceive him indeed to be nettled to the Quick which causes him to flounce and fling and huff and ding and rant and swagger evade and shift and fence and falsifie as if he were not onely a Papist but a Jesuite but for any Answer to the purpose becoming a Person of Sence and Grammar there is not the least appearance of it 'T is to be fear'd that Mr. L'Estrange hides his Candle under a Bushel least others should be enlightened by his transcendent Gifts of Sence and Grammar But hold a little what 's this we have got here L'ESTRANGE NO PAPIST In Answer to a LIBEL Entituled L'ESTRANGE A PAPIST And why a Libel Oh! the reason is plain because it is a Book that touches the Copyhold of the most male-content and right Worshipful Roger L'Estrange Esq Otherwise it seems very strange that he who had been a Licenser for so many years and a Justice of the Peace too for some short time should be so ignorant what a Libel is Had he read my Lord Cooke his Lordship would have told his Worship at the latter end of his fifth Book that A Scandalous Libel in writing is when an Epigram Rime or other writing is compos'd publickly to the defamation and contumelie of another whereby his good Name and Reputation may be prejudicsd Which Definition includes both falshood in the Matter and Malice in the Person As to the Matter of the Book which he calls a Libel it is Matter sworn before some of the greatest persons in the Nation a selected Committee of the Nobility appointed to Examine that and matters of the same Nature To which his Plea of Dismission at the Council-Board is no Plea as has been already said and as is apparent by the fresh President of the Lord Chief Justice himself a Person in a higher Station then ever Mr. L'Estrange is like to be And for the malice of the Persons there is no reason to imagin it when every one is bound to discharge his Conscience when call'd to that end by a lawful Authority If Mr. L'Estrange will give the world the first occasion by villifying traducing and undermining the Evidence of so great Discoveries as have been lately made to think him a Papist he is no Libeller that calls him so because there is a shrowd probability that the thing may be true but more especially when it is confirm'd by the Oaths of credible Testimonies and the words of his own mouth And therefore I must needs tell Mr. L'Estrange that his Title is a miserable piece of pedantic ignorance And why in a Letter to a Friend He can as well be whipt as leave Dialoguing or Lettering it As if his sorrows wanted a Companion though in Nubibus But it looks so like prating and gossiping that 't is no wonder he uses it so much He begins Sir So far am I from being troubled at the Box of Libels you sent me that you could hardly have made me a Present more to my honour and satisfaction For what greater honour to a man that has any Sense either of vertue or common Honesty than to be made the Mark of the Common Enemies of God and of all good men the Common Enemies of the King and of the Church and in one word the Enemies of Religon Truth Good-Manners Order and Government the Vomit in short of all the Jayles about the Town and the very Scandal of reasonable Nature This is the Just Character and the Qualitie of these People according to the very Letter But where 's the satisfaction you 'l say of seeing men turn'd into Beasts the Spirit of Blasphemie enduing humane State and managing the cause of Hell in the Name of the Almighty and in the stile of the Gospel Of seeing the Spirit of Contumacy Violence and Slander not onely flying in the face of Gods Anointed and insulting over Apostolical Institutions with scorn and triumph but animated also to those outrages by all the temptations and encouragement of Popular applause Impunity and Reward Non est hic Cynicus cosme quid ergo Canis The Squire is in one of his Lunatick Paroxysms and I cannot fancy otherwise but that when he wrote these two Paragraphs he foam'd at the Mouth like a mad Dog and that he thought a Pinch of his Fangs at that time would have prov'd as venomous as the gripe of an unworm'd Cur. Here 's such a Rhapsodie of Malice and imbitterment as if he durst not encounter his Foes till he had fix'd the Bastions of his fury and indignation to protect him from their great shot You may wonder perhaps what makes this vast distinction between this Altitonant Squire and those Sons of Earth those miserable Titans which he so despicably contemns But the reason is plain They never were acquainted with that Eminentissimo Signior Rolando di Pipino alias Rowland Pipin the Truss-maker Now 't is a Maxim that he who was so dearly and intimately acquainted with Rowland Pipin as Roger L'Estrange Esquire is above all the rest of Mankind However to