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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58993	Aut Helmont, aut asinus: or, St. George untrust being a full answer to his Smart scourge.	G. S.	1665 (1665)	Wing S23; ESTC R219782	13,568	30

Aut Helmont Aut Asinus OR St. George UNTRUST Being a Full Answer to his Smart Scourge LONDON Printed for R. Lowndes at the White Lion in S. Pauls Churchyard 1665. Honoured Doctor I Have lately read a scurrilous pamphlet in whi●● the Author doth endeavour to render your Pill truc●● lent and himself the onely Chymist and a Pediscque 〈◊〉 Helmont As to the first that he may make 〈◊〉 world believe he speaks truth he pretends knowledge 〈◊〉 each particular concrete that are Ingredients of yo●● Pill but in this he forgot the Adage Ne sutor ult● crepidam for I having had the honour to be 〈◊〉 Southampton-house the 13. of June 1664. when yo● calcin'd your powder for the composing your Pill befor● Kings most excellent Majesty several Princes Lords Knights and Gentlemen am able to say he is mistake● in the foundation of the Composition and hath plaidth● fool in earnest in writing against that he never understood but this Adage may be applied in his excuse Hominem experiri multa paupertas jubet To te● you my mind in all that he hath done against you he hath imitated the Dog in Plutarch that spends his time i● barking at the Moon being enraged more at her ligh● that offends his eyes than at the black spots she weareth 〈◊〉 but you are above whilest he is below making good the Adage Canes timidi vehementius latrant Next as to his Chymistry the Skinner in Walbrook suffic●ently experimented it to the damage of 975 l. and loss of his life afterward with grief He can transmute metalls if you will believe him and yet is a pitiful Fellow or else he would not have been so often in prison for his cousenage insomuch that he is as well known in Newgate as most of the common Rascals Qui mendax idem furax Lastly his being the onely man understands and imitates Helmont Helmont was a very holy man ●●tness his prayers his visions and his gifts and parti●●larly in pag. the 19. where he says Concidi in fa●em dixi Domine ignosce si favor in proxi●um extra limites abripuit condona condona ●omine indiscretae charitati meae nam tues radi●ale bonum ipsiusmet bonitatis and so onwards and ●wards the end of the chapter he says Et quem ●ominus Iesus vocaverit ad sapientiam ille non ●lius venturus est And can the world be so blind as ●o think this Sot is so called who accouuts it his glory by he Circean Charms of Liquor to be metamorphosed into a Spunge which is fit for little else but to suck in and spue out that will drink and vomit and vomit to drink again and so continue the sport making good the Adage Parthi quo plus biberent eo plus sitiunt A pretty Fellow and likely to be called by the Lord Jesus and Raphael to be bestowed on him It is confest he borrows Helmonts glorious names and imposeth them on his trifles but a Bristol-stone 〈◊〉 no more than a Bristol-stone although a fool says it is a Diamond and counterfeit pearls are but counterfeit though they may make a Fidlers daughter look like a German Princess And this is the condition of our pageant Helmont Aut Helmont aut Asinus And thus I leave him till he gives the next occasion to be flasht and rest Nov. 7. 1664. Your Friend G. S. To the ingenious and industrious Gent. Lionel Lockier Physician An Encomium upon his Universal Pill SIr when I view you in your panick Pill And see the throngs which unto you repair Some for their cure others with thanks your skill And blest successes whatsoever are The sentiments of others will subdue Vnbiass'd minds to give respect to you Should I design to celebrate the fame Of your admired Med'cine 't were in vain T' attempt that work in English sith your Name Hath overspread our Land and cross'd the Main And maugre all detraction will shine forth With the bright rays of its inherent worth What was 't acquir'd the Epithete of Wise To Socrates but that he did reduce To practice all the Sophies Theories And make their Speculations fit for use This Adjunct is your due who have the Art Spagyrick made good in the practick part B. M. To Mr. George St. concerning his Smart Scourge HOw turn'd a Beadle hold a blow sweet George A Sword and Lance becomes thee not a Scourge ●ar'st thou not look thy foe i' th' face but come ●●st like a Cur to snap him by the bum 〈◊〉 rather have thee let Erratas pass ●npunished than shew thy self an Ass 〈◊〉 any fault in others works appears ●is very fit that you pull in your ears ●hat fury thus transports thee will 't avail 〈◊〉 bring a Birch to whip the Dragons tail ●as this th' account on which you did decry ●carification and Phlebotomy ●●Subolet Medico that like a Leech ●ou'd fetch the skin off and draw bloud from 's breech L. T. St. GEORGE VNTRVST PAssing the street in a melancholy muse my thoughts were suddenly disturbed with the obstreperous clamours of a poor Ballad-singer who went squeeking along before me Will you buy a smart scourge for a silly saucy fool come four a peny four a peny will you buy any smart scourges being a little curious to know what the import of this strange title was concluding the Author of it to be some Sexstone or City Dog-whipper I called after the poor Itinerant bookseller who very joyfully came but yet very sadly complaining that she had sold never a book that day I partly out of charity to the poor book Pedler partly to satisfie my own curiosity gave her four farthings for her four smart scourges concluding that though they were good for little else yet they might serve for tail-timber considering the Frontispiece a little better I found indeed that I had wronged the Author in imagining him to be a Dog-whiper whose rods I perceived were only ●ntended for the backs of Fools ●ut when I had a little considered his Pamphlet I ●ould not chuse but pitty the poor mans back and ●houlders concluding that if he were an Impartial Beadle sure his own poor hide must needs be mise●ably tanned and tawed but my pity extending not only to the Beadle himself but likewise to the guilty delinquent whom he doth so unmercifully rib-roast I would needs know his name and his crime and his condition his name I find G. S. his condition a person of quality and his crime writing a Letter to the ingenious Gentleman Dr. Lockier in vindicating him from the calumnies of a cankered Momus But all this is not enough I must needs be acquainted with the smart scourger himself to who subscribeth himself G. S. the same with his Antagonist which at first glance made me imagine him some furious Don Quixot marching out with indignation to fight with his own shadow but I was soon undeceived when I saw the Philosopher by the fire side come sneaki●g out of the chimney corner where he