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B05024	Familiar letters. Vol. II. Containing thirty six letters, / by the Right Honourable John, late Earl of Rochester. Printed from his original papers. With letters and speeches, by the late Duke of Buckingham, the Honourable Henry Savile, Esq; Sir George Etherridge, to several persons of honour. And letters by several eminent hands.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; Savile, Henry, 1642-1687.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687.	1699 (1699)	Wing R1748; ESTC R182833	66,393	222

for certain But that worthy Knight-Errant Mr. W that Mirrour of Chivalry for all wrong'd Ladies drew his Tongue in your Defence and I Madam had the Honour to be his Sancho Pancho in your Justification But how long we shall be able to stand our Ground I can't tell unless you 'll come and lug out too and then I don't doubt but we shall make our Party good Now you must know Madam One good turn deserves another there 's a Proverb again I stand as much in need of your Weapon as you can do of mine Here 's a scoundrel Play come out lately by which the Author has been pleas'd to bring all the Reverend Ladies of the Town upon his Back with my Lady at the Head of 'em for saying An old Bawd was good for nothing But that is not all his Misfortune there 's a younger Knot who having grimac'd themselves into the Faction of Piety say 'T is a wicked Play and a Blasphemous Play and a Beastly Filthy Bawdy Play and so never go to it but in a Mask Dear Mrs. S come to Town again quickly and don 't put your Country-tricks upon us any longer for here 's a World of Mischief in your Absence The V is Leaner than ever I am grown Religious My Lord W is going to be Married Sir John Fenwick is going to be Hanged The W. L is Boarded by a Sea-Officer The Lady Sh is Storm'd by a Land one Yel has got a high Intrigue and the P has got the Gripes For God's sake come to Town quickly You see all 's in Disorder nor are things much better in the Country as I hear For 't is said the Spirit of Wedlock haunts Folks in Shropshire and has play'd the Devil with the Flesh Some-body swore by t'other Day you were Married to whom I have forgot tho' that was sworn too But pray let 's see you here again and don't tell us a Scripture-story That you have married a Husband and can't come the Excuse you see was not thought good even in those Days when things wou'd pass on Folks that won't now My due Respects to the Mayor and Corporation of S To the Lord H Paris Octob. 21. 1681. NOw things mend my Lord and an Italian Abbot makes a good Pimp His only Fault is he 's damn'd hard of Hearing a Shout in another Man's Ear is but a Whisper in his A vile Quality for a Bawd However he 's a Person of Business and one of his Belles Dames is a better Sophister than you are for you pretend but to argue Fornication no Sin whilst she proves it a Vertue and all L apart wou'd for the down-right sake of Religion Her Case is this She 's a Sister of the String tickles a Guitar to a Miracle and that she gets her Living by Her Beauty her Modesty her Wit and her Youth would help her to a better Livelihood if her Conscience would give her leave to lay about her like the rest of her Sex but her Inclinations being Upwards and having a sower Contempt of this vile Earth she desires to give her self to her good God and saunter out her Days in a Nunnery But she wants Five Hundred Pistoles to introduce her and that she 's willing to for She computes about a Twelve-month's Run may satisfie any Reasonable Gentleman and that he 'll then give her leave to quit that same filthy Business for a Swing of Spiritual L So if your Lordship knows ever a Knight-Errant whose Purse is as lavish as his and will both for the Relief of Distressed Vertue pray tell him this pitiful Story which is a Truth by J The French say You 'll be altogether by the Ears about six Weeks hence and that they are to go over and take Possession of some Houses and Parks that belong to Des Bougres d'Anglois qui vont a leur ordinaire se soulever contre leur Prince Naturel God send this Invasion I say 't will at least have one good Effect 't will Legitimate Adultery here which I have been seeking Arguments for in vain for if they enter our Houses Lex Talionis we whip into their Wives Rapes will be lawful too by the same Morality So pray my Lord come over for here 's like to be Work for a better than mine My Lord S has got a nauseous Mistress here a cry'd-up Beauty a slatternly Sow founder'd of both her Feet In short I hate her and so I do Everybodies but my own and her I like so well I believe I shall have my Bones broke about her before I have done there being some impertinent People akin to her who won't let her in quiet My Lord the Soup's upon the Table you 'll excuse me for there are four tall Germans about it who will swallow it down scalding hot in less time than an English-man can say Grace May Heaven preserve you still fifty Years more and kill your Father betwixt this and Christmas Je suis tout à Vous Two Days since my Lord S being in appearance at the Door of Death he repented as is usual but there is now hopes of a Return to his Health and Relapse to his Vices To Mr. T Rakehelly T JUst now stroling thro' my Pocket-Book I stumbl'd upon your Name Mrs. P 's Name Charing-cross and the Sign of the Elephant which gave Remembrance such a Bang I have made a Collection of Pen Ink and Paper with a design to be as good as my Word and write to you So the Question how I shall write and the Question whether I shall write or not are indeed become no Questions at all but the Question what I shall write is a great Question still The House of Office may perhaps help me You 'll excuse me for a Moment I am return'd and by Providence's help have done your Business as well as my own I have found six leaves of a Dutch Sermon the Title-page I have made use of the rest I send you enclos'd I don't understand much of the Language but I think it gives you an Account how many Tun of Saints the Pagans shipp'd off for the Spiritual Indies when the Christians liv'd in Holland He says the Manufacture now is quite destroy'd and the Trade is not worth a T Now you must know Parsons in this Country tell Truth in their Sermons so as to a lover of Truth and Sermons both I send you this The Postage won't cost you above half a Piece a Dog Penny-worth I think All I have to say is That this is a scoundrel Town The Dutch Women here are greasie and fat the English sawcy and ugly Here 's a great deal of Snow and very bad Fires cursed Meat and worse Company That for our Diversions As for Business My Lord W is asleep by the Fire-side Mr. Rus is picking his Nose the P ss is Quilting a Petticoat her Maids are all at their Prayers Ju is Expounding the Revelations B t is writing of Libels the Pr is studying I

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CONTAINING Thirty Six LETTERS By the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester Printed from his Original Papers WITH Letters and Speeches BY The late Duke of Buckingham The Honourable Henry Savile Esq Sir George Etheridge to several Persons of Honour And LETTERS By several Eminent Hands London Printed for Rich. Wellington at the Lute in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. TO Sir EDWIN SADLER Bt. OF Temple-Dinsley in Hertfordshire Honoured SIR THo' some may accuse me of Presumption in offering this Collection of Letters to your Patronage without having the Honour of your Acquaintance yet considering the Merits of the Noble Authors concern'd in it and your own all Impartial Judges will acquit me and applaud my Choice Since not to know the Interest you Sir have in the Republick of Letters and what our Country has ow'd to the happy Counsels of your Great Ancestors is to be equally unacquainted with our History and with all those whom you Honour with any Intimacy In the first we shall find what a considerable Figure Sir Ralph Sadler your Noble Progenitor once made in the Publick Affairs of this Nation Among the latter we shall meet with no Man more Celebrated for the Politer Studies and that true Generosity which compose a Fine Gentleman and in you Sir give us an agreeable Proof of the present Care Providence takes of Eminent Merit The Reputation of the Vivacity and Wit of my Lord Rochester is so establish'd that it is not in the Power of those Ill-natur'd Criticks describ'd by Himself that Are dully vain of being hard to please to lessen his Esteem The great Success of the First Volume has made this evident of which this Second I hope will be a farther Proof The late Duke of Buckingham Mr. Savile Sir George Etheridge bring their own Credentials And as for the rest that make up this Book I shall leave them to their own Desert being convinc'd that no Apology will ever prepossess a Reader to the Advantage of whatever wants Force enough to recommend it self and all that a Man can say is taken like Court Recommendations for Words of Course tho' I might here be allow'd to be Impartial where I have nothing of my own to bribe my Opinion But Sir as I offer the Diverting Part to Your Pleasure so I must that which may prove otherwise to Your Generous Protection with him who begs leave to subscribe my self SIR Your most Humble and Obedient Servant Charles Gildon THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER THE Extraordinary Success of the First Volume of my Lord Rochester ' s Letters and the great Encouragement of several Persons of Quality who had seen the Original Papers to go on with the Undertaking have engaged me to present You with this Second Volume in Compliance with the frequent Importunities of Gentlemen for the speedy Edition of it before an Excellent Collection of Fifty more of my Lord's and a considerable number of the Duke of Buckingham ' s and Sir George Etheridge ' s came to my Hands and which are now transcribing for the Press being sufficient to make a Volume by themselves and therefore I shall mingle none with them unless any Gentleman or Lady who have any of these Incomparable Authors by them will send 'em me to gratifie the Publick which has with so much pleasure received those already published This Volume I design to get ready in Trinity Term. If any one should doubt the Reality and Authentickness of these Letters in either of these Volumes I have yet the Originals by me and shall willingly shew 'em to any Gentleman or Lady that desires it which must convince all that know my Lord's Hand There 's a Letter by Mistake put into this Volume which was never intended for it tho' not discovered till the Sheet was wrought off for which I desire the Reader ' s Pardon A TABLE OF LETTERS In this Second Volume THirty six Love-Letters written by the Right Honourable John late Earl of Rochester to Mrs. from p. 1. to p. 37 Four Letters by Mrs. J. Price to Madam Roberts from p. 38. to p. 41 A Letter by the Honourable H. Savile to Henry Killigrew Esq p. 42 Sir George Etheridge from Ratisbonne to his Friend in London p. 44 Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton p. 47 Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton p. 50 A Letter from England to Sir George Etheridge in Germany p. 52 A Letter to a Lady that desired to marry a Courtier p. 56 A Letter to Mr. Congreve p. 61 A Letter to Mr. Wicherly by Mr. Dennis p. 65 A Letter to Dorinda p. 68 A Letter of his Grace George late Duke of Buckingham to the Lord Berkley p. 71 The Duke ' s Speeches on several Occasions from p. 73. to p. 102 The Emperor of Morocco ' s Letter to King Charles the Second p. 103 Madam Peachy ' s Letter to Mr. Bulstrode at White-hall p. 107 A Letter to Sir Politick by p. 109 To Mr. Savage p. 111 A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to a Lady in the City p. 114 Three Love-Letters p. 116. to p. 121 A Letter to Mr. G p. 122 Letters from a Person of Honour from on Board at St. Hellens May 27 1694. p. 124 A Letter to Mrs. p. 127 A Letter from Paris to the Lord H p. 131 A Letter to Mr. T p. 135 To the Chevalier Choiseul at La Hogue p. 138 A Letter to Mr. p. 145 To Mrs. p. 147

number or Rhetorick describe Oh Dorinda that I were at your Feet to give you fresh Assurances of the Inviolableness of my Passion whose Greatness was once your Wonder and Delight LETTERS AND SPEECHES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS By the Late Duke of Buckingham To the Lord Bercley My LORD I Must needs beg your Lordship's Excuse for not waiting upon you next Sunday at Dinner for two Reasons The first is Because Mrs. B refuses to hear me preach which I take to be a kind Slur upon so learned a Divine as I am The other That Sir Robert Cl is to go into the Country upon Monday and has desir'd me to stay within to Morrow about Signing some Papers which must be dispatch'd for the Clearing so much of my Estate as in spite of my own Negligence and the extraordinary Perquisits I have receiv'd from the Court is yet left me I 'm sure your Lordship is too much my Friend not to give me Leave to look after my Temporal Affairs if you do but consider how little I 'm like to get by my Spirituality except Mrs. B be very much in the wrong Pray tell her I am resolv'd hereafter never to to swear by any other than Jo. Ash and if that be a Sin 't is as odd a one as ever she heard of I am My Lord Your Lordship 's most humble and most faithful Servant Buckingham The DUKE ' s Speech in a Conference Gentlemen of the House of Commons I Am commanded by the House of Peers to open to you the Matter of this Conference which is a Task I could wish their Lordships had been pleas'd to lay upon Any-body else both for their own sakes and mine Having observ'd in that little Experience I have made in the World there can be nothing of greater Difficulty than to Unite Men in their Opinions whose Interests seem to disagree This Gentlemen I fear is at present our Case but yet I hope when we have a little better consider'd of it we shall find that a greater Interest does oblige us at this time rather to joyn in the Preservation of both our Priviledges than to differ about the Violation of either We acknowledge it is our Interest to defend the Right of the Commons for should we suffer them to be opprest it would not be long before it might come to be our own Case And I humbly conceive it will also appear to be the Interest of the Commons to uphold the Priviledge of the Lords that so we may be in a condition to stand by and support them All that their Lordships desire of you on this Occasion is That you will proceed with them as usually Friends do when they are in Dispute one with another That you will not be impatient of hearing Arguments urged against your Opinions but examine the Weight of what is said and then impartially consider which of us two are likeliest to be in the wrong If we are in the wrong we and our Predecessors have been so for these many hundred of Years and not only our Predecessors but yours too This being the first time that ever an Appeal was made in point of Judicature from the Lords House to the house of Commons Nay those very Commons which turn'd the Lords out of this House tho' they took from them many other of their Privileges yet left them the constant Practice of this till the very last day of their Sitting And this will be made appear by several Precedents these Noble Lords will lay before you much better than I can pretend to do Since this Business has been in Agitation their Lordships have been a little more curious than ordinary to inform themselves of the true nature of these Matters now in Question before Us which I shall endeavour to explain to you as far as my small Ability and my Aversion to hard Words will give me leave For howsoever the Law to make it a Mystery and a Trade may be wrapt up in Terms of Art yet it is founded in Reason and is obvious to common Sence The Power of Judicature does naturally descend and not ascend that is no Inferiour Court can have any Power which is not deriv'd to it from some Power above it The King is by the Laws of this Land Supreme Judge in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Civil And so there is no Court High or Low can Act but in Subordination to Him and tho' they do not all Issue out their Writs in the King's Name yet they can Issue out none but by Vertue of some Power they have received from Him Now every particular Court has such particular Power as the King has given it and for that reason has it Bounds But the Highest Court in which the King can possible Sit that is His Supreme Court of Lords in Parliament has in it all Judicial Power and consequently no Bounds I mean no Bounds of Jurisdiction for the Highest Court is to Govern according to the Laws as well as the Lowest I suppose none will make a Question but that every Man and every Cause is to be tried according to Magna Charta that is by Peers or according to the Laws of the Land And he that is tried by the Ecclesiastical Courts the Court of Admiralty or the High Court of Lords in Parliament is tried as much by the Laws of the Land as he that is tried by the King's-Bench or Common-Pleas When these Inferior Courts happen to wrangle among themselves which they must often do by reason of their being bound up to particular Causes and their having all equally and earnestly a Desire to try all Causes themselves then the Supreme Court is forc'd to hear their Complaints because there is no other way of deciding them And this under favour is an Original Cause of Courts tho' not of Men. Now these Original Causes of Courts must also of necessity induce Men for saving of Charges and Dispatch sake to bring their Cause originally before the Supreme Court But then the Court is not obliged to receive them but proceeds by Rules of Prudence in either retaining or dismissing them as they think fit This is under Favour the sum of all that your Precedents can shew us which is nothing but what we practise every day That is that very often because we would not be molested with hearing too many particular Cases we refer them back to other Courts And all the Argument you can possibly draw from hence will not in any kind lessen our Power but only shew an Unwillingness we have to trouble our selves often with Matters of this Nature Nor will this appear strange if you consider the Constitution of our House it being made up partly of such whose Employments will not give them leisure to attend the Hearing of Private Causes and entirely of those that can receive no Profit by it And the truth is the Dispute at present is not between the House of Lords and the House of Commons but between Us and

effect upon me that I have not executed my Resolution tho' this Scribble will seem to signifie that the Lead has entred my Skull already Truly Madam I have so much occasion for Brains especially when I write to a Lady of your Apprehension that I can as little part with any as a Member of wou'd do with his Priviledges but it is possible Madam that a Pistol can do more to your Admirer than the Conclusion of your Letter You tell me there I must not hope to see you more you may from thence imagine that no other Attempt can be equally fatal to a Man of Errantry I have only the Satisfaction left to know that I cannot be more Miserable for he that 's drown'd needs no more fear Rain than the withered Flowers does the hot Sun-shine Now Madam to free you from the pain of Reading any more which I suppose you 'll take care to do your self by not calling for them I 'll only ask leave to tell you That Cruelty becomes the Nymphs as little as an Effeminacy does the Swains nor can I study any Revenge half so terrible to you as your acting against your self which is in designing to Marry I hope before you leap down the Precipice you 'll once more take leave of Madam Your humble Servant I dare not tell you how things go lest you should laugh at me but if you will lose your time at the Play in Lincolns-Inn-fields on Tuesday I 'll be the Subject of your Diversion A LETTER by Mr. M. To Mr. G Dear G THE dull Business of the Day is over and our Cushion-cuffer has given me leisure for a better Employment than hearing him cant over his musty Morals 't is not the least Grievance in the Country to do Penance once a Week and sit with passive Ears two live-long Hours and put such a Violence on One's Nature Heav'n be prais'd in this lukewarm Age nothing is so easily counterfeited as Devotion otherwise poor Culprit would have a hard part to play 'T was the Opinion of a sage Monk that the Torment of Hell was nothing but an eternal Crowding and Elbowing but I think it an everlasting Solitude for I assure you I think that the Country is but a State of Probation for Hell and an Earnest of Damnation I was reviv'd with your Letter from a stupid sort of a Lethargy for any thing that comes from London in my forlorn Circumstances must needs be a Cordial like poor Dives in Hell viewing the great Gulph between and begging some Small-beer of the Beggar in Abraham's Bosom even so your desolate Friend begs the Favour of a Letter to comfort him in the midst of his Afflictions who am Your Friend and Servant M LETTERS Written by a PERSON of HONOUR To From on Board at St. Hellens May 27th 1694. HEre we are still Sir at your Service Bragging and Lying and Hectoring and Bouncing of what we are going to do but the Proof of the Pudding being in the Eating a Month hence you may expect a truer Account of our Conduct and Courage than I 'll pretend to give you now However this is certain we have Mischief in our Hearts 'T is positive we are going to do or undo something here are strong Simptoms of War I have not heard since I came on Board one Sentence except when the Chaplain says Grace without Blood Plunder Fire or Rape in 't Yesterday I could not bear it nor my Lord C neither so we slunk into a little Boat and made a Descent on the Isle of Wight where I was presently seiz'd and had like to have dy'd of a Disease call'd Rapture Such Hills such Vallies such Woods such Plains such Faces such A s. Look you Sir I 'll say no more but one Expedition under V s is worth two under M s and so I 'll tell you what I did three Nights since Hearing there was a Cargo of French Protestants newly debark'd about four Leagues off a certain Lord and your humble Servant having a mind to inform our Selves of the State of the Enemy went a-shore and enquir'd 'em out We found in a Cow-house full of Straw sixteen Women nine Children eight Lap-dogs and a Tup-cat all at Supper together We ask't 'em what part of France they came from They all answer'd at once and every one nam'd a different Place We ask't 'em what rate Bread was at They all answer'd together again and every one nam'd a different Price With that he singled out one and I another We prest 'em about half an hour with a closer Examination and comparing of Notes we found That the Spirit is sometimes as weak as the Flesh and that Women as well as Priests of all Religions are the same Adieu To Mrs. BEtter late than never is an old Proverb Madam and I hope a true one at least I rely so much upon it that I venture to write to you after six Months Neglect Not that I think you care much for my Letters neither don't mistake But perhaps you may be apt to say People need not be so sparing of 'em unless they were of greater Value and perhaps you 'd say right but that does not hinder People from being as lazy as ever nor from continuing to be so impudent to expect Pardon without being able to urge one tolerable Excuse For what 's bred in the Bone you know will never out at the Flesh So there 's another Proverb for you Half a dozen more would stand me in great stead to make out my Letter For I know my Lady gives you an Account of all material Things Intrigues and new Petticoats As for Politicks you 'd clap them under Minc'd-pies and well if they far'd no worse In short I know nothing but Religion you care a Farthing for and that the Town 's so bare of at present I cou'd as soon send you Money No-body prays but the Court and perhaps they had as good let it alone at least No-body sees by the Effects what they pray for 't is thought a general Excise But Heaven who knows our Wants better seems to be of Opinion a General Peace will do as well They say The Bully of France is leaving all in the Lurch for which he has both the Blessings and Curses of many a poor Dog about this Town For as to matters of Wealth and plenty you must know the Impartiality of our Men of Business has been such they have brought Williamite and Jacobite to much about the same Pitch But now we are all going to flourish again so I hope we shall see your Ladiship in Town against the Peace is proclaim'd that upon the Bonfire-night your Billet may burn too I can tell you one thing You ought to appear in your own Defence for the first time I shew'd my self since I came to Town upon that Theatre of Truth and Good Nature the Chocolate-house I was immediately regal'd with the old Story tho' from another Hand That now you were gone

a la Tour pour le repos de sa Famille Et voila mon cher Compatriot de malheur toutes les Commissions que j'ay a vous donner Si je vous voy a Paris d'icy en six Mois vous me rendre● Compte comment vous les aurez executez Si c'est bien je vous en loueray fort si c'est mal je vous pardonneray volontiers Car je suis sans Compliment tout a fait de vos Amis fort vostre Serviteur To Mr. HARRY I 'M afraid thou' rt turn'd a meer Adamite that is hast forfeited thy Health and Happiness to purchase more Knowledge or else thou art plaguily bely'd Oh! that Pleasure Harry is a Hellish Pleasure How sweet in the Enjoyment and how sower in the Event Well I suppose thou' rt throughly convinc'd there 's no such thing as Heaven upon Earth as a great many vain Fellows imagine since our Pleasures are not only bounded in one particular thing but the greatest Variety of Enjoyments finish in the uneasie Desire of their Continuance or the more torturing Experience of its Impossibility or at least their Punishment by a prodigious Fluxing The most permanent of all our Habits is that part of 'em which are vicious or that which we are taught to believe so A good Thought is as easily spoil'd in Devotion as 't is in Study The obscenest B in one Moment will ruine the strongest Efforts of a pious Preparation Oh! this Nature of ours tho' it be the most prevailing Rhetorick is yet a Compound of Extreams the Minute that gives Birth to the most endear'd of our Entertainments gives such an Assurance of their Conclusion that palls them in the possession Our Entertainment is very often uneafie to us from the Care we take to be Regular and we are seldom guilty of so great Solecism as when we endeavour to avoid all for Silence which is a peculiar Remedy against 'em is at the same time the greatest Solecism in Conversation Why this Moment I was thinking to treat you as one of my Familiars and in my very Design of being so my Deficiency has carried me to a quite opposite Matter and I am unawares an unskilful Moralist or an unbiting Satyr I hope you will pardon my Impertinence and accept this small Epistle from him who is your affectionate Humble Servant To Mrs. MADAM I Cou'd no more hope to see you considering the time of your Letter 's coming to my Hands than I could have any Peace without it Not all the Objects in the World could divert my Melancholy but your Letter which had done it effectually but that it gave me the sensible Mortification of despairing to find you Lord Madam how insensible of Passion are you to see and reject such Evidence of my Love I am sorry you give me so great a shew of your Levity and so much Apprehension of my ill Fortune If my Condition be not answerable to your Beauty this I can tell my Passion is the most exalted in Nature I wish Nature would afford me some signal Method to convince you of it that I might at least hope a reciprocal one from you In my own Brain I feel both all the Pain and Love which Poets feign Romantick Heroes to have done and am scarce less mad to let you know how much I wou'd be thought to be your Humble Servant DAMON To Sir John In Imitation of a Letter in the Histoires Facetieuses p. 78. Dear KNIGHT THis comes to inform you that I am in the Land of the Living and that 's all But as for the Pleasures of this Transitory World which the Hypocrites that use them and the Rakehells that are past them call Vanities I am no more the better for them than a Laplander is for the Sun of Italy or to come nearer Home than Grocer's-Hall is for the Wealth of the Bank at Amsterdam A Curse on that unlucky Night when you and I got so drunk at the Blue-posts together for do but observe what were the Effects on 't Drunkenness Sir John drew Fornication after it and these two Sins in wicked Conjunction begot a most undutiful Child the Lord knows between 'em who before he was a Fortnight old depos'd both his Father and Mother Thus being disabled from Whoring and out of respect to my own Carcass not daring to drink I am grown as grave and as contemplative and as virtuous a Person as you cou'd desire to stick your Knife in Like the rest of the World too when they turn Saints I find the Devil and all of Ill Nature has come upon me with my Virtue I am as splenatick and peevish as a poor Dog of an Author that has been bilked in a Dedication Neither Man Woman nor Child can escape my Censures I roar against Sin louder than a Fellow that is paid to do it in Publick tho' at the same time wishes it no mischief in his Heart I rail at Every-body whether I know them or no and in some of my moody Fits don't care a Farthing if half the Men in the Kingdom were hang'd and all the Women sent pick-a-pack to Old Cloven-foot Once more a Curse on that unlucky Night when this Disaster befel me Dear Sir John for Heavens sake help me to pelt it with some Vigorous some Emphatical some Gigantick Curses May it hereafter know no Mirth nor Pleasure not even that of Lamb-blacking Signs and rubbing out of Milk-scores no Balls nor Serenades no Jollity of Drunkards nor Enjoyment of Lovers May it hear of nothing but Execrations of Losing Gamesters Fires Burglaries and slaughtered Watchmen Magistrates of the Night surrendring up their pious Souls in Kennels and the Withered Bullies that did it dying and blaspheming by their side Murders hideous enough to fright an Italian and unnatural Rapes that would make even a Pamper'd Cardinal tremble But a Pox on 't I don't curse worth a straw One Scotch Pedlar heartily warm'd wou'd out-do half a dozen such puny Fellows as I am Therefore dear Sir John come to my Assistance and help me out at a Pinch Curse that unlucky Night or curse the Wine or curse the Master 't is all one in the Original Hebrew so you do but curse But especially pour a double Vial of your wrathful Spirit upon the Discourteous Damosel that brought me to this May Providence everlastingly toss her from the Chirurgeon's Hands to the Bayliff's and so back again in Soecula Soeculorum Or may her Ill Fate force her in her Old Age to Scotland where may the Kirk condemn her to be roasted alive for a Sorceress and may she be as long a burning as the Universe will be at the Conflagration T. Brown TO Mrs. Dear MADAM NEver any Mortal laboured under such a Perplexity of Fortune or Variety of Confusions I should certainly put a Period to this Being of mine but that I am still willing to submit to you the Triumph As you have had it so indisputably over my

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To Mrs. MADAM SO much Wit and Beauty as You have shou'd think of nothing less than doing Miracles and there cannot be a Greater than to continue to love Me affecting every thing is mean as loving Pleasure and being fond where You find Merit but to pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd Man alive and to place your Kindness there is an Act so brave and daring as will shew the Greatness of Your Spirit and distinguish You in Love as You are in all things else from Womankind Whether I have made a good Argument for my self I leave You to judge and beg You to believe me whenever I tell You what Mrs. R. is since I give you so sincere an Account of her humblest Servant Remember the Hour of a strict Account when both Hearts are to be open and we oblig'd to speak freely as You order'd it Yesterday for so I must ever call the Day I saw you last since all time between that and the next Visit is no part of my Life or at least like a long Fit of the Falling-sickness wherein I am dead to all Joy and Happiness Here 's a damn'd impertinent Fool bolted in that hinders me from ending my Letter the Plague of take him and any Man or Woman alive that take my Thoughts off of You But in the Evening I will see You and be happy in spite of all the Fools in the World To Mrs. MADAM IF there be yet alive within you the least Memory of me which I can hope only because of the Life that remains with me is the dear Remembrance of you and methinks your Kindness as the younger shou'd out-live mine Give me leave to assure you I will meet it very shortly with such a share on my side as will justifie me to you from all Ingratitude tho' your Favours are to me the greatest Bliss this World or Womankind which I think Heaven can bestow but the hopes of it If there can be any Addition to one of the highest Misfortunes my Absence from you has found the way to give it me in not affording me the least Occasion of doing you any Service since I left you It seems till I am capable of greater Merit you resolve to keep me from the Vanity of pretending any at all Pray consider when you give another leave to serve you more than I how much Injustice you run the hazard of committing when it will not be in your power to reward that More-deserving Man with half so much Happiness as you have thrown away upon my Worthless Self Your Restless Servant To Mrs. MADAM I Know not well who has the worst on 't you who love but a little or I who doat to an Extravagance sure to be half-kind is as bad as to be half-witted and Madness both in Love and Reason bears a better Character than a moderate state of either Would I cou'd bring you to my Opinion in this Point I wou'd then confidently pretend you had too just Exceptions either against me or my Passion the Flesh and the Devil I mean all the Fools of my own Sex and that fat with the other lean One of yours whose prudent Advice is daily concerning you how dangerous it is to be kind to the Man upon Earth who loves you best I who still perswade my self by all the Arguments I can bring that I am Happy find this none of the least that you are too unlike these People every way to agree with them in any particular This is writ between sleeping and waking and I will not answer for its being Sence but I dreaming you were at Mrs. N 's with five or six Fools and the Lean Lady wak'd in one of your Horrours and in Amaze Fright and Confusion send this to beg a kind one from you that may remove my Fears and make me as Happy as I am Faithful To Mrs. Dear MADAM YOU are stark Mad and therefore the