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A36350	The Lord Marquesse of Dorchesters letter to the Lord Roos with the Lord Roos's answer thereunto : whereunto is added the reasons why the Lord Marquesse of Dorchester published his letter of the 25 of Febr. 1659 dated the 13 of the same moneth : with his answer to the Lord Roos in his letter.	Dorchester, Henry Pierrepont, Marquis of, 1606-1680.; Rutland, John Manners, Duke of, 1638-1711.	1660 (1660)	Wing D1918; ESTC R25564	7,622	15

most apparent scope of my letter which was to provoke you to Fight and not to Rail This I say would have stigmatiz'd you with an indeleble mark if you were capable of more Infamy than is now upon you For you are still a Coward and dare not Fight This Expression I must use often as Cato did his Puto Carthaginem esse delendam you know the saying Cloath an Ape in Tissue and it but adds deformity to the Beast and the more a Coward seeks to conceal the more he discovers his Fears Of the truth of this you are a shame full Example What a noise and blustering doe you make to appear Some body as if with Homer's Vlysses you had got the Winds into your empty bottles but all in vain for t is with you like a Jade in the Myre your labouring to get out but plunges you the deeper in For you are still a Coward and dare not fight You say I was amongst my Gally-pots and Clyster-pipes when I gave my Choler so violent a Purge If so I was prescribing a Clyster for you to take before our Meeting else I should sooner have had you in my Nose than in my Sight You go on I had better have been drunk and set in the Stocks for it when I sent the Post with a whole Pacquet of Chartels to you I mention this piece of Eloquence for no other end than to shew what Wit there lies in the Froth of Ale You proceed That if I understand any thing in my owne Trade I could not but know that the Hectique of my owne Brain is more desperate than the Tertian Fits of yours which are easily cured with a little sleep Is it possible for any man to be so stupid as to publish himself in print a common Drunkard This is the plain English of your Tertian Fits which if you had called Quotidian you would easily have been believed though indeed they have out-lasted any Quartane You talk of Tutors and School-masters I have been long since out of their hands but it is high time you were under their correction and had I known you as well before I sent to you in a way of Honour as I do now I would for once have play'd the Schoolmaster my self and have brought in stead of a Sword a good Rod the onely fit Weapon to encounter such an Adversary For you are still a Coward and dare not fight You add That now I begin to vapour and tell you I have fought before and that you have heard I have with my Wife and Poet but if I came off with no more honour then when I was beaten by my Lord Grandison I had better have kept that to my self What you mean by my Poet I cannot imagine but you may conceive t is not impossible for me to beat a Woman since I declared such a proneness to Cudgel you The businesse between my Lord Grandison and my self is so fully known to the world and his Second an Ey-witnesse of what passed yet alive that there is no need for me to speak a word therein onely this as a Hector a name amongst others you are pleased to bestow upon me I tell you He that will Fight though he have never so much the worse loses no reputation And I protest I had rather meet with a man of Honour and Courage though he did beat me as you word it then now to Fight and Beat you But there 's no great danger of that For you are still a Coward and dare not fight Next you scrible about my cutting up Calves and Dogs and if by threatning to cram my Sword down you Throat I do not mean my Pills you are safe Indeed Experiments in Anatomy have much conduced to the bettering mans knowledge and I make no doubt had I the dissecting of you instead of a Calf I should finde the place where Cowardise is seated This would be an acceptable Discovery to our Colledge of Physitians As concerning my Pills those you would most fear to take must be prepared with Steel for I know between Steele and you there is a great Antipathy And whereas you say There is no half quarter of a man but would venture to give me battle Alas poor wretch you do not understand what Dirt you throw in your own face for your not daring to meet me proves ex ore tuo that you are lesse then half a quarter of a man and surely here is both good Grammar and Logick to boot And now you tell me I am most unsufferable in my unconscionable ingrossing of all Trades That I am a Doctor of Civil Law a Parrister of the Common a Bencher of Greys-Inn a Professor of Physick a Fellow of the Colledge a Mathematician Caldean a School-man and a piece of a Gramarian as my last work shews were it construed a Philosopher Poet Translator Antisocordist Sollicitor Broker and Vsurer a Marquiss Earl Viscount Baron and a Hector And there is no dealing with me without a Brigade if I have a second for every capacity What ridiculous stuff is here Risum teneatis Amici yet I think a less number would scarce secure your fears and even then you durst not appear in the Head of them For still you are a Coward and dare not fight You say for eating the bread out of the Hectors mouths you hope some of them will make me give them Compounding dinners as well as I did to the rest of my Fraternities I think you scape fairly if for abusing them you can be admitted to Compound for Dinners and Supper too You pithily write That I measure another mans valor by comparing it with my own I understand in what sense you would be taken and laugh at it But yet t is true I ever did and shall think of all Gentlemen as I do of my self till I find them such as you are And now for the future I shall measure all Cowards by your Scal. I will omit for brevity the rest of your Billinsgate nonsense indeed your whol Letter is ejusdem farinae and give you this friendly admonition that you be more carefull and circumspect hereafter and not charge a fault upon another when at the same instant you commit a greater in the same kind I mean your accusing me of railing when you your self transcend therein I have but a word or two more and I have done with you You say that I might have had the honour I desired to have faln by your sword I see the Proverb does not hold true in you that Bad memories have good Wits I did not desire absolutely to fall by your sword but under the condition mentioned in my printed letter And as for the honour you vainly put upon falling by it I think there is not any but will believe me without swearing if I could have thought upon a more ignominious thing I had named it And now sir If your back be not sufficiently loaden go on and I will lay more and more weight upon you till you fall under the burden and still you are a Coward and dare not fight Dorchester Printed the 20th of March 1659. the day after the Printing the Lord Roos his Answer c. above mention'd the Date whereof by him purposely omitted