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A52139	The rehearsal transpros'd, or, Animadversions upon a late book intituled, A preface, shewing what grounds there are of fears and jealousies of popery	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1672 (1672)	Wing M878; ESTC R202141	119,101	185

Debates Now though this had very much of probability I had yet a further Conjecture that this J. O. was a Talisman signed under some peculiar influence of the Heavenly bodies and that the Fate of Mr. Bays was bound up within it Whether it be so or no I know not but this I am assured of without the help either of Syderal Magick or Judicial Astrologie that when J and O are in Conjunction they do more certainly than any of the Planets forbode that a great Ecclesiastical Politician shall that Year run mad I confess after all this when I was come to the dregs of my phansie for we all have our infirmities and Mr. Bayes his Defence was but the blewJohn of his Ecclesiastical Policy and this Preface the Tap-droppings of his Defence I reflected whether Mr. Bayes having no particular cause of indignation against the Let●…ers there might not have been a mistake of the Printer and that they were to be read in one word Io that use to go before Paean that is in English a Triumph before the Victory Or whether it alluded to 〈◊〉 that we read of at School the Daughter of Inachus and that as Juno p●…rsecuted the Heifer so this was an He-Cow that is to say a Bull to be baited by Mr. Bayes the Thunderer But these being Conceits too trivial though a Ragoust fit enough sor Mr. Bayes his palate I was sorced moreover to quit them remarking that it was an J Consonant And I plainly at last perceived that this J. O. was a very Man as any of us are and had a Head and a Mouth with Tongue and Teeth in it and Hands with singers and Nails upon the●… Nay that he could read and write and speak as well as I or Master Bayes either of us When I once found this the business appear'd more serious and I was willing to see what was the matter that so much exasperated Mr. Bayes who is a Person as he saith himself of such a tame and softly humour and so cold a complexion that be thinks himself scarce capable of hot and passionate impressi●…ns I concluded that necessarily there must be some extraordinary Accident and Occaon that could alter so good a Nature For I saw that he pursued J. O. if not from Post to Pillar yet from Pillar to Post and I diserned all along the Footsteps of a most inveterate and implacable Malice As oft as he does but name those two first Letters he is like the Island of Fayal on fire in three●…ore and ten places You see Mr. Bayes that I too have improved my wit with reading the Gazettes Were you of that Fellows diet here abour Town that epicurizes upon burning Coals drinks healths in scalding Brimstone scraunches the Glasses for his Desert and draws his breath through glowing Tobacco-pipes Nay to say a thing yet greater had you never tasted other sustenance than the Focus of burning Glasses you could not shew more flame than you do alwayes upon that subject And yet one would think that even from the little sports with your comfortable importance after Supder you should have learnt when J. O. came into play to love your Love with an J. because he is Judicious though you hate your Love with an J because he is jealous and then to love your Love with an O. because he is Oraculous though you hate your Love with an O. because he is Obscure Is it not strange that in those most benign minutes of a Man's life when the Stars smile the Birds sing the Winds whisper the Fountains warble the Trees blossom and uuiversal Nature seems to invite it self to the Bridal when the Lion puls in his Claws the Aspick layes by its Poyson and all the most noxious Creatures grow amorusly innocent that even then Mr. Bayes alone should not be able to refrain his Malignity As you love your self Madam let him not come neer you He hath been fed all his life with Vipers insteed of Lampres and Scorpions for Crayfish and if at any time he eat Chickens they had been cramb'd with Spiders till he 〈◊〉 so invenomed his whole substance that t is much safer to bed with a Mountebank befoe he hath taken his Antidote But it cannot be any vulgar furnace that hath chafed so cool a Salamander 'T is not the strewing of Cowitch in his Genial-Bed that could thus disquiet him the first night And therefore let 's take the Candle and see whether there be not some body underneath that hath cut the Bed-Cords There was a worthy Divine not many years dead who in his younger time being of a facetious and unlucky humour was commonly known by the name of Tom Triplet He was brought up at Pauls-School under a 〈◊〉 Master Dr. Gill and from thence he went to the UuiversityThere he took liberty as 't is usual with those that are emancipated from School to tel Tales and make the Discipline ridiculous under which he was bred But not suspecting the Doctor 's intelligence comming once to Town he went in full School to give him a Visite and expected no Iess than to get a Play-day for his former acquaintance But instead of that he found himself hors'd up in a trice though he appeal'd in vain to the Priviledges of the 〈◊〉 pleaded Adultus and invoked the mercy of the Spectators Nor was he let down till the Master had planted a Grove of Birch in his back side fot the Terrour and puplick Example of all Wags that divulg the Secrets of Priscian and make merry with their Teachers This stuck so with Triplet that all his life-time he never forgave the Doctor but sent him every Newyears-tide an Anniversary Ballad to a new Tune and so in his turn avenged himself of his jerking Pedagogue Now when I observed that of late years Mr. Bays had regularly spawned his Books in 1670. the Ecclesiastical Policy in 1671. the Defence of the Ecclesiastical Policy and now in 1672 this Preface to Biwop Bramhal and that they were writ in a stile so vindictive and poynant that they wanted nothing but rime to be right Tom Triplet and that their edge bore always upon J. O. either in broad meanings or in plain terms I begun to suspect that where there was so great resemblance in the Effects there might be some parallel in Effects there might be some parallel in their Causes For though the Peeks of Players among themselves or of Poet against Poet or of a ConformistDivine against a Nonconformist are dangerous and of late times have caused great disturbance yet I never remarked so irreconcileable a spirit as that of Boyes against their Schoolmasters or Tutors The quarrels of their Education have an influence upon their Memories and Understandings for ever after They cannot speak of their Teachers with any patience or civility and their discourse is never so flippant nor their Wirs so fluent as when you put them upon that Theme Nay I have heard old Men otherwise sober peaceable and

a business To conclude the Author gives us one ground more and perhaps more Seditiously insinuated than any of the former that is if it should so prove that is if the Fanaticks by their wanton and unreasonable opposition to the ingenious and moderate Discipline of the Church of England shall give their Governours too much reason to suspect that they are never to be 〈◊〉 in order by a milder and more gentle Government than that of the Chu●…ch of Rome and force them at last to scourge them into better manners with the Briars and Thorns of th●…ir Discipline It seems then that the Discipline contended about is worth such an alteration It seems that he knowes something more than I did believe of the Design in the late times before the War Whom doth he mean by our Governours the King No for he is a single person The Parliament or the Bishops I have now done after I have which is I think due given the Reader and the Author a short account how I came to write this Book and in this manner First of all I was offended at the presumption and arrogance of his stile whereas there is nothing either of Wit or Eloquence in all his Books worthy of a Readers and more unfit for his own taking notice of Then his infinite Tautology was bur●…ensome which seem'd like marching a Company round a Hill upon a pay-day so often till if the Muster master were not attentive they might r●…ceive the pay of a Regim●…nt All the variety of his Treat is Pork he knows the story but so little disguised by good Cookery that it discovers the miserableness or rather the penury of the Host. When I observed how he inveighs against the Trading part of the Nation I thought he deserved to be within the five mile Act and not to come within that distance of any Corporation I could not patiently see how irrevorently he treated Kings and P●…inces as if they had been no better then King Phys and King Ush of B●…anford I thought his profanation of the Scripture intolerable For though he alledges that 't is only in order to shew how it was misapplyed by the 〈◊〉 he might have done that too and yet preserved the Dignity and Beverence of those S●…cred Writings which he hath not done but on the contrary he hat●… in what is properly his own taken the most of all his Ornaments and 〈◊〉 thence in 〈◊〉 s●…urrilous and sacrilegious s●…ile insomuch that were it honest I will undertake out of him to make a better than is a more ridicul●…s and 〈◊〉 book than all the Friendly Debates bound up together Me thought I never saw a more bold and wicked attempt than that of reducing Grace and making it a meer Fable of which he gives us the Moral I was sorry to see that even Prayer coul●… not be admitted to be a Virtue having though hitherto it had been a Grace and a peculiar gift of the Spirit But I considered that that Prayer ought to be discouraged in order to prefer the Licargy He seem'd to speak so little like a Divine in all those matters that the Poet might as well have pre●…ended to be the Bishop Davenant and that description of the Poets of Prayer and Praise was better than out Au●…hors on the same Subject●… Canto the 6th where he likens Prayes to the Ocean For Prayer the ●●●an is where diver●●● Men steer their course each to a several coast Where all our interests so discordant lye That half beg winds by which the rest are lost And Praise he compares to the Union of Fanaticks and Atheists c. that is Gunpowd●r Praise 〈◊〉 Devotion fit for mighty minds c. It s utmost force like Powder is unknown And though weak Kings excess of praise may fear 〈◊〉 when 't is here like Powder dangerous grown Heavens vault receives what would the Palcae tear Indeed all Astragen appear'd to me the better Scheme of Religion But it is unnecessary here to recapitulate all one by one what I have in the former Discourse taken notice cf. I shall only add what gave if not the greattest yea the last impulse to my writing I had observed in his first Book P 57 that he had said Some pert and pragmatical Divines had filled the world with a Buzze and Noise of the Divine Spirit which seemed to me so horribly irreverent as if he had taken similitude from the Hum and Buz of the Humble Bee in the Rehearsal In the same Book I have before mentioned that most unsafe passage of our Saviour being not only in an hot fit of zeal but in a seeming fury and transport 〈◊〉 Passion And striving to unhook 〈◊〉 hence P. 152. of his Second Book Swallows it deeper saying Our blessed Saviour did in that action take upon him the Person and Priviledge of a Jewish Zealot Take upon him the Person that is Personam in●… And what part did he play Of a Jewish Zealot The Second Person of the Trinity may I repeat these things without offence to take upon him the Person of a Jewish Zealot that is of a notorious Rogue and Cut Throat This seemed to proceed from too slight an Apprehension and Knowledge of the Duty we owe to our Saviour And last of all in this Preface as before quoted he saith the Nonconformist Preachers do spend most of their Pulpit-sweat in making a noise about Communion with God So that there is not one Person of the Trinity that he hath not done despight to and lest he should have distinct Communion with the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost for which he mocks his Answerer he hath spoken evil distinctly of the Father distinctly of the Son and distinctly of the Holy Ghost That only remain'd behind wherein our Author might surpass the Character given to Aretine a famous man of his Faculty Qui giace ill Aretino Chi de tutti mal disse 〈◊〉 d' Adido Ma di questo si sensa perche no'l conobbe Here lies Aretine Who spoke evil of all except God only But of this he begs excuse because he did not know him And now I have done And I shall think my self largely recompensed for this trouble if any one that hath been formerly of another mind shall learn by this Example that it is not impossible to be merry and angry as long time as I have been Writing without profaning and violating those things 〈◊〉 are and ought to be most sacred FINIS