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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42749	The post-boy rob'd of his mail, or, The pacquet broke open consisting of five hundred letters to persons of several qualities and conditions, with observations upon each letter / publish'd by a gentleman concern'd in the frolick.	Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.; Pallavicino, Ferrante, 1615-1644.	1692 (1692)	Wing G735A; ESTC R30411	212,135	446

the perfection of Christian Life consists in honouring the Clergy the King and Country without regard to any private Duties Oh! for all the breach of those answer'd Summer like others of his City Tribe he 'll 〈◊〉 by giving largely to God who had given largely to him as if it were not giving to God said Fou●tain to relieve the necessities of his own Flesh and Blood No no the force of Bigottry and Superstition reply'd Winter have prevail'd on the contrary The Clergy like Father Dominic in the Spanish Fryar concluding that they that are so charitably 〈◊〉 can have no private Transgressions to be redress●d Bigottry said Chappel is a Devotion form'd by the Passions of Mankind and is Hood-winked by Fancy beyond the light of Religion to direct and in matters of this nature 't is very like Hypocrisie setting up publick Monuments of Man's Righteous●ess at the expence of his private Obligations Well may our silly City be guilty of this said Brook when I find so wise a Man as Xenophon under the same Dilemma giving the greatest part of what he had got in his Asiatic Expedition to Megnbyzus Priest of Diana to make an Image of that Goddess and afterward in his retirement at S●illuns by the Advice of the Oracle and the Priest laid it out in a Purch●se of Land to be consecrated to that Goddess I know not concluded Church we talk against Bigottry in Religion but we discover it in all our Actions and e'ry motion of our Vnderstanding not to the Dictates of the Clergy only but to the Opinion ●f others for if some reputed Wit either condemn or praise any thing his Iudgment makes it run the same fate where e're it goes I plead not for Bigotry by this but only shew that 't is a Vice in o●r Natur● ●nd therefore easier found fault with than mended LETTER XXXII From a Vsurer to his Son to take care of getting in the Interest of his Moneys c. 'T was directed to Mr. Wely the younger next door to the Sign of the Cock in Sice-lane London DIC From Epping-Forest Iune 1692 I Charge you on my Blessing to lay out no Money on Cloaths you have had that Suit but a Year and ●alf and I can make a Suit serve me ten Year● go to Mr. Pendal at Greys-Inn Mr. Gamell at his Lodging in the Strand and to Mr. Port in Sobo-Square and tell 'em if I have not forbearance paid down immediately I 'll take the For●eiture of my Mortgages I charge you hearken no more to the Shams of the Lace-man but arrest him immediately and bring an Execution on his Body and Goods for I have a Judgment I shall lose Two hundred Pounds before it has got me twice its value else Be quick in your dispatch and make haste into the Country for the Town is chargeable now you cannot di●e at home Good Dick make haste to Your poor Old Father R. Gold This Man said Church is another of the City Tribe True pursued Temple and Gold is his God as well as Name Fool answer'd Grave is his true Name for he 's not so much a Philosopher as the Dungil-Cock in Aesop who wou'd not give himself the needless trouble of preserving that he could make ●o use of But Man said Winter pursues what he should avoid and avoids what he should pursue Right assumed I none else wou'd for a wretched Debauch and a Bottle bring himself into the Clutches of these Misers their Statutes added River their Banks and Warrants Man said Church is certainly a very stupid kind of Animal that all the Examples of Follies punish'd in the Fore-fathers should not correct the Posterity to more Sense True continu'd Fountain but like People on a full carrier on the Ice all slide directly into the same bole they saw their Companion sink into just before them So many ●●ttring Beaux said Summer being reduc'd too greazy Alsatian Sharpers one would think should ●ake the rest better Husbands No no concluded Brook this Blindness and Folly is necessary for the circulation of Estates as Trade is for that of Money Nature turns private Vices to put publick Advantages LETTER XXXIII Of Courtship from a Quaker directed to Tabitha the Daughter of William Goyle at his House near Chelmsford in Essex Tabitha I Have told thee that the Spirit mov'd me to 〈◊〉 thee to my Bosom and make thee turn the Vessel to me that I might raise up Seed to the Lord and his holy one yea verily when I see 〈◊〉 my heart does yearn like the Daughters of Sio● when they lost their Beloved Have a care Tabit●● let not the wicked Spirit enter thy Tabernacle and ●o defile the vessel of thy Body which was ma●e for the Godly Ha-a-um Ta●itha Friend William thy Father according to the Flesh is full of the Spirit and when he begot thee he begot a Daughter to Sion as stately as the City of Ierusalem and as pleasant as the Mountains of Gilead thy Breath as sweet as the Cedars of Olybanum thy Belly is like the Downs where the Lambs of the Lord should skip and frisk and play Ah! Tabitha my Spirit is mightily troubl'd within me and the outward Man cannot rest till Tabitha receive him in the way of the Godly on her Bosom which is softer than the Lillies of the Vallies The third Day of the Seventh's Month I will come to see thee Who am thy Friend Eliachim Snush Certainly a Quaker in Love said I is like a Monkey sick The Figure I confess said Brook 〈◊〉 needs be very odd In their most serious Actions said Winter one would think them mad what then interrupted Temple must their foolishness be The truth on 't is said Summer they never look like Men but in their Shops Why so interrupted Fountain because they cheat with a Face of 〈◊〉 No other reason can I perceive said ●●appel They are proud said River in the Ha●●● of Humility Professors of Patience in Injuries 〈◊〉 the most violent Revengers of what they 〈◊〉 so And preposterous added Church 〈◊〉 in their Aff●ctation of Humility in a 〈◊〉 plain 〈◊〉 Mant and Peticoat condemning the Country 〈◊〉 in her Bone-lace Coif In his Conversation 〈◊〉 Grave a Hypocrit● in Religion a 〈…〉 Love most certainly a Fool. LETTER XXXIII From Mrs. Brittaign to her Correspondant in the Country T was directed to Mrs. Grummet a Miliner in Canterbury in Kent Mrs. Grummet WInter now coming on the Town will fill 〈◊〉 from beyond Sea and the Nobility out of the County pray see to send me up some delic●● fresh Country Lasses let them be very pretty 〈◊〉 shap'd and limbed no matter how mean a 〈◊〉 Dress and a little Instructions will make 'em 〈◊〉 I have had those off from a Common in 〈◊〉 who have rais'd their Fortunes under me 〈◊〉 been Companions ●or Knights and Lords ●ay 〈◊〉 marry'd some of them too after they had do●● 〈◊〉 good Service let them be very young just 〈◊〉 Man then they