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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71002	The medal of John Bayes a satyr against folly and knavery.	Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692.	1682 (1682)	Wing S2860; ESTC R10443	10,945	30

THE MEDAL OF John Bayes A SATYR AGAINST FOLLY and KNAVERY Facit indignatio versus LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway 1682. EPISTLE TO THE TORIES WE here present you with a Medal of an Heroick Author which most properly belongs to you he being at this time hired to Lye and Libel in your service and in his last Essay has perform'd it so dully that if you put him away as it is said of the Gentleman-Usher and the Doctor in the Rehearsal No body else will take him No No body else will take him We cannot say his Portraicture is done at the full length or has all its Ornaments since there are many touches to be added to it which we shall reserve for the occasions he shall give us hereafter But we dare say these rough strokes have made the lineaments and proportions so true that any one that knows him will find there is a great resemblance of him and will believe that he has sate above five times for it Though indeed he is so liberal of shewing himself that in an hours space he will expose all his Parts and a good Drawer in that time may observe enough to make a Nuditie of him You may know he is no concealer of himself by a story which he tells of himself viz. That when he came first to Town being a young ●aw fellow of seven and Twenty as he call'd himself when he told the story he frequenting but one Coffee-house the Woman it seems finding him out put Coffee upon him for Chocolate and made him pay three pence a dish for two years to midable Cripple The unpunish'd audaciousness of this frontless Scribler would be a reproach to any Government and therefore no man can think him too hardly dealt with in the following Medal especially since he knows and so do all his old acquaintance that there is not an untrue word spoken of him There is not so vile an employment as that of a Hired Libeller an Executioner of mens Reputations the Hangman is an Office of greater Dignity Were all which your Poet says of this great Peer true yet the Libeller ought to be whipt out of a Countrey for his Insolence but what does he deserve when he himself knows every word of it to be false and scarce a Papist in England believes any thing of it to be true He is as unlucky in his allusion to the Turks wearing of Scanderbegs Bones as he is afterwards in his bungling Simile about the feign'd Association They were the Turks Scanderbegs Enemies that wore his Bones and therefore he thinks this Lords Friends must do the same According to the example which he cites you Tories should do it and I doubt not but ye would be glad on 't but we hope he will last till by a happy Agreement of the King with a Parliament your Party will hide their heads or become of no signification which for that very reason ye endeavour all ye can to obstruct I know not what good his Bones might do ye were he dead but I am sure his Brains while he is living would be very much to the advantage of the best of ye those would keep ye from the ridiculous Follies and mad Extravagancies ye daily run into 'T is you that are apparently the Faction since ye are the Few that have divided from the Many 'T is you who in your Factious Clubs vilifie the Government by audaciously railing against Parliaments so great and so essential a part of it They ought to lose the use of Speech who dare say any thing irreverently of the King or disrespectfully of Parliaments If any thing could make the King lose the love and confidence of his people it would be your unpunish'd boldness who presume to call the Freeholders of England the Rabble and their Representative a Crowd and strike at the very Root of all their Liberty Ye are those who abuse our gracious Prince and endeavour to delude him with false Numbers and promising to serve him when ye have no Interest as in all the frequent Parliaments his Majesty has been pleased to promise us will plainly appear If any thing could dishonour him it would be the bloudy violence of your Spirits your unpunished Exorbitances and breach of Laws your Huzzaing Roaring Quarrelling and Damning by much the greater part of the Nation and their whole Representative Body Who made ye Judges in Israel but whatever ye might have been in Judea ye will find very few of ye will be made in England Trustees for the Liberty of the people as your Poet says who as if he had been hired for the whole Popish Plot vilely casts dirt upon the best reformed Protestants in his next Page That Beza has been charged by the Papists for having instigated Poltrotius M●raeus to Assassinate the Duke of Guise is readily acknowledged but withal we know how usual and how meritorious a thing it is with them to brand Protestants with whatsoever they can suppose will render them odious Nor was this Calumny so much fastened by them upon Beza as upon the Admiral Coligni who was known to be a man of more Vertue and Honour than to allow the least accession to so base a Crime Had this vile Libeller but common honesty and ingenuity he would at the same time he presumes to revive this calumnious Accusation have taken notice of the vindication which the Admiral published to justifie his innocency Vide Stat. Repub. Relig. in Gall●â part 2. p. 358. And for Buchanan the character which Archbishop Spotswood has given of him is enough to secure and preserve his memory from the stains which such Fellows as this or any Enemies to truth and Learning could throw upon him Nor will Calvin lose the reverence he has from good Protestants for this Libeller's mercenary Reproaches For the Association which he next mentions dropt out of the Clouds entred into and subscribed by no body and seen by no one of our Party that ever we could hear of and we believe by none of yours but those that contrived the putting it into the Earls Closet it renders you more ridiculous and extravagant than ever ye were to set up an Abhorrence through all England of a Paper which you can lay to the charge of no Party nor at one single mans door But we doubt not but if you had found or put the Libel your Poet was Cudgell'd for though few of your Loyal Closets perhaps are without that and other Libels upon the King into the Earls Closet ye would have set up an abhorrence of that rather than not have kept up the Fermentation and Division amongst the people When this is run out of breath we suppose ye will set up the Ticket for the Forbidden Dinner and ye will abhor Factious Schismatical Seditious Fanatical and Rebellious Dining or some new Red-Herring out of his Lordships Kitchin will come forth The insolence in the same page of your Libeller in comparing the Jury that gave