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A27249
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Mr. Bee's answer to Mr. Poole's second vindication of his Design for printing A synopsis of criticall and other commentators
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Bee, Cornelius.
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1668
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Wing B1679; ESTC R3109
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first profering an equivalent Compensation But as to Mr. Poole's Promise in Jewin Street Mr. Bee is ready to swear that it was given and for 3 months with those circumstances which he has related in his former Paper And though it had the fortune to be a private and unwitnessed Transaction as Mr. Poole saies who has otherwhile told Mr. Bee that if a third man should at any time come amongst them he would hold no discourse of the business in difference betwixt them yet Mr. Bee has sufficient witness that after his Return from Holland this Passage was betwixt Mr. Poole and him in his Shop Mr. Bee there in discourse taxed Mr. Poole with faileur in his Promise made before he went over Mr. Poole then as now denied any such Promise What was it then Mr. Poole said Mr. Bee that you and I talked of so long together in Jewin street Was it not about my business And was there nothing of a Promise mention'd Mr. Poole at last ingenuously confess'd he promised for three weeks This was over-heard and ready to be attested by one then at a little distance from us Now Mr. Bee leaves it to others to judge the onely ground of the Promise being his necessary occasion of absence in the Low-Countries about his Concerns which he then told Mr. Poole would require three months time whether it were to any purpose for Mr. Poole to promise or Mr. Bee to accept the Promise for three weeks which was all one as if there had been no Promise at all and whether it be not probable there being a Promise made it was rather for the whole term Mr. Bee's Occasions required who had it not been that he had thought himself secure during his being abroad upon Mr. Poole's word passed had at least deferr'd his Voiage till some time after But Mr. Poole grows warm and saies he is ready to make Oath before a Magistrate that he made no such Promise Though Mr. Bee is not a little pleased to find Mr. Poole so far coming on that at length he can persuade himself to be willing to take some kind of Oath upon some occasion yet for him who after some boggling at last refused and still stands out against a Subscription tendered from the great Authority of the Nation tending so much to the preservation of the quiet and peace of the Nation for him to make his first Essay of Swearing in a Case tending to his own private profit and advantage to the manifest Detriment of his neighbour and where Mr. Bee is confident the Truth stands against him Mr. Bee desires him to consider whether there be not something of his own Gnat and Camel in the case For Mr. Bee's spreading a Report that Mr. Poole's Work was stopp'd Mr. Bee gives this short Answer in Mr. Poole's ear 'T is false But if any employ'd by Mr. Poole to disperse his Specimens should accidentally glean up such a story in the Coffee-house Mr. Bee cannot help it nor is he bound to answer what people say in that prattling School How could Mr. Bee goe about to raise such a Report when he knew in his Conscience he neveâ— had mov'd the least step towards the stopping of it For as long as Mr. Poole was but onely words and Preparations Mr. Bee never troubled himself to meddle with him or by any Application extraordinary to disturb him neitâ—er is he a man of that temper to impound his neighbour's Cattel till he take them Damage-feasant Now is his time to stop him and it may be Mr. Poole may soon find it more then a Report But in the mean while who raised the Report both in the City and Universities that Mr. Bee's friends need not make such a stir about Mr. Poole's unjust and hard dealing with Mr. Bee for Mr. Bee was well satisfied by Mr. Poole in the business Certainly this must be either Mr. Poole's doing the story is so false or Mr. Bee knows not where to look the Authour it being probable no uninterested person would concern himself to hammer out such a notorious invention It must therefore be at least a Sharer in the Synopsis of Criticall and other Commentators that first contrived it as Mr. Bee is well assured it was first published and maintained in the above-named talking Academy To conclude let Mr. Poole rest content with what is his own and leave Mr. Bee to dispose as he thinks good of what is his let him leave out the Critical and retain his other Commentators if then Mr. Poole have occasion to cite here and there a passage out of Mr. Bee's Authours for confirmation of the Subject he treats on as he may a Text of Scripture in a Sermon according to the Judgement of one of his Lawyers Mr. Bee shall not be against it provided he do it civilly and modestly for Mr. Bee does not love he should cite all his Book thus at a time But if a Synopsis be a Beast of that nature to hook and fang in all that lies within its reach for its Master's advantage Mr. Bee thinks it not fit to be endured in a Commonwealth where Meum and Tuum are in fashion It is yet in Mr. Poole's power for him and Mr. Bee to part friends the fault is else at his door but in case Mr. Poole proceeds in his perverse humour Mr. Bee is resolved with God's help to make use of those Remedies which are proper for the Disease and to endeavour by the best Art he can to put a stop to Mr. Poole in his unreasonable proceedings June 10. 1668. An Advertisement concerning Mr. POOLE'S Synopsis c. THere being some supernumerary Books printed in reference to forein parts and divers of our own Nation who in reason should be first provided for having declared their Disappointments in their intended Subscriptions by divers accidents and their desire to subscribe if it were not too late they may hereby take notice that if they speedily come or send to Mr. Bee 's at the King's Arms in Little Brittain in London they shall be directed and assisted to procure the First Volume at the same price with the former Subscribers viz. paying 50 s. in hand and 15 s. more at the coming forth of the Second Volume and 15 s. more at the coming forth of the Third Volume for which they are to receive the First Volume in hand and the Second and Third Volumes when they shall be printed and published And any person that shall speedily subscribe or procure Subscriptions for Ten Books shall have one for himself And whereas there are some few Copies left of the Royall Paper over and above those that were disposed of to Benefactours those that desire them paying the double price as the manner is in such cases may be furnished with them And such as desire an exchange of their ordinary Books for the other of Royal Paper shall be allowed what they pay'd for them every Subscriber paying 6 d. each Volume for incidentall Charges March 31. 1670. Matthew Poole Cornelius Bee
Kent but in Middlesex where Gavel-kind-Law has no footing but the Elder has the advantage and priority of the rest that is the Privilege Both Mr. Bee and Mr. Poole can't have Right to the Estate But if Mr. Bee's Privilege will not hold water and secure him from any attempt Mr. Poole can make upon his Propriety what does Mr. Poole think will become of his if any man should go about in a mad humour to Epitomize part or whole as he phrases it of his Design If Mr. Bee's Privilege will doe no good why should Mr. Poole trouble himself to procure one which may as well be undermined by another and that by a third and so Mr. Poole be reduced to the same condition as he endeavours to bring Mr. Bee into smart by his own Rod and be gull'd of his pretended Right after his own Example To the second part Whereas Mr. Poole instances in several Authours Epitomized as Baronius Raleigh c. which yet bear good rates in the World and therefore Mr. Bee's Clamours are groundless c. Mr. Bee answers that there are Epitomes which have been undertaken with so little discretion and judgement in the Managery that the Undertakers have been laugh'd at and hiss'd off the Stage and no wonder if those Authours at large have kept their Advantage But for others Baronius for one they have been manifestly obstructed in their sales and rates says the old Book-seller what-ever Mr. Poole who is yet but a Pretender to the Trade may say to the contrary But is there any Authour so martyred as Mr. Poole threatens to serve Mr. Bee's and yet lives He pretends to drain and suck all the marrow and heart-bloud out of the CRITICKS all that tends any way to the understanding of difficult places of Scripture which is the whole Design and Life of Mr. Bee's nine Volumes Mr. Poole says Mr. Bee did formerly declare that such a synopsis as Mr. Poole's would not prejudice his Work If Mr. Poole means the Synopsis as he has now contriv'd it to consist two Volumes in three out of his Work there 's no man can believe Mr. Bee so sensless as to express himself to any such purpose All that he said was if Mr. Poole meddled not with his CRITICKS or if his Design were as he first represented it to Mr. Bee it would not be so prejudicial but since he has declared to take one whole Volume and another time no less then two out of them the case is alter'd and Mr. Bee must not be understood to declare a thing so manifestly tending to his own ruine Whereas Mr. Poole twits Mr. Bee with his conceit of imaginary Profit which may accrue to him does not Mr. Poole expect the like in his Undertaking and what may Mr. Bee think of him who has the real profit and advantage of his subscription-money for some moneths at least if his Design goes no farther on Having gone thus far Mr. Poole proposes two smart Cases which if Mr. Bee thought it worth the while he would answer To the first of them he says onely this That if Mr. Poole will bring his imaginary Reverend and Learned Doctour out of the Clouds where he supposes him to live and procure a Meeting betwixt Mr. Bee and him Mr. Bee will give him a satisfactory Answer to the wild Quere Mr. Poole makes on his behalf whether he may not print a Collection gathered out of several other as well as Mr. Bee's Authours before he printed them divers of which latter neither Mr. Poole nor his learned Doctour had ever seen or heard of had not they found them in the CRITICKS print this Collection I say which he made for his own private use but till then Mr. Bee will give neither him nor Mr. Poole leave to tamper with any thing that has so immediate a relation to himself by way of Propriety The other of Epitomizing Speed c. which Mr. Poole saies is exactly his Case is as shallow But the main thing that Mr. Bee observes by Mr. Poole's ramble from the CRITICKS to Law-Books from them to Dictionaries to Historians to one thing after another is this that Mr. Poole's aim is for the levelling of all Propriety in any sorts of Books whatsoever and if he be not well observed in his present motion he or some other of his Friends that now lie fallow and have leisure enough may ere long attempt farther in subjects of another nature especially if he once finde himself of strength to deal with Mr. Bee in the present Dispute But the thing that does most of all sting and nettle Mr. Poole is Mr. Bee's challenging him of breach of Promise before his going into Holland which was that he would desist in his Design till Mr. Bee's return from thence Here Mr. Poole is sore and winces and at last is so far carried as to say he is ready to contradict Mr. Bee with an Oath which it may be for all that he would not doe if he were put to it He says had any such Promise been made Mr. Bee would have put it in his First Paper That Mr. Bee spared him then was out of a respect he had to his Coat though Mr. Poole's were never perfectly black and the hope he had he should have no occasion to urge it But 〈◊〉 nothing else would serve the turn Mr. Bee thought it fâ—â— to dally no longer but to let the world know how unworthily Mr. Poole had dealt by him So that it was no afternoon-dream as Mr. Poole waggishly suggests but a real Truth of some weeks standing though then first awak'd by Mr. Bee to the confutation of Mr. Poole's boast of his great Sincerity and Candour in this whole Transaction But let Mr. Poole have a care that notwithstanding Mr. Bee's afternoon-dream he be not up time enough in the morning to meet him in the first full career of his vigorous proceeding and take the boldness to bid him Stand. For Mr. Bee's good invention let any man judge where the Invention lies and who has the best knack that way by the several Weaknesses Mr. Poole has been trapp'd in through this whole Paper hitherto When Mr. Poole cites 2 Kings 9. 11. Mr. Bee is afraid he is beside the Text and had turned down the wrong leaf or that he prick'd with a Pin for it as Boys do in a Lottery-Book otherwise Mr. Bee thinks he might have as well cited the first verse in Genesis as that for any thing that either the one or the other concerns the present business But though Mr. Poole be a little obscure here yet by and by Mr. Bee questions not but to make the World know the man and his communication How much more pertinent had it been for Mr. Poole to have turned to another Chapter where he should have found Ahab a branded man for notorious impiety yet making Conscience in the case of another's Vineyard which he would not seize upon either in whole or part without