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A58993
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Aut Helmont, aut asinus: or, St. George untrust being a full answer to his Smart scourge.
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G. S.
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1665
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Wing S23; ESTC R219782
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steps over thee scorning to tread oâ— thee lest he should foul his shooes in a quagmire Yet I care not if for their sakes because I have some acquaintance with them if I discover to you whaâ— a learned Chemist imagined concerning the Pills not that I conceive it will enter your pericranium but for the sake of those that are a little wiser than thy self which is this â„ž dra lb 1. sang mund lb 1. â„¥ 1. Brochi â„¥ 4. afreca â„¥ 2. mi. fiat S. A. which when I said it would not penetrate my brains and desired him to be plainer he told me he should use no other words but what Helmont used after he had spoke in the commendations of the Medicine of Aroph described by Paracelsus pag. 704. Susurrantes hic audio qui non nisi praemasticata deglutive solent inauspicatam verborum tenebritatem incusantes Carbonarii isti aiunt sua nobis pharmaca exponant cominus demonstrationes nobis praebeant oculares Verùm ista addiscendae Pythagoricae philosophiae nova norma est Carbones emant vitra discántque prius quae nobis dedere vigilatae ex ordine noctes atque nummorum dispendia Dii vendunt sudoribus non lectionibus solis artes Idcirco nec ausum quidem Dianam veste spoliatam propalare exemplum Acteonis absterret Qui potest capere capiat Next as to the slanders you talk of I need not â—ell the world they are in matters of truth the Skinâ—ers emptied bags Sir have mouths wide enough â—o proclame your frauds without the aid of any Stygian Curs and though you are so confident of the good opinion of your Neighbours take my counsel and do not let them know you for upon my word if they should you would find more mouths than ever Cerberus had barking at and it may be biting you too How a man should have been in danger of hanging for being the Doctors Voucher to sell a horse I know not but these hard words Sir are a Juglers dialect perhaps you are afraid to explain your self lest you should be made to sing another palinodium in Newgate yet I have heard it is fatal to be some mens Vouchers witness your Surety who was hanged for a Coâ—er or rather your Disciple it may be to whom you had taught the use of the new-fashioned Philosophers stone But oh the plague of an empty belly how you sit jouring and grumbling at the Doctors good victuals and cursing at the Crowns that have blessed his purse and so exactly imitating thâ—â—ungry dog that while his master is at dinner sitteth barking and snarling underneath the table As for the Hangers-on which you say the Doctor hath shaken off since he changed his Linen you know Sir they have been always retainers to the Rosicrusian family and it was not long since you were so stocked with them at Newgatâ— that you might have got more monie by curinâ— the Yellow Jaundise with them than ever you diâ— by your Stills and Pipkins till necessitie forceâ— you to pawn your Shirt and so mortgage the fielâ— and the flock together Next you seem angrie at the Doctors refusal tâ— answer all Letters Fie George do not wrinâ— your brows so you put your self to the hazard oâ— disblocking your Perriwig what though a maâ— hath not a scribling vein like you must he be preâ—sently buffeted for it would you have him writâ— against the College of Physicians shoot paperâ— bullets as you do at all that are your Superiours 〈◊〉 In truth Sir I am put in mind of you as often as â— see an Ape sit mumping on a Stall and making ill-favoured mouths at the passengers he doth so prettily resemble you that I cannot chuse but think on your sweet Physiognomie But I know your policie you would be wounding others with the blow of Detraction that you may from the bleeding veins of their Reputation suck bloud to put colour into the pale cheeks of your own But though you would needs be playing the Achitophel I dare say there needeth neither praier nor miracle to turn your wisdom into follie In your next lines I find a good strain of non-sense you wonder a Dog should not be able to cast up a Botchers bill I believe you might find as bad Arithmeticians among your own long-ear'd brethren 'T is a sad world indeed that Dogs cannot cast account but I will let it pass it is onely a â—â—seething of old Coleworts in an Epistle Next to â—is followeth a good intervall of wit yet clasped 〈◊〉 like a Parenthesis with nonsense and impertiâ—ence You come marching out like Orlando Fuâ—oso in the head of a whole armie of Maladies to â—ncounter the Doctors invincible Pill and now â—ave amongst you blind Harpers stand off at your â—eril the bum-cannon is charging he is giving â—ire to the touch-hole hab-nab here is among you 〈◊〉 whole Ferkin of foul stuff here is Deaths Musterâ—â—aster general let us make proclamation O Yes If there be any man or woman that have a mind to hang â—hemselves let them repair to George St. in Bartholoâ—ew-lane and they shall have a Pill will poison them under the price of a Halâ—e â—make haste away therefore all ye that are weary of your lives Give this Charon but a Groat and with one dram of his Powder he will waft you over Styx If there be any great heir would be rid of his aged Sire bring him hither to George and he will quickly give him a Pasport to Heaven If any man be troubled with a scolding wife bring her to Bartholomew-lane he will soon make her as dumb as a dore-nail And which is more than all this if there be any Skinner in Walbrook that hath gotten a surfeit in his purse here they may have a purge will give 975 stools at a bout Next for the whet-stone you praise the Doctor I believe you may be as likely to help him to it as another but as for the golden handle and chain Sir I doubt he must be â—ain to inquire at another shop And now you have conquered the Giant and broke his sword over his head Before you can make the world believe thee a discoverer of 〈◊〉 you must off with thy Doublet Breeches and 〈◊〉 if thou hast any and stand three days together 〈◊〉 the Pillorie in Cornhill with this Motto writter 〈◊〉 Text letters on thy breast DVM ALIOS 〈◊〉 CVSO IPSE REVS and then thou mayest 〈◊〉 leave to subscribe thy self Tom Thum in the chimney-corner in spight of the black puddings or Tinkers budget And now to fill up the sheet followeth a supâ—â—â—mental Corollary as you are pleased to call it 〈◊〉 sum teneatis amici did you ever see such a hoâ—â—podg of ridiculous stuff blanched with the title a Corrolary before have a care George you 〈◊〉 who was hangd lately for stamping the Kings 〈◊〉 press upon leaden six pences Thus you 〈◊〉 Courteous Reader thou maiest wonder stay 〈◊〉 here is some Puppit-play to be seen or Dancing
to and fro from one side to tother as if like Nown Adjectives they could not stand by themselves at which exercise I am told Sir you are very expert there seldome being a day but you are practising your skill as I am credibly informed at it from morning to night and that yoâ— with all your staggering should not stumble on thâ— Woodcock I confess it is strange In the beginning of your next Paragraph you run grinning likâ— a mad dog scarse resolved within your self whetheâ— to bark or bite your scolding Epithites doe sâ—… croud and thrust contending for priority whicâ— should go first through the portal of your mouth that I thought they would have wedged onâ— another so fast in the door that you would have been forced to salute your Antagonist with an open mouth and drivelling silence but O Heavenly wide mouth no sooner did it gapâ— but I saw them marching out three of a breast pittiful creeping dirty and all to encounter youâ— splinter boned adversary but fair and soft Sir methinks three to one is ods at foot-ball but now 〈◊〉 think of it he is served well enough teach him to give the Dr. the Epitheton of honourable is thiâ— the crime indeed Fie George why should you be so angry had he given stoln goods to his friends and stole it from you had he snatched the Feather out of your Cap and set it in the Doctors I should not have blamed you but when t is well known it hath none of your ear-mark and never was given you by any but such as jear you or flatter you I confess I wonder you should take it in such induggion unless your envious soul conceives all addition to others to be substraction from your self As for your suspicion of the Authors having the â—ox I perceive you still believe him a Man of Quality and some have had suspicions of your self as one that was in earnest acquainted with One of your Wives told me I might better have similiz'd you to an Ape than an Ass he being certainly informed you are defective in the tail-piece but a profound Chymist stood up both for you and me and told us that he could prove by Chymistry the Analogy good for all that saying a Venereal fire being kindled though it fixt his Testicles yet it volatized the sinuous parts and then by Sublimation carried them to his Head from whence sprung his Ears which have served this learned Ass as Fescues for his Horn-book ever since Yet for my part for all this I dare absolve and acquit you from the least spice of a Gentlemans disease but when the Doctor selleth his Pills at half price perhaps I my self Sir may give you a box of them to cure your swimming Noddle of the Megrums And now you have followed our Author as far as the Oyster-wenches or rather like an Oyster-wench of Billings-gate For in truth George thy scolding skill argueth thee no Fresh-man in that University but though he be an uncivil lying railing Fellow yet forsooth he shall be accounted none of your Fellow Stand off Gentlemen who cometh here Surely 't is some Rosicrusian Moustrap-maker or chymical Sub-groom of Queen Nature's close-stool and since 't is your own worshipful self Sir I am glad you have publickly discarded this uncivil lying railing Fellow for verily the world would have thought him onâ—â— your Disciples else and arch Wags you knâ— would have been apt to say Like master like manâ—â— Next Sir I observe with what authority yâ— sub-poena in the poor aliquid tale to answer and 〈◊〉 to the praedicament of quale and how like some Jâ—â—stices of the peace you reconcile in sound those thâ— are onely at variance in sense but 't was well forâ— seen had it not been for tale and quale your panâ—â—phlet would have had neither reason nor rime in 〈◊〉 You think our Author you say may serve tâ— make an Epilogue to the Doctors act anâ— in truth Sir if there be ever a Sir John Lack 〈◊〉 in the Play I should judge you a very fit person tâ— act him but that I doubt you are too clownishlâ— simple to act a Gentleman-fool Next cometh a vote of non-addresses our Author must observe his distance come cap in hand and have a care how he addresseth himself in jest to your most reverend and worshipful beard Good heart how simply pride becomes a fool Pray what are you that a man must not speak to you till he hath set his mouth in the Looking-glass I have known some of your fellow-prisoners at Newgate that for a single Two-pence would have quietly taken a dozen kicks in the breech and I believe when you hung out your white bag at the grates you would have been thankful for a single Peny though some unhappy Wag should have given it you in jest and now forsooth you are so skittish and tender that if a man crack a Lent upon you you are presently wincing In your fury you challenge our Author to diâ—â—lge his name but he will not sure unless he be â—ad so you may serve him as you did your old â—end Tichborn petition to have him hanged out 〈◊〉 the way for proclaming you at once both a â—nave and a Fool. But Sir 't is a common custom â—â—ou know with the flagellifer to put on a vizard â—hen he is to chastise an insolent Villain but oh 〈◊〉 Fates my bonus genius now forewarns me of 〈◊〉 calamity of these papers when once they preâ—â—me to kiss your hand it telleth me that the sight â—f them will produce such a fear throughout your â—hole corpusculum insomuch that losing your reâ—â—ntive faculties your Excrements will instantly â—escend into your Breeches and then O wretched I 〈◊〉 these papers must be miserably torn to cleanse 〈◊〉 orifice of your drivelling Rump and spent in â—indling fumes to recover your senses Next you tell the Author of Demonstrations which you say is an accusation which you would â—ave answered Alas hadst thou as much wit as 〈◊〉 Goose thou mightst have found sufficient satisâ—action but I perceive somebody a little wiser â—han thy self has hammered this into thy Noddle Well George I have discovered the plot this famous Universal Pill having gotten such wonderful credit by its conquest over the maladies of thouâ—ands of persons insomuch that for its worth it is â—econd to none but rather like Alexander it wanteth diseases to conquer than virtue to overcome Now hunger and want having sharpened the wits of thy Associates they advised thee to encounter the Doctor that if it were possible by affirming 〈◊〉 falshood they might know the truth and not bâ— forced for the gaining of their bread to counterfeâ—â— his Pills thou perceiving that the Rosie brotherâ— hood by force were like to keep Lent beforâ— Christmas and finding thy self involved in theiâ— fate chusest rather to die by the Doctors noblâ— hand than like a Lubber-lander to perish for wanâ— of belly-timber But alas thou pitiful Wormâ— he onely