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A96286	A vindication of Mercurius Elencticus. (alias) Wharton. From the false aspersions of the scandalous, abusive, and blasphemous pen of William Lilly Our states mountebanke, the Parliaments jugler, the naturall astrologian, and the devills owne astronomer. Not long since divulged in damnable black rhetorik, printed and sent abroad in a sencelesse booke; styled, The late story of Mr. Will. Lilly. Together, with one word to an unknown collonel, whom Lilly feignes to be the author of the said story; as also another to the wizzard himselfe. Written by Mercurius Melancholicus well-wisher to the fraternity, and prosperity of the mercuries.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.	1648 (1648)	Wing W1559A; ESTC R232202	7,654	14

to tell you the plain truth I am almost a weary and neare out of heart to proceed any further in my inquiry neverthelesse I le do as I said and publish the Hue and Cry I spake of and if that takes not effect I le conclude non est inventus The Hue and Cry If there be either man woman or child in city countrey or kingdome that can bring or tell any tidings of a reproachfull abusive scandalous detestable odious abhominable wicked insolent damnable impudent prophane unjust outragious railing immodest beggerly vapouring hare-braind frantick despicable mad envious villainous coxcomb Collonell I mean I can give no other description of him than you have heard only this that hee walks under the style of a civill Cavalier and the two first letters of his name be Th. that 's all I can say if therefore any of the aforesaid know such a person and where resident or can tell the residue of his name let them repaire to Mercurius Melancholicus living at the signe of the wooden-frying pan neere hundred Ally in Flee●street where they shall be really entertain'd for their newes and receive what reward or satisfaction they can get for their pains How now my hearts how do ye like this do ye thinke it is not enough to find him out if he be above ground unlesse Lilly hath vanisht him with a word I 'me sure t is but how should I know whether it prospers I le wait a little while longer yet before I speak to him and if it fall not out according to my expectation I le presume another enterprise and ask Lilly himselfe but I le know this ungracious fellowes name and habitation What no newes yet no body come to bring mee tydings of his discovery hee is certainely conceal'd in some infernal cave or run and hid his head in the remotest part of the earth for his safety but what ever is betide him I am fully resolved to know his name if the Wizzard himselfe knowes it and suddenly too for I intend to bee breife wherefore I le try all the skill I have and use what art I can invent to accomplish my designes By the vertue of Hocus pocus Lilly Arise and answer for thy selfe wilt thou not Jubeo What! not yet so he Mr. Lilly Mr. Lilly I say once again Surge No apparition yet I see I am not a tright artist yet me thinks I hear a noyse what William Lilly you are very welcome pray sit downe I have have one question to ask you and so have done I 'de very faigne know the Collonells name thou writ'st with Th. in thy late story that 's all my businesse prethe resolve me ha what is it how now never a word what starke mute why Lilly Lilly what do you call him nothing at all truly I think so Behold the grand arch Wizzard Lillyes dumb And for himselfe can answer naught but mum He 's discontented looks just like an Asse And 's vext he can't invent a name alas Hee s mightily d●jected c. vade Lilly Well seeing t is so I cannot hear of any name he has I le try my selfe to invent one for him One word to the Coll. Collonel Th-inchopps truly t is a little too good but however it shall serve what good man impudence art thou a Gentleman a Scholler a Cavalier and hast so brazen fac'tly and insolently abus'd all three it is well thou hast no being t is well thou livest I know not where and art I know not what t is well I say thy name is written so obscurely else I had found thee long ere this and bin revenged on thee for the wrong committed against my brother Elenct well I le say no more to thee till I know thee better then looke to thy selfe but I think thou needst not fear Another to Lilly himselfe VVHy how now William Lilly what 's the matter That with the people thou thus seek'st to flatter Is 't cause thou 'rt slander'd with a tale of truth Or is it for their welfare no forsooth So I beleeve thee tell thy mind againe Is 't to deceive them only tell us plain Is it because thou 'rt almost out of favour With all goodmen or for thy mis-behaviour Tell me the reasons moved the to write This sencelesse booke was 't for to vent thy spite 'gainst him that publisht thy deformities And so to faigne the lines he 's written lyes Was 't to that purpose 't will not serve thy turn Alas 't is nothing for the book I le burn Was it for this that thou desirest thy name Should be dispierct abroad Tush I le proclaim That oft enough was 't lastly for the wit And eloquence that is contain'd in it That thou hast thus divulg'd it I dare swear For that in cheife ' twon't be esteemed rare What was 't then for was 't only to abuse One honester than thee I now my muse Hath found it out for which shee 'l vent her spleen And make the wish perhaps it neere had been Fie out upon thee for I much admire Thy haughty mind should to this height aspire How couldst write such a piece of impudence Empty of wit or reason void of sence Free from all honesty full of sedition Not any one thing in 't makes apparition Of ought that 's truth 't is totally compild Of scandalls wrongs abuses words more vild Then I can well expresse 't is truly written In such a stile as though it were besh Away it stinks I much abhorre the thought Of its base lines and him by whom 't was wrought But yet I will so much abase my pen As write the basenesse of thee worst of men Why hast thou so divulg'd thou puny Elfe Thy bashlesse lyes abroad was it thy selfe Did it alone or was 't the instigation Of thy grand Daddy Pluto caus'd thy passion 'T was he that wrought this folly in thy braine Which now thou hast ejected but in vaine Not all thy black infernall Magick spells Fetcht from Gehenna where the devill dwells Not all thy Figures Characters or hart Of deep Astronomy nor any part Contain'd in thee nor yet thy cap and staffe Or ought thou has't else shall but make us laugh Not thy delusive words nor one of these Or thy familiar Mephostophiles Shall ought availe thee for the people know Thee very well not to beleeve thee so T is better that against another season thou d'st write a line that might but sent of reason But that thou canst not do monstrous Wizzard That lookst as though thou worest the devils vizzard Thou great hobgoblin and the only imp Of mighty Lucifer hells cheifest pimp Thou Mountebank thou jugler sole Magician Thou Nigromancer our States Polititian Thou scare-crow bug-bear hobby horse thou sot Thou cunning crafty fellow and what not Thou Astrologian false Astronomer Depart my thoughts vade celeritèr I 'm e vext I have bestow'd my pen and inke On such a subject to produce a stink Throughout my Booke but surge once before Thou goest that I may speak and say no more Now I have done only let me advise Thee not to write of ought beneath the skies And as thou art a civill Cavalier Keep thee within the compasse of thy sphear And not transgresse again as thou hast done And so thy selfe in further danger run Vse my directions and in time repent Of this with which thous't wrong'd the innocent Doe aske forgivenesse for thy faults committed That thou according to it mayst be pitied So I my selfe will be if thou 'lt do thus Thy freind Mercurius Melancholicus FINIS

A VINDICATION OF Mercurius Elencticus alias WHARTON From the false aspersions of the scandalous abusive and blasphemous pen of WILLIAM LILLY Our States Mountebanke the Parliaments Jugler the naturall Astrologian and the Devills owne ASTRONOMER Not long since divulged in damnable black Rhetorik printed and sent abrord in a sencelesse Booke styled The late Story of Mr. WILL LILLY Together With one word to an unknown Collonel whom Lilly feignes to be the Author of the said story as also another to the Wizzard himselfe Written by Mercurius Melancholicus well-wisher to the fraternity and prosperity of the Mercuries Printed in the Yeare 1648. A Vindication of Mercurius Elencticus alias WHARTON BEcause my weekly writing is to no other intent or purpose then to discover and manifest the crimes of this nation the knavery and fraud of the people therein and the generality of the abhominations commited in it Thinke it not strange if I particularly lay open and evidently proclaime to each publique view the detestable guile and politique inventions of that arch Wizzard William Lilly with which hee seekes to cosen and delude the Common-wealth as a thing unobservable and as though no body tooke notice of him For which I thought it not amisse to separate him by himselfe and place him out of the rank of all honest nay all manner of men in generall as one not fit to accompany a Christian For indeed had I but once beganne his odious name in my weekly sheet I should hardly have writ any thing else and besides should have infected my whole discourse with the meere apprehension of his villany But not to trifle away too much time upon so foule a subject and possesse my breast any longer then needs I must with his hatefull conceits I will come to the point or occasion of my publishing this paper Not long since my brother Eleneticus in his second or third booke if you bee remembred makes mention of a notable fraudulent action committed by this Wizzard Lilly in betraying a Lady contrary to her will and causing her to marry one far below her degree and quality to the very much dishonour both of her self and the whole family of the Scroopes from which shee descended but you must be sure to Lilly's great profit and advantage and so indeed relates the whole story as it was acted which I doubt not but you have already heard therefore it is to no purpose for me to recite it thereby to perform his duty in informing the people of his base craftinesse and subtile delusions Which hapned to the hands of th' foresaid Wizzard that he thereupon grew very much troubled that his perfidious knavery should be so openly discover'd and apparently divulg'd to the whole world And being through madnes ignorant at the present to invent any means to demonstrate his fury remained very discontented along time till at the last about two moneths after the relation when it was almost forgotten his block head bethought himself of this revenge so compos'd a subtile peece of nonsensical English printed it in two sheets of paper and guilds it over with a cloak of Th. As thus To all Gentlemen Cavailers of this kingdome a Colonell Th. sends this discourse c. when no such Col. I le lay my life can be heard of only a meere forgery of Lilly But yet he has another Title for the booke it selfe which is The late story of Mr. Will. Lilly c. Indeed it may well be stiled so t is a meer story you may swear it is one of his owne penning truly it is the quintessence nay it is the very extract of Nonsence the only naturall character of simplicity Do but marke how hee begins as it were with a Narration of his detesting or abhorring himselfe and actions though in a blind way as from the mouth of the foresaid Col. yet God knowes his owne words and so proceeds in his folly with an examination of the Gentleman the Lady and all parties whatsoever appertaining either to them or any else whereby hee might know the truth concerning the said relation of Elencticus But presently cryes it down avers it for falshood and certainly concludes with himselfe but a satisfaction to no body else that it is no such matter only a meer fable a scandall reproachfully penned to bring an Odium upon his name c. Thus this states grand Quack-salver flatters himself and feeds his owne fancy with meer delusions thinking to purblind the eyes of the people with that abominable scandalous Pamphlet as his owne already are with gazing upon the Starres but alas he is much deceiv'd all this will not serve noe nor can all his infernall black Art absterge and cleanse his putrified name and actions from their manifold corruptions and their merited infamy Look next how the Coxcombe goes on and presents a few Astrologicall lines in the shade of a Letter from the said Col. bur I cannot conceive any Cavalier invented it for to speak the truth it carries an excellent stile in faith it is admirable Rhetoricall non-sense Excellentissimum supremo gra●u pro-fec-to 't is worthy admiration I do not think but he div'd to the very bottome of his Father Pluto's budget for it for 't is impossible his mossy pate should produce such a monstrous miraculous piece of Eloquence well it shall scape me narrowly but that some time or other when I have nothing else to do I 'le spend an houre or two to try if I can get it by heart and so say it by roat that I may carry it in my brain with me up and down wheresoever I goe For indeed I intend not to oppresse my pocket with it unlesse it be to perform that necessary occasion you know what I meane for which Lilly himselfe is hardly good enough Surely he thought the City had great need of wast Paper else hee would never have infected the Presse with such a messe of ignorance Truly 't is pitty that such a large long tall mighty Hobby-horse should have no more wit Lord how the villain playes the Asse in the City like a Fool in a Comedy that once wrote a Letter to his Mistris before her face after seal'd it so presented and read it to her upon the Stage in the presence of the whole Multitude just so hath this Ideot done goes and writes a Letter a meer forgery as from a Colonell and directs it to himselfe so answers it according to his owne discretion and after divulged it to the vast world I pray tell me which act containd the more simplicity and which of these two Ideots was the greater fool Truly 't is a Question soon to be resolved for 't is a very easie matter to say Lilly whom I judge to be the worse of the two in that he is a very great proper Hobgoblin and one that more deserves and better beseems the place then any of his owne Art I know Go go Lilly I am ashamed an Astrologer should